27.3358, Confs: Syntax/Germany

Tue Aug 23 18:58:31 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3358. Tue Aug 23 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3358, Confs: Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:58:09
From: Andrew Murphy [andrew.murphy at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Shrinking Trees

Shrinking Trees 

Date: 10-Oct-2016 - 10-Oct-2016 
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact: Andrew Murphy 
Contact Email: andrew.murphy at uni-leipzig.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

A standard assumption of earlier versions of generative grammar was that
transformations can remove syntactic structure - either complete subtrees of a
phrase marker (as in transformations like Passive, Equi NP Deletion, or
Indefinite Object Deletion), or just certain nodes or shells (see, e.g., Tree
Pruning as envisaged by Haj Ross, or Chomsky's concept of S-bar Deletion).
Subsequently, based on a more principled approach to syntactic transformations
with the Projection Principle at its core, the hypothesis that trees could
genuinely shrink in this way was generally abandoned. Current minimalist
approaches maintain this assumption by postulating that syntactic operations
can make trees grow (via Merge) or stay the same size (via Agree) but can
never make them shrink. Against this background, and with the Projection
Principle long gone, this workshop investigates the question of whether there
is evidence for simple and general syntactic operations that lead to shrinking
trees after all, by removing either subtrees or shells from the current
structure, either permanently or temporarily.

Attendance is open to everyone who is interested, and there is no registration
fee, but for logistical reasons we would like to ask participants to notify us
before October 1 (via email to andrew.murphy at uni-leipzig.de).

Program:

Workshop on 'Shrinking Trees'
Universität Leipzig, Institut für Linguistik
October 10, 2016
Lecture Hall of the Biblioteca Albertina, Beethovenstr. 6

8:45–9:00: 
Introduction

9:00–10:00: 
Howard Lasnik (Maryland)
'Shrinking Trees: Some Early History'

10:00–11:00:
Gereon Müller (Leipzig) 
'Restructuring by Removal'

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30–12:30:
Susi Wurmbrand (UConn)
'Finiteness and Restructuring'

12:30–13:30:
David Pesetsky (MIT)
'Exfoliation: Towards a Derivational Theory of Clause Size'

13:30-14:30: Lunch Break

14:30–15:30: 
Andrew Murphy (Leipzig)
'Arguments for Ellipsis as Syntactic Deletion'

15:30–16:30:
Caterina Donati (Paris)
'Successive Cyclic Movement as a Shrinking Tree Epiphenomenon'

16:30-17:00: Coffee Break

17:00–18:00: 
Fabian Heck (Leipzig) 
'Non-Monotonic Raising-to-Subject'

18:00–19:00:
Katja Barnickel (Leipzig) 
'Derived Non-Monotonic Coordination in German'

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