29.1024, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax, Typology/China

Tue Mar 6 21:19:22 UTC 2018

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1024. Tue Mar 06 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1024, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax, Typology/China

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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:19:12
From: Fuzhen Si [sifuzhen at blcu.edu.cn]
Subject: International Workshop on Syntactic Analyticity and Grammatical Parameters

Full Title: International Workshop on Syntactic Analyticity and Grammatical Parameters 

Date: 20-Jun-2018 - 21-Jun-2018
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Fuzhen Si
Meeting Email: wudaokoulinguists at 126.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 06-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

The International Workshop on Syntactic Analyticity and Grammatical Parameters
will be held on June 20-21, 2018 in Beijing Language and Culture University.
The thesis of the conference is ''Syntactic Analyticity and Grammatical
Parameters''. All linguists who are interested in the studies related to the
thesis are welcome to submit their abstracts following the instructions below.
The following are some suggested topics: the nature of the syntactic
analyticity, the relation and differences between syntactic analyticity and
synthesis, syntactic studies on non-analytic languages such as Western African
Languages and Austronesian Languages, different parametric settings among
Chinese dialects, the historical development of analyticity and synthesis in
Chinese history, etc. We encourage participants to present their studies under
different perspectives, including but not limited to syntactic cartographic
approach. 

Traditional typological works in linguistics dating back to Sapir (1921) and
earlier and continued in Greenberg (1963) and much current work have looked at
languages beyond the language-family borders and arrived at important
typological generalizations (SVO vs. SOV, analytic vs. synthetic, inflectional
vs. agglutinative, etc.).  In formal (generative) linguistics have also
approached linguistic variation, but from a principles-and-parameters
approach, with important results that have helped to understand not only the
nature of language variation but also how language is acquired effortlessly by
children under a condition of poverty of the stimulus.  Many parameters have
been proposed in the generative tradition (the head-parameter, the pro-drop
parameter, head-movement parameter, the nominal-mapping parameter, wh-movement
parameter, the non-configurationality parameter, etc.)  In recent years many
researchers have turned their attention to micro-parameters, and relationship
between macro- and micro-parameters. Among them, some researchers (Baker 2008,
Huang 2015, for example) have emphasized that while the micro-parameters point
to actual points of variation that are acquired, the more abstract
macro-parameters do represent important typological patterns that should not
be ignored. Huang (2015) and Huang and Roberts (2017）further argue that many
parameters that have been proposed may be seen as special cases of an
Analytic-Synthetic mega-parameter that was recognized in traditional research.
Based on comparative work between Modern Chinese, Old Chinese, English and
other languages, Huang (2015) shows that many familiar properties of Modern
Chinese (the extensive use of light verbs, pseudo-incorporation, verbal
atelicity, classifiers, localizers, lack of wh-movement, lack of post-verbal
nobody, etc.) can all be seen as manifestations of it being a highly analytic
language, while the lack of these properties probably characterize Old Chinese
and English as fairly synthetic languages.

Call for Papers:

Thesis：Syntactic Analyticity and Grammatical Parameters
Time: June 20-21
Location: Beijing Language and Culture University
Deadline of abstract submission: April 6, 2018
Date of announcement of acceptance: April 20, 2018
Language: English; Mandarin Chinese

We organize the International Workshop on Syntactic Analyticity and
Grammatical Parameters and welcome all the scholars who are interested in the
similar topics to participate.  

In addition to the thesis above, we also encourage submissions of papers with
theoretical and methodological innovation, studies on analyticity-synthesis
from syntactic cartographic perspective in particular (but not limited to it).

Abstract Submission Description:

1. Abstracts are limited to one page (using 1 inch margins on all sides),
including examples and (selected) references.

2. Abstracts can be written in English or Chinese:
For English: Please use standard Times New Roman font, size 12 pt
For Chinese: Please use Song(宋体)font, size 12 pt

3. Abstracts should be sent as DOC file, but if your abstract contains trees
or special symbols, please send us both Doc and PDF files.

4. Abstracts should be anonymous, but please do write down the title of your
paper with your contact information in a separate file and send it to our
conference email: wudaokoulinguists at 126.com.

5. Please following format to name your abstracts: (1) for the abstract with
single author: Name.doc or Name.pdf, e.g.: abstract submitted by Wang Mian:
Wangmian.doc or Wangmian.pdf;  (2) for the abstract with more authors:
Name_co.doc or Name_co.pdf; e.g.: Wang Mian and other co-authors:
Wangmian_co.doc or Wangmian_co.pdf.

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