29.3695, Calls: History of Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Syntax/USA

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Subject: 29.3695, Calls: History of Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Syntax/USA

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 01:20:30
From: Jose Camacho [jcamacho at rutgers.edu]
Subject: On Person and Perspective - A workshop honoring the work of Maria Luisa Zubizarreta

 
Full Title: On Person and Perspective - A workshop honoring the work of Maria Luisa Zubizarreta 

Date: 03-May-2019 - 04-May-2019
Location: Los Angeles, USA 
Contact Person: Patricia Schneider-Zioga
Meeting Email: personNperspective at gmail.com
Web Site: http://person-perspective.weebly.com 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

Person interacts in unique ways with respect to the expression of argument
structure in a variety of languages. One phenomenon that illustrates this is
the Person Case Constraint (PCC), which constrains the co-occurrence of a
first, or second person theme and a third person goal/benefactive. There is
cross- linguistic variation on how the interaction of person and argument
structure is restricted. Related phenomena include inverse systems such as
those found in Ojibwe, or Guaraní. In these type of inverse systems the
mapping of an argument to subject position depends on its relative ranking
with respect to other arguments that are dependents of the predicate in terms
of a person hierarchy, where, for example, if there is a first and a third
person dependent of a verb, the first person must be mapped to subject
position. Person-based restrictions on argument alignment as found in
Icelandic, for example, are also relevant. A question of interest is why is
person involved in the restrictions, and not, for example, number or gender?
There have been a variety of proposals, including the idea that person must be
licensed via AGREE, Case syncretism, and multiple Agree: the idea that one
head agrees with two goals. Person on its own is also known to have a number
of restrictions governing its distribution as demonstrated by Baker's SCOPA,
which attempts to explain why certain types of predicates, such as adjectives,
agree with a subject in number, gender, and case, but not person. There is
also a semantic component to the role of person in the grammar. In particular,
person interacting with argument structure can encode a type of perspective
known as point of view, which in turn is related to various expressions of
empathy such as ''camera angle'' and ''emotional empathy.'' It has been
proposed, for example, that the PCC arises via a clash of empathy. Moreover,
the indirect object/benefactive argument is proposed to constitute a point of
view locus. One view is that the distribution of logophoric/perspectival
pronouns is regulated by the same or similar mechanisms as those that account
for the PCC. More specifically, Pancheva & Zubizarreta (2017) argue that the
PCC is a syntax-semantics interface effect rather than purely a syntactic
phenomenon.  

Invited speakers:

Mark Baker, Rutgers University 
Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California 
Liliana Sánchez, Rutgers University  

Organizers:

Mónica Cabrera, Loyola Marymount U.
José Camacho, Rutgers U.
Betül Erbaşı, U.S.C
Roumyana Pancheva, U.S.C
Patricia Schneider-Zioga, California State U., Fullerton


Call for Papers:

This workshop is part of a celebration of the intellectual contributions of
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta to the field of linguistics. The workshop will
officially launch the publication of Exploring Interfaces (ed. by Mónica
Cabrera and José Camacho, Cambridge University Press), in honor of M.L.
Zubizarreta. Financial support from the Jean-Roger Vergnaud Memorial Fund and
the Department of Linguistics, U.S.C

We invite papers that address, among others, the following questions:

(a) What is the status of person features; are they licensed in special ways?
(b) What is the relationship between person features and abstract and
morphological case?
(c) What is the relation between person features and AGREE and/or agreement?
(d) Is the PCC a purely syntactic phenomenon, or is it part of the
syntax-semantics interface (where perspective/point of view plays a role)
(e) What kind of phenomena fall under perspective/point of view and how are
they captured by the grammar?
(f) Which aspects of the interaction of person and argument structure are
universal? Which are language specific?
(g) What determines the syntax of the nominal expressions that are exempt from
binding theory? In particular, to what extent is logophoricity relevant to
their distribution?
(h) What do the phenomena of imposters and imposters and agreement tell us
about person?
(i) How do inverse systems emerge diachronically? How does this illuminate our
understanding of person and/or perspective?
(j) What is the role of person in closest conjunct agreement and other
apparently linearity-based agreement effects?

Abstract deadline: 15 January, 2019
Length: 2 pages, including examples and references
Submission through EasyChair: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/p&p-workshop
An edited volume of selected papers from the workshop is planned.




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