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

*Handout on language basic features [Jessica]

TWO EXAMPLES FROM ACTUAL PAPERS:

Caponigro, Torrence, Cisneros, Free relative clauses in two Mixtec languages, pp. 1-16
*Torrence, Duncan, Mateo Pedro, Non-interrogative wh-constructions in Kaqchikel, pp. 1-15

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

*Handout on interrogative clauses [Judith]
*Siemund, Interrogative constructions, especially section 5 (pp. 1018-1026) on constituent interrogatives
*Baker, Notes on the description of English questions, especially section III (pp. 124-126) on differences between indirect questions and free relatives
*Matthewson, On the methodology of semantic field work

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

READINGS & HANDOUTS

*Handout on headed relatives [Harold]
Mark de Vries, The syntax of relativization, pp. 13-23, 49-62
Aldridge, Internally and externally headed relative clauses in Tagalog
Boyle, The syntax and semantics of internally headed relative clauses in Hidatsa
Liptak (ed.), Correlatives Cross-linguistically
Citko, What don’t wh-questions, correlatives, and free relatives have in common

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

*Handout for Tutorial 1 (slightly revised on 29/11/2017) [Jessica]

OPTIONAL

*Martínez Cruz, Los adjetivos y conceptos de propiedad en chol
*De la Cruz Morales, Construciones con predicados seriales en zoque de Ocotepec, Section 2.3.2
*Toosarvandani, Two types of deverbal nominalization in Northern Paiute

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

*Handout on Headless Relatives [Ivano]
Gutiérrez Bravo, Relative clauses in Yucatec Maya: Light heads vs. null domains
*Citko, On Headed, Headless, and Light-Headed Relatives
Caponigro, Free Not to Ask, pp. 38-44
Caponigro & Polinsky, Relative embeddings: A Circassian puzzle for the syntax/sermantic interface

Section 4.1.

*Handout on Free Relatives [Ivano]
Ivano's questionnaire to collect data about FRs [pdf] [word]

Section 4.1.1

*Handout on Maximal Free Relatives [Ivano]
Caponigro, Torrence, Cisneros, Free relative clauses in two Mixtec languages, pp. 16-26
*Torrence, Duncan, Mateo Pedro, Non-interrogative wh-constructions in Kaqchikel, pp. 15-31
Gutierrez-Bravo, Free relative clauses in Yucatec Maya
*Plann, Relative clauses in Spanish without overt antecedent, Ch. 3 pp. 110-122

OPTIONAL:

*van Riemsdijk , Free Relatives

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

READINGS & HANDOUTS

*Handout on Existential Free Relatives [Judith]
Caponigro, Free Not to Ask, pp. 82-101
Kotek & Erlewine, Unifying definite and indefinite free relatives: Evidence from Mayan
Simik, Modal existential wh-constructions, pp. 21-90
*Plann, Relative clauses in Spanish without overt antecedent, Ch. 3 pp. 123-136, Ch. 4, Ch. 5

OPTIONAL

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

*Handout on Free Choice Free Relatives [Scott]
*Tredinnick, On the semantics of Free Relatives with -ever, Ch. 1 pp. 1-23
Caponigro & Falaus, Free Choice Free Relatives

OPTIONAL:

AnderBois, Unconditonal in Yucatec Mayan
von Fintel, Whatever

1:30-3

Lunch (provided)

Part 3

3-5

TUTORIAL 2

by Scott

How to distinguish between definites, indefinites, and free choice

READINGS & HANDOUTS

*Handout for Tutorial 2 [Scott]
*Schwarz, Two kinds of definites cross-linguistically
OPTIONAL: *Rawlins, Indifferrence and scalar inferences in free relatives

OPTIONAL BACKGROUND READINGS

*Matthewson, On the methodology of semantic fieldwork
von Fintel & Heim, Intensional Semantics

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

READINGS & HANDOUTS

*Handout on Light-headed Relatives and Headless Relatives without wh-words [Harold]

Section 4.2

*Citko, On Headed, Headless, and Light-Headed Relatives
Gutiérrez-Bravo, Relative clauses in Yucatec Maya: Light heads vs. null domains
*Plann, Relative clauses in Spanish without overt antecedent, Ch. 1 and Ch 2

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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