The 45th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, IGG45, will take place on February 21-23, 2019 at the Università degli Studi di Padova.

As in any past editions of IGG, we welcome abstracts on any topic and from any field of generative grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics) with a theoretical and/or experimental setting.

Invited Speakers:

Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University)

Luigi Rizzi (Université de Genève/Università di Siena)

Guglielmo Cinque (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

TEAM goes to IGG45

This year, the main IGG event will be preceded by the Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation workshop, to be held on February, 21 2019.
TEAM aims to connect scholars working on Microvariation in different linguistic domains combining empirical and theoretical perspectives. Thus, we invite papers from all linguistic families provided they formally analyze minimally homogeneous linguistic areas.

Invited Speaker:

Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)

‘Marica de Vincenzi’ Award

As in previous editions of IGG, the Fondazione Marica De Vincenzi ONLUS will offer an award of € 500 to the best paper selected and presented at the IGG45 by an Italian researcher without a tenure-track position.

Eligible candidates must be of Italian nationality (but can reside anywhere), and must be first authors of a paper accepted and presented at IGG45.

All interested parties meeting the requirements are requested to specify their intention to compete for the award) by sending an email to the conference address by 1 February 2019 providing an additional text describing their research (maximum 2 pages, same format as for the IGG abstract).

Important dates:

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: December 1, 2018
Notification of acceptance: No later than January 21, 2019
Conference: February 21-23, 2019

Call for Papers:

Abstracts for both the General Session and the Workshop should be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igg45

Abstracts should not exceed two pages in length, 12-point type, Times New Roman, single line spacing, 2.5cm (1 inch) margins) including examples and tables.

Submissions must be anonymous and are limited for the whole conference including the workshop to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author or two joint abstracts per author.

Please indicate whether your abstract should be considered for the Main Session or for the Workshop. Please indicate also if your submission should be considered for presentation, poster or both.

The official language of the conference will be English.

Call deadline: 01 December 2018