Subject: Current Topics in Constraint-Based Theories of Germanic Syntax (2.CFP)
From: Detmar Meurers <dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:02:46 +0100 (MET)

Abstracts due: 15. February


                          ESSLLI-98 Workshop on

      CURRENT TOPICS IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES OF GERMANIC SYNTAX

                           August 17 - 21, 1998


                       A workshop held as part of the
        10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                               (ESSLLI-98)
                August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany


                        ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS **


ORGANIZERS: Tibor Kiss and Detmar Meurers (IBM Germany and Univ. Tuebingen)

Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html

BACKGROUND:
A number of approaches to Germanic languages (excluding English) have been
developed in constraint-based theories like HPSG and LFG.  Apart from the
issue of empirical adequacy, formal issues were raised, among them:

  - the nature of complex predicates and the mechanisms used to
    formalize them
  - linearization versus movement analyses of various phenomena
  - the nature of functional projections
  - configurational and non-configurational properties of scope
    determination

The idea of this workshop is to provide a forum to present and discuss
current approaches exploring such empirical and formal issues of the syntax
of Germanic languages (excluding English).  Focusing on Germanic rather
than on a particular syntactic theory is intended to allow for more
inter-framework discussion.

WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of five sessions, with two 30+10-minute
presentations in each session.

SUBMISSION:
All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are encouraged to submit an extended abstract of 2000-3000
words either as hardcopy or electronically (postscript only).

The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader.  If
sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to publish
them in an edited volume.

Submissions should be sent before 15. February 1998 to one of the following
two organizers:

  Tibor Kiss                        Detmar Meurers
  IBM Germany                       Universitaet Tuebingen
  Vangerowstr. 18                   Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
  D-69115 Heidelberg                Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113
  Germany                           D-72074 Tuebingen
                                    Germany

  tibor@heidelbg.ibm.com            dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

REGISTRATION:
Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they
will be eligible for a reduced registration fee.

IMPORTANT DATES:
        Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions
        Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance
        May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy
        Aug 17, 98: Start of workshop

FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98
home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli