30.464, Calls: Syntax/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-464. Tue Jan 29 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.464, Calls: Syntax/United Kingdom

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 02:13:06
From: Theresa Biberauer [mtb23 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: 8th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference

 
Full Title: 8th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference 
Short Title: CamCoS 8 

Date: 02-May-2019 - 04-May-2019
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Theresa Biberauer
Meeting Email: mtb23 at cam.ac.uk
Web Site: https://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference/CamCoS8/CamCOS8 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

After the success of the seven previous CamCoS conferences (see:
http://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference), we are delighted to announce
CamCoS 8, which will again be co-hosted by the University of Cambridge and
Anglia Ruskin University. 

This 2.5-day conference will take place at St John's College in Cambridge 2-4
May 2019. The first half-day, which is co-organised with the Cambridge
Linguistics Forum, will feature talks by local researchers, and our invited
speaker, Prof. Susi Wurmbrand. The remaining two days will follow the usual
2-day conference format, with both peer-reviewed and invited-speaker
presentations focusing on the conference theme and also on comparative syntax
more generally. 

The invited speakers for CamCoS 8 are:

Ángel Gallego (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Doreen Georgi (Potsdam)
Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary, University of London)
Susi Wurmbrand (Vienna/Harvard)


2nd Call for Papers: 

The theme of this year's conference is 'Comparative perspectives on phases'. 

For full details of the Call, see
https://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference/CamCoS8FullCall 

Some of the kinds of comparative questions that we would like to discuss at
CamCoS 8 include: 

- What phrases count as phases? 
- How dynamic are phases? Is there an upper/lower limit on them? 
- Is this subject to variation across languages? If so, how is this variation
signalled? And what are the implications for acquisition, on the one hand, and
change on the other? 
- Which version of the PIC is correct, if either? 
- Are passive/unaccusative vPs also phasal? 
- How can phases account for movement restrictions? 
- How do phases work in instances of long-distance A-dependencies such as
agreement and restructuring phenomena such as long passivisation? 

Abstract submission details: 

Given this year’s ‘Phases’ theme, we particularly invite abstracts for
30-minute presentations with a comparatively oriented focus on phases. In
addition, we also welcome abstracts on any topic in comparative generative
syntax. As always, we are particularly interested in papers explicitly
addressing parametric issues and/or offering comparative analyses (synchronic
or diachronic) of previously un(der)studied varieties and/or phenomena, and
papers concerned with “bigger picture” questions, such as what insights modern
comparative generative syntax might offer in relation to linguistic typology,
syntax-interface mappings, and our understanding of language as a cognitive
system. We also encourage papers concerned with methodologies for modern
comparative generative syntax. 

Anonymous abstracts should not exceed two pages (12-point Times New Roman
font, with single spacing and margins of at least 2.54cm/1 inch), including
examples and references. They should be uploaded in pdf format via
EasyAbstracts (http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/camcos8).




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