32.3777, Confs: Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 32.3777, Confs: Syntax/Germany

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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 21:40:58
From: Thomas McFadden [mcfadden at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: LASER Kickoff Workshop

 
LASER Kickoff Workshop 

Date: 04-Dec-2021 - 06-Dec-2021 
Location: Virtual/online, Germany 
Contact: LASER Project Team 
Contact Email: laserlocality at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://www.sndrsn.org/laser-kickoff-workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The LASER project will feature a two-day kickoff workshop to introduce the
project and to encourage discussion of different syntactic treatments of
selective opacity effects in the Minimalist framework. The workshop will
involve presentations by project team-members and invited speakers
specialising in issues of locality and selective opacity. It will be fully
virtual, and participation is open to all, following a (free) registration.

***Note that the workshop will take place on two non-consecutive days,
Saturday, December 4th and Monday, December 6th.***

Invited speakers:

Jessica Coon (McGill) & Stefan Keine (UCLA)
Claire Halpert (Minnesota)
David Pesetsky (MIT)
Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle)
Coppe van Urk (Quenn Mary, University of London)

LASER (Locality and the argument/adjunct distinction: Structure-building vs.
structure-enrichment, jointly funded by AHRC and DFG) seeks to investigate and
derive cases of selective opacity, i.e. systematic variation in locality
constraints on different types of syntactic dependencies, such as movement,
control, and agreement. We are especially interested in how various A- and
A'-dependencies interact with the argument/adjunct distinction. Among other
things, we are exploring a novel path-based approach to locality which makes a
crucial distinction between structure-building and structure-enrichment. The
LASER project team consists of Elise Newman & Rob Truswell (Edinburgh),
Sandhya Sundaresan & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen), and Kenyon Branan & Thomas
McFadden (ZAS, Berlin).

Workshop registration: https://forms.gle/Y9BtwvJsyukPZseq5
Workshop website: https://www.sndrsn.org/laser-kickoff-workshop
 

Program:

All times given are CET (i.e. Berlin/Göttingen time, UTC+1)

Saturday, December 4th

3.30 - 4.15pm   Thomas McFadden (ZAS, Berlin), Sandhya Sundaresan (Göttingen),
Robert Truswell (Edinburgh) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen); Introduction to
LASER 
4.15 - 5.00pm   Coppe van Urk (QMUL); Moving beyond A/A'-positions
5.00 - 5.15pm   COFFEE BREAK 
5.15 - 6.00pm   Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle); On the difference(s) between A-
& A-bar movement
6.00 - 7.00pm   Discussant: David Pesetsky (MIT); Roundtable discussion 

Monday, December 6th

3.30 - 4.15pm   Elise Newman (Edinburgh); The order of operations and A/A-bar
interactions 
4.15 - 5.00pm   Kenyon Branan (ZAS, Berlin); Paths, projections, and patterns
of partial participation 
5.00 - 5.15pm   COFFEE BREAK 
5.15 - 6.00pm   Claire Halpert (Minnesota); Raising Questions
6.00 - 6.45pm   Jessica Coon (McGill) & Stefan Keine (UCLA); Intervention
through Gluttony





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