More information on CIL18

[farrell ackerman]

Hi all, I'm sending additional information on the International  
Congress of Linguists.  Hope to see you there.  -farrell


The Syntax parallel sessions at CIL 18 (The 18th International  
Congress of Linguists Seoul, Korea
July 21-26, 2008) will be organized around a general session intended  
to accommodate any topic in syntax
and three specific themes.  We encourage submissions from all  
theoretical perspectives and especially on
(morpho)syntactic phenomena from lesser studied languages.  While the  
general session will be devoted to
current research on any topic, the subsessions are intended to  
provide forums for the comparison of different
perspectives on three specific pivotal themes of current interest in  
syntactic theory.   There will also be a poster
session, if there are a sufficient number of quality submissions to  
warrant it.

Theme 1:   Quantitative methods and the goals of linguistic theory.   
Over the past few years there has been
increasing attention to new statistical and experimental methods in  
the analysis of syntactic phenomena.   A basic
question that arises from this research is how results obtained using  
these methodologies may affect the goals and
shape of linguistic theory.  Presentations in this subsession will  
contribute to furthering this research trend and
contributing to understanding its consequences for linguistic theory.

Theme 2:  Morphosyntax:  The relation between morphology and syntax.   
There are several perspectives on
the role of morphology in grammatical theory.  For some, morphology  
is a sort of  syntax, with words amenable
to analyses using familiar constructs from tree-theoretic syntactic  
theories.  For others, morphology resembles syntax
in that both can be viewed as instantiations in different domains of  
construction-theoretic assumptions.  For others still,
morphology represents an utterly distinct domain from syntax, with  
each domain in correspondence with one another.
Presentations in this subsession will address the nature of the  
relations between words and phrases.

Theme 3:  Argument-linking.  There have been numerous efforts over  
the years to identify principled relations between
the semantic properties of predicators and the surface realization of  
their arguments with respect to their morphological realization,
i.e., case-marking as well as their syntactic status, i.e., subj,  
obj, etc.   Presentations in this subsession will focus on the relation
between the lexical semantics of predicators and argument realization.

In submitting abstracts, please indicate whether it the submission is  
(1) for a poster or a presentation, (2) to be reviewed for inclusion
in the general session or for one of the three thematic subsessions,  
and (3) if for inclusion in a thematic subsession, specify which theme.

Please send the abstract and the author's information to both
cil18 at cil18.org and fackerman at ucsd.edu
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