27.4513, Calls: Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Subject: 27.4513, Calls: Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 19:08:41
From: György Rákosi [rakosigy at hotmail.com]
Subject: 2017 Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns

Full Title: 2017 Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns 
Short Title: 2017 DWP 

Date: 24-Feb-2017 - 25-Feb-2017
Location: Debrecen, Hungary 
Contact Person: György Rákosi
Meeting Email: hungram at unideb.hu
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/debrecenpronouns/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 27-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

This workshop focuses on the grammar of pronominal elements. Pronominal
elements form an elusive, but all the more interesting category that has
received central attention in modern linguistic research. They show a wide
array of variation in morphophonological shape from null pronouns to highly
complex personal pronouns or anaphors, and this variation in form is
concomitant with substantial variation in meaning that ranges from bound
variable interpretations to strong referential readings. The primary aim of
this workshop is to address this diversity by focussing on recent developments
in the study of the syntax and semantics of pronominals.

The questions we aim to address include, but are not restricted to, the
following. What is the syntactic category of pronouns? If they are smaller
than a canonical noun phrase (DP), then just how small can they be and how
does this affect their syntax? What are the syntactically relevant features
that different types of pronominals bear? How do prosodic processes, such as
focussing or deaccenting, affect the licensing and interpretation of pronouns?
Does verbal argument structure have a real effect on pronoun licensing or is
the special behaviour of pronouns in, say, psych-contexts just a conspiracy of
non-syntactic factors? What kind of meaning do reflexives and reciprocals
contribute to the interpretation of the sentence? How do variation in
pronominal form and variation in interpretation correlate? What non-linguistic
factors may affect the choice of one pronominal form over the other? It is
these and related issues that we aim to discuss at the workshop.

Invited Speakers:

Huba Bartos (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences)
Katalin É. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences)
Giorgos Spathas (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Universität Stuttgart)
Anne Temme (Universität Stuttgart)
Elizabeth Verhoeven (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Venue:

Department of English Linguistics
University of Debrecen
Hungary

Organizing Committee:

Huba Bartos 
Péter Csatár
Éva Dékány
Marcel den Dikken
Katalin É. Kiss 
Éva Kardos
Tibor Laczkó
György Rákosi
Giorgos Spathas
Anne Temme
Enikő Tóth
Elizabeth Verhoeven
Contact Information:

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/debrecenpronouns/
Email: hungram at unideb.hu

2nd Call for Papers:

We welcome contributions on these or other aspects of the grammar of
pronominals. Ideal submissions (i) discuss novel facts or constructions that
may have received slight or no attention in the literature, or (ii) revisit
and reconsider well-known data and assumptions, or (iii) investigate features
that play a direct role in the syntax of pronominals, or (iv) address the
relation between pronominal form and interpretation. We also welcome
experimental work on pronominal data and work on the processing and
acquisition of pronominals that draws on advances in theories of syntax and
semantics.

The language of the workshop is English and we welcome work on any natural
languages.

We intend to publish a volume of selected papers from the workshop.

Important Dates:

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 27 November, 2016
Notification of acceptance: 11 December, 2016
Workshop dates: 24-25 February, 2017 

Submission:

Abstracts should be submitted as pdf files. They should not exceed two pages
(A4, custom margins, font size 12, data and references are included in the
two-page limit). The title appears at the top of the first page and the
abstract should be anonymous.

Submit your abstract in EasyChair at this link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2017dwp

Contact:

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/debrecenpronouns/
Email: hungram at unideb.hu

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