29.4176, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/France

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Subject: 29.4176, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/France

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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:49:50
From: Jean Albrespit [jean.albrespit at u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr]
Subject: Complement, Complementation, Completeness: From Gaps to Completion

 
Full Title: Complement, Complementation, Completeness: From Gaps to Completion 
Short Title: CERLICO 

Date: 25-May-2019 - 26-May-2019
Location: Bordeaux, France 
Contact Person: Jean Albrespit
Meeting Email: jean.albrespit at u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
Web Site: https://cerlicoasso.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 05-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

The conference at Bordeaux aims to examine the interplay between omissions in
the expression and the completeness to which they necessarily refer. These
issues impact on all the parts of speech and linguistic structure. It is a
known fact that languages are never fully explicit, and that between the
necessity to make oneself understood and the constraints of speech
interaction, the principles of economy and relevance drastically curb the
expansion of linguistic material, both in structure and in discourse. This
means that various linguistic phenomena will come into play: condensation
(namely the grammaticalisation or partial stabilisation of processes used at
the sentence or discourse level, including grammatical and lexical
constructions, collocations, the “micro-syntax” of compounds, and so on) and
absence (the zero sign, the limitations of phonological systems, the more or
less incomplete lexical networks and the absolute use of verbs are phenomena
which reveal the polysemy and the semantic fuzziness of lexical units and
constructions).

An extension of the notion of complementation might be considered and could
include devices that make the utterance more complex such as insertion,
parenthesis, secondary predication, additions, commentaries and words bringing
the sentence or the utterance to a close. At the discourse level,
complementation might be considered as a justification of completeness and
saturation. The relationship between the notions of “complement” and
“supplementary” (defined as relative to a supposedly primary utterance) will
certainly require further investigation.


Call for Papers:

33rd international CerLiCO conference
Bordeaux Montaigne University, France
EA CLIMAS, UMR CLLE-ERSSàB
Friday 25 – Saturday 26 May 2019

Topics for presentation in the following fields may include (but are not
restricted to):

- Morphology: affixation as complementation;
- Lexicology: compounding as both the complementation of a noun and a
phenomenon of reduction;

- Syntax:

= the distinction and boundary between complements and adverbials;
= the notion of “attribut du sujet/de l’objet” (in the French terminology) as
opposed to the “predicative complement” of the English terminology: is an
“attribut” a complement?
= the status of the prepositional phrase in verbal phrases such as go to bed:
can the argument of the VP be considered as a PP?
= the status of the indirect complement,

- Speech: prosody can be seen as compensating for incompleteness, placing a
complement in a focal position or acting as a complement thanks to
parentheticals or continuative intonation,
- Didactics: the place of complementation in the teaching of grammar,
- Contrastive linguistics: the typological diversity in the structure of
complements,
- Epistemology: syntaxes before the apparition of the notion of complement and
theories that exclude the notion of complement.

Guidelines for submitting a proposal:

Any linguistic framework is welcome but may have to be explicitly introduced
if need be.
Each presentation will be allowed 25 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for
discussion. The proceedings will be published in Travaux Linguistiques du
CerLiCO, Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
In addition to the author’s institutional affiliation and e-mail address,
submissions should include, an anonymous abstract of around 500 words / 3,000
characters, plus references. Submissions should be sent in electronic format
(.doc(x) AND .pdf) to Catherine Moreau and Jean Albrespit at the following
address: cerlico2019 at gmail.com




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