Workshop: Clause Typing and the Syntax-to-Discourse Relation in Head-Final Languages

This workshop on Clause Typing and the Syntax-to-Discourse Relation in Head-Final Languages hosted by the DFG-funded research project Clause Structure and Utterance Meaning: Word Order, Particles, Emphasis, aims at bringing together linguists who work on head-final languages with a focus on the upper clausal periphery and formal aspects of at-issue and non at-issue meaning.

Aside from the invited speakers, there will be room for a maximum of 14 papers of 30 minutes to be presented. Abstracts should be maximally 2 pages long. The submission deadline is 30 November 2017.

Please submit your papers via EasyChair using the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hfl2018

Workshop website: <a href=”https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/fachbereich/aktuelles-und-termine/clause-typing-and-the-syntax-to-discourse-relation-in-head-final-languages-workshop/&#8221; target=”_blank”>https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/fachbereich/aktuelles-und-termine/clause-typing-and-the-syntax-to-discourse-relation-in-head-final-languages-workshop/</a&gt;

Date and Venue

15-17 May, 2018
Schloss Freudental, 78476 Allensbach-Freudental (near Konstanz), Germany

Invited Speakers

  • Diti Bhadra (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
  • Probal Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
  • Yoshio Endo (Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba)
  • Masayuki Oishi (Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai)
  • Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Josef Bayer (University of Konstanz)
Yvonne Viesel (University of Konstanz)