31.79, Calls: Syntax/United Kingdom

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Subject: 31.79, Calls: Syntax/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:42:41
From: Theresa Biberauer [mtb23 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: 9th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference

Full Title: 9th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference 
Short Title: CamCoS 9 New 

Date: 30-Apr-2020 - 02-May-2020
Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Theresa Biberauer
Meeting Email: mtb23 at cam.ac.uk
Web Site: https://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference/CamCoS9 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

After the success of the eight previous CamCoS conferences (see:
http://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference), we are delighted to announce
CamCoS 9 New, which will be co-organised by Anglia Ruskin University, the
University of Cambridge and Newcastle University, and hosted at Newcastle
University in honour of Anders Holmberg’s retirement. The theme for this
year's conference is ‘Where is the variation: syntax or PF?’

The 9th Cambridge Comparative Syntax conference (CamCoS 9 New) will take place
in Newcastle (UK), 30th April-2nd May 2020. The first half-day will feature
talks by former colleagues and students of Anders Holmberg and our invited
speaker, Professor Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson. The remaining two days will
follow the usual 2-day conference format, with both peer-reviewed and
invited-speaker presentations focusing on the conference theme and also on
comparative syntax more generally.

The invited speakers for CamCoS 9 New are:

Dr Klaus Abels, University College London
Dr Beata Moskal, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Professor Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson, Lund University

2nd Call for Papers:

‘Where is the variation: syntax or PF?’

A question that has in the last decades emerged repeatedly in comparatively
oriented generative research is the extent to which the observed linguistic
variation should be understood not (principally) in terms of syntactic
parameters, but either entirely or largely as a matter of externalisation
(Berwick & Chomsky 2011:37-8). For example, there has been much debate
regarding whether word-order variation is derived via different syntactic
movements (Kayne 1994, Cinque 2005, 2013, Biberauer, Holmberg & Roberts 2014)
or variable post-syntactic spell-out rules/parameters (M. Richards 2004, Abels
& Neeleman 2009, 2012, Sheehan 2013). Similarly, effects which have
traditionally been argued to be syntactic such as Holmberg’s Generalisation
(Holmberg 1986, 1999) have been given interface or PF analyses of different
kinds (see M. Richards 2004, 2006, Fox & Pesetsky 2005, Erteschik-Shir 2005,
Erteschik-Shir & Josefsson 2017). The same could be said for analyses of
argument realization (Neeleman and Szendroi 2007, 2008), gender (Sigurðsson
2015), case (Sigurðsson 2012, Baker 2015), agreement (Bobaljik 2008),
wh-movement (Bobaljik 2002, N. Richards 2010, 2016), head movement (Bobaljik
2002, Richards 2016), expletive and other “Last Resort” dummy phenomena
(Bobaljik 2002), and other aspects of cross-linguistic variation. At the same
time, however, we also have numerous recent indications that what we might
assume to be a matter of “pure externalisation” nevertheless involve syntactic
mediation, suppletion (Bobaljik 2015, Moskal 2015, Smith et al. 2019), and
syncretism (Caha 2009, Baunaz et al. 2018) being two striking cases in point.

For CamCoS 9 New, we welcome comparatively oriented papers addressing any
aspect of our ‘Where is the variation: syntax or PF?’ theme. Additionally, we
also welcome abstracts on any topic in comparative generative syntax. As
always, we are particularly interested in papers explicitly addressing
parametric issues and/or offering comparative analyses (synchronic or
diachronic) of previously un(der)studied varieties and/or phenomena, and
papers concerned with “bigger picture” questions, such as what insights modern
comparative generative syntax might offer in relation to linguistic typology,
syntax-interface mappings, and our understanding of language as a cognitive
system. We also encourage papers concerned with methodologies for modern
comparative generative syntax.

Anonymous abstracts should not exceed two pages (12-point Times New Roman
font, with single spacing and margins of at least 2.54cm/1 inch), including
examples and references.

They should be uploaded in pdf format via EasyAbstracts
(http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/camcos9).

A single individual may submit no more than two abstracts, of which only one
can be single-authored (two co-authored submissions are also fine).

The submission deadline is Friday, 31 January 2020.

For more information, please contact Theresa Biberauer (mtb23 at cam.ac.uk) or
Michelle Sheehan (michelle.sheehan at anglia.ac.uk).

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