33.2558, Calls: General Linguistics/Norway

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Subject: 33.2558, Calls: General Linguistics/Norway

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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:13:43
From: Peter Svenonius [peter.svenonius at uit.no]
Subject: The Foundations of Extended Projections

 
Full Title: The Foundations of Extended Projections 
Short Title: FEP0 

Date: 27-Oct-2022 - 28-Oct-2022
Location: University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway 
Contact Person: Peter Svenonius
Meeting Email: peter.svenonius at uit.no
Web Site: https://site.uit.no/castlfish/workshops-and-colloquia/the-foundations-of-extended-projections/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2022 

Meeting Description:

The objective of the conference is to make progress on understanding the
conceptual foundations of extended projections and the “Hierarchy of
Projections” (HoP) or “functional sequence” (fseq) which is central to
cartography.

Cinque (1999, inter alia) proposes a rich and universal HoP, but others such
as Borer (2005) and Wiltschko (2014) have proposed more coarse-grained
hierarchies. Ramchand and Svenonius (2014) argue that a coarse-grained
hierarchy is universally motivated by a basic semantic ontology
(event-situation-proposition, corresponding to V-T-C). They also argue that
there are language-specific finer-grained hierarchies. This would entail that
there is at least one source for categorial hierarchy which is distinct from
the basic semantic ontology, and which can result in hierarchies which vary
from one language to another.

Many open questions remain, and we aspire to discuss some of them in this
workshop. For example, what principles govern the hierarchy (Larson 2021)? 
What determines which and how many heads are possible or necessary in an
extended projection (cf. for example Cinque 2013)? What determines when those
heads are manifested (Ackema et al. 1993, Koeneman 2000)? In order to address
this and other questions, we must know how to distinguish monoclausal from
biclausal structures, in case of auxiliaries, light verbs, restructuring
verbs, serial verbs, etc. (Wurmbrand 2001, Wurmbrand & Lohninger to appear,
Aboh 2009, 2018, Pietraszko 2017, 2018), and what is at the bottom of an
extended projection (Borer 2005, Ramchand 2008). Also relevant is the question
of the status of mixed extended projections (Alexiadou 2001, Svenonius 2021).
What determines whether a feature or operator is encoded as part of the
“spine” (or ‘span’) of an extended projection as opposed to being part of a
specifier or adjunct (Tsai 1999, 2008, inter alia)? How are variable aspects
of extended projections acquired (cf. Diercks & Bossi 2021)? What is the
interaction and dependence relation between syntax and semantics in the
building and order of extended projections? How many distinct extended
projections are there? E.g., can the nominal one and the verbal one be
unified, are there distinct ones for P and for A, could there be others? How
much structure is present in “default” cases, e.g., is there always an Asp
projection even in the absence of any overt expression of it?

A hope is that the workshop will further our understanding of some of the
“mid-level results” of generative syntax, those which are sufficiently
high-level to have some theoretical significance and sufficiently low-level to
have testable empirical consequences (see
https://blogg.uit.no/psv000/category/linguistics/road-ahead/). For instance,
it is a mid-level generalization that only the base of a movement chain is in
a thematic position—or, in Ramchand’s (2008) model, only the positions inside
the first phase. For Ramchand & Svenonius (2014), this is because thematic
roles are derivative of event interpretations, and so can only be interpreted
in the event domain. For Chomsky (2022), thematic roles are associated with
External Merge, Internal Merge being associated exclusively with
discourse-informational meaning (in a dichotomy he calls ‘duality of
semantics’). Thus we have two competing theoretical interpretations for a
mid-level generalization. A fuller understanding of EPs could be expected to
shed light on this matter. For instance it would be compatible with Chomsky’s
theory, but not Ramchand & Svenonius’, to find a modal which, like seem,
introduced an experiencer, but which unlike seem, was a functional head
originating outside the V-domain, or to find a “very high” applicative located
in the T-domain, above the agent.


Call for Papers:

This is a two-day workshop with a restricted number of speaking slots and we
have already confirmed seven speakers. However, a small number of additional
speaking slots may be added, and some travel support for selected speakers is
possible. In addition, there will be a poster session (but without travel
support). Two-page abstracts are solicited (up to a maximum of one abstract
per combination of authors). Submitters will be considered for a speaking slot
(30 minutes plus questions) as well as the poster session, unless they specify
poster only by writing POSTER at the top of the abstract (abstracts accepted
only as a poster may be withdrawn upon acceptance, in case a submitter only
wanted to be considered for a talk). 

Deadline for submission of two-page abstracts: September 1

Notification of acceptance: September 8 (seven weeks prior to the workshop)

Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/FEP0




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