LINGUIST List 24.1285
Fri Mar 15 2013
Calls: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Phonology, Historical Ling/USA
Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee
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Date: 14-Mar-2013
From: Ed Cormany <esc53
cornell.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Interfaces at the Left Periphery
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Full Title: Workshop on Interfaces at the Left Periphery
Date: 13-Jul-2013 - 14-Jul-2013
Location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Contact Person: Ed Cormany
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/LSAinterfaces/
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax
Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2013
Meeting Description:
Since Rizzi’s (1997) original syntactic exploration of the sentential left periphery, the complexity of the domain at a clause’s edge has received attention from linguists studying syntax, semantics and prosody. However, study of the cross-linguistic variety in clause boundaries, clause typing, and the information-structural use of peripheral positions has only scratched the surface.
Topics that the workshop will cover include but are not limited to: clause typing, complementation, discourse constraints on argument structure, information structure, and word order change as they pertain to the left periphery, sentence-initial positions, and the CP domain.
The workshop organizers are accepting two types of submissions: for individual participants or full panels.
Call for Participation:
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together linguists working on the ‘left edge’ of the sentence from a variety of theoretical backgrounds. We hope to facilitate dialogue between discourse theorists, semanticists, syntacticians, phonologists, and phoneticians to come to a better understanding of what is going on just above (syntactically) or just before (phonologically) the traditional IP domain.
We invite applications for individual participants in three scheduled panels:
Clause types and the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface
Discourse properties of the left periphery
Clause boundaries and peripheries from a diachronic perspective
Applications should consist of a brief (200 word) description of what you would contribute to discussion on the panel’s topic, and your relevant research.
Submission deadline: April 1 (extended from March 15)
Submissions should be sent as PDF attachments to esc53
cornell.edu. Please include ‘Interfaces Workshop’ in the subject of your message.
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