31.2639, Calls: Gen Ling/Greece

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2639. Mon Aug 24 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2639, Calls: Gen Ling/Greece

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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:25:43
From: Olga Borik [oborik at flog.uned.es]
Subject: COMPLEX PREDICATES ACROSS LANGUAGES: VARIATION AND ACQUISITION

 
Full Title: COMPLEX PREDICATES ACROSS LANGUAGES: VARIATION AND ACQUISITION 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Olga Borik
Meeting Email: oborik at flog.uned.es

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Ever since Plato and Aristotle, the notion of predication has been one of the
central issues in philosophy (Cocchiarella 1989; Angelelli 2004). In
linguistics, predication has been one of the most prominent research areas
since the 19th century (Bloomfield 1916; Williams 1980; among many others),
including today's modern theories of argument structure (Hale & Keyser 2002;
Marantz 2013; among many others). The main challenge in linguistic research
focused on predication has been to adequately represent the crucial relation
between a predicate and its arguments, which forms a core construct at all
major levels of linguistic analysis. In this, and in many other respects,
complex predicates have attracted a lot of attention because they differ
considerably from canonical predication in their internal composition,
syntactic and semantic properties.

This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and empirical research
raising challenging questions concerning composition, syntax, semantics and
acquisition of complex predicates from a variety of languages with the goal to
improve our knowledge of complex predicates and thus, of the process of
predication itself. Main research questions to be addressed in this workshop
include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
1. Why do complex predicates exist in natural language and what can they tell
us about the nature and design of language as well as other cognitive systems?
2. How can we account for a great variety of constructions that are
characterized as complex predicates?  
3. What are the common syntactic and semantic properties shared by various
complex predicate constructions? 
4. How are complex predicates acquired in first and second languages? 

More specific questions also include:
 
1. What is the role and/or status of light verbs such as the English causative
have in the formation of complex predicates?  
2. What is the relation, if any, between complex predicates and other related
constructions such as reflexive-like clitics?
3. What are the shared underlying grammatical properties, if any, between
complex predicates and applicative heads?
4. What kind of semantic mechanisms are involved in complex predicate
formation? 
5. What is the age of onset of complex predicates across languages, as
examined in child first language acquisition?
6. What is the role played by adult input/language exposure in the acquisition
of complex predicates, as analysed in simultaneous bilinguals, sequential
bilinguals and second language learners?
7. Does the other L1 interfere in the acquisition of complex predicates in the
case of simultaneous bilinguals, sequential bilinguals and second language
learners?


We invite submissions of preliminary abstracts of 300 words maximum (for
20-minute presentations with 10 minutes for discussion) that address any of
the topics in the meeting description or related questions. Abstracts in PDF
format should be sent to the following address:

olga.borik at gmail.com  (Olga Borik)

We kindly ask you to submit your abstract by 1 October 2020.

If the workshop proposal is accepted, all preliminary workshop participants
will be invited to submit the full versions of their abstracts to the general
call for papers. Final abstracts of max 500 words (excluding references)
should be resubmitted to the SLE organizing committee before 15 January 2021.

Important dates:

1 October 2020: Deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts (excluding
references) to the workshop organizers.
20 November 2020: Notification of acceptance by the workshop organizers and
submission of the workshop proposal to SLE
15 December 2020: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals from SLE
organizers to workshop organizers
15 January 2021: Submission of full abstracts (500 words, excluding
references), taking into account any feedback from the reviewing procedure,
for review by SLE
31 March 2021: Notification of acceptance of individual workshop
contributions.
31 August - 3 September 2021: SLE 2021 conference in Athens (Greece)

Organizers: 
Olga Borik (UNED)
Silvia Sánchez Calderón (UNED)
Ismael Teomiro (UNED)




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