36.2338, Confs: New Perspectives on Long-Distance Dependencies (Online)

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Subject: 36.2338, Confs: New Perspectives on Long-Distance Dependencies (Online)

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Date: 01-Aug-2025
From: Irina Stoica [irina.stoica at lls.unibuc.ro]
Subject: New Perspectives on Long-Distance Dependencies


New Perspectives on Long-Distance Dependencies
Short Title: LDD

Date: 21-Nov-2025 - 21-Nov-2025
Location: Online
Contact: Irina Stoica
Contact Email: irina.stoica at lls.unibuc.ro
Meeting URL:
https://lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/conferinta-internationala-flls/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 10-Oct-2025

Long-distance dependencies remain a central area of investigation
across linguistic fields: syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language
acqusition. They pose fundamental questions about clause structure,
locality, and cross-linguistic variation, while also providing a rich
opportunity for experimental work.
This workshop invites contributions that address movement and
agreement across clause boundaries, with a focus on the mechanisms and
constraints that govern such dependencies.
We invite contributions that stem from one or more of the following
questions:
 - What syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic properties characterize
domains that allow or block long-distance dependencies?
 - Can long-distance agreement be fully reduced to movement, or does
it involve independent mechanisms?
 - What is the role of context, discourse, and processing in shaping
the acceptability of LDDs?
 - How do languages differ in how they encode or restrict LDDs, and
what can this tell us about universal vs. language-specific grammar?
 - When do children reach adult-like proficiency with respect to both
long-distance dependencies and the constraints that govern them?
Invited speaker: Jon Sprouse (New York University Abu Dhabi)
Submission Deadline: 10 October 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 24 October 2025
Paper proposals (2-page abstracts, including references) in English
and can be sent directly to the following email address:
irina.stoica at lls.unibuc.ro
The conference fee is 250 RON (teaching staff) / 125 RON PhD students
and it will be paid in the account of the FLLS Alumni Association.
Payment details will be made available upon presentation acceptance.



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