32.2454, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany
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Subject: 32.2454, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:29:43
From: Katharina Hartmann [k.hartmann at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Long distance dependencies and the structure of embedded clauses in African languages (DGfS 2022)
Full Title: Long distance dependencies and the structure of embedded clauses in African languages (DGfS 2022)
Short Title: SASAL 1
Date: 23-Feb-2022 - 25-Feb-2022
Location: Tübingen, Germany
Contact Person: Katharina Hartmann
Meeting Email: k.hartmann at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Web Site: http://www.dgfs2022.uni-tuebingen.de/
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2021
Meeting Description:
This workshop is part of the 44th Annual Conference of the DGfS in Tübingen.
For more information on the 44th Annual Conference of the DGfS, please visit
the website of the conference (https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/209359).
Over the past three decades, formal linguistics has been increasingly devoted
to carrying out research into hitherto understudied and undocumented
languages. The wealth of phenomena uncovered has not only tremendously
enriched linguistic discussions; the empirical findings have also been used as
testing grounds for theoretical assumptions that were almost exclusively based
on mostly European languages standardly investigated in the last century –
often with surprising consequences for linguistic hypothesis building.
This hybrid workshop (in presence and online) is aimed at continuing this line
of research. We specifically invite contributions investigating the structure
and interpretation of embedded sentences and long-distance dependencies in
African languages. Such structures are of high theoretical interest as they
exhibit properties that may shed light on outstanding theoretical questions
and problems. Concerning the structure of embedded clauses first, well-known
concepts such as wh-selection, the nature of the embedding complementizer, and
even the strategy of complementation itself may be fundamentally different
from what is found in Indoeuropean languages. For instance, many African
languages do not embed wh-complements under wh-selecting verbs but use a
relative clause strategy instead (Zimmermann 2018); see (1) from Eton (Bantu)
for illustration (Haniel Enoka, p.c.).
(1) A-ti-kam i-mot Alima a-yən.
3sg-prog-doubt alt-person A. 3sg-see.pst
‘She is wondering who Alima saw.’ (lit. She doubts (about) the person Alima
saw.)
Concerning long distance dependencies, African languages often exhibit
morphological or phonological surface reflexes of syntactic dependencies
beyond simple reordering, see, for instance, Amaechi (2020). These can serve
to prove the presence or absence of syntactic movement in cases of doubt
(e.g., topic movement, short subject movement, movement out of islands, etc.).
In addition, resumption in main and embedded clauses is widespread across
different African languages, giving rise to a number of interesting and not
well-understood asymmetries between different types of extractions.
With this workshop, we will continue our commitment to the diversification of
African linguistics. We especially invite researchers from the African
continent to participate in this workshop with the determined aim to make
African languages and linguists more visible on the international stage. We
are convinced that an increased engagement for African language research will
not only broaden our own theoretical horizons, but that it will also
contribute to the development and stabilization of linguistic departments and
research institutes in Africa.
Invited Speakers:
- Abigail Anne Bimpeh (ZAS, Berlin)
- Vicki Carstens (University of Connecticut)
- Alassane Kiemtoré (Universität Stuttgart)
Call for Papers:
We specifically, but not exclusively, invite workshop contributions on the
following topics:
i. Syntax and Semantics of embedded questions; cf. (1).
ii. Clausal embedding, complementizers, and the left periphery
iii. Clausal embedding and logophoricity
iv. Tense and aspect in embedded clauses: Sequence of tense phenomena etc.
v. The syntax and semantics of before-clauses
vi. The syntax of restrictive relative clauses: raising or matching?
vii. Morphological or tonal reflexes of long-distance dependencies
viii. The syntax and semantics of Serial Verb Constructions
ix. Differences in island restrictions across languages
x. The syntax of resumption
Submissions:
We invite submissions for talks (20 minutes + 10 discussion). Abstracts must
be no longer than one page. An additional page for examples, figures, data and
references is allowed. Abstracts must be submitted in 12-point font, US Letter
size or A4 paper with 1 inch/2.5 cm margins and in PDF format.
Abstracts should be submitted via email to k.hartmann at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
by September 01, 2021
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