The Workshop

This one day workshop, both theoretical and empirical in its scope, aims to bring together a group of leading syntacticians in order to take stock of current approaches to movement in generative syntax. Some contemporary issues in the field concern questions such as:

1. What is the derivational locus of head movement: the narrow syntax, PF, or indeed both?

2. What, if any, effect does head movement have on semantic interpretation? (See Lechner 2005 and Roberts 2010 in support of effects on interpretation)

3. What is the nature of movement and phases, e.g. feature inheritance (Chomsky 2005, 2008; Richards 2007, among others) and phase-head-driven movement (Biberauer & Roberts 2010) Vs phase extension (Den Dikken 2006, 2007 et seq, among others)

4. What are the mechanisms of linearisation in syntax and what do these mechanisms look like?

In response to the last question, various approaches have been developed all making various claims about movement:

• Head movement as a narrow syntactic operation deriving from agree, where a goal is defective (Roberts 2010)
• The availability of an extra operation in the syntax 'Removal', (Müller 2016) the mirror image of merge.
• Remnant movements (Thiersch 1985, Den Besten & Webelhuth 1987, among many others)
• Using (remnant) movement to derive correct word orders in antisymmetric accounts adhering the Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA) (Kayne 1994, 1998; Koopman 2000, Haegeman 2001, among others)
• Multiple Phrasal movement via roll-up movement (Kayne 1994, Cinque 2004, 2005 et seq, among others)

This workshop hopes to shed light on the latest developments in some of the various approaches named above, and to see where we are in terms of not only the limited set of aforementioned theoretical questions but also for other theoretical and empirical issues.

Speakers:

Prof.Dr. Liliane Haegeman (University of Ghent)

Prof. Hilda Koopman (UCLA)

Prof. Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)

Prof. Winfried Lechner (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Prof.Dr. Gereon Müller (Universität Leipzig)

Prof. Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)

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Workshop Location

Room: 2070a,

Address: Unter den Linden 6 (Hauptgebäude, HU-Berlin), Berlin, 10099

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Organizers:

Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Benjamin Lowell Sluckin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

For any enquiries please email b.lowell.sluckin(at)hu-berlin.de

RUESHel (Research Unit in Experimental Syntax and Heritage Languages)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2014 awarded to Prof.Dr. Artemis Alexiadou: AL554/8-1