LINGUIST List 17.515
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Confs: Syntax/ NY, New York, USA
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1. Chris
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Tales of the Missing Link
Message 1: Tales of the Missing Link
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Date: 14-Feb-2006
From: Chris Collins <cc116nyu.edu>
Subject: Tales of the Missing Link
Tales of the Missing Link
Date: 03-Mar-2006 - 03-Mar-2006
Location: New York, New York, USA
Contact: Chris Collins
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Linguistics/events/tales.html
Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Meeting Description:
Date: Friday, March 3, 2006
Time: 9:25am - 4:00pm
Location: NYU, Silver Center 713
This conference will focus on recent work in linking constructions, including phenomena in Khoisan languages, Japanese, Chinese, French, Thai, Modern Persian, Kurdish, Zazaki, and the Niger-Congo languages.
The questions that will be investigated at this conference include the following: How are linkers different from prepositions? What role do linkers play in word order? What role do linkers play in Case assignment? What kinds of cross-linguistic variation characterize each of the domains where linkers are found?
Date: Friday, March 3, 2006
Time: 9:25am - 4:00pm
Location: NYU, Silver Center 713
This conference will focus on recent work in linking constructions, including at least the following phenomena:
The verbal linker found in the non-central Khoisan languages and Kinande
The nominal linkers found in Japanese (-no/-i/-na), Chinese (de), French (de) and Thai (thii)
The Ezafe constructions found in Modern Persian, Kurdish and Zazaki
The associative constructions found in the Niger-Congo languages
The questions that will be investigated at this conference include the following:
How are linkers different from prepositions? From Case markers? Are linkers semantically empty?
What role do linkers play in word order? Do they provide landing sites for movement?
What role do linkers play in Case assignment?
What kinds of cross-linguistic variation characterize each of the domains where linkers are found? Which languages allow multiple linker constructions, and are there special constraints on these?
How does agreement work in linker constructions?
Preliminary Schedule:
Richard Larson ''On DP and VP''
Vick Carstens TBA
Chris Collins ''Cross-Linguistic Variation in Khoisan Linkers''
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour ''Some thoughts on the (missing) Ezafe''
Marcel den Dikken discussant
Mark Baker discussant
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