28.1386, Calls: Germanic, Romance, Disc Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1386. Tue Mar 21 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1386, Calls: Germanic, Romance, Disc Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:38:36
From: Ángel Jiménez-Fernández [ajimfer at us.es]
Subject: 1st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and Argument Structure

Full Title: 1st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and Argument Structure 
Short Title: INFOSTARS 1 

Date: 26-Oct-2017 - 28-Oct-2017
Location: Seville, Spain 
Contact Person: Ángel Jiménez-Fernández
Meeting Email: ajimfer at us.es
Web Site: https://ajimfer.wordpress.com/workshop-in-seville-october-2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together linguists who investigate
the different factors that influence sentential syntax, by contrasting
Germanic and Romance languages from an interface perspective. These may be
discourse factors (e.g., the re-ordering of sentential constituents motivated
by information structure and the assigning of topic and focus functions),
argumental factors (e.g., the type and number of arguments that a predicate
may select), syntax-discourse factors (e.g., the discourse nature of
grammatical features that trigger movement to the clause periphery in
different types of root and subordinate clauses with respect to fronted focus
and dislocated topics), and morphological/phonological (the use of specific
forms to induce an information structure interpretation or the prosodic
visibility of the displaced constituent). 

The workshop will be framed within the threshold of the Research Project
Information structure and argument structure: An interface investigation of
the contrastive syntax of Germanic and Romance languages of the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2013-41059-P). Our research has
been focused on types of topics and foci (with their syntactic, semantic and
prosodic properties), the syntactic position occupied by different discourse
categories, root phenomena, argument structure and the impact of information
structure on it. This theory-based approach has been implemented by an
analysis of data which hinges upon the use of experimental work to support the
theoretical findings.

Our keynote speakers are:

1) Artemis Alexiadou (Humbolt University, Berlin)
2) Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena, Italy)

Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions which deal with any topic of information structure and
argument structure which is theory-based, experiment-focused or both in
cross-linguistic perspective (including both macrovariation and
microvariation). In particular, we are interested in works which take on the
following issues:

a) Debate on whether informative functions should be analyzed as i) a
cartographic sequence of heads, each of which involving very specific
semantics, more or less rigidly organized, à la Rizzi (1997, 2004, et suseq.),
Haegeman (2012), Frascarelli (2007), or ii) instructions from Logical Form to
interpret (probably multiple) specifiers of the same head, a Complementizer
head or a Tense head in terms of A-bar movement vs. A-movement, as in Miyagawa
(2010, 2017), Jiménez-Fernández & Miyagawa (2014).
b) Types of topics and foci and their grammatical properties from a
comparative perspective (Bianchi, Bocci and Cruschina 2016, Bianchi and
Frascarelli 2010, Frascarelli and Hunterhölzl 2007, Jiménez-Fernández
2015a,b). More specifically, we are interested in the connection between the
occurrence of this information structure typology and pro-drop vs. Non
pro-drop languages. Also, the interaction between types of topics and foci and
the root vs. non-root contexts where they are allowed in different languages
of the Germanic and Romance families is particularly welcome.
c) Connection of argument structure/eventive structure and information
structure. The association of semantic class and aspectual properties of verbs
with a specific word order to induce a salient discourse interpretation, as
discussed in Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou and Schäfer (2015), Fábregas,
Jiménez-Fernández and Tubino (2017), Jiménez-Fernández & Rozwadowska (2017),
Ojea (2016), among others.

Linguists working in any theoretical framework of Generative Grammar and/or
experimental studies are invited to participate, provided they discuss issues
concerning the interaction between information structure and argument
structure. Each presentation will be allotted 30 minutes plus 10 minutes for
discussion. A limited number of abstracts will also be accepted for two poster
sessions.

Authors are asked to submit their abstracts in an anonymous PDF file to the
following site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences

If you do not have an EasyChair account, please follow the instructions
provided and create one.

Abstracts should be no longer than two pages in length (including examples and
references), in Times New Roman 12-point lettertype, single line spacing and
2,5 cm. margins. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and
one joint abstract per author.

The official language of the conference will be English.

Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2017
Workshop dates:  October 26-27, 2017

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