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1. Manfred
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Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
2. Karim
Achab,
Les Français d'ici
Message 1: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
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Date: 02-Aug-2007
From: Manfred Sailer <manfred.sailer phil.uni-goettingen.de>
Subject: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
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Full Title: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective Date: 27-Feb-2008 - 29-Feb-2008 Location: Bamberg, Germany Contact Person: Heike Walker Meeting Email: hwalker uni-goettingen.de Web Site: http://www.gwdg.de/~hwalker/events/dgfs.html Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2008 Meeting Description: The workshop is part of the 29th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) at the University of Bamberg, Germany (27th-29th February, 2008) Last Call for Papers Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective The workshop is part of the 29th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) at the University of Bamberg, Germany (27th-29th February, 2008) Organizers: Manfred Sailer (University of Goettingen) Heike Walker (University of Goettingen) Gert Webelhuth (University of Goettingen) Goals and background: Phenomena of Rightward Movement (e.g. Extraposition, Heavy-NP-Shift) still raise a lot of questions and problems in linguistic theory. The literature provides competing analyses in which the constituent that appears in non-canonical position is (1) base-generated and interpreted in situ, or it undergoes a movement process (2) in the syntactic component or (3) on the level of PF (Göbbel 2007). These theories make different predictions whether movement to the right is subject to syntactic, semantic and pragmatic restrictions at all (see the discussion in Buering and Hartmann 1997) and differ, partly extremely, with respect to the mechanisms they provide for the semantic interpretation of the dislocated constituent. Another controversial discussion concerns the cause of these movements: in addition to purely syntactic triggers, prosodic and psycholinguistic (e.g. Hawkins 1994) arguments are proposed (Gesetz der wachsenden Glieder, preferences in production and parsing, etc.). The goal of the workshop is to collect linguistic and psycholinguistic studies from different languages in order to cast light on the following questions. We invite contributions which address the following questions: Can all phenomena of rightward movement be described as a uniform cross-linguistic type of construction that is subject to universal restrictions and which contrasts systematically with the type of leftward movement? Does each rightward movement process need a trigger and what are possible triggers? Why does rightward movement often correlate with the complexity of the moved constituent and are the criteria for complexity the same across languages? In which grammatical component does movement take place? Can a prosodic or psycholinguistic trigger induce movements in the syntactic component? What is the status of the moved constituent with respect to the semantic integration and the discourse? Does word order in the sentence influence the possibility and the characteristics of rightward movement? Selected references: Büring, Daniel und Katharina Hartmann. 1997. ''Doing the Right Thing.'' The Linguistic Review 14, 1-42. Göbbel, E. 2007. ''Extraposition as PF Movement.'' WECOL 2006. Hawkins, J. A. 1994. A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. The time slot for the presentations will be 30 minutes, including discussion time. Note that contributors can present only one paper at the DGfS Annual Meeting as a whole. Conference languages are English and German. Please submit an anonymous abstract of max. 1 page (500 words), as a Word- or pdf- file, and include the following information in the body of the email: author's name(s), affiliation, email address, title of the abstract. Send your submission to hwalker uni-goettingen.de by August 15, 2007. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email on September 15, 2007. Important dates: deadline for submission: August 15, 2007 notification: September 15, 2007 preliminary program: December 15, 2007 DGfS conference: February 27-29, 2008 For further information please contact: Manfred Sailer (manfred.sailer phil.uni-goettingen.de) Heike Walker (hwalker uni-goettingen.de) Gert Webelhuth (webelhuth uni-goettingen.de) and check the web site: www.gwdg.de/~hwalker/events/dgfs.html
Message 2: Les Français d'ici
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Date: 02-Aug-2007
From: Karim Achab <kachab uottawa.ca>
Subject: Les Français d'ici
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Full Title: Les Français d'ici Date: 22-May-2008 - 25-May-2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Contact Person: Karim Achab Meeting Email: LFDI2008 uottawa.ca Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics Subject Language(s): French (fra) Language Family(ies): Romance Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2007 Meeting Description: Le colloque Les Français d'ici se tiendra à l'Université d'Ottawa du 22 au 25 mai 2008. Il permet aux chercheur(e)s s'intéressant aux variétés de français canadien de partager le fruit de leurs recherches et de discuter des nouvelles perspectives ainsi que des questions qui émergent de leurs travaux. The upcoming Conference Les Français d'Ici will be held at the University of Ottawa from May 22 to May 25 2008. This conference provides the opportunity to researchers interested in the varieties of Canadian French to share the result of their research and discuss new perspectives and questions that arise from their works. The English version of this call follows Les Français d'ici Appel aux communications Date limite: 1er octobre 2007 Conférenciers invités: Sociolinguistique Hélène Blondeau (U. of Florida), Gillian Sankoff (U. of Pennsylvania) et Pierrette Thibault (U. de Montréal) Phonologie et lexique Jacques Durand (U. de Toulouse-Le Mirail), Marie-Hélène Côté (U. d'Ottawa) et Claude Poirier (U. Laval) Syntaxe Y. Roberge (U. de Toronto), S. Cummins (U. Laval) et M. Troberg (U. de Toronto) Acadie Ruth King (York University) et Terry Nadasdi (U. of Alberta) Perspectives pluridisciplinaires Yves Frenette (U. d'Ottawa), Ronald Labelle (U. de Moncton), Christine Nougaret (Centre Historique des Archives nationales) et François Paré (U. of Waterloo) Appel aux communications À l'occasion du Colloque Les Français d'ici qui se tiendra à l'Université d'Ottawa du 22 au 25 mai 2008, nous invitons toute personne intéressée à soumettre un résumé d'une page, plus la bibliographie, pour une présentation de 20 minutes, auxquelles s'ajouteront dix minutes de discussion. Le Colloque Les Français d'ici permet aux chercheur(e)s s'intéressant aux variétés de français canadien de partager le fruit de leurs recherches et de discuter des nouvelles perspectives ainsi que des questions qui émergent de leurs travaux. La langue du Colloque sera le français, néanmoins, les propositions de communication en anglais seront prises en considération par le comité de sélection. Les communications doivent être des contributions à la recherche dans le domaine linguistique (toutes disciplines confondues) portant sur le français du Canada ou des diasporas américaines. Les communications peuvent adopter une perspective synchronique ou diachronique. Les résumés doivent nous parvenir par courriel au plus tard le 1er octobre 2007 à l'adresse suivante: LFDI2008 uottawa.ca (Ce colloque est organisé dans le cadre des activités savantes du projet GTRC Modéliser le changement: les voies du français et en partenariat avec le Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française de l'Université d'Ottawa) Les Français d'ici Call for Papers Deadline: October 1st 2007 Invited speakers: Sociolinguistics Hélène Blondeau (U. of Florida), Gillian Sankoff (U. of Pennsylvania), and Pierrette Thibault (U. de Montréal) Phonology et lexicon Jacques Durand (U. de Toulouse-Le Mirail), Marie-Hélène Côté (U. of Ottawa), and Claude Poirier (U. Laval) Syntaxe Y. Roberge (U. of Toronto), S. Cummins (U. Laval), and M. Troberg (U. of Toronto) Acadie Ruth King (York University) andTerry Nadasdi (U. of Alberta) Multidisciplinary perspectives Yves Frenette (U. of Ottawa), Ronald Labelle (U. de Moncton), Christine Nougaret (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales), and François Paré (U. of Waterloo) Call for papers The upcoming Conference Les Français d'Ici will be held at the University of Ottawa from May 22 to May 25 2008. We invite all interested researchers to submit a one page-abstract, plus a bibliography, for a 20-minute presentation, followed by a 10-minute discussion. Les Français d'ici is a Conference that provides the opportunity to researchers interested in the varieties of Canadian French to share the result of their research and discuss new perspectives and questions that arise from their works. The conference will be conducted in French; however, abstracts submitted in English will be considered by the selection committee. Papers are supposed to original contributions to either theoretical or sociolinguistic research on the varieties of Canadian French (or the varieties of French spoken by the American Diaspora) from a synchronic or diachronic perspective. Abstracts must be sent by e.mail to the following address: LFDI2008 uottawa.ca The deadline for abstract submission is: October 1st 2007 (The Conference Les Français d'Ici is part of the scholarly activities held by the GTRC project: Modéliser le changement: les voies du français, in collaboration with the Center for Research on French Canadian Culture.
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