Call for Papers
for the Workshop on
Information Structure and the Architecture of Grammar:
SFB 441,
University of Tübingen, February 1st and 2nd 2004
The research groups SFB441-B13 at the University of
Tübingen and ZAS-Berlin are organizing a workshop on Information Structure and the Architecture of Grammar (ISAG). The
workshop will take place on the first two days in February 2004 at the
University of Tübingen.
The ISAG-Workshop follows the International Tübinger
Conference on "Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, Computational
Perspectives" also to be held at the University of Tübingen.
Call for Papers:
Most linguists working in the generative framework today will agree that the information structure, focus and intonation of a particular construction or phenomenon can only be adequately discussed with reference to a specific theoretical framework, or model of grammar. However, they will disagree on exactly how this grammatical model must be conceptualized in order to derive the relevant syntactic form with the appropriate intonation and the intended semantic and pragmatic meaning.
The goal of this
workshop is to bring together researchers embracing different theories of
information structure and focus with the aim of fruitfully discussing models of
information structure. However, since models must be tested against linguistic
evidence, the workshop is interested in drawing from crosslinguistic and
typological studies of information structure and focus.
The workshop includes -
but is not limited to - the following topics:
Ø
Syntactic,
semantic, pragmatic and phonological approaches to information structure and
the theory of grammar from a typological perspective;
Ø
Typological and
crosslinguistic evidence for different notions of focus (contrastive vs.
presentational), topic (contrastive vs. noncontrastive), presupposition,
contrast, and dichotomies such as given vs. new, theme vs. rheme, topic vs.
comment, background vs. focus;
Ø
Syntax, semantics
and information structure of question-answer pairs, fragments and ellipsis;
Ø
Derivation and
intonation of displaced and in situ
constituents; i.e. topic and focus movement and their trigger in grammar;
Ø
Information
Structure and the syntax-discourse interface;
Ø
Syntax and
semantics of focus particles, negation and affirmation;
Interaction of focus and negation, affirmation, quantification, sentence mood and modality;
Ø
Sentence mood and
focus;
Ø
The phonology of
intonation and its interpretation in the theory of grammar;
Ø
Markers of focus/topic,
deaccentuation, and ellipsis from a typological perspective.
The workshop will be of
interest to all linguists who are working on the syntax-semantics-phonology
interface and its modeling in the theory of grammar.
Deadline: September 1st 2003
Abstracts should be at most two pages long, 12 point
font, one inch margins.
Abstracts must be sent in electronic form, PDF or MS
Word only,
to: susanne.winkler@T-online.de
and:
Schwabe@zas.gwz-berlin.de.
(Subject:
"ISAG")
SFB441:
Universität
Tübingen
Nauklerstraße
35
72074
Tübingen
ZAS:
Dr.
Kerstin Schwabe
Zentrum
für Allgmeine Sprachwissenschaften
Jägerstr.
10/11
D-10117
Berlin