28.2378, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 28.2378, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 11:50:49
From: Angel Jimenez-Fernandez [ajimfer at us.es]
Subject: 1st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and Argument Structure

 
Full Title: 1st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and Argument Structure 
Short Title: INFOSTARS 1 

Date: 26-Oct-2017 - 28-Oct-2017
Location: Seville, Spain 
Contact Person: Ángel Jiménez-Fernández
Meeting Email: ajimfer at us.es
Web Site: https://ajimfer.wordpress.com/workshop-in-seville-october-2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance 

Call Deadline: 07-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together linguists who investigate
the different factors that influence sentential syntax, by contrasting
Germanic and Romance languages from an interface perspective. These may be
discourse factors (e.g., the re-ordering of sentential constituents motivated
by information structure and the assigning of topic and focus functions),
argumental factors (e.g., the type and number of arguments that a predicate
may select), syntax-discourse factors (e.g., the discourse nature of
grammatical features that trigger movement to the clause periphery in
different types of root and subordinate clauses with respect to fronted focus
and dislocated topics), and morphological/phonological (the use of specific
forms to induce an information structure interpretation or the prosodic
visibility of the displaced constituent). 

The workshop will be framed within the threshold of the Research Project
Information structure and argument structure: An interface investigation of
the contrastive syntax of Germanic and Romance languages of the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2013-41059-P). Our research has
been focused on types of topics and foci (with their syntactic, semantic and
prosodic properties), the syntactic position occupied by different discourse
categories, root phenomena, argument structure and the impact of information
structure on it. This theory-based approach has been implemented by an
analysis of data which hinges upon the use of experimental work to support the
theoretical findings.

Our keynote speakers are:

- Artemis Alexiadou (Humbolt University, Berlin)
- Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena, Italy)


Final Call for Papers: 

Due to technical problems, the deadline for submissions of abstracts for the
1st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and
Argument Structure has been extended. The new deadline is June 7, 2017. The
link for submissions is:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arg1

Linguists working in any theoretical framework of Generative Grammar and/or
experimental studies are invited to participate, provided they discuss issues
concerning the interaction between information structure and argument
structure. Each presentation will be allotted 30 minutes plus 10 minutes for
discussion. A limited number of abstracts will also be accepted for two poster
sessions.

Abstracts should be no longer than two pages in length (including examples and
references), in Times New Roman 12-point lettertype, single line spacing and
2,5 cm. margins. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and
one joint abstract per author.
The official language of the conference will be English.

Venue: University of Seville, Spain.
Conference dates: October 26-27, 2017.




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