34.3180, Calls: Ellipsis and the architecture of language: When and why can an element be elided? / La elipsis y la arquitectura del lenguaje. ¿Cuándo puede elidirse qué y por qué? (LII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística)

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Subject: 34.3180, Calls: Ellipsis and the architecture of language: When and why can an element be elided? / La elipsis y la arquitectura del lenguaje. ¿Cuándo puede elidirse qué y por qué? (LII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística)

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Date: 25-Oct-2023
From: Carlos Martínez García [carlma27 at ucm.es]
Subject: Ellipsis and the architecture of language: When and why can an element be elided? / La elipsis y la arquitectura del lenguaje. ¿Cuándo puede elidirse qué y por qué? (LII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística)

Full Title: Ellipsis and the architecture of language: When and why
can an element be elided? / La elipsis y la arquitectura del lenguaje.
¿Cuándo puede elidirse qué y por qué? (LII Simposio de la Sociedad
Española de Lingüística)
Short Title: LII Simposio SEL

Date: 22-Jan-2024 - 25-Jan-2024
Location: Madrid, Spain
Contact Person: Carlos Martínez García
Meeting Email: carlma27 at ucm.es
Web Site: http://sel.edu.es/lii-simposio-sel-2023/

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2023

Meeting Description:

Ellipsis is the anaphoric phenomenon that has aroused most interest in
formal linguistics, within generative grammar and outside it (Pollard
and Sag 1994; Dalrymple 1999; Merchant 2001). By the term ellipsis, we
refer to those cases in which a part of a sentence can be interpreted
semantically by virtue of a discourse antecedent, even though it lacks
phonetic content. Since the syntactic component systematically
associates sound and meaning, the challenge posed by ellipsis lies in
explaining why the absence of phonetic content does not entail a loss
of meaning. In other words, how can meaning be generated without
sound?

Although some authors have argued that the semantic content of
ellipsis can be recovered without the aid of syntax (Culicover and
Jackendoff 2005), empirical evidence points to the contrary. The fact
that unpronounced material is accessible to syntactic operations, such
as extraction, agreement, or quantificational scope, provides a strong
argument in favor of the hypothesis that, in cases of ellipsis, what
is unpronounced has an abstract syntactic representation (Johnson
2001; Merchant 2001; Saab 2021). However, this type of argument does
not yield the same results for all types of ellipsis. This has led to
an intense debate about which ellipsis phenomena have syntactic
structure (Hankamer and Sag 1976).

Ellipsis phenomena have been classified into two types. We refer to
argument ellipsis and non-argumental ellipsis. In the argument
ellipsis, nominal arguments of the verb are omitted, as in (1B). In
non-argumental ellipsis, the elided material does not represent a
syntactically homogeneous class: the elision may scope a finite
clause, as in (2a), or be circumscribed to a smaller sentence. For
example, in (2b), the elided part is a constituent of the SD, while in
(2c) the head of the SV is omitted (the parentheses indicate the
elided part of the speech, and the hooks indicate what serves as its
antecedent).

Argument ellipsis
   A: — ¿Ha comprado [Juan] [libros]?
             ‘Did John buy books?’
   B: — Sí, (Juan) ha comprado (libros).
             ‘Yes, (John) has brought (books).’

Non-argument ellipsis
   a. Juan [quiere trabajar], pero no sabe de qué (quiere trabajar).
[sluicing]
       ‘John wants to work, but (he) does not know on what (he wants
to work).’
   b. El [libro] de Cervantes y el (libro) de Quevedo están ahí.
[elipsis nominal]
       ‘The book by Cervantes and the (book) by Quevedo are here.’
   c. Juan [comprará] el queso y Pedro (comprará) el vino.
[gapping]
       ‘John will buy the cheese and Peter (will buy) the wine.’

The study of these two types of ellipses offers a unique opportunity
to shed light on key aspects of human language architecture. How does
the computational component interact with each interface of external
systems? What constraints does the computational component impose on
syntactic representations? What constraints affecting syntactic
representations are instead imposed by the interfaces? What structure
do the interfaces with which the computational component interacts
possess?

2nd Call for Papers:

This panel is open to papers that address any of the basic questions
raised by the study of ellipsis, such as the following, among others.

I. What can be elided?
II. When can an element X be elided?
III. Why can X be elided in a given language (and not in others)?

Even though the panel is mostly devoted to European and Romance
languages, we are interested in ellipsis in every language, if at
least one of the topics on the proposal is addressed in the talk.
Abstracts must be submitted on the official website, and participants
must make the inscription.

Submission deadline: October 31
Further information: http://sel.edu.es/lii-simposio-sel-2023/

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