17.2633, Calls: Syntax/Semantics

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2633. Sat Sep 16 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.2633, Calls: Syntax/Semantics

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Date: 15-Sep-2006
From: Orin Percus < orinalt at yahoo.com >
Subject: Snippets 

	
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:31:14
From: Orin Percus < orinalt at yahoo.com >
Subject: Snippets 
 


Full Title: Snippets 


Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2006 

The submission deadline for Issue 14 of the syntax/semantics minijournal
'Snippets' has been extended to October 1, 2006. 

As usual, submissions are to be sent to the address snippets at unimi.it. 

Some relevant excerpts from the 'Snippets' editorial statement follow.
Further details can be found at the 'Snippets' website 
(http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/) together with all published issues. 
The contents of the most recent issues are:

Issue 13
1. Valentina Bianchi - An asymmetry between personal pronouns and other DPs
2. Amy Rose Deal - Does English have a genitive case?
3. Bernhard Schwarz - Covert reciprocity and Strawson-symmetry
4. Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland - [Feminine] in a high position

Issue 12
1. David Adger - Focused responses
2. Faye Chalcraft - Right Node Raising as ellipsis: evidence from (what
the) British do.
3. Lawrence Y.-L. Cheung - On certain (non-)violations of Coordinate
Structure Constraints
4. Feng-hsi Liu - Event measures in Chinese
5. Julia Staffel - Binding of reflexive pronouns in German


Excerpts from the Snippets Editorial Statement: 

1. Purpose 

The aim of Snippets is to publish specific remarks that motivate research
or that make theoretical points germane to current work. The ideal
contribution is the ideal footnote: a side remark that taken on its own is 
not worth lengthy development but that needs to be said. 

2. Content 

We will publish notes that contribute to the study of syntax and semantics
in generative grammar. The notes are to be brief, self-contained and
explicit. They may do any of the following things: 

- point out an empirical phenomenon that goes against accepted
generalizations or that shows that some aspect of a theory is problematic; 
- point out unnoticed minimal pairs that fall outside the scope of any
existing theory; 
- point out an empirical phenomenon that confirms the predictions of a
theory in an area where the theory has not been tested; 
- explicitly describe technical inconsistencies in a theory or in a set of
frequently adopted assumptions; 
- explicitly describe unnoticed assumptions that underlie a theory or
assumptions that a theory needs to be supplemented with in order to make
desired predictions; 
- call attention to little-known or forgotten literature in which issues of
immediate relevance are discussed. 

We also encourage submissions that connect psycholinguistic data to
theoretical issues. A proposal for a pilot experiment in language
acquisition or language processing could make for an excellent snippet. 

3. Submission details 

We will accept electronic submissions at the address snippets at unimi.it.
Electronic submissions may take the form of (a) the text of an e-mail
message, or (b) an attached file. The attached file should be a simple text 
file, a Word file (Mac or Windows), or a Rich Text Format (RTF) file. All
submissions must state the name and affiliation of the author(s), and a
(postal or electronic) return address. Submissions are to be a maximum of
500 words (including examples), with an additional half page allowed for
diagrams, tables and references. Given that we envision the submissions 
themselves as footnotes, the submissions may not contain footnotes of their
own. The ideal submission is one paragraph; a submission of five lines is
perfectly acceptable. We will not consider abstracts. 

4. Editorial policy 

Submissions will be reviewed by our editorial board, and review will be
name-blind both ways. While we guarantee a response within 3 months of the
submission deadline, we only guarantee a yes/no response to the submitter.
We will not require revisions (barring exceptional cases). We allow
resubmission (once) of the same piece.




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