35.2285, Calls: Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives (online conference)

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Date: 15-Aug-2024
From: Adina Camelia Bleotu [adina.bleotu at lls.unibuc.ro]
Subject: Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives (online conference)


Full Title: Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic, and
Psycholinguistic Perspectives (online conference)

Date: 24-Oct-2024 - 25-Oct-2024
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact Person: Adina Camelia Bleotu
Meeting Email: adina.bleotu at lls.unibuc.ro

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

Call Deadline: 20-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

Online Conference (October 24-25, 2024)

Organizers: University of Bucharest, University of Toronto, UMass
Amherst, ZAS Berlin

This conference addresses the phenomenon of agreement and, in
particular, agreement puzzles that arise from interactions with
logical operators (such as conjunction, disjunction, negation,
quantifiers, modals, etc.) or with special kinds of nouns (such as
collectives). We will hear from a number of experts on the topic. We
also welcome abstract submissions adopting theoretical and/or
experimental approaches, from various linguistic domains (syntax,
semantics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, etc.).

We are particularly interested in how speakers and listeners handle
cases where multiple types of agreement are possible. For example, in
the sentence 'The cats or the dog {is/are} resting in the sun',
agreement can occur either with the closest disjunct or the entire
plural disjunctive phrase 'the cats or the dog'. Other topics of
interest include the interaction between agreement hierarchies and
logical operators, situations where a single morpheme can express
multiple agreement features (number, person, etc.), the role of
agreement in ambiguity resolution, agreement attraction errors of the
type 'The cat near the dogs are resting in the sun', and agreement as
a helpful cue in language acquisition.

Call for Papers:

The conference will take place online via zoom.

The invited speakers (30-minute talks), listed in alphabetical order,
are:
Anne Abeillé (Université Paris Cité)
Faruk Akkuş (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Sakshi Bhatia (University of Delhi)
Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus)
Imke Driemel (University of York)
Anna Gavarró (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Anke Himmelreich (Bielefeld University)
Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna)
Manfred Krifka & Fereshteh Modaressi (ZAS Berlin)
Tom Roeper (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Zheng Shen (National University of Singapore)
Hedde Zeijlstra (Georg-August-University, Göttingen)

Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract (Times New Roman 12,
single spaced) and an additional page with graphs, figures and
references to adina.bleotu at lls.unibuc.ro by September 20, 2024.

Organizers:
Adina Camelia Bleotu, Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest)
Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto)
Deborah Foucault, Tom Roeper, Faruk Akkuş (University of Massachusetts
Amherst)
Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin)



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