31.2191, Calls: Syntax/Germany

Tue Jul 7 18:03:57 UTC 2020

LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2191. Tue Jul 07 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2191, Calls: Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 14:03:23
From: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson [jj at hi.is]
Subject: Ditransitives across languages and frameworks (workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS, 2021)

Full Title: Ditransitives across languages and frameworks (workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS, 2021) 
Short Title: DALF 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021
Location: Feriburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
Meeting Email: jj at hi.is
Web Site: https://dgfs2021.uni-freiburg.de/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

The 43rd annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS, Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) will be held at the University of
Freiburg (Germany) from February 24-26, 2021. This workshop will be one of 15
workshops at the conference.

Ditransitive constructions have figured prominently in theoretical discussions
of various syntactic phenomena over the years. These include the structural
architecture of the vP/VP (Larson 1988), asymmetries between the two objects
with respect to binding and scope, alignment patterns (e.g. double objects vs.
prepositional datives) and locality restrictions on A-moving a direct object
across an indirect object (Haddican & Holmberg 2019). More recently, the role
of applicative heads in licensing indirect objects across languages (Pylkkänen
2008) has become an area of active research. Ditransitives have also been the
focus of recent experimental work (Ziegler et al 2018; Gruberg et al 2019).

Call for Papers: 

We welcome contributions ranging from detailed studies on a small data set
within one language to typological work comparing many languages, using
theoretical or experimental methodology. In addition to various syntactic
issues, potential topics to be explored include the role of lexical semantics
in determining different argument realization options as well as ditransitive
constructions from the viewpoint of pragmatics and the syntax-phonology
interface.

We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (+ 10 minutes
discussion) in English. The abstracts should clearly state the research
question(s), the methodological approach, and the (expected) results. They
should be anonymously submitted via
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=dalf21 and should not exceed one page
of text and a second page for examples and references. The deadline for
submission is 15 September 2020. The notification date is 30 September 2020. 

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income. Please note that the
regulations of the DGfS do not allow that workshop participants present two or
more papers in different workshops. While we hope that the conference can take
place as planned, there might be changes due to Covid-19.

Workshop Organizers: 
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland), Cherlon Ussery (Carleton
College) and Nicole Dehé (University of Konstanz)

References: 
Gruberg, Nicholas, Rachel Ostrand, Shota Momma, Victor S. Ferreira. 2019.
Syntactic entrainment: The repetition of syntactic structures in event
descriptions. Journal of Memory and Language 107:216-232.
Haddican, Bill & Anders Holmberg. 2019. Object symmetry effects in Germanic:
Evidence for the role of case. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 37(1).
91-122.
Larson, Richard K. 1988. On the double object construction. Linguistic Inquiry
19. 335-391.
Pylkkänen, Liina. 2008. Introducing arguments. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Ziegler, Jayden, Jesse Snedeker & Eva Wittenberg. 2018. Event structures drive
semantic structural priming, not thematic roles: Evidence from idioms and
light verbs. Cognitive Science 42:2918-2949.

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