29.520, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/South Korea

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Subject: 29.520, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/South Korea

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:18:44
From: Ji Young Shim [jiyoung.shim at gmail.com]
Subject: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Left Periphery at the Syntax-Discourse Interface

Full Title: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Left Periphery at the Syntax-Discourse Interface 

Date: 15-Jun-2018 - 16-Jun-2018
Location: Seoul, Korea, South 
Contact Person: Ji Young Shim
Meeting Email: jiyoung.shim at gmail.com
Web Site: https://snulei.wordpress.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Language Education Institute at Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea)
will host a workshop on Cross-linguistic Variation in the Left Periphery at
the Syntax-Discourse Interface, as part of the SNU Conference on International
Conference on Linguistics. The workshop will be held at Seoul National
University on June 15-16, 2018.

The primary goal of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers to
discuss linguistic variation across languages (and within a language) in the
left periphery, the domain that is argued to be parameterized differently
across languages and result in linguistic variation (Rizzi 1997 and inter
alia). Despite the lack of consensus on its actual makeup, Rizzi’s seminal
work in 1997 on the fine-grained structure of the left peripheral domain of
human language has led a great deal of research on linguistic variation, the
range of which includes relative ordering of left peripheral elements,
topic-focus articulation, distributions of complementizers and discourse
markers (especially speaker and/or addressee-related particles), clausal
subordination, and modal expressions, etc. (e.g., López 2009; Collins and
Postal 2012; Haegeman 2012; Zanuttini et al. 2012; Wiltschko 2014; Heim et al.
2016, a.o.). 

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Luigi Rizzi (University of Geneva)
will deliver the keynote talk (title TBC) in this workshop. 

Contact Information

Any inquiry regarding abstract submission should be addressed to Ji Young Shim
at jiyoung.shim at gmail.com and/or Jong Un Park at jupark90 at gmail.com. For other
questions, please contact Myung-Kwan Park at snu-icl2017 at daum.net, the
organizer of the conference.  

References:

Collins, Chris. (2014). (Il)-licit pronoun-antecedent relations in Bangla. In
Chris Collins (ed.), Cross-Linguistic 
Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement, Oxford University Press. 
Collins, Chris and Paul M. Postal. (2012). Imposters: A Study of Pronominal
Agreement. MIT Press.
Haegeman, Liliane. (2012). Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena and the
Composition of 
the Left Periphery. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
Heim, Johannes, Hermann Keupdjio, Zoe Wai-Man Lam, Adriana Osa-Gómez, Sonja
Thoma and 
Martina Wiltschko. (2016). Intonation and particles as speech act modifiers: A
syntactic analysis. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 37(2): 109-129.
López, Luis. (2009). A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Marantz, Alec. (2013). Verbal argument structure: Events and participants.
Lingua 130: 152-168. 
Mathieu, Eric. (2016). The Wh parameter and radical externalization. In Luis
Eguren, Olga 
Fernández Soriano and Amaya Mendikoetxea (eds.), Formal Grammar and Syntactic
Variation: Rethinking Parameters, 252-290. Oxford University Press.
Rizzi, Luigi. (1997). The fine structure of the left periphery. In Liliane
Haegeman (ed.). Elements of 
Grammar. 281-337. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Wiltschko, Martina. (2014). The Universal Structure of Categories. Cambridge:
Cambridge 
University Press. 
Zanuttni, Raffaella, Miok Pak and Paul Pornter. (2012). A syntactic analysis
of interpretive restrictions on imperative, promissive, and exhortative
subjects. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30: 1231-1274.

Call for Papers:

Specific topics for the workshop may include, but not be limited to the
following:

(i) What principles are operative in determining the relative ordering of
multiple elements in the left periphery
(ii) How languages differ in the way topic or focus is structurally
represented 
(iii) How languages can be parameterized with respect to the distribution of
complementizers
(iv) How the syntax of left periphery interacts with discourse information in
determining the distribution of high adverbs or modal expressions
(v) How the syntax of left periphery interacts with discourse information or
speech acts in allowing subordination 
(vi) How the syntax of left periphery interacts with discourse information in
determining the person features of (pro)nominals as well as their forms, etc

We welcome abstracts touching on any of the above-listed (or related) topics
for oral (25 minute talk and 10 minute discussion, 12 slots are available) or
poster presentations (10 minute talk and 5 minute discussion, 10 slots are
available). Please indicate your preference when submitting your abstract.
Abstracts must be anonymous, no longer than 2 pages (A4 or letter) in a 12pt
font and with margins of 1 inch/2.5 cm on all sides. Only abstracts in PDF
format will be accepted. 

All abstracts should be submitted electronically to the following address: 

snuicl-syntax at daum.net

together with a separate page including corresponding author details such as
the title of the abstract, name, affiliation, and contact email address.

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: March. 5, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: March. 16, 2018
Workshop Date: June 15-16, 2018

Contact Information:

Any inquiry regarding abstract submission should be addressed to Ji Young Shim
at jiyoung.shim at gmail.com and/or Jong Un Park at jupark90 at gmail.com. For other
questions, please contact Myung-Kwan Park at snu-icl2017 at daum.net, the
organizer of the conference.

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