32.690, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Online

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Subject: 32.690, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Online

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:13:31
From: Hermann Keupdijio [hermann.keupdjio at mail.mcgill.ca]
Subject: Move and Agree: Forum on the Formal Typology of A'-agreement

Full Title: Move and Agree: Forum on the Formal Typology of A'-agreement 
Short Title: Move and Agree 2021 

Date: 31-May-2021 - 04-Jun-2021
Location: Online, Montréal and Vancouver, Canada 
Contact Person: Hermann Keupdjio
Meeting Email: hermann.keupdjio at mail.mcgill.ca
Web Site: https://blogs.ubc.ca/agree/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2021 

Meeting Description:

1) Forum description. The minimalist research program (Chomsky 1995 et seq.)
creates a paradox for movement operations: Merge is conceptually necessary,
but Move – and its accompanying Agree relation – is not. Yet there are many
natural language phenomena which are insightfully analyzed using the metaphors
of movement and agreement. We wish to theorize the paradox of Move/Agree
(Keupdjio 2020), namely why does Move/Agree exist at all, if it is
conceptually unnecessary? This forum focuses on the syntactic contexts that
can be analyzed as instances of A′-movement and which are also associated with
A′-agreement; e.g. content questions, relativization, information-structure
operations like topicalization and focus. The agreement morphology that arises
with A′-movement is known under various names: 
- A′-agreement (Schneider-Zioga 1995, Chen 2017, Keupdjio 2020); 
- wh-agreement (Chung 1994, Carstens 2005, Reintges, LeSourd & Chung 2006,
Hedinger 2008, Schneider-Zioga 2009, Lochbihler & Mathieu 2010); 
- wh-copying (Fanselow & Mahajan 2000, Felser 2004); 
- extraction morphology (Zentz 2016); 
- complementizer agreement (McCloskey 2001, Carstens 2003); 
- reflex of successive cyclic movement (van Urk 2015, Georgi 2017). 

Grouping these various morphological reflexes of A′-movement together as
instances of A′-agreement, this forum explores the connection between
A′-movement and A′-agreement with two goals in mind: 
a) to gain a broader and deeper empirical coverage of A′-agreement via case
studies of typologically distinct languages from a variety of language
families; 
b) to move forward the theory of A′-agreement defined as a non-local
morphosyntactic feature-sharing mechanism that correlates with A′-movement
(Baier 2018). 

2) Location and dates: This online forum, jointly hosted by The University of
British Columbia (Vancouver) and McGill University (Montréal), will take place
over a period of 5 days: Monday 31 May through to Friday 04 June 2021. For
details on the format of the workshop, see below. 

3) Confirmed invited speakers: 

Confirmed tutorial speakers: 
Cedric Boeckx: Thinking big: biolinguistics 
Amy Rose Deal: How agreement works, with special reference to A'-features 
Marcel den Dikken: Copular constructions, A′-movement and A′-agreement 
Mara Frascarelli: Move and Agree as discourse-related dependencies 
Hedde Zeijlstra: The syntax and semantics behind A’-agree and A’-movement 

Confirmed forum presenters: 
Nico Baier: formal typology: On the Nature of Complex A/A'-Probes 
Chris Hammerly: psycholinguistics: Processing relativization in Ojibwe 
Chris Reintges: diachrony: Coptic hidden movement configurations 

Susana Béjar and Arsalan Kahnemuyipour: Armenian and Persian: Agreement in
binominal copular clauses
Victoria Chen: Austronesian: What agrees, why and how: A view from
Austronesian 
Michael Hamilton: Algonquian: Agreement and discourse-configurationality in
Algonquian 
Marianne Huijsmans: Salishan: ʔayʔaǰuθəm subject agreement 
Carol-Rose Little: Mayan: Subextraction and Agree: A Mayan perspective 
Martina Martinović: Atlantic-Congo: Exhaustivity and Predication in
A’-extraction in Wolof 
Astrid van Alem and Marjo van Koppen: Germanic: The effect of A’-contexts on
A-agreement
Jenneke van der Wal: Bantu: Information structure as A-syntax  
Coppe van Urk: Nilotic: Feature-driven movement and the syntax of successive
cyclicity 
Nicholas Welch: Na-Dene: TBA 

Second Call for Papers: 

We welcome contributions addressing the formal analysis of A′-movement as it
relates to A′-agreement. Priority will be given to abstracts focused on the
following research questions: 
a) Which contexts condition A′-agreement? 
b) What is the realization of A′-agreement in a given language? 
c) How is A′-agreement modelled as a kind of agreement? 
d) How does A′-agreement bear on the debate about how to formulate derivation
by phase? 
e) What does the formal syntax of A′-agreement reveal about interface issues? 

For the full call for papers, follow this link: https://blogs.ubc.ca/agree/ 

Abstract guidelines: 
Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including data, references, and
diagrams. Abstracts should be typed in 11-point font, with one-inch margins
(US letter or A4). Abstracts must be anonymous; remove or hide any
author-identifying information. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.
Please submit your abstract using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moveagree2021

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