29.1130, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 29.1130, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:44:55
From: Louise Raynaud [louise.raynaud at stud.uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: LinG1 Workshop on Agreement and Anaphoricity

 
Full Title: LinG1 Workshop on Agreement and Anaphoricity 
Short Title: LinG1 

Date: 25-Sep-2018 - 26-Sep-2018
Location: Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Louise Raynaud
Meeting Email: louise.raynaud at stud.uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/582233.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

Linguistics in Göttingen (LinG) is happy to announce the first edition of its
annual thematic
workshop, LinG1, which will take place on 25-26 September 2018, as a satellite
event of
CGSW33 (27-28 September).

Agreement and Anaphoricity will be the focus of this year's workshop. It is
well known that certain elements in natural language exhibit particular
dependency relations with other elements in form and/or meaning. Such
dependencies can be encoded via agreement or anaphoricity. To elucidate,
agreement is defined as the ''systematic covariance between a semantic or
formal property of one element and a formal property of another'' (Steele
1978, cited in Corbett 2006). Anaphoricity, on the other hand, refers to ''a
relation between two linguistic elements, wherein the interpretation of one
(called an anaphor) is in some way determined by the interpretation of the
other (called an antecedent)'' (Huang 2000). Independently, both phenomena
have been central in research on the grammar of natural languages, leading to
a vast array of exciting results and research issues. For agreement, these
issues include topics such as the directionality and (in)fallibility of
agreement, the local or long-distance nature of agreement, the determination
of agreement by case, and the feature restrictions imposed on certain
agreement relations. For anaphoricity, some of these challenges relate to the
internal structure and featural content of anaphors (as opposed to pronouns),
the full range of semantic (or semantic and pragmatic) varieties of anaphora,
locality issues in binding, and the validity of Principle A to explain the
distribution of anaphors.

In addition to exploring the two phenomena independently, various scholars
have also attempted to explore the interaction between the two. For one, the
fact that both agreement and anaphoricity encode formal or referential
dependencies has raised the question of whether the syntax of binding could be
reduced to Agree operations, as proposed by Reuland (2001; 2011); Heinat
(2008); Rooryck & van den Wyngaerd (2011). Phenomena like the Anaphor
Agreement Effect (Rizzi 1990; Woolford 1999) indicate that anaphoric
dependencies might to some extent interact with and be related to Agree
relations.

Invited Speakers:

Ian Roberts
Giorgos Spathas
Sandhya Sundaresan

References:

Corbett, Greville. 2006. Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heinat, Fredrik. 2008. Probes, pronouns and binding in the Minimalist Program.
Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.
Huang, Yan. 2000. Anaphora. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reuland, Eric. 2001. Primitives of binding. Linguistic Inquiry 32: 439-492.
Reuland, Eric. 2011. Anaphora and language design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Rooryck, Johan & Guido van den Wyngaerd. 2011. Dissolving binding theory.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Steele, Susan. 1978. Word order variation: A typological study. In Joseph
Greenberg, Charles Ferguson & Edith Moravcsik (eds.). Universals of human
language, 585-623. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.


Call for Papers:

Given this range of challenges, we welcome submissions contributing novel data
and innovative approaches to all aspects of agreement, anaphoricity, and their
interaction. The aforementioned issues by no means constitute an exhaustive
list of potential topics.

Submission Guidelines:

We invite submissions for presentations of 35 minutes (plus 10 minutes of
discussion).

We may add a poster session in the program depending on the number of
submissions.

Please indicate whether you would be willing to present your work as a poster.

Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one co-authored
abstract.

Abstracts should not exceed two A4 pages (including examples and references).

Please submit your abstracts via the following EasyChair link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ling1

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2018
Date of the workshop: September 25-26, 2018

Conference website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/582233.html




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