10.899, Confs: Grammatical Functions

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-899. Mon Jun 14 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.899, Confs: Grammatical Functions

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Date:  Fri, 11 Jun 99 15:18:15 EDT
From:  Stanley Dubinsky <DUBINSK at VM.SC.EDU>
Subject:  Workshop on Grammatical Functions (LSA Institute)

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Date:  Fri, 11 Jun 99 15:18:15 EDT
From:  Stanley Dubinsky <DUBINSK at VM.SC.EDU>
Subject:  Workshop on Grammatical Functions (LSA Institute)


We would like to announce the final program for:

The Role of Grammatical Functions in Transformational Syntax,
   (A workshop at the 1999 LSA Linguistic Institute)

Location of Workshop:  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
                       Levis Faculty Center Third Floor.

Dates of Workshop:     Saturday, July 10, 8:00 am - 5:45 pm
                       Sunday, July 11, 8:30 am - 3:40 pm

Organizers:            William D. Davies (University of Iowa) and
                       Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina)

Registration:          $10
                       The registration fee will partially subsidize
                       conference amenities (breakfasts & coffee breaks)
                       Registration will be done ON-SITE only.  However,
                       an e-mail message to dubinsky at sc.edu indicating
                       that you plan to attend will greatly assist in
                       planning.

Below is a decription of the workshop and a list of the
scheduled presentations.  Further information (including
abstracts for each presentation) is available at:

http://www.cla.sc.edu/LING/faculty/dubinsky/GF-workshop.html

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Workshop Desciption

This (NSF-funded) workshop will explore the place of grammatical
functions (GFs) in transformational theories of syntax,  which since
Chomsky 1965 have held GFs such as subject and object are not
primitives of the theory but are definable in terms of phrase structure
configurations.  Recent instantiations of these theories, such as
Principles & Parameters and the Minimalist Program, have undergone
revisions which incorporate principles utilizing GFs in a way that
appears to admit their roles as primitives, as in the Extended Projection
Principle, the introduction of functional phrase structure projections
such as AgrS and AgrO, and other innovations.  These innovations
raise the fundamental question of whether or not GFs can indeed be
configurationally defined on phrase structure representations.

The workshop will bring together the work of leading researchers
relating to these issues, including:
 *  the ways in which GFs have been incorporated into current
       transformational theories;
 *  whether unitary configurationally defined GFs can be identified
       in current transformational syntax;
 *  if configurational definitions of GFs have been reduced to
       axioms of the theory, the degree to which these structural
       representations of GFs yield significant insights;
 *  the inventory of GFs that must be recognized in the theory;
 *  and whether all languages instantiate all projections involved
       in defining Gfs.

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Program

   Saturday, 10 July 1999

    8:00 a.m. - Registration and coffee

    8:30 a.m. - Opening remarks

    8:45 a.m. - Section I:  On the nature of the EPP

    8:45   The (non)universality of EPP effects
           James McCloskey  (University of California, Santa Cruz)

    9:25   Subjects, Objects, and the EPP
           Howard Lasnik    (University of Connecticut)

    10:05  Discussion
           Discussants: Richard Campbell, Samuel Epstein, Daniel Seely

    10:45 a.m. - Break

    11:00  SPEC-ifying the GF "subject:" eliminating A-Chains and the EPP
           Samuel Epstein and Daniel Seely
           (U of Michigan and Eastern Michigan U)

    11:40  On the Dual Nature of Extended Projection Principle Effects
           Richard Campbell   (Oakland University)

    12:20  Discussion
           Discussants: James McCloskey, Howard Lasnik

     1:00 p.m. - Lunch break

     2:30 p.m. - Section II: On the nature of subjects

     2:30  Subjects in Spanish
           Grant Goodall       (U of Texas, El Paso)

     3:10  Subject extraction without subjects
           Norvin Richards     (MIT)

     3:40  Discussion:
           Discussants: Mark Baker, Grant Goodall

     4:30 p.m. - Break

     4:45  The syntax of non-NP subjects in an exploration of subject properties
           William Davies and Stanley Dubinsky
           (U of Iowa and U of South Carolina)

     5:25  Discussion
           Discussant: Norvin Richards

     7:00 p.m. Workshop dinner/party

  Sunday, 11 July 1999

     8:30 a.m. - Registration and coffee

     9:00 a.m. - Section III: Objects and other subjects

     9:00  Distinctions among objects:
           The counterparts of grammatical functions in the P&P framework
           Alex Alsina     (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

     9:40  Direct Objects and Syntactic Theory:
           Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese
           Patrick Farrell (U of California, Davis)

    10:20  Discussion
           Discussants: Lisa Travis, Alex Alsina

    11:00 a.m. - Break

    11:15  Objects in Malagasy and in English
           Lisa Travis     (McGill University)

    11:55  Discussion
           Discussant: Patrick Farrell

    12:15 p.m. - Lunch break

     1:40  Phrase structure as a representation of
           "primitive" grammatical relations
           Mark C. Baker    (Rutgers University)

     2:20  Discussion
           Discussant: Frederick Newmeyer

     2:40 p.m. -  Panel Wrap-up

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