28.689, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Italy

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Subject: 28.689, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Italy

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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:05:17
From: Giuliana Giusti [psecomac at unive.it]
Subject: Pseudo Coordinations and Multiple Agreement Constructions

Full Title: Pseudo Coordinations and Multiple Agreement Constructions 
Short Title: PseCoMac 

Date: 02-May-2017 - 03-May-2017
Location: Venezia, Italy 
Contact Person: Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
Meeting Email: psecomac at unive.it

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

Invited Speakers:

Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)
Maria Rita Manzini (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)

Many languages of the World display the possibility of stacking more than one
verb displaying the same inflectional features, in the presence or absence of
a linking element homophonous to a coordinative conjunction, as represented in
(1):

(1) V1[TAM.Agr]x (and) V2[TAM.Agr]x

What is striking about (1) is the fact that it is not interpreted as a
coordination of two events occurring at the same time but as a single complex
event, with V1 having scope over V2, an interpretation that is usually
realised with a non-finite form of V2.  

Among the languages of Europe, Pseudo-Coordination has been reported in
Germanic and Romance, in particular in English (cf. also Jaeggli and Hyams
1993), Swedish (cf. Wiklund 1996), Norwegian (cf. Lødrup 2002), Afrikaans (cf.
de Vos 2005, Biberauer and Vikner 2015) and Faroese (cf. Heycock and Petersen
2012, Ross 2015) and Southern Italo-Romance varieties, such as Sicilian (also
cf. Cardinaletti and Giusti 2003, Di Caro and Giusti 2015) and Apulian
(Ledgeway 2015).

Pseudo-Coordination challenges a number of generally held assumptions: 

- The presence of two full TAM+Subject agreement feature realizations
challenges the one-to-one correspondence of Time reference and its
morphosyntactic realization, which is generally observed across languages. 
- The possibility for motion verbs as V1 to embed causative verbs (cf.
Cardinaletti and Giusti 2001) challenges the cartographic hierarchy of
restructuring verbs (Cinque 2006). 
- The restrictions to specific TAM/Agr specifications cast doubt on the
assumption that syntax is independent of (inflectional) morphology (Corbett
2016). 
- The coexistence with the Infinitival Construction challenges general
assumptions of optimal design and phase theory (Chomsky 2005, Gallego 2010). 

The aim of the conference is to bring linguists of different theoretical
persuasion to start a cross-theoretical, cross-disciplinary, cross-areal
reflection on the following issues: 

- Is Pseudo-Coordination a general property of language, or is it a signal of
instability in the system due to an on-going change and/or triggered by
contact?
- Is the semantics of Pseudo-Coordination compositional? How does it interface
with morphosyntax?
- Can the micro-variation found across cognate languages (e.g. among Sicilian
dialects or among Scandinavian dialects) be captured by morphomic patterns? Or
is a syntactic account needed?
- What are the general properties of Complex Verb Constructions with respect
to mono- vs. biclausal structures, restructuring and grammaticalization?
- Is it possible to create a set of dependable diagnostics to distinguish
Pseudo-Coordination from biclausal subjunctive-for-infinite constructions
and/or restructured infinitives?
- Can presence / absence of Pseudo Coordination be expressed in a parameter
theory? or as a language type?

Call for Papers: 

The conference aims at bringing together linguists of different theoretical
persuasions who are active on different aspects of the intricate relation
between inflectional morphology and syntactic structure in Pseudo-Coordination
phenomena sharing some crucial properties, in order to enhance a dialogue on
common research interests and the sharing of different results. 

We invite submissions of anonymous abstracts, in PDF format, for 30+10 min
presentations and / or for the poster session to Easy Chair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psecomac2017 

Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages, should be written in Times New
Roman, 12 pt, single spacing but should not include the author's name or any
other identifying information. Participations are limited to one individual
oral presentation or poster and one co-authored presentation per speaker.
English is the official language of the workshop.

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