26.195, Calls: General Linguistics/China

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Subject: 26.195, Calls: General Linguistics/China

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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:48:55
From: Haihua Pan [cthpan at cityu.edu.hk]
Subject: 3rd Symposium on Prominence and Locality in Natural Language

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Full Title: 3rd Symposium on Prominence and Locality in Natural Language 
Short Title: SPLNL-3 

Date: 20-Mar-2015 - 21-Mar-2015
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Jianhua Hu
Meeting Email: proloc_ling at yahoo.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Feb-2015 

Meeting Description:

The 3rd Symposium on Prominence and Locality in Natural Language (SPLNL-3) will be held in Beijing, China, March 20-21, 2015. It is co-organized by Beijing Language and Culture University, the journal of Contemporary Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Key Research Lab of Phonetics and Speech Science of CASS.

Meeting Description:

Prominence and locality are important principles in the computational system of natural language, the interaction of which, though complex and relativized across languages, may be a reflex of the optimal design of language. Locality relations and conditions have long been observed and studied in the Generative literature. Under the Minimalist perspective, locality conditions such as the Minimal Link Condition and the Phase Impenetrability Condition, derived from the Economy Principle, play key roles in syntactic derivations. However, the role of prominence in derivation and interpretation, though widely observed in different components of grammar, is less appreciated, especially in the syntactic studies. The 1st and 2nd Symposium on Prominence and Locality in Natural Language held in December 22, 2012 and December 21-22, 2013 respectively in Beijing explored the relevant prominence and locality issues that arose at the syntax-semantics interface. The goal of the 3rd Symposium is to further promote the exploration of the prominence and locality principles of natural language, their interactions, and the relevant parametric variations.

Invited Speakers:

Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University and ZAS, Berlin, Germany
Alain Rouvert (to be confirmed), University of Paris 7, Paris, France

Call for Papers:

Papers addressing the above issues and problems and inquiry into the following topics are all welcome.

(1) Interface conditions
(2) Relativized minimality
(3) Wh-extraction and quantifier interpretation
(4) The linking and licensing conditions of arguments
(5) Prominence and locality in child language
(6) Reflexive interpretation

Abstracts should be written in English or Chinese and submitted online to the email address: proloc_ling at yahoo.com. 

Abstracts should be in WORD or in PDF. For English, please use Times New Roman font, size 12pt. For Chinese, please use Song font (宋体), size ‘small 4’ or 12 pt.

Abstracts are limited to one page, including examples and (selected) references.

Two copies of abstracts should be submitted, including an anonymous one (without identity information) in PDF, and one with personal information such as name(s), affiliation(s) and email address(es) in PDF or WORD.

Papers accepted will have 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.

Submission deadline: February 6, 2015
Notice of acceptance: March 1, 2015

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