[parislinguists] Lisbon Workshop on Alternative views on the Functional Domain

[Ana Castro]

Lisbon Workshop on Alternative Views on the Functional Domain

CALL FOR PAPERS

8-9 July 2004

Since Pollock's (1989) proposal on the structure of IP, there has been
an enormous amount of work on the functional structure of the
clause. Different authors propose different functional categories on
the basis of different types of evidence. This has led to a certain
degree of analytical indeterminacy in the analysis of the structure of
the clause, and to a wide lack of consensus regarding the functional
structure of the clause and of the DP.

The aim of this workshop is to gather contributions to the debate
regarding the functional domain, looking for alternative analysis to
the exploded functional domain, trying to answer questions like the
following:

a) What is the evidence in favor or against a universal inventory of
functional categories?
b) If the array of functional categories projected is not universal,
what determines how many and which functional categories are projected
in each language and in each construction?
c) What type of evidence is crucial for determining the label of a
specific functional category? To what extent is morphological evidence
revealing? To what extent are semantic/discourse factors a consequence
of placing constituents in specific functional categories?
d) Sometimes, the evidence for a certain category is circular: a given
XP has a certain interpretation by virtue of surfacing at the
specifier position of a functional category with the label Y, and the
label is assigned because of the interpretation observed. Is it
possible to think of other types of arguments?
e) If functional categories are extended projections of lexical
categories, as proposed in Grimshaw (1991), how important are the
labels? If they are not important, what underlies the apparent
different surface positions for heads and XPs found
crosslinguistically?
f) Are there alternative analyses for explaining the facts so far
explained with exploded functional domains?
g) Is the functional domain of the DP necessarily parallel to the
functional domain of the IP?

Papers are invited for 20 minute talks followed by discussion.

Please submit anonymous 2-page abstracts (font times new roman 12pt)
in word or PDF format to the following email address:
jcosta at fcsh.unl.pt

Deadline for submission:	April 15, 2004
Notice of acceptance:	May 15, 2004

Organizing Committee:

Workshop hosted by Centro de Linguí­stica da Universidade Nova de
Lisboa






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