35.2136, Calls: International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024

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Subject: 35.2136, Calls: International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024

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Date: 27-Jul-2024
From: Éva Dékány [dekany.eva at nytud.hu]
Subject: International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024


Full Title: International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and
Modification 2024

Date: 16-Nov-2024 - 17-Nov-2024
Location: Ichigaya Campus, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Contact Person: Masashi Kawashima
Meeting Email: kawashima.masashi at nihon-u.ac.jp
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/iwspm2024/home

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax

Call Deadline: 07-Aug-2024

Meeting Description:

International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification
2024

Important Dates
Extended Call Deadline: 7 August 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 7 September 2024
Meeting Dates: 16-17 November 2024

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/iwspm2024/home

Predication is a relation between predicates and their subjects, or,
more generally, arguments for which they select. Predication plays an
important part in natural language syntax. Modification is a device
enriching the information conveyed by a constituent, which is carried
out by adding an element to that constituent (standardly via
adjunction). Both predication and modification come in a wide variety
of forms. Attempts to generalize over predication and modification
face a number of important questions, e.g., about optionality, the
category of the subject and the syntactic mechanism by which
predicates and modifiers are related to their ‘significant others’.
The division of labor between predication and modification is not
always clear-cut: thus, depictive secondary predication and
relativization appear to straddle the boundaries between predi¬cation
and modification. Detailed investigations of the various constructions
relevant to predication and modification enhance our understanding of
natural-language syntax and its interface with meaning (both semantics
and pragmatics).
Research questions to be addressed in the workshop include, but are
not limited to:
    1. What factors differentiate between predication and modification
in syntactic terms?
    2. Is it possible to reduce the distinction between predication
and modification to some syntactically definable notions, such as
complementation, specification, adjunction, dedicated
(lexical/functional) heads?
    3. Are there dedicated syntactic structures for predication and
modification, and if so, what are they rooted in?
    4. Do the syntactic structures assigned to predication and
modification vary cross-linguistically, and if so, what underlies the
variations?
    5. Are there any diachronic data that tell us whether, and if so,
how the syntax of predication and modification has evolved over time?
    6. Are there any syntactic constructions that can be ambiguous
between predication and modification, and if so, what underlies this
ambiguity and how can it be diagnosed?
    7. Are there distinct structural relations involved in
modification, and if so, what determines their distribution and how
can it be diagnosed?
This workshop will foster fruitful dialogue between researchers
through analyses of a selection of construction types involving
predication and modification, from a wide range of languages and
analytical perspectives.

Keynote Speakers:       Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre
for Linguistics, Budapest), “On the syntactic relationship between
modification and predication”
Mamoru Saito (Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama), “Language
Variation and the Labeling of Modification Structures”

Final Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of abstracts for 25-minute presentations
(followed by 10-minute discussions) on any topic in the syntax of
predication and modification and/or its interface with semantics. We
especially welcome submissions addressing questions from a formal
syntactic perspective. Abstracts may not exceed two pages (A4 with 2.5
cm margin or US letter with 1 inch margins on all sides), including
examples, references and tables/figures. Fonts should be no smaller
than 12 points. The top of the first page should include the title of
the paper and, on a separate text line, up to 5 keywords. Abstracts
should be submitted in PDF via the workshop webpage.

Venue: Ichigaya Campus, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract submission: https://forms.gle/BUs2peJmrY6gwjBW8

Pre-registration for participantis required. There will be no
registration fee.

Contact: Masashi Kawashima, kawashima.masashi[at]nihon-u.ac.jp



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