35.2971, Calls: The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

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Subject: 35.2971, Calls: The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

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Date: 23-Oct-2024
From: Olga Borik [oborik at flog.uned.es]
Subject: The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar


Full Title: The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar
Short Title: CGG34

Date: 07-May-2025 - 09-May-2025
Location: Madrid, Spain
Contact Person: Olga Borik
Meeting Email: cgg34.uned at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/cgg34

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

The Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG) is an annual conference
held in the Iberian peninsula since 1991. It provides a platform for
linguists working in Generative grammar all over the world to come
together and discuss current trends and topics in syntax, morphology,
semantics, phonology and their interfaces. The 34th Colloquium on
Generative Grammar (CGG34) will be organized by the National
University of Distance Education (UNED) and will take place as an
in-person meeting from May 7 to May 9, 2025 in Madrid, Spain.

Invited Speakers:

    Klaus Abels, University College London (UCL)

    Martina Wiltschko, ICREA/U. Pompeu Fabra

Apart from the main session, the Colloquium will also host a workshop
on the prosody-syntax interface.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

In the Generative Grammar tradition, the sound-meaning relation is
mediated by syntax. This basic assumption is reflected in the
minimalist model of the architecture of grammar (Chomsky 1995): a
single generative component, the computational system (or narrow
syntax), central to language, derives syntactic structures and feeds
linguistic information to the external systems, namely, the
articulatory-perceptual (or sensorimotor) and conceptual-intentional
systems. To be able to ‘communicate’ with the external systems, two
interface levels were postulated: Phonological Form (or simply PF) and
Logical Form (or LF). Thus, interfaces play a crucial role in the
process of communication between the generative/computational system
and external systems. Ever since the Minimalist program, much work has
been dedicated to defining precise mechanisms that map syntactic
structures to the interface representations.

On the empirical side, the question of the division of labor between
the computational system and the interfaces has led to reanalyzing
certain phenomena that remained problematic for purely syntactic
approaches: “… topic-focus and theme-rheme structures, figure-ground
properties, effects of adjacency and linearity, and many others … seem
to involve some additional level or levels internal to the
phonological component.” (Chomsky 1995:220). Focus is, perhaps, one of
the classical examples of such a reanalysis: from a purely
phonological treatment of focus in Chomsky (1971), the relevance of
focus for the interpretation was firmly established by Rooth (1992);
then Rizzi (1997) made an influential syntactic proposal for the
analysis of focus, and, finally, it was convincingly analyzed as an
interface phenomenon (Reinhart 2006). Current research in the PF area
is a serious and systematic exploration of the properties of the
syntax-phonology interface (Truckenbrodt 2007).

The aim of this workshop is to focus on the PF interface, in
particular, on the interaction of prosody, or prosodic features like
intonation, stress, tone, etc., with the syntactic structure. The
workshop will focus on cross-linguistic variation, particularly in
Romance languages, including variation due to language contact and
diachronic variation. Most of the recent work in this area has
concentrated on the expression of focus and the location of the main
prominence. However, other topics related to the syntax-prosody
interface—such as the expression of interrogatives, exclamatives,
clefts, and external phenomena like vocatives and parentheticals—are
also worth exploring. We, therefore, invite contributions on any area
of the prosody-syntax interface in Romance, especially those whose
empirical focus lies on underexplored languages and varieties.

Invited Speaker:
    Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch, U. of Balearic Islands (UIB)

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of unpublished work from any area of Generative
Grammar. Each paper presentation will be allotted 30 minutes plus 10
minutes for discussion. A limited number of abstracts will also be
accepted for the poster sessions.

Abstracts should be written in English and not exceed two pages of
text (A4), in 12-point font, single line spacing and 2.5cm margins,
with examples and/or figures interspersed, and including references.

Abstracts should be anonymous. Submissions are limited to a maximum of
one individual and one joint abstract, or two joint abstracts per
author. Authors are asked to submit their abstracts as a PDF file to
the following site: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/CGG34/
If you do not have an account, please follow the instructions provided
by the platform and create one.

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: January 10, 2025
Notification of acceptance: beginning of March 2025
Conference dates: May 7-9, 2025



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