[PLing] Call for Papers: ÖLT Workshop - Crossing boundaries: Empirical and theoretical aspects of A-dependencies in complementation

[Magdalena Lohninger]

Dear PLing members,

We would like to invite abstract submissions for the workshop "Crossing 
boundaries: Empirical and theoretical aspects of A-dependencies in 
complementation", which will take place online, on 10-12 December 2021, 
as part of the 46th Austrian Linguistics Conference (ÖLT: 
Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung). The workshop will comprise of 
20-minute talks with additional 10 minutes for discussion and a poster 
session including lightning talks and a subsequent discussion of the 
posters in breakout rooms.

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WORKSHOP WEBSITE: 
https://complementclausehierarchies.univie.ac.at/osterreichische-linguistik-tagung-2021/


SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th September 2021
- Submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/OELT_2021 or 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oelt2021


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions must be anonymous and are limited to 
two per author, including at most one single‐authored abstract. The body 
of the abstract, including data, tables, and diagrams, should not exceed 
two pages, and should be typeset in at least 11pt, with 1in/2.54cm 
margins, on A4 paper. References can be provided on an additional page.

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

The aim of this workshop is to explore the empirical landscape and the 
theoretical underpinnings of cross-clausal A-dependencies (CCAs) - 
relations such as Case assignment (e.g., ECM), (Long-distance) 
Agreement, Movement, Control, or head-dependencies, spanning a clause 
boundary in complementation configurations. We encourage submissions 
dealing with different aspects of CCAs, especially i) their 
cross-linguistic distribution, ii) the degree of transparency of 
different types of complement clauses, and, more generally, iii) the 
combinatorial mechanism underlying clausal complementation. Accordingly, 
the abstracts may address one or more of the following questions:

   -  Which languages allow which A-dependencies to reach into a 
complement clause, in particular a finite clause? What are the 
underlying reasons for the observed restrictions? How do CCAs resemble 
each other, and how do they differ with respect to their syntactic and 
semantic properties?
   -  Which size (vP, TP, CP, nP, DP) may the embedded clause have in 
order to be transparent for CCAs and why does this vary 
cross-linguistically? Why do some languages allow A-dependencies across 
finite CPs (Hyperraising, Hyper-ECM), while others do not? More 
generally, how does the understanding of the language-specific 
transparency of different types of complement clauses contribute to a 
broader typological understanding of the composition of complement 
clauses?
   -  Is it purely the selectional properties of the matrix verb that 
determine the size and the degree of transparency of the embedded 
clause, or is the complementation mechanism bi-directional, meaning that 
both the complement and the matrix predicate have (syntactic and 
semantic) requirements of some sort, and the only licit derivations are 
those in which all such requirements are satisfied?

Following a formal-typological approach, we are striving for a 
combination of broader typological and language-specific papers with 
more theoretical or formal ones. In order to see a larger picture of the 
possibilities and limitations of CCAs, we especially encourage 
submissions investigating languages outside the well-studied 
Indo-European family, as well as papers from both a syntactic and a 
semantic perspective, in particular those focusing on the 
syntax-semantics interface. We believe that such a combination is 
crucial not only for arriving at a comprehensive theory of CCAs and its 
language-specific implementations, but also for shedding new light on 
the inner workings of complementation and A-dependencies in general.

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Sincerely,
the ICH - Team (Iva Kovač, Susanne Wurmbrand & Magdalena Lohninger)