35.501, Calls: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in the Study of Clause Size (workshop)

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Subject: 35.501, Calls: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in the Study of Clause Size (workshop)

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Date: 13-Feb-2024
From: Alexandru Nicolae [alexandru.nicolae at unibuc.ro]
Subject: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in the Study of Clause Size (workshop)

Full Title: Theoretical and empirical issues in the study of clause
size (workshop)

Date: 23-May-2024 - 24-May-2024
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact Person: Alexandru Nicolae
Meeting Email: alexandru.nicolae at unibuc.ro
Web Site: https://lingv.ro/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2024

Meeting Description:

Ever since the early days of generative grammar, the size of clauses
(in particular, embedded and non-finite) has been an issue of ongoing
interest.
Oversimplifying to a certain degree, two main strands of research may
be identified in the literature: one that assumes that certain
operations apply in order to reduce a full-fledged clause (i.e. a CP),
and one that assumes that predicates select/embed structures smaller
than CPs (i.e. a TP, a VoiceP, a vP, etc.).
There is a large body of work, both theoretically and descriptively
oriented, favouring (variants of) one of the two strands, notably,
restructuring and clause reduction (see Aissen & Perlmutter 1976;
Rizzi 1978; Cinque 1999; Wurmbrand 2001), exfoliation (Pesetsky 2021),
complex predicate formation in various languages (for Romance
languages, see Sheehan 2016; Dragomirescu et al. 2022), subjunctives
in the Balkan languages (e.g., the truncated CP analysis of the
Romanian subjunctive, Alboiu 2007), irrealis non-finite complements in
southern Italian dialects (e.g., Ledgeway & Lombardi 2014, Taylor
2014, Groothuis 2022), etc.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested
in various topics concerning the size of clauses. Both theoretical and
more empirically oriented papers are welcome, as long as they
contribute to a better understanding of the issues concerning clausal
size.

This workshop is part of the The Ninth International Symposium of
Linguistics organised by the “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti”
Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy on May 23-24, 2024.

Keynote speakers in the Symposium:
-       Prof. Roberta D’Alessandro, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
-       Prof. Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge, UK
-       Prof. David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
US
-       Prof. Arhonto Terzi, University of Patras, Greece

Cited references: Alboiu, G. 2007. Moving Forward with Romanian
Backward Control and Raising. In New Horizons in the Analysis of
Control and Raising, W. D. Davies & S. Dubinsky (eds), 187-211.
Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; Aissen, J. & Perlmutter, D. 1976.
Clause Reduction in Spanish. In Proceedings of the Second Annual
Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1-30. Berkeley,
California: Berkeley Linguistics Society; Cinque, G. 2006.
Restructuring and Functional Heads. Oxford, New York: Oxford
University Press. Dragomirescu, A., Nicolae, A. & Pană Dindelegan, G.
2022. Complex Predicates. In The Cambridge Handbook of Romance
Linguistics, A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden (eds), 571-603. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Groothuis, K. A. 2022. On the Relation
between Finiteness and Clause Size: Evidence from Romanian and
Southern Italo-Romance Irrealis Clauses. Transactions of the
Philological Society 120(1): 32-68; Ledgeway, A. & Lombardi, A. 2014.
The development of the southern subjunctive: Morphological loss and
syntactic gain. In Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the
Dialects of Italy, P. Benincà, A. Ledgeway & N. Vincent (eds), 24-47.
Oxford: Oxford University Press; Pesetsky, D. 2021. Exfoliation:
towards a derivational theory of clause size. LingBuzz,
https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/004440. Rizzi, L. 1978. A restructuring
rule in Italian syntax. In Recent Transformational Studies in European
Languages, S. J. Keyser (ed), 113-58. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sheehan, M. 2016. Complex predicates. In The Oxford Guide to the
Romance Languages, A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden (eds), 981-93. Oxford:
Oxford University Press; Taylor, C. 2014. Aspects of clause structure
in Nicoterese. A descriptive account. PhD Thesis, University of
Cambridge; Wurmbrand, S. 2012. Infinitives. Restructuring and Clause
Structure. De Gruyter Mouton.

Call for Papers:

Submissions are invited for 20-minute (+ 10 minutes for discussion)
oral presentations. Abstracts that do not exceed 500 words should be
submitted to simpozionlingvistica75 at gmail.com.

Calendar
April 15: deadline for submitting participation forms at
simpozionlingvistica75 at gmail.com
April 15-25: reviewing process
April 26: outcomes of review process
April 29 – May 11: payment of conference fee (250 Lei/50 Euros)

Information
The fee covers the symposium folder, coffee breaks, and two lunches.
Accommodation and transport costs are be covered by the participants.
The papers selected by the scientific committee shall be published in
the journals edited by the Institute of Linguistics.
Length of presentation: 20 minutes (+ 10 minutes for discussion).
Talks can be given in Romanian, English or French.

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