Constraining Linearization
The workshop is part of the annual meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) 2024, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (https://www.dgfs2024.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Workshop description:
One of the foundational issues in theoretical and typological linguistics concerns the status of linguistic universals in general and word order universals in particular. Much fruitful typological work since Greenberg (1963) has shown that there are strong word order restrictions which hold for large amounts of cross-linguistic data. Accordingly, a lot of formal linguistic research has been dedicated to the attempts of formulating various word order generalizations in terms of hierarchical relations rather than linear strings and deriving them from other principles of grammar. However, most of this research has targeted so far a number of separate subdomains with little interaction that would bridge between them. This workshop aims at improving that.
Somewhat more specifically, existing work on linearization restrictions has spanned both the verbal/clausal domain and the nominal domain. With respect to the former, it has focused on the linearization of core arguments in relation to the verb, as well as the positions of auxiliaries and particles, in the first place under the umbrella of the work on the “Final-over-Final Condition” (see Biberauer et al. 2014, Sheehan et al. 2017 and references therein). In the nominal domain, relevant research has concentrated on the positions of adnominal elements, i.e. determiners, numerals, and attributive adjectives, in relation to the noun, in particular on the patterns observed in Greenberg's “Universal 20” (see Cinque 2005, Abels & Neeleman 2012, a.o.). Furthermore, linearization constraints applying to modification structures have also been addressed, in particular in the work on the “Head-Final Filter” (see Sheehan 2017, Alexeyenko & Zeijlstra 2021, a.o.).
However, the research approaches in linearization, such as the ones mentioned above, have been developed to a major extent independently of each other. To increase cross-fertilization between such approaches, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in these different domains, with the ultimate goal of addressing the question to which extent various linearization constraints can be brought to a common core. We are especially interested in contributions that discuss novel empirical facts and/or theoretical approaches to constraints on linearization applying to individual domains and in particular bridging between domains. Questions that we particularly welcome include, but are not restricted to, the following ones:
What are the similarities and the differences between the linearization constraints in the verbal/clausal and the nominal domains and what are they conditioned by?
Can linearization restrictions that hold for modification structures (HFF) and complementation structures (FOFC) be unified analytically, given some obvious similarities between them?
To which extent are some of the observed linearization constraints actually constraints on relinearization, i.e. are restrictions on movement-derived rather than base-generated word orders?
Does linearization follow universal principles and are there (superficial?) exceptions to these principles? How should such exceptions be accounted for?
At which level of representation do linearization contraints apply and how should the interfaces, e.g. information structure, be modeled in order to capture the array of possibilities?
To which extent do different types of languages (tone vs. intonation languages, isolating vs. synthetic languages etc.) show different linearization possibilities?
Invited speakers:
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)
Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
Program:
Mittwoch / Wednesday, 28.02.2024
13:45-14:15 Sascha Alexeyenko (Universität Göttingen) & Katharina Hartmann (Universität Frankfurt)
Introduction
14:15-14:45 Andrew Murphy (Universität Potsdam)
Linearizing remnant movement in a multidominant syntax: Challenges and consequences
14:45-15:15 Nicholas Catasso (Universität Wuppertal)
Multiple fronting does not exist in German (but crowded CPs do): cyclic relinearization and multiple base-generation in the left edge of the clause
15:15-15:45 Molly Rolf and David Diem (Universität Konstanz)
Constrained by FOFC: a shift back to head-finality in Alemannic verb clusters
15:45-16:30 PAUSE / BREAK
16:30-17:00 Alicia Katharina Börner, Simon Masloch and Tibor Kiss (Universität Bochum)
An integrative constraint-based account of constituent linearisation in the German midfield
17:00-18:00 Invited talk: Michelle Shehan (Newcastle University)
Clitic placement in European Portuguese as an anti-V2 requirement
Donnerstag / Thursday, 29.02.2024
09:00-09:30 Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
An OT Approach to Linearization and FOFC Effects
09:30-10:00 Johannes Mursell and Anke Himmelreich (Universität Frankfurt)
Information-structural constraints on linearization in the DP
10:00-10:30 Molly Rolf (Universität Konstanz)
Applying FOFC to the nominal domain: case and adposition typology
10:30-11:15 PAUSE / BREAK
11:15-11:45 Gerrit Kentner (Universität Frankfurt)
Functional head : Lexical argument :: Vowel : Consonant
11:45-12:15 Philipp Weisser (Universität Leipzig)
A typology of shifting coordinators and its implications for theories of clitics
12:15-12:45 Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University), Jiro Inaba (Tokyo University) & Yasutomo Kuwana (Asahikawa Medical University)
A prosodic constraint on the head-complement linearization
12:45-13:45 MITTAGSPAUSE / LUNCH BREAK
13:45-14:45 Invited talk: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)
FOFC and FOFC-type effects: implications for linearization
Freitag / Friday, 01.03.2024
11:45-12:15 Sören Eggert Tebay (Universität Leipzig)
Prosodic domains and (re-)linearization in Indonesian nominalizing circumfixes
12:15-12:45 Daniel Aremu (Universität Frankfurt)
Focus marking in Ìkálè and the Final-over-Final Constraint
12:45-13:15 Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung Cheng University)
Modification Markers and Meaningless Movement
13:15-13:45 Emanuele Bernardi (Università di Verona)
Roberts’s (2017) parallels between clausal and nominal domains revisited
13:45-14:15 Chenyuan Deng and Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Generalizing linearization: marking instead of projecting. An attempt in the nominal domain of Mandarin Chinese
Abstract submission:
Abstracts should be one page long, including examples and references.
Font should be 12 points.
Abstracts should be submitted to Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=conlinag8
Submission deadline: Aug 10th, 2023
Notification: Sept 1st, 2023
