23.3676, Calls: Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics/France

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Subject: 23.3676, Calls: Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics/France

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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:54:56
From: Nicolas Guilliot [nico.guilliot at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on the Syntax, the Semantics & the Psycholinguistics [of Sharing]

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Full Title: Workshop on the Syntax, the Semantics & the Psycholinguistics [of Sharing] 
Short Title: WorkShare2012 

Date: 02-Nov-2012 - 03-Nov-2012
Location: Nantes, France 
Contact Person: Nicolas Guilliot
Meeting Email: nantesworkshop2012 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.workshare2012.univ-nantes.fr 

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2012 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the combined perspective of syntax, semantics and psycholinguistics to discuss and confront theoretical and experimental issues raised by the syntax & the semantics [of sharing] - that is, of constructions involving shared material (see the unit within brackets above!). These typically include Right Node Raising, Across-The-Board, coordinated multiple wh- questions, as well as gapping, sluicing, VP/NP ellipsis, or movement on a multidominance analysis.

The purpose of this workshop is twofold: on the one hand, to evaluate competing theoretical analyses of sharing, at the syntax-semantics interface. In particular, we seek to confront multidominance analyses of sharing with their alternatives - namely, ellipsis or (sideward) movement; and, on the other hand, to bring experimental evidence to bear on these issues.

The core questions we seek to address in this workshop include but are not restricted to [the following]:

(i) What are the semantic and psycholinguistic issues that the syntax of multidominance raises (relative to its competitors)?
(ii) How does multidominance fare in handling the semantics of sharing, relative to its competitors? How does the semantic composition proceed on a multidominance analysis of sharing? In particular, is the shared material interpreted once or more?
(iii) What evidence from experimental linguistics can be brought to bear on these issues and, in particular, to evaluate, decide between multidominance and its competitors? What kind of (possibly new) experimental design (relating sharing structures with retrospective/prospective searc or parallelism effects) could answer these questions? If processing is top-down, how are multidominance structures computed?

Invited Speakers:

Asaf Bachrach & Roni Katzir, CNRS-UMR7023 & University of Tel Aviv
Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Uli Sauerland, ZAS
Masaya Yoshida, Northwestern University

Invited Commentators:

Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Roni Katzir & Asaf Bachrach, University of Tel Aviv & CNRS-UMR7023
Michal Starke, University of Tromsø
Vidal Valmala, University of the Basque Country Gastéiz 

Organizing Committee:

Hamida Demirdache, Nicolas Guilliot & Dafina Ratiu (University of Nantes)
Leticia Pablos Robles (University of Leiden) 

Final Call for Papers:

Extended deadline: September 10

We invite submissions for oral (30min+15min discussion) or poster presentations (a poster session will be included). Abstracts must be anonymous, in .pdf format, and should not exceed 2 pages in 12 point font, with margins of 2.5 cm (1 inch) on all sides. Abstracts should be submitted using the EasyChair platform (follow the link on the website of the workshop).

Important Dates: 

Deadline for submission: September 10, 2012 
Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2012

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