29.1762, Calls: Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/South Korea

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1762. Tue Apr 24 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1762, Calls: Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/South Korea

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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:09:11
From: Michael Barrie [mikebarrie at sogang.ac.kr]
Subject: 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar

Full Title: 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 
Short Title: SICOGG20 

Date: 08-Aug-2018 - 10-Aug-2018
Location: Seoul, Korea, South 
Contact Person: Michael Barrie
Meeting Email: sicogg20 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.sicogg.or.kr 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 29-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

The 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 20) will
take place at Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, from August 8 through August
10, 2018. The conference will be co-hosted by the Korean Generative Grammar
Circle, Konkuk University, Korea University, and the National Research
Foundation of Korea. SICOGG 20 will consist of a general session, one
workshop, and a series of lectures by the keynote speaker. The main theme of
the general session is ‘The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Generative Grammar’.
The confirmed invited speakers are as follows:

Keynote speaker: Norvin Richards (MIT) 
Workshop speaker: Michael Barrie (Sogang University)

General Session:

Equal consideration will be given to papers from all areas of generative
grammar, which may include syntactic theory, the syntax-semantics interface,
the syntax-morphology interface, the syntax-phonology interface, syntactic
acquisition, and any other syntax-related interests. Applicants for
oral/poster presentations in the general session must submit their abstracts
by April 23, 2018.  

The general session of SICOGG 20 features a series of invited lectures by
Norvin Richards, where various issues concerning cross-linguistic variation
with respect to wh-movement will be re-examined from the perspective of the
interface between syntax and phonology. Below is a summary of the invited
lecture, and we especially encourage submissions touching on any issues
related to this.

Syntactic work in the GB and Minimalist traditions commonly claims that
languages can vary in the distribution of their overt movements. There are wh
in situ languages and wh-movement languages; languages with obligatory
subjects and languages without; languages in which verbs raise to T and
languages in which they do not.

What is still fairly poorly understood is why languages should vary in this
way. The classic Minimalist way of annotating cross-linguistic differences
amounts to a diacritic feature, or a diacritic property of features, such as
EPP or feature strength. Such approaches are essentially a claim that no
further explanation is possible.

This series of lectures focuses on Richards’ (2016) proposal, 'Contiguity
Theory' to derive the overt/covert distinction from conditions on the relation
between syntax and phonology. The claim will be that languages do not vary
syntactically, at least in this domain; the parameters of difference will be
phonological and morphological, having to do with prosody, stress, and the
distribution of different kinds of affixes. It will be important to assume a
different kind of architecture for the language faculty than we are familiar
with; the construction of prosodic and metrical representations begins during
the narrow syntactic derivation, and syntactic operations can be motivated by
the need to improve these phonological representations.

Workshop:

The workshop will deal with the syntax of nominals and reduced nominal
expressions. The first goal is to investigate the extended nominal projection
and what sort of universal properties, if any, it has. The second goal is to
investigate how the extended nominal projection can be restructured or
reduced. This question is based on the numerous studies of restructuring in
the verbal domain, where infinitival clauses are typically argued to have a
reduced structure, such as a TP. Open questions include the following. What
functional projections are found in the nominal? Is the functional hierarchy
universal, language specific, or is language variation constrained in some
way? What kinds of reduced nominal expressions are found in natural language?
Bare NPs, bare NumPs? Cl+N expressions without numerals? Caseless nouns? How
does this relate to noun incorporation and pseudo noun incorporation?

Please visit the conference website http://www.sicogg.or.kr .

Final Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be submitted using the EasyAbs service of the LINGUIST List.
Abstracts must be submitted online at the following address:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/sicogg20 by clicking on Abstract Submission.
Then, follow the online guidelines to upload your abstract in either .pdf or
.doc format. Note, however, that the .doc format is acceptable only if the
abstract contains no special fonts or diagrams. Only electronic submissions
through the aforementioned link will be considered. Abstracts should be
anonymous and may not exceed two pages (A4/US letter), including examples and
references (embed examples within the text), with 2.54 cm (1 inch) margin on
all four sides and should employ the font Times New Roman 12 pts. Submissions
are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author.
Abstracts should be submitted no later than Sunday, April 29, 2018. Authors
will be notified of acceptance or rejection on or after Sunday, May 27, 2018.
Oral presentations will be allotted 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for
discussion.

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