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khu.ac.kr>2002 LSK International Summer Conference The 2002 LSK International Summer Conference hosted by the Linguistic Society of Korea invites abstracts for papers presenting research in all areas of linguistics, including, but not limited to, morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, typology, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics and natural language processing. The conference will be held at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea on August 5-7, 2002. INVITED SPEAKERS Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut) Jerzy Rubach (University of Warsaw & University of Iowa) Ivan Sag (Stanford University) Anna Wierzbicka (Australia National University) GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be a single page, with an additional page for data/references if needed. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to lsk2002Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
khu.ac.kr>The 2002 LSK International Summer Conference hosted by the Linguistic Society of Korea invites abstracts for the following two workshops. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks (such as Minimialism, HPSG, and LFG). The workshops will be held on the final day of the LSK conference at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea on August 5-7, 2002 (see http://web.khu.ac.kr/~lsk2002 for more information). Also HPSG-2002 will follow immediately after these workshops (see http://web.khu.ac.kr/~hpsg2002 for more information). Workshop 1. PERSPECTIVES ON COMPLEX PREDICATES Invited Workshop participants: Peter Sells (Stanford University, organizer); Norbert Horstein (Maryland University); and others Complex Predicates -- for example certain causative, resultative, serial verb, and light verb constructions -- are predicates composed of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words), each of which contributes part of the syntactic and semantic information more typically associated with a single head. Complex Predicates are found in many (perhaps all) languages, and often show quite similar combinations of argument structure despite radically different overt expressions across languages. They raise several analytical questions: How are the composite argument structures formed and represented (e.g. exactly what is combined, and how does that combination happen)? What is the range of permissible argument structure combinations (i.e. the semantic and syntactic typology of complex predicates)? What is the set of permissible structural representations for a given type (e.g. causatives)? Different theoretical approaches such as HPSG, LFG, and GB/MP, offer different perspectives and formal tools for the exploration of these questions. This workshop will air diverse views on this topic, with the goal of achieving greater insight into the questions above and other related issues. We invite abstracts for 30 minute presentations that address any empirical or theoretical issues relevant to the analysis of Complex Predicates, from any theoretical perspective. Workshop 2. PERSPECTIVES ON INVERSION Invited Workshop participants: Ivan Sag and Robert Levine (Stanford University and Ohio State University, co-organizers); Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut); Robert Borsley (University of Essex) Inversion -- the patterned positional alternation of lexical elements -- has been of central importance in the development of most frameworks for syntactic analysis. Inversion phenomena are diverse, including interrogative-related initial position in Germanic, Romance and other language families (e.g. English subject-auxiliary inversion), second position phenomena, extraction-related `stylistic' inversion in Romance, VSO languages, etc. A range of approaches to inversion have been offered: transformational frameworks treat inversion phenomena in terms of operations such as Head Movement; HPSG and other constraint-based, lexicalist (CBL) frameworks allow alternate structures (inverted and non-inverted) to be directly generated; and some LFG treatments take a middle ground, positing the Head-Movement-like notion of 'extended head', whereby a word can lie outside the phrase it heads, but in a constraint-based setting. The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers working in transformational and CBL frameworks to arrive at a deeper understanding of the theoretical and empirical issues at stake in the different approaches to inversion that have been explored. Contributions to this session may address any empirical or theoretical issues relevant to the analysis of inversion phenomena. We invite abstracts for 30 minute presentations addressing any aspect of inversion, using any theoretical framework. GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be as specific as possible. Include a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. Abstracts should not exceed one page in length, plus one additional page of data and/or references. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to lsk2002Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue