28.2327, Calls: Phonology, Pragmatics, Syntax/Norway

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Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 12:03:40
From: Elena Callegari [elena.callegari at ilos.uio.no]
Subject: Word Order in the Left Periphery : Phonology, Pragmatics, Syntax/Norway

Full Title: Word Order in the Left Periphery 
Short Title: WOLP17 

Date: 17-Oct-2017 - 18-Oct-2017
Location: Oslo, Norway 
Contact Person: Elena Callegari
Meeting Email: elena.callegari at ilos.uio.no

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology; Pragmatics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

In his 1997 seminal paper on the Left Periphery (LP), Luigi Rizzi argued that
the CP is not a single projection, but should rather be decomposed into an
articulated hierarchy of functional XPs, whose order is universal. This
hypothesis has led to an extremely fruitful line of inquiry, as
empirically-driven research has suggested it is indeed possible to draw
cross-linguistic generalizations about the internal organization of the Left
Periphery. However, many unresolved issues still remain, both empirically and
theoretically.

Empirically, there is still no consensus on the actual make-up of the Left
Periphery: for instance, scholars still disagree on the relative order of the
various constituents which can be merged or moved to the LP (cf. Benincà &
Poletto 2004). There is also no agreement on which of these relative orders,
if any, can be claimed to be universal (cf. Lipták 2011).

On a theoretical level, if it is true that ordering phenomena in the LP are
not a primitive (Rizzi 2013), we still have a limited understanding of what
principles are responsible for the way Left-Peripheral constituents are
ordered relative to each other, and what component of the grammar these
principles might be part of (cf. Abels (2012), Hamlaoui & Szendrői (2015)).

With this workshop, we intend to commemorate the 20th anniversary since the
publication of Rizzi's paper and address some of the unresolved research
questions that still characterize the literature on the Left Periphery. While
we accept purely empirical contributions, in particular from understudied
languages, or languages which have not featured prominently in the literature
on the LP so far, we will give priority to papers which focus on moving beyond
descriptive adequacy. Attached to the call for papers, you will find a list of
possible topics of interest.  

Invited Speakers:

- Luigi Rizzi (Université de Genève, Università degli Studi di Siena)
- Klaus Abels (University College London)
- Fatima Hamlaoui (ZAS Berlin)

Workshop dates: Tuesday, October 17 and Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions for 25-minute talks plus 10 minutes for discussion
(around 14 slots). Abstracts must be anonymous, no longer than 2 pages (A4 or
letter), in a font size no less than 12pt, and with margins of 1 inch/2.5 cm.
Please submit the abstract in PDF format.

We are also accepting submissions for ''poster talks'' (10-minute talk, plus 5
minutes for discussion) (around 8 slots). Please indicate on EasyChair whether
you wish to be considered for both the poster talk session and the regular
session, or only for the regular session.

Please submit abstracts via EasyChair (see link below) no later than August 1,
2017

Abstract submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolp17
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2017
Workshop dates: Tuesday, October 17 and Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Below is a non-exhaustive list of possible topics of interest:

- It is often claimed that the LP is an 'interface' between the syntax of the
clause and the pragmatics of higher discourse, but what exactly is the
division of labour between these two domains, and how should it be accounted
for?

- What, if any, is the role of prosody in terms of licensing, restraining or
ordering constituents in the LP, and how does prosody fit into the division of
labour mentioned in (1)?

-There can be considerable cross-linguistic variation in the relative order of
a given pair of Left-Peripheral elements - what specific parameter/(set of)
syntactic properties can account for such variation?

- How can we account for the optionality of some of the movement operations
which displace a constituent to the LP (e.g., corrective focus fronting in
Romance languages)?

- Why is it the case that some languages make extensive use of the LP, such as
the modern Romance languages, while others have severe restrictions on the
number of elements than can appear there, as is the case for verb-second
languages?

- Any contribution on how the LP is structured in understudied
languages/language families.

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