32.2620, Calls: Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Austria (Online)

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Subject: 32.2620, Calls: Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Austria (Online)

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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 05:51:07
From: Susanne Wurmbrand [susi.wurmbrand at gmail.com]
Subject: Crossing Boundaries: Empirical and theoretical aspects of A-dependencies in complementation

 
Full Title: Crossing Boundaries: Empirical and theoretical aspects of A-dependencies in complementation 
Short Title: ÖLT2021 

Date: 10-Dec-2021 - 12-Dec-2021
Location: Vienna, virtual, Austria 
Contact Person: Magdalena Lohninger
Meeting Email: magdalena.lohninger at univie.ac.at
Web Site: https://complementclausehierarchies.univie.ac.at/osterreichische-linguistik-tagung-2021/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

Workshop Description:

The aim of this workshop is to explore the empirical landscape and the
theoretical underpinnings of cross-clausal A-dependencies (CCAs) - relations
such as Case assignment (e.g., ECM), (Long-distance) Agreement, Movement,
Control, or head-dependencies, spanning a clause boundary in complementation
configurations. We encourage submissions dealing with different aspects of
CCAs, especially i) their cross-linguistic distribution, ii) the degree of
transparency of different types of complement clauses, and, more generally,
iii) the combinatorial mechanism underlying clausal complementation. 


Call for Papers:

We would like to invite abstract submissions for the workshop ''Crossing
boundaries: Empirical and theoretical aspects of A-dependencies in
complementation'', which will take place online, on 10-12 December 2021, as
part of the 46th Austrian Linguistics Conference (ÖLT: Österreichische
Linguistik-Tagung). The workshop will comprise of 20-minute talks with
additional 10 minutes for discussion and a poster session including lightning
talks and a subsequent discussion of the posters in breakout rooms.

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions must be anonymous and are limited to two per author, including at
most one single‐authored abstract. The body of the abstract, including data,
tables, and diagrams, should not exceed two pages, and should be typeset in at
least 11pt, with 1in/2.54cm margins, on A4 paper. References can be provided
on an additional page. Please submit your abstract via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oelt2021.

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2021

Invited Speakers:

- Tanya Bondarenko
- Irina Burukina
- Coppe van Urk

Abstracts may address one or more of the following questions:

- Which languages allow which A-dependencies to reach into a complement
clause, in particular a finite clause? What are the underlying reasons for the
observed restrictions? How do CCAs resemble each other, and how do they differ
with respect to their syntactic and semantic properties?   
- Which size (vP, TP, CP, nP, DP) may the embedded clause have in order to be
transparent for CCAs and why does this vary cross-linguistically? Why do some
languages allow A-dependencies across finite CPs (Hyperraising, Hyper-ECM),
while others do not? More generally, how does the understanding of the
language-specific transparency of different types of complement clauses
contribute to a broader typological understanding of the composition of
complement clauses?   
- Is it purely the selectional properties of the matrix verb that determine
the size and the degree of transparency of the embedded clause, or is the
complementation mechanism bi-directional, meaning that both the complement and
the matrix predicate have (syntactic and semantic) requirements of some sort,
and the only licit derivations are those in which all such requirements are
satisfied?

Following a formal-typological approach, we are striving for a combination of
broader typological and language-specific papers with more theoretical or
formal ones. In order to see a larger picture of the possibilities and
limitations of CCAs, we especially encourage submissions investigating
languages outside the well-studied Indo-European family, as well as papers
from both a syntactic and a semantic perspective, in particular those focusing
on the syntax-semantics interface. We believe that such a combination is
crucial not only for arriving at a comprehensive theory of CCAs and its
language-specific implementations, but also for shedding new light on the
inner workings of complementation and A-dependencies in general.




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