CALL FOR PAPERS
The 9th Seoul International Conference On Generative Grammar
Dongguk University, Seoul (or Kwangwoon University, Seoul)
August 8(Wed) - 11(Sat), 2007
Co-hosted by the Korean Generative Grammar Circle and Dongguk University, Seoul
Invited
Speaker: Marcel den Dikken (CUNY)
Theme
of General
Session: Locality and Minimalism
2007
While we
especially encourage submissions touching on the theme of the general session
specified above, equal consideration will be give to papers from all areas of
generative grammar, which may include syntactic theory, syntax-semantics
interface, syntax-morphology interface, syntax-phonology interface, syntactic
acquisition, and others. The conference will consist of the general session, the
two additional workshops, and a series of lectures from the invited speaker.
The themes of the two additional workshops planned will be described below.
Abstracts
will be reviewed by readers, and authors will be notified by
All the
information about the conference is available on our website http://www.kggc.org.
Participants are asked to check this web page to keep up to date regarding
possible alterations and changes. Additional
questions concerning the conference can be answered by sending to
Workshop 1: Syntax-Phonology Interface
Recent
developments in minimalism have stimulated vigorous debates on the division of
labor between syntax and phonology. The focus of research has been put on a
number of issues (although it is not limited to): (i) how much and what types
of syntactic information are accessible to the phonology, (ii) what principles
govern the linear organization of syntactic constituents, (iii) isomorphism (or
non-isomorphism) between syntactic and prosodic boundaries/islands, (iv) constraints
on chain pronunciation and ellipsis, (v) possibilities of PF-movement and the
relevant conditions, and (vi) relations between focus and phrasal
stress/information structure, etc. In many areas related to such issues,
however, it is still quite controversial whether a particular linguistic
phenomenon is an effect of narrow-syntactic computation or an effect of PF
mechanisms or a consequence of the interaction of manifold syntactic and
phonological peculiarities. Also, even among the accounts of a phenomenon in
terms of PF properties, controversies remain to be resolved over the workings
of the PF interface system itself. Given that properties of interface systems
have far-reaching consequences for our view of UG, a broad array of issues and
problems that have been raised in recent years from an interdisciplinary point
of view bear some scrutiny and assessment at the current course of theoretical
developments.
Among
the overall interface issues, this workshop aims to discuss issues on the
interaction between syntax and phonology, particularly the issues connected to
the ones mentioned above; but we also hope to extend the range of possible
topics to experimental findings on the syntax-phonology interface issues in the
applied linguistics field.
Workshop
2: Light Verbs and Verbal Nouns
We
invite papers on theoretical and cross-linguistic approaches to the nature of
light verbs and/or verbal nouns. Light verb refers to a thematically incomplete
category which usually forms a complex predicate with theta-assigning
categories: in Korean and Japanese (and many other languages), verbal nouns
usually co-occur with the light verbs.
The
workshop may raise some of the following questions:
(A)
On the status of light verbs:
(B)
On the nature of verbal nouns:
We
also welcome diverse perspectives on these issues in relation to recent
developments in minimalist program: for example, the role of v and
VP-shell, copula, relators/linkers, gerunds, derived nominals, to list a few.