35.3619, Calls: Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax / Languages - “The Development of Dynamic Syntax” (Jrnl)

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Subject: 35.3619, Calls: Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax / Languages - “The Development of Dynamic Syntax” (Jrnl)

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Date: 18-Dec-2024
From: Christine Howes [christine.howes at gu.se]
Subject: Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax / Languages - “The Development of Dynamic Syntax” (Jrnl)


Call for Papers:

We are pleased to announce a call for a special issue of the journal
Languages (ISSN 2226-471X) on “The Development of Dynamic Syntax”.
Dynamic Syntax (DS) is an action-based grammar formalism that models
the process of natural language understanding as monotonic tree
growth, which was first introduced in response to well-studied
grammatical puzzles like scrambling, clitic doubling and person-case
restrictions, among others (Kempson et al., 2001; Cann et al., 2005,
Chatzikyriakidis and Kempson 2011). The incremental and process-driven
nature of DS means that it is not only useful as a grammar formalism
solving just syntactic puzzles, but also applied to questions around
diachronic change, pragmatic problems and interactive issues
(Bouzouita 2008, Eshghi et al. 2016, Kempson et al., 2016, amongst
others).

The Special Issue is intended to both reflect the broad range of work
within the framework of Dynamic Syntax in diverse areas such as the
syntax of diverse languages, language change, semantics/pragmatics,
and dialogue modelling with a focus on recent directions in Dynamic
Syntax research. Ultimately, our aim is to showcase a unified formal
framework that can tackle a spectrum of phenomena from narrow
syntax/semantics puzzles all the way to dialogue modelling and
linguistic interaction.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200 words
summarising their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest
Editors christine.howes at gu.se or to Languages Editorial Office
(languages at mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors
for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the
special issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

Tentative Completion Schedule
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 December 2024
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 15 January 2025
Full Manuscript Deadline: 15 June 2025

References

Bouzouita, M. (2008). The diachronic development of Spanish clitic
placement (Doctoral dissertation, King's College London).

Cann, R., Kempson, R., & Marten, L. (2005). The dynamics of language.
Oxford: Elsevier.

Chatzikyriakidis, S., & Kempson, R. (2011). Standard Modern and Pontic
Greek person restrictions: A feature-free dynamic account. Journal of
Greek Linguistics, 11(2), 127-166.

Kempson, R., Meyer-Viol, W., & Gabbay, D. (2001). Dynamic Syntax: The
flow of language understanding. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kempson, R., Cann, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., & Chatzikiriakidis, S.
(2016). Language as mechanisms for interaction. Theoretical
Linguistics, 42(3–4), 203–275.

Eshghi, Arash, Christine Howes, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Julian Hough,
and Matthew Purver. "Feedback in conversation as incremental semantic
update". Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.

Prof. Dr. Christine Howes
Prof. Dr. Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
Guest Editors



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