27.2751, Confs: Morphology, Syntax/Germany

Mon Jun 27 17:49:42 UTC 2016

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Subject: 27.2751, Confs: Morphology, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:49:34
From: Peter Smith [p.smith at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Syntactic Agreement

Syntactic Agreement 

Date: 14-Jul-2016 - 14-Jul-2016 
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
Contact: Peter Smith 
Contact Email: p.smith at em.uni-frankfurt.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/62053073/050_Agreement_Workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The Institut für Linguistik at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main is
pleased to announce that on 14 July 2016, we will be hosting a one day
workshop of the topic of Syntactic Agreement. There will be a total of seven
invited presentations from prominent researchers in the field.

The phenomenon of agreement is of interest to those working across the
spectrum of syntax and its interfaces. Whilst agreement in its most basic form
refers to the sharing of morphosyntactic information across lexical items, the
mechanism that underlies agreement has been implicated in various other
processes, such as movement and case assignment. Despite the operation of
Agree playing a key role in modern generative syntax, there are still various
open questions about how the operation should be formulated: should the
controller or target of agreement be more structurally prominent and are
linear relations ever utilised in agreement? Furthermore, there are further
questions about what processes should fall under the mechanism of Agree,
however it is formulated. phi-agreement is (relatively) uncontroversial,
however, other phenomena that are at least superficially similar, such as
negative concord, suggest a wider domain of application. Looking beyond the
formulation of Agree, should Agree be viewed as a syntactic operation, a
morphological operation or an operation distributed over both these domains?
Finally, how does agreement interact with other processes: do we find feeding
or bleeding effects of agreement?

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers on diverse phenomena
in agreement to gain a better understanding of how agreement should be
modelled. Among other issues, the central questions that are of concern will
be (i) how to formulate the mechanism of Agree; (ii) how widely do we need to
define 'agreement', in terms of which phenomena should be identified with
agreement and Agree; and (iii) how does agreement interact with other
phenomena? This workshop will investigate these questions from a range of
perspectives.

Programme:

09.00 - 09.15
Welcome and Opening Remarks

09.15 - 10.15
David Adger (Queen Mary University of London)
Searching for Agree

10.15 - 11.15
Hedde Zeijlstra (Universität Göttingen)
Principles of Projection

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 - 12.30
Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut)
Agreement in nominal ellipsis and fake indexicals: Consequences for the
Agreement Hierarchy and the direction of Agree

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.00
Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary University of London)
The Kiowa-Tanoan continuum and the dual role of Agreement

15.00 - 16.00
Roberta D'Alessandro (Leiden University)
Floating Φ: Agreement in Italian languages

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 - 17.30
Franc Marušič (University of Nova Gorica)
On sandwiched agreement cases

17.30 - 18.30
Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University)
Agreement in ANN compounds

20.00 - onwards
Conference Dinner

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