31.3317, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Greece

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Subject: 31.3317, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Greece

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:17:48
From: Isabel Oltra-Massuet [isabel.oltra at urv.cat]
Subject: The syntax of argument structure alternations across frameworks

 
Full Title: The syntax of argument structure alternations across frameworks 
Short Title: SAS21 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Isabel Oltra-Massuet
Meeting Email: isabel.oltra at urv.cat
Web Site: http://www.sle2021.eu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

Workshop Convenors: Svitlana Antonyuk, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Isabel
Oltra-Massuet

Meeting Description: 
Argument structure and argument structure alternations have been a crucial
area of investigation in generative linguistics since its inception, carrying
implications for our understanding of the overall architecture of grammar per
se and the issues related to the nature of the relation between the lexicon
and syntax in particular (Levin 1993; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 2005; see also
Ramchand 2013 for a general overview). The answers given to questions related
to argument structure alternations, such as, for instance, whether the two
alternating frames have the same or different semantics, i.e., whether they
are merely thematic paraphrases of each other as opposed to being
truth-conditionally distinct, have had wide-ranging implications. While the
proponents of the monosemy/thematic paraphrases view often take the position
that one of the alternating frames derives from the other, the proponents of
the polysemy view assume that the two constructions encode different semantic
relations. Finally, in addition to these two positions, a third one exists
which argues that the choice between the two constructions is more
probabilistic and comes down to which construction is licensed in a given
discourse context. 

While the monosemy/derivational view has been made prominent in accounts such
as Larson (1988, 1990), (recast in Minimalist terms in Larson 2014), Baker
(1988), and much work in Relational Grammar, the polysemy view appears to have
enjoyed a somewhat wider overall popularity in the field in recent years
(Bruening 2001, 2018; Dowty 1990; Hale and Keyser 2000; Harley 2002; 2007;
Pesetsky 1995; Ramchand 2008). Accounts of arguments structure and argument
structure alternations couched within the framework of Distributed Morphology
(Halle and Marantz 1993, 1994; Marantz 1997, 2013; Harley and Noyer 1999;
Embick 2004a, b) in particular seem to favor, almost by default, the view on
which each ‘alternating’ frame is built in the syntax rather than deriving one
frame from the other. Finally, the last two decades have witnessed the
appearance of many attempts to sever arguments from the verb (Marantz 1984;
Kratzer 1996; Borer 2005a, b; Lohndal 2012; Wood & Marantz 2016; among
others), with the most extreme position being that the only argument of the
verb is the event variable, with all other arguments being added in the syntax
(Schein 1993). 
 
A rather significant number of derivational accounts of the ditransitive
alternation has been proposed for a number of languages in recent years,
relying on a wide range of empirical and theoretical arguments (e.g. Antonyuk
2015; 2020; Bailyn 2012; Cornilescu 2020; Hallman 2015; 2018). Relatedly, a
growing number of researchers have stressed the crucial role of Information
Structural factors in the choice between the two alternating frames, for
various types of alternations (e.g. Jiménez-Fernández & Rozwadowska 2017,
Fábregas et al. 2017, Jiménez-Fernández 2020, Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou
2019). 

See http://www.sle2021.eu/call-for-workshop-papers for the full call for
papers including references.

Invited speakers (confirmed): 
Mara Frascarelli
Peter Hallman
Heidi Harley
Richard K. Larson


Call for Papers: 

While there exist distinct schools of thought on the proper treatment of
various types of argument structure alternations, we note that the proponents
of various accounts often tend to lead a dialogue with only those who share in
their convictions about the underlying architecture of grammar. One of the
main goals of this workshop is to promote dialogue between the proponents of
derivational and non-derivational accounts of various convictions by examining
novel as well as classic arguments in the context of our present day
understanding of these phenomena. This workshop is thus aimed at bringing
together researchers on argument structure and argument structure
alternations, with a special focus on novel empirical and theoretical
arguments for or against derivational and independent projection views. We
especially welcome submissions discussing analytical treatment of outstanding
problems within a particular approach, submissions that discuss
cross-linguistic data bearing on the analyses of any of the argument structure
alternations, as well as submissions discussing argument structure alternation
and their salient properties from the neo-Davidsonian position. 

Other possible topics of interest may include (but are by no means limited to)
the following: 
 - The role of the lexical information in delimiting the productivity of
alternations language internally as well as crosslinguistic patterns in
lexical limitations. 
 - The role of aspect and aspectual morphology in productively ‘building’ the.
 - The interaction of case and argument structure in licensing argument
structure alternations. 
 - The relation of the Dative alternation to unaccusativity. 
 - The role of information structure in various argument structure
alternations and the proper place in Information Structure in the overall
organization of grammar. 

Please send a provisional abstract (.pdf) of max. 300 words (without
references) for a 20-minute presentation to isabel.oltra at urv.cat by no later
than November 15, 2020 for inclusion into the workshop proposal to be
submitted to SLE 2021.




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