31.1541, Calls: Syntax/South Korea

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1541. Wed May 06 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1541, Calls: Syntax/South Korea

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Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 20:57:49
From: Jong Un Park [jupark90 at gmail.com]
Subject: 2020 SNU Workshop on Case & Related Issues

Full Title: 2020 SNU Workshop on Case & Related Issues 

Date: 23-Oct-2020 - 24-Oct-2020
Location: Seoul, Korea, South 
Contact Person: Myung-Kwan Park
Meeting Email: snuicl-syntax2020 at naver.com
Web Site: http://snulei.wordpress.com/workshops/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Call Deadline: 13-Jul-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Language Education Institute at Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea)
will host a workshop on Case and Related Issues, as part of the 2020 SNU
International Conference on Linguistics. The workshop will be held at Seoul
National University on October 23-24, 2020. [N.B.: We presently plan on a
face-to-face conference, but if it is not feasible owing to the COVID-19 issue
(the decision will be made in mid-August), the conference will take place
virtually; in that case, a presenter is required to send to the workshop
organizer the ZOOM/other videoconferencing recording file of his/her
presentation.]

The primary goal of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers to
discuss case and related issues across languages. The theory of case is one of
the most central components of generative grammar. Case mainly mediates
between syntactic function of an argument nominal such as subject or object
and its thematic relation such as agent or patient. Chomsky (1995, 2001)
emphasizes the role of functional projections in licensing the structural case
of the arguments of verbal predicates. On this view, case properties depend on
the characteristics of specific functional heads. As such, case licensing has
an impact on clausal structure and on the movement component which regulates
word order. Since the shape of case interacts with agreement, directly or
indirectly, case and agreement have long played an important role in the
development of the syntactic theory. Recently a body of work has focused on
so-called dependent case assignment (Marantz 1991, Bobaljik 2008, Baker 2014,
Preminger 2014 and many others). It is also proposed that presence of default
case where a nominal gets case not through functional projection easily
captures language variation (cf. Schütze 2001 and others). Given that the case
theory advanced so far is not sufficient to account for all the phenomena
regarding language variation, the interaction between case and agreement and
between case and movement should receive more detailed and principled
explanation.     

(i)   What mechanisms are operative in case licensing such as structural case,
inherent case, dependent case and default case;
(ii)   How languages can be parametrized with respect to the way case is
assigned/checked; 
(iii)   How the case assignment/checking interacts with movement like
scrambling and with discourse information. 

References: 
Bobaljik, Jonathan David. 2008. Where's Phi? Agreement as a Post-Syntactic
Operation. In Phi Theory: Phi-features across interfaces and modules, ed.
Daniel Harbour, David Adger, and Susana Béjar, 295-328. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.

Chomsky, Noam. 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Chomsky, Noam. 2001. Derivation by phase. In Ken Hale: A life in language, ed.
Michael Kenstowicz, 1-52. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Marantz, Alec. 1991. Case and Licensing. In Proceedings of the 8th Eastern
States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL 8), ed. German Westphal, Benjamin Ao,
and Hee Rahk Chae, 234-253. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.

Preminger, Omer. 2014. Agreement and its failures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Schütze, Carson. 2001. On the Nature of Default Case. Syntax 4: 205-238.

Call for Papers: 

We welcome abstracts touching on any of the above-listed (or related) topics
for oral (25 minute talk and 10 minute discussion, 12 slots are available) or
poster presentations (10 minute talk and 5 minute discussion, 10 slots are
available). Please indicate your preference when submitting your abstract.
Abstracts must be anonymous, no longer than 2 pages (A4 or letter) in a 12pt
font and with margins of 1 inch/2.5 cm on all sides. Only abstracts in PDF
format will be accepted. 

An EasyAbs submission page is being set up. In the meantime, all abstracts
should be submitted electronically to the following address:
snuicl-syntax2020 at naver.com
together with a separate page including CORRESPONDING AUTHOR DETAILS such as
[the title of the abstract, name, affiliation, and contact email address].

Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: July. 13, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: August. 1, 2020
Workshop Date: October 23-24, 2020

Contact Information
Any inquiry regarding abstract submission should be addressed to Michael
Barrie at mikebarrie at sogang.ac.kr and/or Jong Un Park at jupark90 at gmail.com.
For other questions, please contact Myung-Kwan Park at
snuicl-syntax2020 at naver.com, the conference organizer of the conference.

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