34.851, Calls: 16th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics

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Subject: 34.851, Calls: 16th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics

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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.

2nd 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,
Miyagawa 2012, 2017, 2022, Haegeman and Hill 2013, Haegeman 2014,
Wiltschko 2014, 2021, 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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