Workshop on Modification (with & without modifiers) | mdf2011

CFP: Advances in Biolinguistics (SLE 44, preliminary)
CALL FOR PAPERS: Advances in Biolinguistics
WORKSHOP DATES: 10–11 September 2011
CONFERENCE: SLE 44 (http://sle2011.cilap.es)
LOCATION: Logroño (La Rioja), Spain
CFP DEADLINE: 14 November 2011

Contact Person: Kleanthes Grohmann (kleanthi@ucy.ac.cy)

Biolinguistics is concerned with exploring the basic properties of the language faculty, how it matures in the individual, how it is put to use in thought and action (including communication), what brain circuits may implement it, and how it emerged in the human species. In asking these questions, biolinguists try to determine which components of the brain are unique to language, as opposed to shared with other cognitive domains such as music and mathematics, and especially those that also seem unique to humans. If, as seems reasonable to suppose, our linguistic capacity is both uniquely human and, in part, uniquely comprised of language-specific mechanisms, significant conceptual and empirical issues arise concerning its evolution, form, maturation, and function.

We encourage submissions of abstracts that touch on any of the issues listed above, or any other that contributes to our understanding of the biological foundations of the language faculty. Of special interest are contributions that bring biological considerations to bear on linguistic theorizing.

Advances in Biolinguistics is a workshop intended for the 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (http://sle2011.cilap.es). Since we will need to submit a proposal with a preliminary list of speakers by November 15, we need preliminary titles and mini-abstracts (3-5 sentences) from potentially interested participants. The deadline for these is Sunday, November 14, 2010. Please note that expressing an interest in participation by sending us a title and mini-abstract is not binding. The final deadline for regular abstracts, to be submitted via the conference site, is January 15, 2011. We will send interested participants a reminder about this, and we will of course also let them know, by mid-December, whether the workshop was accepted.

“Free exceptives and gapping. In favour of structural approaches to ellipsis”, comunicación seleccionada
BCGL4. The Fourth Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics. Ellipsis
HUBrussel, Bruselas, 9-10 de noviembre de 2009 (con Isabel Pérez)
Free exceptives and gapping. In favour of structural approaches to ellipsis

“The boundary between coordination and subordination. Free exceptives in Spanish”, comunicación seleccionada
Going Romance XXIII, Universidad de Niza/Universidad de Utrecht
Niza, 3-5 de diciembre de 2009 (con Isabel Pérez)
The boundary between coordination and subordination: Free exceptives in Spanish

“Construcciones exceptivas y la frontera entre coordinación y subordinación”, participación invitada
Seminario del Centre de Lingüística Teòrica de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona,
5 de junio de 2009, UAB Barcelona (con Isabel Pérez)

“Algunas reflexiones sobre la categoría gramatical de excepto y salvo”, comunicación seleccionada,
XXXVIII Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística
CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, 2-5 de febrero, 2009 (con Isabel Pérez)

El laboratorio de fonética del CCHSC (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC) convoca FONHISPANIA 2009. Un interesante encuentro con investigadores en la interfase foneticofonológica, algunos de ellos clásicos como Larry Hyman y otros emergentes como Charles Reiss.

En los últimos años, el surgimiento de ciertos modelos fonológicos, como por ejemplo la Teoría de la Optimidad, ha reactivado el debate -por otro lado, nunca apagado- acerca de la relación que existe entre la fonología y la fonética, al entenderse que la aparición de estos enfoques puede tender nuevos puentes entre las dos disciplinas. En este contexto, el Laboratorio de Fonética del CSIC desea contribuir a la reflexión sobre estos aspectos reuniendo en Madrid, los días 2 y 3 de marzo de 2009, a algunos de los más destacados fonólogos y/o fonetistas que han investigado la interfaz entre el plano fonético y el plano fonológico del lenguaje. FONHISPANIA 2009 es una actividad científica complementaria del Posgrado Oficial de Estudios Fónicos.

Cómo llegar al CCHSC

Un trabajo escrito en colaboración con Isabel Pérez Jiménez. Se presentó en el simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, 2007, celebrado en Pamplona.

El margen izquierdo oracional en español: cláusulas absolutas periféricas y predicados incidentales

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Author = {Pérez Jiménez, Isabel and Moreno Quibén, Norberto},
Booktitle = {XXXVII Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística},
Organization = {Sociedad Española de Lingüística – Universidad de Navarra },
Title = {El margen izquierdo oracional en español: cláusulas absolutas periféricas y predicados incidentales},
Year = {2007}}

ESSLLI 2007 – Courses and Workshops

Los cursos de la 19 sesión de la ESSLLI (“European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information”) que se celebrará en Dublín están ya disponibles.

Workshop on Argument Structrure and Syntactic Relations

Congreso sobre Estructura Argumental en el País Vasco. Además del interés científico, Vitoria en mayo es una ciudad muy agradable.

Call Deadline: February 23, 2007

Workshop on Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations

Various issues emerge from looking at the broad theme of argument structure in grammar: the role and the nature of thematic hierarchy, the relation between Case and configurationality, the relation between argument structure, case and agreement, ergativity, the structure of the VP/vP, internal aspect, etc. In other words, the ‘lower’ part of the syntax is probably the one of which we have the most unclear understanding and important discrepancies in the literature of the last years constitute evidence of that. There are quite a lot of theoretical questions concerning the architecture of the verbal domain and these questions need to be answered. Some of the questions are the following: do we need more than vP and VP, like VoiceP, ApplP, CausP, AktP, PathP, EventP etc.? Is there anything like UTAH in syntax, or do we need a more elaborate understanding of thematic roles? How should the operation Agree be defined, and which features are necessary for the description of argument structure? How is morphological case related to argument structure?, and many more.

To discuss the recent developments of morphology-syntax-semantics articulation in the VP-domain, scholars working on different aspects are invited to share their results in a 3-day workshop and discuss the current state of affairs in this field. Also, a special focus will be put on the Basque language and its implication on the topic of this workshop, argument structure. Two of our local invited speakers will contribute to this debate on Basque, which will give us a more complete general scenario of the argument structure cross-linguistically.

This Workshop on Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations will take place at the University of The Basque Country from May 23-25, 2007 at Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. There are 12 slots of 40 minutes for selected talks. The workshop will also feature six invited speakers.

- John Bowers (Cornell University)

- Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø)

- Hamida Demirdache (University of Nantes)

- Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

- Javier Ormazabal (University of the Basque Country)

- Beñat Oyharçabal (IKER-CNRS)

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We welcome submission of up to 3 page abstracts, anonymous, PDF-format, 12pt font, one column, references and examples included, on any topic related to argument structure.

Please send your abstracts to argumentstructure@yahoo.com with ”Abstract” in the header of the message. The deadline for abstract submission is February 23. Notification will be late March.