35.2551, Calls: Japanese Family; Japanese; Linguistic Theories/ Languages - “Current Issues in Ellipsis and Ellipsis Mismatch: Studies in Japanese and Beyond” (Jrnl)

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Subject: 35.2551, Calls: Japanese Family; Japanese; Linguistic Theories/ Languages - “Current Issues in Ellipsis and Ellipsis Mismatch: Studies in Japanese and Beyond” (Jrnl)

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Date: 18-Sep-2024
From: Yosuke Sato [yosukes at tsuda.ac.jp]
Subject: Japanese Family; Japanese; Linguistic Theories/ Languages - “Current Issues in Ellipsis and Ellipsis Mismatch: Studies in Japanese and Beyond” (Jrnl)


Call for Papers:

We are very pleased to announce the launching of the Special Issue in
Languages under the title “Current Issues in Ellipsis and Ellipsis
Mismatch: Studies in Japanese and Beyond”.

So much progress has been made to pave the way toward a better
understanding of the nature and mechanism of ellipsis phenomena in
Japanese, both in terms of the coverage of data and theoretical
advances.  In fact, investigations of ellipsis in Japanese have
continued to play an integral role in shaping, informing and sometimes
even challenging general theories of ellipsis often developed solely
on considerations drawn mainly from English and Indo-European
languages (Huang 1984; Saito and Murasugi 1990; Takahashi 1994; Oku
1998; Saito 2007, among many others). More recent work has studied
various forms of ellipsis such as sluicing and argument ellipsis based
on novel Japanese ellipsis data and has drawn theoretically
significant conclusions regarding central issues revolving around the
proper formulation of identity conditions and operational mechanisms
behind ellipsis constructions such as sluicing and argument ellipsis
(Takita 2012; Funakoshi 2016; Sakamoto 2017, 2019, among others). At
the same time, however, there remains so much work to be done in the
field of Japanese ellipsis for current and future generations of
ellipsis researchers despite the growing body of rather intensive
inquiries into ellipsis within contemporary generative research. We
therefore find it timely to showcase a sample of cutting-edge research
on ellipsis primarily focusing on (but not limited to) Japanese.

Against this general background, we would like to publish
contributions from researchers working on a wide variety of ellipsis
constructions which develop latest ideas on current topical issues
surrounding the general theme of “ellipsis and/or ellipsis mismatch”.
We particularly welcome contributions on this topic that draw on data
primarily from Japanese. This issue is therefore wide in its scope,
welcoming papers addressing current topical issues on ellipsis and/or
ellipsis mismatch, including, but not limited to, the following:

What kind of ellipsis mismatch is available and why (category/size
mismatch in antecedent-ellipsis pairs)?
What is the nature of identity conditions on ellipsis (syntactic,
semantic, discourse, information structure)?
What operational mechanisms are available for ellipsis constructions
(copying, deletion, movement)?
What implications do analyses of various ellipsis phenomena have for
linguistic interfaces (syntax-semantics, syntax-phonology, and so on)?
What kinds of cross-linguistic variation can be found in ellipsis?

Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 October 2024
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 15 November 2024
Full Manuscript Deadline: 15 May 2025

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words
summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest
editors (yosukes at tsuda.ac.jp; ktakita at mail.doshisha.ac.jp;
yuta at meiji.ac.jp) or to the 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.

Please visit the following website for further information on this
special issue:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/5UHW5L36UA

Yosuke Sato
Kensuke Takita
Yuta Sakamoto
Guest Editors



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