29.3166, Calls: Morphology, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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Subject: 29.3166, Calls: Morphology, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 04:39:31
From: Jason Merchant [merchant at uchicago.edu]
Subject: Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50

 
Full Title: Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50 
Short Title: Sluicing+ at 50 

Date: 12-Apr-2019 - 13-Apr-2019
Location: Chicago, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Laura Stigliano
Meeting Email: sluicing.50 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://voices.uchicago.edu/sluicingat50/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

In the spring of 1969, Haj Ross presented ''Guess who?'' at the fifth annual
meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society and published it in the resulting
proceedings. The spring of 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the
presentation and publication of this landmark paper, which opened the door to
a wide range of important discoveries on the interface between phonological,
syntactic, and semantic systems of grammar. The construction that Ross named,
sluicing, sits at the intersection of two of the most important areas of
grammatical theory in the past half-century: the theory of movement, in
particular the locality of unbounded dependencies and islands to movement, and
the theory of ellipsis, where there is linguistic meaning without the expected
form.

''Sluicing and ellipsis at 50'' is a conference in celebration of this
landmark work in linguistic theory, to be held at the University of Chicago on
Friday and Saturday, April 12-13, 2019. The conference is dedicated to an
exploration of the wide range of phenomena that have been investigated under
the rubric of sluicing, but also more generally formal approaches to ellipsis,
including questions of the potential mechanisms of ellipsis (deletion,
copying, proforms or other anaphoric devices). The conference will feature two
plenary lectures, one each by Haj Ross and Howard Lasnik, as well as a range
of additional invited talks by a range of prominent scholars who have worked
on ellipsis and sluicing in the intervening decades, in addition to a number
of papers selected by abstract submission.

Plenary Lecturers: 
Haj Ross (UNorth Texas), Howard Lasnik (UMaryland-College Park)

Invited Speakers:  
Klaus Abels (Univ College London) (to be confirmed)
Matt Barros (Yale)
Vera Gribanova (Stanford) 
Kyle Johnson (UMass Amherst) 
Anikó Liptak (Leiden)
Jim McCloskey (UC-Santa Cruz)
Ingo Reich (U Saarland)
Andrés Saab (U of Buenos Aires)
Gary Thoms (NYU)
Masaya Yoshida (Northwestern)
Susanne Winkler (Tübingen)


Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be at most two pages (with 1 in. margins, no smaller than 11
point font), including examples and references, and should include the paper
title at the top of the first page. Please anonymize your abstract, and use a
filename that consists of some version of the paper title (e.g.,
SluicingAndMaxElideInEnglish.pdf). Each author may submit at most one
individual and one joint abstract, or two joint abstracts. Please upload your
abstract in pdf format to easychair (https://easychair.org/cfp/Sluicing50) by
11:59pm on November 15, 2018. 

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: Nov 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance:  Dec 15, 2018
Final Program: Dec 22, 2018
Conference: April 12-13, 2019




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