21.2961, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-21-2961. Sat Jul 17 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.2961, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Canada

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Date: 16-Jul-2010
From: María Cristina Cuervo < mc.cuervo at utoronto.ca >
Subject: Workshop: 'The end of argument structure?'
 

	
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From: María Cristina Cuervo [mc.cuervo at utoronto.ca]
Subject: Workshop: 'The end of argument structure?'

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Full Title: Workshop: 'The end of argument structure?' 

Date: 01-Oct-2010 - 02-Oct-2010
Location: Toronto, Canada 
Contact Person: María Cristina Cuervo
Meeting Email: mc.cuervo at utoronto.ca

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 19-Jul-2010 

Meeting Description:

This workshop, to be held on 1-2 October, 2010, will be an opportunity to
explore current issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the
relationship between lexical meaning and the morphosyntax of sentences. A
central question in the study of language concerns the mechanisms by 
which the participants in an event described by a sentence come to occupy 
their positions in the structure and acquire their interpretation. A long-
standing approach is based on the assumption that it is the lexical meaning 
of a verb (or root) that determines, albeit indirectly, the basic properties of 
sentence structure at the level of verbal meaning, including asymmetric 
relations, thematic roles, case, and agreement. An alternative approach 
claims that the syntax itself greatly restricts possible verbal meanings on the 
basis of the legitimate relations that can exist between syntactic heads, 
complements, and specifiers. 

If we think that all systematic aspects of verbal meanings (licensing of
external argument, number and type of 'obligatory' and extra arguments,
agentivity, causativity, aksionsart, etc.) are dependent on configurational
properties, what is left for lexical entries? Do generalizations such as the
UTAH and other prominence hierarchies need to be stated explicitly, or are 
they derived from more general principles of syntactic operations (and 
structures) and semantic compositionality? What is left unexplained by 
syntax-driven approaches?

In order to promote an open exchange of ideas, we have in mind a real 
workshop format rather than a regular conference, around themes that will 
be determined in consultation with the invited participants, based on their 
contributions. A small number of papers will be selected from open 
submissions. 

Invited participants: 
Mark Baker (Rutgers University) 
Heidi Harley (University of Arizona) 
Lisa Travis (McGill University)

Invited student participant: 
Grant Armstrong (Georgetown University) 

Call For Papers
   
Abstracts are invited for oral presentations that address some issue on 
argument structure and collaborates by arguing for one or the other position 
or presenting and discussing challenges. Abstracts must be 1 page long 
plus one page for examples and references, with 2.5cm/1 inch margins and 
12 point font size, written in English. Abstracts must be submitted 
electronically as an anonymous PDF file, to either of the contact address. 
The subject line of the message should state: October Workshop. In the 
body of the message, please include the title of the abstract, the name of 
the author(s), affiliation(s) and contact details. 

Deadline for abstract submission: 19 July, 2010
Notification of acceptance: 16 August, 2010

Organizers:
María Cristina Cuervo
Yves Roberge
University of Toronto 

Contact: 
mc.cuervo at utoronto.ca
yves.roberge at utoronto.ca





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