31.2576, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Belgium

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Subject: 31.2576, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Belgium

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:28:01
From: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck [jeroen.vancraenenbroeck at kuleuven.be]
Subject: The syntax and semantics of clausal complementation

Full Title: The syntax and semantics of clausal complementation 
Short Title: BCGL 13 

Date: 17-Dec-2020 - 18-Dec-2020
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Meeting Email: jeroen.vancraenenbroeck at kuleuven.be
Web Site: https://www.crissp.be/bcgl-13-the-syntax-and-semantics-of-clausal-complementation/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

CRISSP is proud to present the thirteenth installment of the Brussels
Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL), devoted to the syntax and
semantics of clausal complementation.

The conference will take place on December 17-18, 2020, in Brussels if
permitted by local COVID 19-regulations, and online if not.

We are pleased to announce that the following invited speakers have agreed to
give a talk at BCGL 13:
Keir Moulton (University of Toronto)
David Pesetsky (MIT)
Anna Roussou (University of Patras)

Call for Papers: 

The conference welcomes contributions addressing issues and open questions
related to the syntax and semantics of clausal complementation: 

(1) How are ﬁnite clausal embeddings (in plain cases and/or in clausal
prolepsis) formed and how do they combine with the verb? 
- Are they merged as TPs ﬁrst, in which case the complementizer is introduced
in the matrix clause (cf. Kayne 2005, Angelopoulos 2019)? Can TPs function as
arguments? 
- Are they always merged as CPs, and if so, can they (i) undergo structure
reduction e.g. Pesetsky (2019)’s Exfoliation, or (ii) combine with a
nominalizer? 

(2) In clausal prolepsis, does the pronoun form an underlying constituent with
the clause? Is it merged as a predicate (Moro 1997) or an argument, and if so,
is the clause merged separately as an adjunct (Bennis and Hoekstra 1986) or a
predicate (Longenbaugh 2019)? 

(3) How does selection work in clausal complementation: does it involve
c-selection, s-selection, or a combination of both? What are the locality
restrictions on selection? 
- How is complementizer selection possible in cases where clauses are embedded
under a noun, or in clausal prolepsis where a proform occupies the argument
position? 
- What kind of proforms, e.g. expletive or not, can be used in clausal
prolepsis and could this choice be reduced to selection (see Postal and Pullum
1988)? 
- To what extent can a uniform analysis of embedded clauses as nominal
formations account for the overall distributional properties of embedded
clauses? 

(4) What is responsible for the distribution of embedded clauses: rightward or
leftward movement? In both cases the question arises what motivates these
movement steps: (a) Stowell (1981)’s Case Resistance Principle, (b) a high
merger of a complementizer attracting its surface complement (Kayne 2005,
Angelopoulos 2019), or (c) rules of semantic composition together with the
semantic make up of clauses (Moulton 2015)? 

(5) What role does ﬁniteness play in the distribution of clauses and clausal
prolepsis? 

Abstract guidelines: 
Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including data, references, and
diagrams. Abstracts should be typed in at least 11-point font, with one-inch
margins (letter-size; 8.5 by 11 inch or A4) and a maximum of 50 lines of text
per page. Abstracts must be anonymous and submissions are limited to 2 per
author, at most one of which is single-authored. Only electronic submissions
will be accepted. Please submit your abstract using the EasyChair link for
BCGL 13: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bcgl13

Important dates: 
• First call for papers: June 2, 2020 
• Second call for papers: August 16, 2020 
• Abstract submission deadline: September 15, 2020 
• Notification of acceptance: late October, 2020 
• Conference: December 17-18, 2020 

For the full call for papers, see
https://www.crissp.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/bcgl13-cfp-2.pdf

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