Current Issues in Comparative Syntax 2: Boundaries of Ellipsis Mismatch

Workshop Description

We are thrilled to announce that we are holding an international workshop entitled, “Current Issues in Comparative Syntax 2: Boundaries of Ellipsis Mismatch”, in a hybrid format (face-to-face and live via zoom) at Tsuda University, Kodaira Campus, in Tokyo, Japan.

We are going to invite a good mixture of emerging and established prominent researchers working on a wide variety of languages with different research strengths and profiles from diverse theoretical frameworks, both domestic and worldwide, to exchange our latest ideas on current topical issues surrounding ellipsis and ellipsis mismatch, including, but not limited to: a) the nature of identity conditions (syntactic, semantic, discourse, information structure or all of the above), b) operational mechanisms underlying various ellipsis phenomena (PF-deletion, LF-copying, pragmatic enrichment, or syntactic deletion), c) the diversity and uniformity of ellipsis construction types across typologically different languages, and d) the very origin of ellipsis and ellipsis mismatch in natural language syntax.

We would like to hold this workshop as an important international collaborative exercise to have a better wholistic understanding of such fundamental, big-picture questions like “What is really the nature of ellipsis?”, “What controls ellipsis?”, and “How much can we mismatch under ellipsis and why?”, questions which have remained poorly addressed in individual research on ellipsis, and to iron out current issues for future generations of ellipsists to work on.

Registration for the Tsuda Workshop

The organizers have expanded the workshop both in terms of the duration (from a two-day workshop to a three-day workshop) and in terms of the number of invited speakers (20 speakers in total). Unfortunately, however, due to the very limited space avaialble on Kodaira Campus in September 1-3 (when the time of the workshop coincides with the start of the third term of Tsuda University), we request that all participants of the workshop kindly join us only remotely through Zoom (to be sent out by email after you complete your registration below) except the domestic invited speakers.

We sincerely request your cooperation on this matter.

If you agree with this "online only policy" for attendees, please proceed and fill out your information below by August 31 (Thursday) 23:59:59 (JST) at the latest. You will receive Zoom information for the workshop after your online registration.

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