20.1805, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 20.1805, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: 09-May-2009
From: Tonjes Veenstra < veenstra at zas.gwz-berlin.de >
Subject: Root Phenomena
 

	
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Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 23:31:53
From: Tonjes Veenstra [veenstra at zas.gwz-berlin.de]
Subject: Root Phenomena

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Full Title: Root Phenomena 
Short Title: roots09 

Date: 02-Sep-2009 - 04-Sep-2009
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Tonjes Veenstra
Meeting Email: roots09 at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Web Site: http://www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hubert/rootph/call.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2009 

Meeting Description:

Root Phenomena, 
ZAS Berlin 
Sept. 2-4, 2009

In their classical paper, Hooper and Thompson 1973 described root 
phenomena as occurring unembedded and under assertive embedding. 
Unembedded environments include what would today be unintegrated (Reis 
1997) or peripheral (Haegeman 2004) adjunct clauses as well as 
appositive relatives (see de Vries 2006, Citko 2008). Matrix verbs that 
allow assertive embedding show interesting parallels to those verbs that 
embed indicative (as opposed to subjunctive) mood in Romance, a parallel 
explored early for English parenthetical formation in Bolinger 1968. A 
helpful recent review of the literature on embedded root phenomena is 
Heycock 2006.

The workshop is planned as a syntactic enterprise, with a warm welcome 
to semanticists. Questions of interest include, but are not limited to: 
Non-uniformity of embedded root phenomena (e.g. de Haan 2001), Germanic 
V2 as a root phenomenon (Reis 1997, see Bentzen et al. 2007), root 
phenomena in non-Germanic languages, modal particles and root phenomena 
(see e.g. Coniglio 2007), root phenomena and speech acts, more precise 
characterizations of 'assertive' embeddings, the grammatical 
representation of root phenomena, the semantic interpretation of root 
phenomena (see e.g. Potts 2005). 

2nd Call for Papers
Deadline Extended to June 1, 2009

Please send non-anonymous abstracts with maximally one page of text and 
one additional page with examples and references, font no smaller than 
Times New Roman 11, reasonable margins, in pdf (or Word at your own 
risk) by e-mail to roots09 at zas.gwz-berlin.de. In your e-mail, please 
copy title and authors. The return address of the electronic submission 
will be used for correspondence.

Deadline: June 1, 2009

Notification: June 5, 2009

The Organizers:
Werner Frey
Hans-Martin Gärtner
André Meinunger
Hubert Truckenbrodt, 
Tonjes Veenstra





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