24.3009, Calls: Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Portugal

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Subject: 24.3009, Calls: Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Portugal

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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:49:52
From: Fernanda Pratas [fcpratas at gmail.com]
Subject: Coordination / Subordination in Lisbon

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Full Title: Coordination / Subordination in Lisbon 
Short Title: CSI Lisbon 

Date: 07-May-2014 - 09-May-2014
Location: Lisbon, Portugal 
Contact Person: Fernanda Pratas
Meeting Email: csilisbon2014 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2013 

Meeting Description:

Coordination / Subordination in Lisbon

The conference will be hosted by Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL): 

http://www.clul.ul.pt/

Complex sentences have been at the core of cross-linguistic studies over the past decades. As a way to account for the linkage between clauses within these intricate structures, the traditional coordination vs. subordination divide has certainly proved crucial, offering a convenient basis for the development of numerous ground-breaking formal tools, both in syntactic and in semantic domains.

More recent studies, however, have met several challenges to this traditional boundary, either because they have gone further into the theoretical implications of prior analyses or because they are focused on novel data: from still scarcely studied languages, from dialectal and diachronic variation or from language acquisition (cf. Gast & Diessel 2012, Haspelmath 2004, Heycock & Petersen 2012, Sekali 2011, Verstraete 2007, among many others).

One type of challenge concerns the constructions that resist both some of the syntactic tests for coordination and some of the tests for subordination. To name just one example, are comparative constructions in some languages an instance of subordination? If so, do they involve adverbial clauses? Or, considering some word order restrictions, do they involve relative clauses? Furthermore, how to accommodate the fact that they also show typical features of coordination, such as their behaviour regarding ellipsis, some of their word order restrictions or the properties of their connectives? Another type of challenge has been brought about by specific mismatches between the superficial structure of some sentences and their actual use or meaning: (i) some sentences exhibit properties of subordinate clauses and yet are used independently, a phenomenon known as insubordination (Evans 2007); this occurs, for instance, with sequences like: ‘If you could visit grandmother today’; (ii) certain syntactically coordinate sentences are cases of subordination at the level of conceptual structure (Culicover & Jackendoff 1997); this occurs, for instance, with sequences like: ‘The treasury minister announces one more austerity measure and my friend emigrates with his family.’

Invited Speakers:

Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)
(one more t.b.a.) 

Organizers:

Adriana Cardoso
Rita Marquilhas
Ana Maria Martins
Sandra Pereira
Clara Pinto
Fernanda Pratas

Call for Papers:

CSI Lisbon welcomes submissions that discuss all types of challenges to the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. Both typological studies and formal grammatical analyses within a generative framework are encouraged, especially if they bring into the debate the innovative insights that novel linguistic data allow for. 

Submission Guidelines:

Abstract submissions are welcome for thirty-minute oral presentations, to be followed by ten minutes for questions and discussion.

Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1 inch, in 12-point Times New Roman, single-spaced. 

Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2 joint abstracts per author.

Anonymous abstracts in the form of PDF files are to be submitted via the EasyAbs system, at:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/csilisbon2014

Important Dates:

December 15, 2013: Deadline for submission of abstracts 
February 15, 2014: Notification of acceptance







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