34.2458, Calls: Constraining Linearization (DGfS 2024 AG)

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Subject: 34.2458, Calls: Constraining Linearization (DGfS 2024 AG)

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Date: 10-Aug-2023
From: Sascha Alexeyenko [sascha.alexeyenko at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Constraining Linearization (DGfS 2024 AG)

Full Title: Constraining Linearization (DGfS 2024 AG)
Short Title: ConLin

Date: 28-Feb-2024 - 01-Mar-2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact Person: Sascha Alexeyenko
Meeting Email: sascha.alexeyenko at uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/dgfs2024-ag8

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 25-Aug-2023

Meeting Description:

Organizers: Sascha Alexeyenko (University of Göttingen) & Katharina
Hartmann (Goethe University Frankfurt)

One of the foundational issues in theoretical and typological
linguistics concerns the status of linguistic universals in general
and word order universals in particular. Much fruitful typological
work since Greenberg (1963) has shown that there are strong word order
restrictions which hold for large amounts of cross-linguistic data.
Accordingly, a lot of formal linguistic research has been dedicated to
the attempts of formulating various word order generalizations in
terms of hierarchical relations rather than linear strings and
deriving them from other principles of grammar. However, most of this
research has targeted so far a number of separate subdomains with
little interaction that would bridge between them. This workshop aims
at improving that.

Somewhat more specifically, existing work on linearization
restrictions has spanned both the verbal/clausal domain and the
nominal domain. With respect to the former, it has focused on the
linearization of core arguments in relation to the verb, as well as
the positions of auxiliaries and particles, in the first place under
the umbrella of the work on the “Final- over-Final Condition” (see
Biberauer et al. 2014, Sheehan et al. 2017 and references therein). In
the nominal domain, relevant research has concentrated on the
positions of adnominal elements, i.e. determiners, numerals, and
attributive adjectives, in relation to the noun, in particular on the
patterns observed in Greenberg's “Universal 20” (see Cinque 2005,
Abels & Neeleman 2012, a.o.). Furthermore, linearization constraints
applying to modification structures have also been addressed, in
particular in the work on the “Head-Final Filter” (see Sheehan 2017,
Alexeyenko & Zeijlstra 2021, a.o.).

However, the research approaches in linearization, such as the ones
mentioned above, have been developed to a major extent independently
of each other. To increase cross- fertilization between such
approaches, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers
working in these different domains, with the ultimate goal of
addressing the question to which extent various linearization
constraints can be brought to a common core. We are especially
interested in contributions that discuss novel empirical facts and/or
theoretical approaches to constraints on linearization applying to
individual domains and in particular bridging between domains.
Questions that we particularly welcome include, but are not restricted
to, the following ones:

-- What are the similarities and the differences between the
linearization constraints in the verbal/clausal and the nominal
domains and what are they conditioned by?
-- Can linearization restrictions that hold for modification
structures (HFF) and complementation structures (FOFC) be unified
analytically, given some obvious similarities between them?
-- To which extent are some of the observed linearization constraints
actually constraints on relinearization, i.e. are restrictions on
movement-derived rather than base-generated word orders?
-- Does linearization follow universal principles and are there
(superficial?) exceptions to these principles? How should such
exceptions be accounted for?
-- At which level of representation do linearization contraints apply
and how should the interfaces, e.g. information structure, be modeled
in order to capture the array of possibilities?
-- To which extent do different types of languages (tone vs.
intonation languages, isolating vs. synthetic languages etc.) show
different linearization possibilities?

This workshop will take place within the annual meeting of the German
Linguistics Society (DGfS) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
(https://dgfs2024.rub.de).

Invited speakers:
Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)

Final Call for Papers:

The deadline has been extended.
New deadline: 25-Aug-2023

Abstracts should fit one page, including examples and references, with
12 point font and 1 inch margins.
Submission should be made via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=conlinag8.

Notification of acceptance: 10-Sep-2023

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