[HPSG-L] CFP: Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis 2019

[­Joanna Nykiel(문과대학 영어영문학과)]

Dear Colleagues,

Below is a call for papers that might be of interest to this group
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Full Title: Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis 2019
Short Title: ECBAE2019

Date: 13-Jul-2019
Location: Davis, CA, USA
Contact Person: Joanna Nykiel
Meeting Email: ecbae2019 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/en/ecbae2019

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English

Call Deadline: 24-Mar-2019

Meeting Description:

Ellipsis is a central phenomenon at the interface between syntax,
semantics, phonology and discourse. It has been, and continues to be, the
focus of numerous publications. Specifically, a major handbook on the
subject has recently been published (van Craenenbroeck & Temmerman 2018).
Despite a huge amount of theoretical work (from, e.g., Hankamer & Sag 1976
to current work by Johnson 2001, Merchant 2001, van Craenenbroek 2010) and
a long tradition in psycholinguistic experimentation (from Murphy 1985 and
Tannnenhaus & Carlson 1990 to current work by Frazier 2013, Kertz 2013, Kim
& Runner 2017), major questions remain open, most centrally the question of
whether it is necessary to hypothesize the existence of unpronounced
syntactic structure at the ellipsis site. The purpose of this conference is
to bring together researchers who have been working on elliptical phenomena
with special emphasis on methodologies aiming to improve the empirical
foundations of the discussion, specifically psycholinguistic
experimentation (acceptability and eye-tracking experiments, in particular)
and corpus investigations. Contributions will be welcome concerning (i) the
specific experimental methodologies being used in psycholinguistics, and
how they can be improved to give more reliable and interpretable results;
(ii) the way corpus data can be brought to bear on theoretical questions;
and (iii) how corpus data can be used to improve the results of
psycholinguistic experiments, specifically by increasing the naturalness of
the materials by providing new hypotheses. This one-day conference will be
held in connection with the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute and continues the
theme initiated by its predecessor during the previous LSA Linguistic
Institute.

Keynote Speakers: Anne Abeille (U. Paris-Diderot) and Pranav Anand (UC
Santa Cruz)

The conference will be held in conjunction with the 2019 LSA Linguistic
Institute.

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for ECBAE 2019 for 30-minute oral presentations.
Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages (including figures and references),
with 12 point font, single line spacing, and 1” margins. Abstracts should
be anonymous. Submission should be done through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=ecbae2

Deadline for submission: March 24, 2019
Notification of acceptance: April, 21, 2019

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Joanna Nykiel
Visiting Professor
Department of English Linguistics and Literature
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 130-701, Korea