30.178, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-178. Sat Jan 12 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.178, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 05:05:05
From: Patricia Schneider-Zioga [pzioga at fullerton.edu]
Subject: On Person and Perspective - A workshop honoring the work of Maria Luisa Zubizarreta

Full Title: On Person and Perspective - A workshop honoring the work of Maria Luisa Zubizarreta 

Date: 03-May-2019 - 04-May-2019
Location: Los Angeles, USA 
Contact Person: Patricia Schneider-Zioga
Meeting Email: personNperspective at gmail.com
Web Site: http://person-perspective.weebly.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

The category of person plays a central role in a variety of grammatical
phenomena, some of which seem to be purely syntactic, while others clearly
involve the semantic component.  Person distinctions are determined relative
to the speech or thought situation (i.e. the local attitude situation):
arguments are formally identified as a type of participant (author/addressee)
or a non-participant.  Person thus bears an inherent affinity with grammatical
categories rooted in the other parameters of the attitude situation: time and
spatial location. Person, temporality and spatial deixis are unified as
different ways to encode perspective: an attitude holder’s view of the
described event from the standpoint of the attitude event.

Maria Luisa Zubizarreta’s recent work has explored the role of person-based
perspective – an inherently semantic notion - in the analysis of
person-sensitivity phenomena that have more traditionally been considered
properly syntactic, namely person-sensitivity effects in the syntactic
organization of arguments exhibited in direct-inverse systems and in grammars
following the Person Case Constratint (PCC) (Zubizarreta and Pancheva 2017,
Pancheva and Zubizarreta 2017). Her work has also addressed the role of person
features in the representation of evidentiality and temporal reference in
Paraguyan Guaraní (Pancheva and Zubizarreta 2018). 

The workshop in honor of Maria Luisa Zubizarreta’s work aims to further
elucidate the grammars of person and perspective. It welcomes contributions on
the themes of her work and also on the many other phenomena that involve
person or perspective.

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite papers that address, among others, the following questions:

(a) What is the nature of person features on nominals and functional
projections? How do they differ formally from other features on nominals and
functional projections such as number and gender?
(b) What is the relationship between person features and case?
(c) What is the relation between person features and agreement?
(d) Is the frequently distinctive behavior of person agreement derivable from
a single syntactic constraint as proposed by Baker's SCOPA (2008, 2011)?
(e) What is the role of person features in finiteness?
(f) What is the role of person in closest conjunct agreement and other
apparently linearity-based agreement effects?
(g) Do person features require special licensing (e.g., Bejar and Rezac 2009,
a.o.)?
(h) What feature geometries do person features participate in (e.g., Harley
and Ritter 2002, Ackema and Neeleman 2013, Harbour 2016)
(i) Which aspects of the interaction of person and argument structure are
universal? Which are language specific? How is variation in person-sensitive
systems to be accounted for?
(j)What is the role of person and perspective in the licensing of anaphors
that are exempt from binding theory (e.g., Maling 1984, Sells 1987, Pollard &
Sag 1992, Reinhart & Reuland 1993, Huang and Liu 2001, Charnavel and Sportiche
2016, Sundaresan 2016, a.o.)
(k) How are person-sensitive phenomena linked to logophoricity (e.g., Sells
1987, Kuno 1987, a.o.)?
(l) How are the phenomena of PCC and the Clitic Logophoric Restriction related
(e.g., Charnavel and Mateu 2015)?
(m) what is the role of person and perspective in control (e.g., Landau 2015
a.o,)?
(n) What do the phenomena of imposters, and imposters and agreement tell us
about person? (e.g., Collins & Postal 2012, Collins 2014, a.o.)
(o) What is the role of person features in the analysis of evidentiality
(e.g., Speas 2004, 2010, a.o.)?
(p) How do person-sensitive systems behave diachronically? How does the
history of such systems illuminate our understanding of person and/or
perspective?
(q) How is perspective encoded in predicates of personal taste (e.g.,
Lasersohn 2005, Pearson 2013, Stephenson 2007, a.o.)
(r) How is anchoring to the speech event accomplished by person, tense and
spatial deixis (e.g., Ritter and Wiltschko 2014, a.o.)

Invited speakers:

- Mark Baker, Rutgers University
- Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California
- Liliana Sánchez, Rutgers University
- Sandhya Sundaresan, University of Leipzig

This workshop is part of a celebration of the intellectual contributions of
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta to the field of linguistics and is particularly
focused on her most current research questions. The workshop will officially
launch the publication of Exploring Interfaces (ed. by M. Cabrera and J.
Camacho, Cambridge University Press), in honor of Maria Luisa Zubizarreta.
Financial support has been supplied by the Jean-Roger Vergnaud Memorial Fund
and the Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California.

We welcome paper and poster presentations that explore the grammar of person
and perspective, whether they address some of the questions above or go beyond
them.

Abstract deadline (Extended): 31 January, 2019
Length: 2 pages, including examples and references
Submission through EasyChair: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/p&p-workshop 
An edited volume of selected papers from the workshop is planned.

Organizers:

Mónica Cabrera, Loyola Marymount University
José Camacho, Rutgers University
Betül Erbaşı, University of Southern California
Patricia Schneider-Zioga, California State University, Fullerton

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