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Subject: 32.281, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Online

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:02:32
From: Hermann Keupdjio [hermann.keupdjio at mail.mcgill.ca]
Subject: Move and Agree: Forum on the Formal Typology of Move and Agree

 
Full Title: Move and Agree: Forum on the Formal Typology of Move and Agree 
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

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 (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 :Indo-European: TBA 
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
Jenneke van der Wal: Bantu: Information structure as A-syntax
Marjo van Koppen: Germanic: TBA
Coppe van Urk: Nilotic: Feature-driven movement and the syntax of successive
cyclicity
Nicholas Welch: Na-Dene: TBA


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, please click on the link below:
https://blogs.ubc.ca/moveandagree/call-for-papers/ 

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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