As part of the DFG-funded project ‘A General Theory of Multivaluation’, the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main will host a workshop ‘Agreement in Multi-valuation Constructions’ online on 19-20 May 2021. The project aims to investigate how agreement is determined when there is not a unique controller of agreement, and so the target of agreement obtains features from multiple sources.
Workshop website: https://pwsmith.github.io/multivaluation/workshop/
Invited Speakers:
- Barbara Citko (University of Washington)
- Paula Fenger (University of Connecticut/Harvard University)
- Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
- Franc Marušič (University of Nova Gorica)
- Alan Munn (Michigan State University)
- Jana Willer-Gold (University College London)
Important dates:
- Deadline for abstract submission: November 15, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: by Decemeber 23, 2020
- Workshop: May 19-20, 2021
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions for oral presentations (25 minute talk +10 minutes discussion) related to multivaluation constructions. Talks which investigate the following topics are particularly encouraged:
- Cross-linguistic differences in agreement patterns with disjoined and conjoined subjects, and the structure of coordinations.
- Cross-linguistic differences in agreement patterns in Right Node Raising and other constructions with multiple subjects.
- How feature conflicts in case of multivaluation are resolved (for instance ‘‘he or I {are/am/is} on the way’’) and effects of syncretism.
- Patterns of closest conjunct and highest conjunct agreement, and how they impact on the formulation of the mechanism of agreement.
- Agreement patterns related to the Agreement Hierarchy of Corbett (1979, et seq.), and how the Agreement Hierarchy can be modeled.
- Experimental work on agreement patterns in multivation constructions.
Submission guidelines:
Abstracts should be at most two pages long, including all data and references, on letter-size / A4 paper with 1-inch margins on all sides, and must be set in Times New Roman font of at least 11 points. Submissions are limited to at most one single-authored submission and at most one joint-authored submission per author.
Please submit anonymized abstracts electronically in PDF format through the EasyChair system by November 15, 2020.
Further information on the project can be found here.