LINGUIST List 20.487: General Ling/United Kingdom; Syntax/Hungary

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LINGUIST List 20.487
Mon Feb 16 2009 Calls: General Ling/United Kingdom; Syntax/Hungary Editor for this issue: Kate Wu <katelinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Filippo Nereo, European Minorities in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective 2. Balazs Suranyi, Workshop on Head Movement and Locality Message 1: European Minorities in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
Date: 15-Feb-2009 From: Filippo Nereo <jeanmonnetmanchester.ac.uk> Subject: European Minorities in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: European Minorities in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective Short Title: EM Date: 26-Jun-2009 - 26-Jun-2009 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Filippo Nereo Meeting Email: jeanmonnetmanchester.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/jeanmonnet/em.htm Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2009 Meeting Description: The Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) has recently been awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council funds to intensify its PhD training provision. As part of its commitment to postgraduate learning and training, the Centre is organising on 26 June 2009 a PhD conference on the topic of European Minorities in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. Call for Papers PhD Conference on European Minorities in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective PhD students researching European minority groups from any disciplinary angle (e.g. linguistics, law, history, education, cultural studies) are invited to submit an abstract for the conference. Students from JMCE-affiliated universities are particularly encouraged to submit an abstract. Questions to be addressed at the conference could include (but are not limited to): - What role have minority languages played in state-building? - What legal provisions are there for minorities and what changes are being lobbied, why, and by whom? - How do minority-related issues hamper progress in countries with aspirations to join the EU (cf. Kurds in Turkey)? - How do we address issues related to 'transnational minorities' such as Roma, and what educational and legal provisions are there, or are there planned, for these linguistic minority groups? - What support for, and resistance to, linguistic minorities is there within European space and why? - What transformations are anticipated in the field for the second decade of the 20th century? A number of high-profile guest speakers will give plenary talks including Professor Patrick Stevenson (Southampton) and Professor Dieter Halwachs (Graz). Message 2: Workshop on Head Movement and Locality
Date: 15-Feb-2009 From: Balazs Suranyi <suranyinytud.hu> Subject: Workshop on Head Movement and Locality E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Workshop on Head Movement and Locality Short Title: HML Date: 28-Aug-2009 - 28-Aug-2009 Location: Budapest, Hungary Contact Person: Balazs Suranyi Meeting Email: masl09yahoo.com Web Site: http://ny01.nytud.hu/~suranyi/masl Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2009 Meeting Description: This Workshop on Head Movement and Locality is organized as part of the Conference on Minimalist Approaches to Syntactic Locality, to be held in Budapest on 26-28th August 2009. Call for Papers Invited speakers of the MASL conference: Adriana Belletti (Siena) Cedric Boeckx (Harvard>Barcelona) (t.b.c.) Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati (Milano & Roma) Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) Gisbert Fanselow (Potsdam) Gereon Müller (Leipzig) Norvin Richards (MIT) Eric Reuland (Utrecht) Luigi Rizzi (Siena) Head Movement, a syntactic transformation affecting head-level syntactic elements, figured prominently in much of the research carried out within the frame of GB theory as well as within early minimalism. The restrictive character of the minimalist program, however, prompted a critical re-examination of this operation, which exhibits several features that make it appear different from other syntactic movements. Central among these properties is the nature of the locality that Head Movement appears to be characterized by. Various alternative approaches to head movement (HM) phenomena are currently being explored within the minimalist framework, some reducing it to phrasal movement, some others retaining Head Movement proper in narrow syntax, and again others treating it at the PF interface. These different approaches put intriguing new questions on the research agenda, and permit old ones to be formulated and addressed in novel ways. Of these issues, some outstanding ones directly pertaining to the conference theme of syntactic locality will be discussed at the workshop, to which abstracts are invited for 40-minute presentations (30'+10'). Possible questions for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following: How do genuine syntactic head movement, phrasal (remnant) movement, and PF accounts of 'head movement' phenomena fare in capturing their salient empirical properties, including the nature of their locality? What arguments can be found that strongly argue in favor of, or against, one of these accounts or another? How can the general strict locality of head movement, and any (possibly apparent) exceptions therefrom, be reduced to elementary properties of the grammar? What symmetries and asymmetries exist between HM and phrasal movement, and what do they derive from? How are the locality properties of HM related to its trigger? In what component of the grammar are 'affix lowering' phenomena to be treated? Does covert syntactic HM exist? How do 'head movements' and phrasal movements interact? Does HM affect (e.g., extend) local domains? If so, how? How is the 'Mirror Principle' generalization, and any (possibly apparent) exceptions therefrom, to be properly derived in lexicalist or in 'late lexical insertion' models? Are overt incorporation phenomena to be analyzed as syntactic head movement? How are they to be treated in lexicalist or in 'late lexical insertion' models? Deadline for Abstracts: 15 April 2009 Selected papers from the conference and workshop will be considered for peer-reviewed (book or special journal issue) publication. Authors of selected high quality abstracts that do not make it into an oral presentation will be invited to give their paper as a poster. Abstract Submission: An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract (to the main MASL conference session and to the workshop, taken together). Abstracts must be uploaded in pdf format through the interface accessible from the conference website. Abstracts should be anonymous, and at most two A4 pages (including data and references) in 12-point font with 1-inch margins all around. For the full details of abstract submission, and for further information, please visit: http://ny01.nytud.hu/~suranyi/masl Important Dates: Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2009 Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2009 Conference: 26-28 August 2009 Workshop: 28 August 2009 Organizers may be contacted at: masl09yahoo.com Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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