28.3450, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3450. Thu Aug 17 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3450, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:07:24
From: Yvonne Viesel [yvonne.viesel at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Clause Typing and the Syntax-to-Discourse Relation in Head-Final Languages

 
Full Title: Clause Typing and the Syntax-to-Discourse Relation in Head-Final Languages 
Short Title: HFL2018 

Date: 15-May-2018 - 17-May-2018
Location: Schloss Freudental, near Konstanz, Germany 
Contact Person: Josef Bayer
Meeting Email: headfinal.workshop at uni-konstanz.de
Web Site: https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/fachbereich/aktuelles-und-termine/clause-typing-and-the-syntax-to-discourse-relation-in-head-final-languages-workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2017 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims at bringing together linguists who work on head-final
languages with a focus on the upper clausal periphery and formal aspects of
at-issue and non at-issue meaning. Many details have been clarified in the
recent past about clause typing and the syntax-to-discourse relation.
Nevertheless, mainstream theorizing in this area continues to be dominated by
views that emanate from generalizations about head-initial languages, for
which the split-CP analysis has proposed a richly organized left clausal
periphery.

Strictly head-final languages show clause-initial topic constructions but
nothing like a more articulated left periphery. Instead they show a more or
less richly organized right periphery as expected from the Mirror Principle
(Baker, 1985). Nevertheless, many head-final languages have typologically
''deviant'' complement clauses with initial instead of final complementizers.
Many show an equally mixed picture of clause-medial and clause-final discourse
and focus particles. Even the strictest head-final languages have the option
of displacing constituents to the post-verbal domain. Theoretical proposals
are so far highly heterogeneous: rightward scrambling, rightward movement to
clause-final specifiers, leftward movement followed by remnant movement,
copying and eliding, prosodic restructuring. Given that displacement is
usually not arbitrary, what is its motivation, and what are its semantic or
pragmatic effects?

Issues of the head-final organization of syntax should be discussed with a
focus on clause type and the projection of clause types into more fine-grained
distinctions that give rise to varieties of illocutionary meanings. The
interrogative type, to take a prominent example, appears next to its
association with the standard information-seeking impact, in sub-types of
''special'' or ''non-standard questions'' (H.-G. Obenauer): rhetorical,
surprise, disapproval, reproach, exclamative, ''aggressively'' non D-linked,
'the hell', why-like 'what' etc. Work on interrogatives would be a start, but
the workshop is thematically completely open. The aim of the workshop is to
bring together researchers with a particular interest in the syntax and
semantics of head-final languages and the way the higher functional field is
implemented in these languages. A by no means exhaustive list of potential
topics would be the following:

- Clausal subordination in head-final languages
- The formal side of expressive and non-at- issue meaning
- Information structure versus expressive/emphatic structure
- The syntactic status of clause typing particles and further particles such
as discourse particles and focus particles or so-called ''emphasizers''
- The root relatedness of discourse particles in dependent clauses
- Non-standard questions in comparison with standard information-seeking
questions
- The nature of ''wh-in- situ''. Are there different types?
- The post-verbal space, its derivation, and interpretive effects of
postposing (''leaking'')

The theoretical focus of the workshop is rooted in research questions that are
related to generative grammar, especially generative syntax. Nevertheless, the
workshop is open to alternative frameworks and approaches - linguistic
typology, usage-based grammar, formal semantics etc. - that may enhance our
understanding of head-finality and its space of parametric variation.

Invited Speakers:

- Diti Bhadra (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
- Probal Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
- Yoshio Endo (Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba)
- Masayuki Oishi (Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai)
- Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)


Call for Papers:

Aside from the invited speakers, there will be room for a maximum of 14 papers
of 30 minutes to be presented. Abstracts should be maximally 2 pages long.

Please submit your papers via EasyChair using the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hfl2018




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