33.2483, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Syntax, Typology/United Kingdom

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Subject: 33.2483, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Syntax, Typology/United Kingdom

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 02:07:49
From: Sam Wolfe [sam.wolfe at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: Mapping Syntax - Universals, Variation, Acquisition, and Change

Full Title: Mapping Syntax - Universals, Variation, Acquisition, and Change 
Short Title: MS2022 

Date: 16-Nov-2022 - 18-Nov-2022
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Sam Wolfe
Meeting Email: sam.wolfe at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/mapping-syntax 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 29-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

This year marks 25 years since the publication of Luigi Rizzi’s (1997) ‘The
Fine Structure of the Left Periphery’, one of the foundational works of the
cartographic enterprise (cf. i.a. also Belletti 1990, Cardinaletti 1997, and
Cinque 1999), a research programme which has had a profound and enduring
influence on linguistic research regarding language universals, variation,
acquisition, and change (see Cinque and Rizzi 2009 and Shlonsky 2010 for
recent overviews).

To mark the 25th anniversary of Rizzi (1997), a workshop will take place in
Oxford from the 16th to 18th of November. The aims of the workshop are to
consider the major achievements of the cartographic enterprise over the last
three decades and to provide a forum for presenting novel research which
showcases the enduring potential of cartography in the decades to come.

The workshop will have keynote talks from the following invited speakers:

Professor Adriana Belletti (University of Siena)
Professor Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia)
Professor Gugliemo Cinque (University Ca’ Foscari Venice)
Professor Naama Friedmann (University of Tel Aviv)
Professor Cecilia Poletto (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, University of
Padua)
Professor Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France)
Professor Fuzhen Si (Beijing Language and Culture University)

Call for Papers:

Thirty-minute presentations are welcome on any area of cartography,
particularly those with 'big picture' cross-linguistic implications. The
workshop will focus in particular on:

* Cartographic achievements and challenges. What are the principal empirical,
theoretical, and methodological advances in cartography over the past three
decades and what do these tell us about how language is structured in the
human mind? Where does the cartographic enterprise make demonstrably distinct
predictions from core functional category-oriented Minimalism (e.g. Chomsky
2000) and when have these predictions been confirmed or proven false by the
data? How can the potentially very rich inventory of features and
corresponding projections posited in most cartographic approaches (e.g. Kayne
2005) be reconciled with the central role of economy constraints assumed
within Minimalism since Chomsky (1995)? Are cartography and Minimalism
genuinely complementary approaches (Cinque & Rizzi 2009) or do the two
approaches ultimately rest - to a degree or in their entirety - on
incompatible assumptions regarding the structure of the Faculty of Language?

* New Empirical Domains. Though some early cartographic research drew on data
from non-Indo-European languages (Cinque 1999; Speas & Tenny 2003; Aboh 2004),
do analyses of familiar phenomena from Indo-European languages require
rethinking when confronted with data from elsewhere? Looking specifically at
seminal cartographic maps of the left periphery (Rizzi 1997; Rizzi 2001; Rizzi
2010; Benincà & Poletto 2004), the Tense-Aspect-Mood field (Cinque 1999;
Cinque 2006), the vP domain (Belletti 2001; Belletti 2004; Belletti 2006), and
the extended nominal expression (Giusti 1996; Giusti 2006), do we find that
particular domains require more extensive revision than others when faced with
data from grammars showing major typological distinctions (i.e. Pearce 1999;
Huang, Li & Li 2009; Collins 2019)? Do such systems in fact require us to
weaken central cartographic assumptions about the universal hierarchy of
projections which form the clausal spine (Wiltschko 2014)?

* Cartography in diachrony. What is the value of cartographic approaches for
historical- diachronic linguistics? How can cartography inform debates around
universality and directionality in syntactic change (Lightfoot 1997;
Longobardi 2001; Roberts & Roussou 2002)? Does cartography elucidate ongoing
controversy over exogenous and endogenous causes of language simplification
and complexification and how these might be applied to syntax (Trudgill 2011;
Walkden & Breitbarth 2019)? Does the 'bundling' of certain properties in
historical stages of languages give us new insights into the universality or
variability of certain morphosyntactic properties (Poletto 2014; Wolfe 2021)?

* Cartography in acquisition. Does cartography help us develop novel and
falsifiable predictions in acquisition theory? How does experimental and
observational acquisition data confirm or lead us to revise hypotheses based
on adult language competence? What is the potential of the 'Growing Trees'
hypothesis put forward in Friedmann, Belletti, and Rizzi (2021) under which
child language acquirers successively acquire competence in utilising
structure 'upwards' along the clausal spine?

Abstracts should be anonymous, one page of A4 excluding references, and
uploaded via EasyChair. The deadline for abstract submissions is the 29th
August 2022 and the weblink for submission is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ms20220

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