28.2194, Calls: Comp Ling, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 28.2194, Calls: Comp Ling, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:21:17
From: Patrick Elliott [patrick.d.elliott at gmail.com]
Subject: SelectionFest 2017

 
Full Title: SelectionFest 2017 
Short Title: SelFest2017 

Date: 10-Nov-2017 - 11-Nov-2017
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Itamar Kastner
Meeting Email: itamar.kastner at hu-berlin.de
Web Site: http://patrickdelliott.com/selectionfest 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

Selectionfest 2017 a workshop aimed at bringing together linguists
investigating mechanisms of selection, organized by the Research Unit on
(Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages at the Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin and the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, with support
from AL 554/8-1 (DFG Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis 2014 to Artemis
Alexiadou).

Since the earliest days of generative linguistics, the mechanism of selection
has been the subject of intense scrutiny. Grimshaw (1979) famously argued that
lexical items may impose both c(ategory)- and s(emantic)-selection; logically
independent properties. Subsequent work by Pesetsky (1982) argued that many of
Grimshaw (1979)’s observations framed as arguments for c-selection can instead
be analyzed in terms of abstract case, thus raising the possibility of
factoring c-selection out of the grammar completely. This pioneering work on
selection has framed subsequent research in two ways. First, a debate ensued
regarding whether it is possible to simplify Grimshaw’s system, by explaining
selectional requirements in terms of other factors (Pesetsky 1991, 1993;
Rothstein 1992; Odijk 1997). Second, these selectional requirements were used
as a starting point for research into a range of empricial phenomena related
to clausal embedding (Adger and Quer 2001; Moltmann 2004; Moulton 2009;
Kastner 2015).

Recently developed resources may help shed new light on these questions. The
current workshop will coincide with the launch of the ZAS Database of Clause
Embedding Predicates, an online database of predicates and the arguments they
embed, which can be queried according to a variety of criteria (Stiebels et
al. 2017). Other resources, such as the MegaAttitude dataset2, can similarly
inform large-scale computational investigations (White and Rawlins 2016a,
2016b).


Call for Papers:

(The full CfP, including a bibliography, can be found at
http://patrickdelliott.com/selectionfest/call.html)

The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the selectional
properties of predicates in an attempt to bring together the two lines of
research mentioned above, as well as the specific topics below. We welcome
theoretical, experimental, computational and typological work that bears on
the selectional properties of predicates and the elements they embed. A
non-exhaustive list of topics includes the following:

- Division of labour between semantic and syntactic selectional mechanisms
(Grimshaw 1979).

- Question embedding and polarity (Adger and Quer 2001; Eckardt 2007; Schwabe
and Fittler 2009; Mayr 2017).

- Factivity and selection (Kiparsky and Kiparsky 1970; Kastner 2015).

- Embedding and aspect (Todorović 2015; Lekakou and Quer 2016).

- The semantics of declarative vs.interrogative clausal embedding (Lahiri
2002; Theiler 2014; Uegaki 2015; Theiler, Roelofsen, and Aloni 2016).

- Re-examination of Pesetsky’s (1982) elimination of c-selection in light of
challenges to traditional Case theory (Marantz 1991; McFadden 2004; Baker
2015).

- How selection interacts with case, control, finiteness and embedded
clause-size (Sundaresan and McFadden 2009; Stiebels 2010; Wurmbrand 2014).

- The correlation between embedding predicate and type of embedded complement
(Takahashi 2010; Moltmann 2013).

- Formalizations of selection and their theoretical or empirical consequences
(Adger 2013; Bruening 2013; Collins and Stabler 2016).

- Which elements impose selectional restrictions (Harley 2014; Merchant 2016).

- Computational modeling (White and Rawlins 2016a) and computational resources
(White and Rawlins 2016b; Stiebels et al. 2017).

- Event structure and selection (Grano 2016; Rawlins and White 2017).

Submissions should be anonymous, and submitted via Easychair. Please ensure
that your abstract fulfills the following requirements:

- pdf format
- Two pages + any additional space required for references.
- Times, 12pt.
- 1-inch/2.5cm margins.
- A4 paper.
- Any examples interspersed throughout, not gathered at the end.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=selfest2017




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