35.2931, Calls: Big Ellipsis Workshop (as part of ICON 2024)

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Subject: 35.2931, Calls: Big Ellipsis Workshop (as part of ICON 2024)

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Date: 21-Oct-2024
From: Anushree Mishra [anushreephdlandp19 at efluniversity.ac.in]
Subject: Big Ellipsis Workshop (as part of ICON 2024)


Full Title: Big Ellipsis Workshop (as part of ICON 2024)

Date: 19-Dec-2024 - 19-Dec-2024
Location: AU-KBC, Chennai, India
Contact Person: Anushree Mishra
Meeting Email: bigellipsis.icon2024 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

Initial work on ellipsis focused heavily on the phenomena of
VP-ellipsis. While this has been a productive area of study, its
relevance to South Asian languages has remained somewhat limited,
largely due to the uncertainty regarding whether VP-ellipsis occurs in
these languages (see Manetta 2011, 2019, 2021). However, it has long
been recognized that ellipsis can also take place at the clausal
level, a phenomenon we refer to as 'Big Ellipsis.' The most well-known
example of 'Big Ellipsis' is Sluicing.

Recent work by Kush (2016), Alok & Messick (2021), and Mishra (2024)
have argued that phenomena as varied as Gapping, Stripping, and
Relative Deletion also involve ellipsis of clausal constituents. We
know that sluicing is well attested in South Asian languages (Balusu
2016 for Telugu, Leung 2018 for Tamil), but the crosslinguistic
distribution of the other `Big Ellipsis’ phenomena remains to be
explored fully. The one-day workshop will feature discussions on Big
Ellipsis from invited speakers, offering in-depth perspectives on the
topic.

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions exploring various aspects of ellipsis phenomena
in South Asian languages, with a particular focus on gapping,
stripping, and relative deletion. Presentations may address the
(un)availability, distribution, or unique properties of one or more
'Big Ellipsis' phenomena in South Asian languages. We also welcome
challenges to the characterization of these phenomena as instances of
'Big Ellipsis.' Here are some of the questions we are particularly
interested in:
 • Linear order: How does the position of clauses affect the
possibility of ellipsis? For instance, in Hindi, relative deletion is
possible only with extraposed relative clauses, which follow the main
clause. It is not possible in correlatives, where the relative clause
precedes the main clause. Is the linear precedence of the antecedent a
requirement? How does this differ from sluicing, where this condition
does not seem to hold?
 • Locality: What are the syntactic constraints that govern how close
an ellipsis site must be to its antecedent? In some ellipsis types,
such as sluicing, there appears to be more flexibility, while in
others, a stricter locality requirement is observed. What are the
broader principles that determine these locality conditions across
languages?
 • Role of relative pronouns/complementizers and case marking: What
role do relative pronouns, complementizers, and case marking play in
the licensing and interpretation of ellipsis remnants? Do these
elements help recover the elided material in any way?

Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be 1 page in length, formatted
in 11-point font, and submitted as a PDF to
bigellipsis.icon2024 at gmail.com. Abstracts will be published as part of
the ICON 2024 proceedings. All queries can be forwarded to the same
address.

Deadline: November 10, 2024 Notification: November 17, 2024

The workshop will be held in a hybrid format. Zoom access will be
provided to all.



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