28.3825, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Subject: 28.3825, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:37:41
From: Veronika Hegedus [hegedus.veronika at nytud.mta.hu]
Subject: Predication in Relation to Propositions and Properties

 
Full Title: Predication in Relation to Propositions and Properties 
Short Title: GLOW41Syn 

Date: 10-Apr-2018 - 10-Apr-2018
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact Person: Maria Polinsky
Meeting Email: glow41bud at gmail.com
Web Site: https://glowlinguistics.org/41/syn/ 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2017 

Meeting Description:

The relation of predication is fundamental to natural language semantics and
syntax. No meaningful utterance can do without it: fragments which only
feature an argument on the surface have an underlying structure in which a
predicate for it is structurally represented and interpreted semantically,
though not phonologically. But despite its omnipresence, both in language and
in the linguistics literature, predication continues to give rise to heated
debates on many central questions in semantics and syntax. This workshop
addresses the relationship between syntax and semantics in predication, to
determine whether all instances of predication can be captured under a uniform
syntactic or semantic mechanism, and to explore new instantiations of and
restrictions on predication.

Invited Speakers: 

Caroline Heycock
Idan Landau
Gillian Ramchand

Workshop organizers: Maria Polinsky and Marcel den Dikken


Call for Papers:

This workshop addresses the relationship between syntax and semantics in
predication, to determine whether all instances of predication can be captured
under a uniform syntactic or semantic mechanism, and to explore new
instantiations of and restrictions on predication. To this end, the workshop
welcomes novel contributions that relate to any of the following questions:

- What is the role of predication in the computation of human language?
- Is predication a semantic relation that has syntactic consequences, or is it
primarily a syntactic relation that is semantically-driven?
- Is there a single semantic or syntactic representation for predication, or
are there multiple such representations?
- Is the predication relation modeled in the underlying syntactic
representation as a symmetrical or asymmetrical structure? Is the evidence
that has been adduced for (a)symmetry sound?
- Are predication relations always and necessarily one-to-one relations
between a predicate and an argument?
- Are the semantic relations of specification and identification instances of
predication? Do they avail themselves of the same syntactic structure(s) that
predication employs?
- Are the elements which mediate predication relations (such as copulas)
semantically meaningful or consistently meaningless?
- What are the restrictions on the semantic operations involved in predication
and the formation of predicates?
- What are the restrictions on the syntactic operations which predication
structures can be subjected to?
- What are the restrictions on predicate ellipsis and pro-form replacement?
- What do the restrictions on predication follow from? Are they specific to
predication, or derivable from more general principles of linguistic theory or
the human language faculty?
- Are there natural-language data that suggest that predication can be
morpho-syntactically instantiated in ways not hitherto attested or imagined?

Abstract Submission:

This workshop will precede the main colloquium of GLOW41. The same abstract
may not be submitted to both the main colloquium and the workshop.

No abstract may be longer than 2 pages (A4 or letter size) with 1in margins,
set single spaced in an 11pt font. Abstracts must be anonymous, self
references should be avoided.

You can submit your abstract to the workshop via Easychair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glow41syn

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 November 2017.

Further information on the GLOW41 and the workshop is available at:
https://glowlinguistics.org/41 .




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