34.2733, Calls: Syntax / Languages (Jrnl)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2733. Sun Sep 17 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2733, Calls: Syntax / Languages (Jrnl)

Moderators: Malgorzata E. Cavar, Francis Tyers (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Justin Fuller
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Steven Franks, Everett Green, Daniel Swanson, Maria Lucero Guillen Puon, Zackary Leech, Lynzie Coburn, Natasha Singh, Erin Steitz
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Zachary Leech <zleech at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: 15-Sep-2023
From: Lumi XIE [lumi.xie at mdpi.com]
Subject: Syntax / Languages (Jrnl)


Call for Papers:

The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect and disseminate
state-of-the-art, empirically grounded, and analytically innovative
research on a storied topic: the syntax of wh-questions.

The study of wh-questions probes one of the most remarkable phenomena
visible in the syntax of human language: the necessary association of
a single linguistic constituent (the wh-phrase) with more than one
position in a clause through the formation of a syntactic dependency.

(1) [Which e-bike]i did you buy [ ___ ]i?

In (1), the wh-constituent which e-bike appears clause-initially but
is also understood as the direct object of the verb buy, which would
normally immediately follow that verb. Investigations following from
this observation have driven foundational research in theoretical
linguistics. Early work on wh-movement discovered the seemingly
unbounded nature of these dependencies across clauses (Chomsky 1977,
1981; Gazdar 1981; Cinque 1990) and elucidated the nature of
wh-islands—those particular domains which interfere with the formation
of wh-dependencies (Ross 1967; Huang 1982; Chung and McCloskey 1983).
Other important research has focused on mechanisms by which
wh-questions can be derived and interpreted (Lasnik and Saito 1992;
Simpson 2000; Adger and Ramchand 2005).  Critical to our current
understanding is the investigation of what conditions variation in the
presentation of wh-questions cross-linguistically, including
wh-in-situ (Mahajan 1990; Aoun and Li 1993; Cheng 2003), multiple
wh-fronting (Bošković 2002; Boeckx 2003; Dayal 2006), and the
morphological marking of long-distance wh-dependencies (McCloskey
1979, 2002; Chung 1982; Manetta 2006). Also highly influential in the
field is the body of work examining the intersection of wh-question
formation and ellipsis—sluicing and related phenomena (Ross 1968;
Merchant 2001).

Despite this rich history, diverse and important open questions
remain. Current work continues to use wh-questions as a tool to probe
topics including the fine structure of the clause edge and
clause-internal peripheries (Bonan 2021; Berthelot 2022), mechanisms
driving agreement and displacement (Richards 2021), and putative
optionality in the grammar (Faure and Palasis 2021). Also of pressing
concern is research which describes and analyzes lesser-studied and
endangered languages and reveals the complete typology of wh-question
syntax (e.g. Hedding 2021; Kandybowicz et al 2021).

Languages invites contributions for this Special Issue featuring
original research couched in any current analytical framework.
Research making a significant contribution to questions of ongoing
theoretical interest or offering new empirical insights from
lesser-studied languages are particularly welcome. We request that
interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract
of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution prior to
preparing their manuscripts. Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest
editors for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of
the Special Issue, and then full manuscripts will be solicited. Please
send the abstract to the guest editor emily.manetta at uvm.edu. Full
manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

Prof. Dr. Emily Manetta
Guest Editor



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please consider donating to the Linguist List https://give.myiu.org/iu-bloomington/I320011968.html


LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

American Dialect Society/Duke University Press http://dukeupress.edu

Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group) http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Brill http://www.brill.com

Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Mouton https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton

Dictionary Society of North America http://dictionarysociety.com/

Edinburgh University Press www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics

Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us

SIL International Publications http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

Springer Nature http://www.springer.com

Wiley http://www.wiley.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2733
----------------------------------------------------------