27.1030, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Syntax, Typology/Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mon Feb 29 15:42:59 UTC 2016

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Subject: 27.1030, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Syntax, Typology/Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:42:50
From: Franc Lanko Marušič [lanko.marusic at gmail.com]
Subject: Ellipsis Across Borders Conference 2016

Full Title: Ellipsis Across Borders Conference 2016 
Short Title: eab2016sa 

Date: 20-Jun-2016 - 21-Jun-2016
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Contact Person: Jana Willer-Gold
Meeting Email: eab2016.emssproject at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/linguistics/research/leverhulme/network_events/eab2016 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 07-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

Ellipsis is a grammatical phenomenon where a relevant part of the sentence is
missing either due to deletion or incompleteness. Ellipsis is instantiated in
a wide range of constructions. Ellipsis has become a prominent topic of
research. The questions being asked in this area range from the old classic
puzzles to groundbreaking work on newly discovered observations.

However, comparatively less theoretical or experimental work has been
dedicated to cross-linguistic comparison of ellipsis licensing, or to the
expansion of diagnostic tests for other phenomena related to ellipsis such as
agreement or inter- and intra-speaker variation in ellipsis patterning. Hence,
we especially encourage contributions on approaches to language/speaker
variation and the typology of ellipsis licensing fed or bled by another
syntactic, semantic or phonological operations or constraints and, more
specifically, contributions addressing the issue of diagnosing clausal
ellipsis as a strategy that yields surface effects described as conjunct
agreement. 

We wish to cross the borders traditionally bounding research on ellipsis and
bring together language scientists conducting both theoretical investigations
on ellipsis and related phenomena (e.g. licensing, agreement, feature
identity, coordination, extraction, multi-dominance, wh-fronting, P-stranding,
RNR, Voice, gender markedness, inverse scope, recoverability, islands) and
those studying ellipsis processing experimentally (e.g. grammaticality
judgments, elicited production, quantitative corpus investigations, EEG, fMRI,
eye-tracking).

Invited Speakers:

Klaus Abels (University College London) 
Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 
Jason Merchant (University of Chicago)

2nd Call for Abstracts:

Abstract submission deadline extended!

One particular aim of this conference is to bring about a discussion of the
theoretical and empirical methodology in the research on ellipsis -
theoretical linguistics and psycho- and neurolinguistics. We wish to cross the
borders traditionally bounding research on ellipsis and bring together
language scientists conducting both theoretical investigations on ellipsis and
related phenomena (e.g. licensing, agreement, feature identity, coordination,
extraction, multi-dominance, wh-fronting, P-stranding, RNR, Voice, gender
markedness, inverse scope, recoverability, islands) and those studying
ellipsis processing experimentally (e.g. grammaticality judgments, elicited
production, quantitative corpus investigations, EEG, fMRI, eye-tracking). By
bridging the gap between theoretical models and experimental methodologies, a
more comprehensive understanding of ellipsis and related phenomena could be
entertained.

Abstracts are invited for talks on topics on ellipsis in all areas of
theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics,
neurolinguistics, language acquisition, and clinical linguistics. All
theoretical and experimental studies that have consequences for linguistic
theory are welcome. We particularly encourage contributions on approaches to
rich intra- and inter-speaker variation. Abstracts can be submitted for either
an oral presentations or a poster presentation. Each talk selected for
presentation will be allotted 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Submissions will be anonymously refereed.

Invited Speakers:

Klaus Abels (University College London) 
Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 
Jason Merchant (University of Chicago) 

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 7 March, 2016 
Notifications of acceptance: 10 April, 2016 
Corrected abstract: 30 April, 2016 
Conference program: 15 May, 2016 
Late registration deadline: 31 may, 2016 
eab2015 Conference: 20-21 June, 2016

Details on abstract submission:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/linguistics/research/leverhulme/network_ev
ents/eab2016/talks_and_posters

Abstract submission:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eab2016sa

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