28.2941, Confs: Syntax/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2941. Wed Jul 05 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2941, Confs: Syntax/Germany

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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:21:46
From: Ida Toivonen [ida.toivonen at carleton.ca]
Subject: Prominence based agreement

 
Prominence based agreement 

Date: 27-Jul-2017 - 28-Jul-2017 
Location: Konstanz, Germany 
Contact: Alex Alsina 
Contact Email: lfg17 at uni-konstanz.de 
Meeting URL: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/lfg2017/workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The classical LFG approach to verb agreement has been to assume that each verb
form lexically specifies the person, number and gender features of a
particular grammatical function, typically the subject. However, facts from a
variety of languages raise problems for this approach. In some languages, the
grammatical function that agrees with the verb varies depending on the case
features of the grammatical functions of the clause (e.g. Hindi and
Icelandic); in other languages, the choice of agreeing grammatical function
depends on the person features, and other discourse-related features, of the
grammatical functions involved (e.g. Algonquian languages); in other
languages, the features specified by the verb may correspond to semantic
features, as opposed to syntactic features, of the relevant grammatical
functions (e.g. Serbo-Croatian). The competition between different prominence
scales (grammatical functions, case, person and number, etc) seems to be a
crucial factor in determining the agreement trigger. This workshop aims to
bring together descriptive and theoretical work on different languages that
may shed light on new ways of analyzing agreement.

Confirmed participants:

Arsenijević, Boban
Belyaev, Oleg
Maling, Joan
Zaenen, Annie
Alsina, Alex
Vigo, Eugenio M.
Haude, Katharina
Jacques, Guillaume
 






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