Workshop 1

Setting up the stage

November 27 - December 1, 2017

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How

Each meeting is divided into three or four parts with breaks in between. Workshop participants are strongly encouraged to ask questions and make suggestions in any of these parts at any time.

Paper Section Overviews:

  • We called some of the parts Sections (in bold and with * in the schedule below)
  • Sections are overviews of the main topics about headless relatives and related constructions that each forthcoming paper should touch on.
  • The labels and order of these Sections coincide with the expected structure of the forthcoming papers.
  • The Sections will be conducted by one of the 6 instructors listed below.
  • Some of you may already be familiar with some of the covered topics, if you have attended previous related workshops. Use this opportunity to refresh your memories and help those who are not familiar with the topics to better understand them.

Tutorials:

  • Three parts are tutorials focusing on topics that are relevant to better develop the investigations for our project, although these topics will not appear as independent sections in the forthcoming papers.

Participants' presentations:

  • Four parts are dedicated to participants' presentations.
  • Participants are encouraged to apply the topics that have already been reviewed and discussed in the workshop based on whatever relevant data they already have available.
  • Presentations should be supported by handouts or slides
  • Presenters can use Spanish or English for their presentation and/or handouts or slides.
  • Students are strongly encouraged to present and will be given precedence.

Individual meetings

  • Workshop participants are encouraged to discuss specific issues with individual instructors during the breaks or at the end of each day or during the "individual meeting time" on Friday afternoon

Readings

  • Readings have been selected to directly support the topics under discussion.
  • We recommend the participants to do the readings ahead.
  • Questions, comments, and criticism about the readings are strongly encouraged during the workshop.
  • The readings marked with a * require an ID and a password to be accessed. Email Ivano [click here] if you have not received the necessary ID and password.

WHICH language

The instructors will lecture, write handouts, and interact in English or Spanish.

Participants who are comfortable enough with English are encouraged to use it to give presentation or write their handouts in English; those who feel less comfortable can use Spanish.

When

November 27 - December 1,

9 am - 5 pm

Where

CIESAS Sureste

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas

Who

Instructors

Judith Aissen, Scott AnderBois, Ivano Caponigro, Jessica Coon, Harold Torrence, Roberto Zavala

[see above for details and contact info for each of them]


Dates

DATES

TOPICS

  • structured like the paper template [pdf, Word] that participants are asked to follow
  • the headings with # coincide with sections of the paper template

READINGS & HANDOUTS

  • material preceded by * is protected; an ID and a password are required to access it
  • e-mail Ivano if you haven't received one [click here]

DAY 1 - Monday 11/27

8:30-9

Breakfast

Part 1

9-10:30

Introduction 

by Roberto + Ivano + Harold
  • Intro to the project:
    • goals and expectations
    • organization
    • timeline
  • Intro to project participants:
    • Each project participant will be asked to introduce themselves, the language(s) they are working on, and the specific (phono-morpho-syntactic-semantic-etc) interests they have
    • up to 3 mins for each participant
    • Presentations can be given in Spanish, if presenters are not comfortable enough with English
    • It would be great if each participant could summarize the main points of their intro on 1 page to send by email or give on paper to Harold and Ivano, so that Ivano and Harold can have a handy overview of the workshop participants, their competences, and their interests.


10:30-11

Coffee Break

Part 2

11-1:30

# Section 1. Language basic features 

by Jessica
  • Basic word order
  • Noun Phrases and modifiers
  • Articles, demonstratives, and quantifiers
  • Argument-Verb agreement
  • Tense marking
  • Declarative clauses: main vs. embedded
  • Clausal nominalization

READINGS & HANDOUTS

TWO EXAMPLES FROM ACTUAL PAPERS:

1:30-3

Lunch (provided)

Part 3

3-5

# Section 2. Overview on Interrogative Clauses 

by Judith
  • wh-/constituent interrogatives vs. yes-no/polar interrogatives
  • full inventory of wh-words
  • matrix vs. embedded wh-interrogatives
  • multiple wh-interrogatives
  • wh-movement

READINGS & HANDOUTS

DAY 2 - Tuesday 11/28

8:30-9

Breakfast

Part 1

9-10:30

# Section 3. Overview on Headed Relative Clauses

by Harold
  • Externally headed relatives
    • relative markers
    • preceding or following the head?
    • other morpho-syntactic properties
    • appositive vs. restrictive
  • Internally headed relatives
    • relative markers
    • other morpho-syntactic properties
  • Correlatives
    • position with respect to the matrix clause
    • markers
    • other morpho-syntactic properties

10:30-11

Coffee Break

Part 2

11-1:30

TUTORIAL 1

by Jessica
  • How to distinguish between relative clauses and other nominal modifiers

READINGS & HANDOUTS

OPTIONAL

Part 3

12:30 -1:30

Participants' presentations 1

  • Chivis: wh-interrogatives and headed relatives in Zoque de San Miguel Chimalapa
  • Lucero: wh-interrogatives and headed relatives in Tlaxcala Nahuatl


1:30-3

Lunch (provided)

Part 4

3-5

# Section 4.

Introduction to Headless Relatives

by Ivano
  • Headless realtives with wh-words: Free Relatives (wh-words)
  • Light-headed relatives (D-elements)
  • Headless relatives without wh-words (no wh-words nor D-elements)




Section 4.1.

Headless Relatives with wh-words: Free Relatives 

by Ivano


# 4.1.1.

Maximal Free Relatives (Max-FRs) 

by Ivano
  • morpho-syntactic properties
  • semantic properties

READINGS & HANDOUTS

Section 4


Section 4.1.


Section 4.1.1

OPTIONAL:

DAY 3 - Wednesday 11/29

8:30-9

Breakfast

Part 1

9-10:30

Section 4.1. Headless Relatives with wh-words: Free Relatives (contd)

# 4.1.2. Existential Free Relatives (Ex-FRs)

by Judith
  • morpho-syntactic properties
  • semantic properties
  • matrix predicates introducing them

10:30-11

Coffee Break

Part 2

11-1:30

Section 4.1. Headless Relatives with wh-words: Free Relatives (contd)

# 4.1.3. Free Choice Free Relatives (FC-FRs)

by Scott
  • morpho-syntactic properties
  • semantic properties
  • position with respect to the matrix clause (within the matrix clause or as a dislocated free adjunct clause)

READINGS & HANDOUTS

OPTIONAL:

1:30-3

Lunch (provided)

Part 3

3-5

TUTORIAL 2 

by Scott
  • How to distinguish between definites, indefinites, and free choice

DAY 4 - Thursday 11/30

8:30-9

Breakfast

Part 1

9-10:15

Section 4.2. Light-Headed Relatives (LHRs)

by Harold
  • Introduced by articles
  • Introduced by demonstratives
  • Introduced by quantifiers


Section 4.3. Headless relatives without wh-words 

by Harold

10:15-10:45

Coffee Break

Part 2

10:45-1:30

Participants' presentations 2

  • 10:45-11:10: Paf
  • 11:10-11:35: Oscar
  • 11:35-12: Valentín

BREAK (12-12:15)

  • 12:15-12:40: Nestor
  • 12:40-12:05: Toño
  • 1:05-1:30:: Leonardo


1:30-3

Lunch (provided)

Part 3

3-5

PAPER TEMPLATE: group discussion

We discuss the paper template together, section by section, in order to fully agree on its format and content in light of the discussion so far.


DAY 5 - Friday 12/1

8:30-9

Breakfast

Part 1

9-10:30

Participants' presentations 3

  • 9-9:25: J. Jesús
  • 9:50-10:15: Telma
  • 10:15-10:40: José


10:15-10:45

Coffee Break

Part 2

10:45-1:30

Participants' presentations 4

  • 11-11:25: G. Polian
  • 11:25-11:50: Adela
  • 11:50-12:15: Wendy

BREAK (12:15-12:30 )

  • 12:30-12:55: Roman
  • 12:55-1:20: Chivis


1:30-3

Lunch (provided)

Part 3

10:45-1:30

Participants' presentations 5

  • 3-3:25: Godo
  • 3:25-3:50: Gaby
  • 3:50-4:15: Lucero


4:15-4:30

Conclusions

  • Future plans by Ivano, Harold and Roberto
  • Individual meetings


From 7 pm on

FINAL PARTY at Roberto's





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