35.558, Calls: Flexible Syntax 2024

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Subject: 35.558, Calls: Flexible Syntax 2024

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Date: 15-Feb-2024
From: Marika Lekakou [mlekakou at uoi.gr]
Subject: Flexible Syntax 2024


Full Title: Flexible Syntax 2024

Date: 08-Nov-2024 - 09-Nov-2024
Location: University of Vienna, Austria
Contact Person: Marika Lekakou
Meeting Email: 2024.flexisyn at gmail.com
Web Site: http://flexiblesyntax2024.eu

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology;
Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 03-May-2024

Meeting Description:

A workshop will be held at the University of Vienna on the occasion of
the 25th anniversary of the publication of Flexible Syntax (Neeleman
and Weerman 1999), to evaluate the contributions of this distinctive
minimalist theory of syntax.

Call for Papers:

A workshop will be held at the University of Vienna on the occasion of
the 25th anniversary of the publication of Flexible Syntax (Neeleman
and Weerman 1999), to evaluate the contributions of this distinctive
minimalist theory of syntax.

Flexible Syntax shares with minimalism (Chomsky 2005) and other
generative theories the idea that the architecture of the grammar is
modular, and that syntax is one of the modules. It subscribes to the
idea that the atomic units in syntax are heads and features, and the
only syntactic operations are Merge and a relation between unvalued
and valued features, Agree. It maintains that word order patterns,
regularities and constraints can be successfully derived from some key
structural relations derived from these primitives, such as c-command
(Reinhart 1983) and intervention effects. Finally, it views syntax as
interface-driven, in that it devolves explanation for putatively
syntactic phenomena to the interfaces (with other grammatical modules
and with the lexicon).

At the same time, Flexible Syntax differs from more mainstream
minimalist works in that there is no need to check selectional
requirements immediately. In other words, the syntactic derivation
allows for the flexibility that a feature that could have been checked
at an earlier point gets carried further in the derivation and checked
later. This flexibility allows for elegant treatments of phenomena
such as A- and A’-scrambling, complex predicates, and the syntax of
ditransitives. This syntactic core is supplemented by interface-based
analyses of scope shift, case assignment, information structure, and
several morphological and lexical phenomena.

We welcome abstracts for 30-minute talks evaluating the theoretical
contributions of Flexible Syntax, or on any empirical topic related to
work carried out within this theory. We do not intend the workshop to
be restricted to Flexible Syntax research, but preference will be
given to submissions which draw explicit links to Flexible Syntax.

Submission guidelines:
Please anonymize abstracts
2 pages A4, incl. examples and references
11pt Times New Roman, 2.5cm margins
Submit to 2024.flexisyn at gmail.com

Workshop organizers:
Marika Lekakou
Kriszta Szendroi
Rob Truswell

Invited speakers:
Fatima Hamlaoui
Olaf Koeneman
Ad Neeleman
Tal Siloni
Edwin Williams

Key dates
Submission deadline: May 3, 2024
Notifications: July 5, 2024
Workshop: November 8-9, 2024



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