[LFG] CfP: DGfS 2018 workshop on "One-to-Many Relations in Morphology, Syntax and Semantics"

[Berthold Crysmann]

Call for Papers:

*One-to-Many Relations in Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics*

Workshop at DGfS 2018, 7-9 March 2018, Stuttgart

Organiser: Berthold Crysmann (CNRS, Paris)
Web: http://drehu.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/one2many-dgfs2018
Contact: onetomanydgfs2018 at easychair.org

Deadline for submission: 1 August 2017


Invited speakers:

- Andrew Spencer (U Essex)

- Hedde Zeijlstra (U Göttingen)


Aims and background:

The standard view of the form-meaning interfaces, as embraced by the
great majority of contemporary grammatical frameworks, consists in the
assumption that meaning can be associated with grammatical form in a
one-to-one correspondence. Under this view, composition is quite
straightforward, involving concatenation of form, paired with
functional application in meaning. The workshop aims at highlighting
linguistic phenomena across several grammatical sub-modules
(morphology, syntax, semantics) that apparently pose a problem for the
standard view. The relevant phenomena include fusion as well as
multiple and overlapping exponence and are, in different disguise,
present at all levels of grammar. Such one-to-many (or many-to-many)
relations manifest themselves, e.g., in inflectional paradigms, in
periphrastic constructions, in complex predicate formation, with
resumption, in semantic concord phenomena, and in polyadic
quantification. Formal accounts of such phenomena attempt to model
them (i) as 1-to-1 relations by imposing additional structure, (ii) as
essentially holistic phenomena, or (iii) by means of decomposition,
combining constructional and compositional views. The workshop has two
main aims: First, to foster awareness of the ubiquity of one-to-many
relations and, consequently, to re-assess them as an essential
property of natural language grammar. Second, to evaluate the analytic
tools developed for handling them for their adequacy and scalability
across the modules of grammar.

Contributions should present detailed studies of exemplary phenomena
of one-to-many relations with an empirical or formal emphasis,
addressing questions such as: Which grammatical frameworks are
particularly apt to accommodate deviations from one-to-many relations?
How to extract relevant generalizations over holistic one-to-many and
many-to-many relations? What are the differences and similarities of
one-to-many relations throughout the modules of grammar?

We aim at having scientific debates across subdisciplines and
frameworks and are interested in an empirically grounded,
theoretically oriented fruitful exchange of ideas and problems,
ideally of course including explicit analyses.


Important dates:

- 7 June 2017:  Easychair opens for submissions

- 1 August 2017: deadline for submissions

- 5 September: review due date

- 15 September: notification of acceptance


Submission:

We accept one page abstracts, describing original research on the
topic. Submissions must be strictly anonymous. We use Easychair to
organise the anonymous review process, so please submit your
contribution to 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=onetomanydgfs2018


Programme chair:

Berthold Crysmann (CNRS, Paris)


Programme committee:

Farrell Ackerman (UC San Diego)
Doug Arnold (U Essex)
Ash Asudeh (U Oxford)
Jenny Audring (U Leiden)
Raffaela Bernardi (U Trento)
Olivier Bonami (U Paris-Diderot)
Bob Borsley  (U Essex)
Heather Burnett (CNRS, Paris)
Pegah Faghiri (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Berit Gehrke (CNRS, Paris)
Thomas Hoffmann (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Janneke Huitink (U Groningen & U Frankfurt)
Laura Kallmeyer (U Düsseldorf)
Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY Buffalo)
Stefan Müller (HU Berlin)
Doris Penka (U Konstanz)
Frank Richter (U Frankfurt)
Louisa Sadler (U Essex)
Manfred Sailer (U Frankfurt)
Martin Salzmann (U Leipzig)
Andrew Spencer (U Essex)
Henriette De Swart (U Utrecht)
Gert Webelhuth (U Frankfurt)
Hedde Zeijlstra (U Göttingen)