34.499, Calls: General Linguistics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-499. Wed Feb 08 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.499, Calls: General Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:00:01
From: Engela de Villiers [engela.devilliers at kuleuven.be]
Subject: 16th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics

 
Full Title: 16th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics 
Short Title: BCGL 16 

Date: 05-Oct-2023 - 06-Oct-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Engela de Villiers
Meeting Email: engela.devilliers at kuleuven.be
Web Site: https://www.crissp.be/bcgl-16-the-morphosyntax-of-speaker-and-hearer/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-Apr-2023 

Meeting Description:

CRISSP is proud to present the sixteenth installment of the Brussels
Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL 16), devoted to the morphosyntax of
speaker and hearer. The conference will take place in Brussels on October 5–6,
2023.


Call for Papers:

The Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology (CRISSP) of KU
Leuven invites abstracts for the 16th edition of the Brussels Conference on
Generative Linguistics (BCGL 16), to be held on 5–6 October 2023. The
conference will take place in Brussels and the theme of BCGL 16 is The
morphosyntax of speaker and hearer.

Different languages employ different strategies to express the relationship
between the speaker and the hearer, or to express the speaker’s attitude
towards (the contents of) her utterance. This conference will focus
specifically on the strategies that involve morphosyntactic properties of the
languages in question and on how to represent these phenomena in a formal
grammatical model.

Several authors have agreed that speaker/hearer‐related elements are part of
the syntactic representation. Many proposals pursuing this idea suggest a
high, left‐peripheral functional domain in the clause that serves as the locus
for such elements (see a.o. Ross 1970, Speas and Tenny 2003, Hill 2007, Giorgi
2010, Sigurðsson 2004, 2014, Haegeman and Hill 2013, Haegeman 2014, Wiltschko
2014, Krifka 2015, 2019, Heim and Wiltschko 2017, Zanuttini 2017, Miyagawa and
Hill To appear). In addition, similar peripheral structure has also been
proposed for clause‐internal and other non‐clausal domains (Bayer and Obenauer
2011, Trotzke 2015, 2018, Corver 2016, Biberauer 2018).

BCGL16 wants to further explore this general topic by focusing on empirical
phenomena that encode speaker/hearer elements. These include, but are not
limited to, the following:

- Allocutivity
- Modal particles (also called discourse particles/markers)
- Imperatives
- Promissives
- Exhortatives
- Exclamatives
- Negative exclamatives
- Insubordination
- Progressives

We invite abstracts addressing the theoretical insights that generative syntax
and morphology could offer in relation to, for example, the sizes of these
speaker/hearer‐domains, the feature inventories associated with encoding
speaker and hearer, optionality of elements in this domain, and
syntax‐interface mappings. Furthermore, we welcome abstracts with a
comparative perspective (both synchronic and diachronic) on
speaker/hearer‐elements and also studies that look at languages that have not
been considered in this regard. We are also interested in papers that offer
insights into the acquisition and development of these speaker/hearer‐related
phenomena and that are concerned with the role of language contact in the
development of these elements. Moreover, we invite abstracts that consider
these phenomena in spoken language compared to written language.

Please visit the conference website
(https://www.crissp.be/bcgl-16-the-morphosyntax-of-speaker-and-hearer/call-for
-papers/) to see the complete call for papers.




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