28.3313, Calls: Towards a Crosslinguistic Typology of the Syntax and Semantics of Proforms : Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 28.3313, Calls: Towards a Crosslinguistic Typology of the Syntax and Semantics of Proforms : Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:29:54
From: Andreas Konietzko [andreas.konietzko at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Reference beyond the DP

 
Full Title: Reference beyond the DP: Towards a Crosslinguistic Typology of the Syntax and Semantics of Proforms 
Short Title: Proforms DGfS 2018 

Date: 07-Mar-2018 - 09-Mar-2018
Location: Stuttgart, Germany 
Contact Person: Andreas Konietzko
Meeting Email: proforms.dgfs2018 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://proforms2018.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 25-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

This workshop on the crosslinguistic syntax and semantics of proforms is part
of the 2018 meeting of the German Linguistic Society DGfS, which will be
hosted by the University of Stuttgart. 

The grammar of natural languages relies on proforms as one means of reference
and context dependency. Yet, the full range of proforms beyond the
entity-denoting DP case has received little attention in crosslinguistic
syntactic and semantic research to date, although there seem to be interesting
typological restrictions and generalizations to be uncovered: There is
evidence that across languages, proforms might be restricted in terms of which
syntactic operations they allow (Hankamer & Sage 1976; Houser, Mikkelsen &
Toosarvandani 2007, 2011; Houser 2010; Baltin 2012; Bentzen, Merchant &
Svenovius 2013) as well as with respect to their semantic types (e.g. events,
degrees, times, locations). Tiemann, Hohaus & Beck (2012) for instance suggest
that there is parametric variation as to the availability of degree-denoting
proforms. In terms of type complexity, a number of analyses assume that
proforms can also be of higher types, e.g. sentential, proposition-denoting
proforms (Frey, Meinunger & Schwabe 2016, and references therein) or VP and
AP, property-denoting preforms (Siegel 1994; Landman & Morzycki 2003; Haddican
2007; Hohaus & Konietzko 2017), while Landman (2006) argues for a constraint
that would block such proforms. Lastly, certain complex proforms assumed in
semantic theory like quantifier domain restrictions appear to systematically
be covert across languages. Against this background, the workshop aims at
providing a forum for theoretical and experimental researchers, fieldworkers
and corpus linguists to address the following questions: 

-What variation do we find with respect to the type inventory of proforms and
their syntactic properties? 

- How are proforms represented in the grammar? Are they linguistic atoms or do
they have a complex representation? 

- What properties of the grammar determine whether a language uses proforms or
corresponding deletion operations? 

- In how far are restrictions on the interpretation and syntax of certain
proforms rooted in diachronic development? 

Invited Speakers:  

Kristine Bentzen (Norges Arktiske Universitet, Tromsø)
Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University)

Organizers: Vera Hohaus and Andreas Konietzko (University of Tübingen)


Final Call for Papers: 

We welcome theoretically informed contributions with a solid empirical basis
that address one of the above questions from a comparative perspective or
within a single language. The overall goal of the workshop is to bring
together research on a variety of languages in order to ultimately arrive at a
more complete picture that forms the basis for stable crosslinguistic
generalizations. 

Abstracts should contain unpublished research and be no longer than two pages
including examples and references (DIN A4 or letter paper, 12pt, single
spaced, 2.5cm or 1 inch margins).

Submission deadline: August 25, 2017 via email to: proforms.dgfs2018 at gmail.com
Notification of acceptance: early September 2017
Workshop dates: March 7-9, 2018
Location: University of Stuttgart
Workshop website: https://proforms2018.wordpress.com/




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