25.4702, Calls: General Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Croatia

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Subject: 25.4702, Calls: General Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Croatia

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:53:06
From: Jana Willer-Gold [j.willer-gold at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Agreement Across Borders Conference 2015

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Full Title: Agreement Across Borders Conference 2015 
Short Title: aab2015 

Date: 15-Jun-2015 - 16-Jun-2015
Location: Zadar, Croatia 
Contact Person: Jana Willer-Gold
Meeting Email: aab2015.emssproject at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/linguistics/research/leverhulme/network_events/aab2015 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 09-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Agreement Across Borders Conference will be held on the 15th-16th of June 2015 in Zadar, Croatia, by the project Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic Languages (EMSS) in collaboration with the Linguistics Department at the University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia.

This conference is organized as part of the project Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic languages (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/linguistics/research/leverhulme and @emssproject), where agreement patterns are studied with a uniform methodology in six locations across the Western Balkans. This project has both a scientific and social agenda. On one side, it aims to investigate First and Last conjunct agreement in South Slavic languages and thus contribute to the currently debated topic (Bošković 2009, Marušič et al. in press) which revolves around the need for clearer descriptions of the data. On the other side the project aims to propagate psycholinguistic studies of South Slavic languages through cooperation between linguists across the borders of the Western Balkans.

Invited Speakers:

Boban Arsenijević (University of Niš): Logic of agreement: How agreement interacts with negation, disjunction and quantification. 
Julie Franck (University of Geneva): The structure-dependent nature of attraction effects in agreement.  
Ad Neeleman (UCL): Subset Controllers in agreement.

Call for Papers:

Agreement as a grammatical phenomenon exhibits great variety in the extent of its application. It may surface on a number of different categories: verbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, determiners, and complementizers, and it does so differently across various languages. It is often considered a purely syntactic phenomenon (Chomsky 1999, Bošković 2009), as it is not obviously interpreted at Logical Form and in many respects works just like an automatic necessity. Yet it has been argued to take place even across the border of syntax -- postsyntactically (e.g. Bobaljik 2008, Ackema & Neeleman 2007, Marušič et al. 2007, Benmamoun et al. 2009), and have direct or indirect semantic (Dowty & Jacobson 1988, Mahajan 1992, Bobaljik 2008), morphophonological (Mirković et al. 2013) and discourse effects (É. Kiss 2012). 

Agreement is a popular topic in theoretical linguistics but it has been studied also well over the border of syntactic theory alone. The multiple steps theoretically argued to be involved in agreement are often validated in the production experiments of the widely investigated attraction error phenomena in English, Italian, French, Basque and in SLI (e.g. Bock & Miller 1991, Franck et al. 2006, 2011, Gillespie 2011, Santesteban 2013). Likewise, the agreement mismatch phenomena and the agreement relations targeting a subset of features in Spanish, Hindi,  and Italian (e.g. Nevins et al. 2007, Mancini et al. 2011, 2014, Quiñones et al. 2014) have prompted neurolinguistic investigations to detail the timing of multi-level feature integration processe (Molinaro et al. 2011, 2013), as well as a recent discovery of two routes underlying agreement processing in the brain (Caffara et al. 2014). 

However, rich inter- and intra-speaker variation in agreement patterning still calls for a revision of the empirical base and methods of empirical access to the agreement phenomena (grammaticality judgments, elicited production, quantitative corpus investigations). One of the priorities of this conference is to bring about a discussion of the methodology in the research of agreement, both in theoretical linguistics and in psycho- and neuro-linguistics. We wish to cross the borders traditionally bounding research on agreement and bring together linguists conducting both theoretical investigations on agreement and related phenomena (e.g. concord, unagreement, feature checking, coordination, partial agreement, ellipsis, determiner/modifier agreement, multiple conjunct agreement, animacy, distributive/collective verbs) and those studying agreement experimentally (e.g. EEG, fMRI, eye-tracking).

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts are invited for talks on topics on agreement in all areas of theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language acquisition, and clinical linguistics. We particularly encourage contributions on formal approaches to rich intra- and inter-speaker variation. Abstracts can be submitted for either an oral presentations or a poster presentation. Abstracts may be no longer than 2 pages of A4 format with 1-inch (2.54cm) margins on all sides, single-spaced with a font size not smaller than 12pt. Abstracts should be submitted as .pdf files with one word from the title as the file name. 

Please submit your abstract via the aab2015 Easy-chair page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aab2015

For any queries contact the conference organising committee at aab2015.emssproject at gmail.com.

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