New Horizons in the Grammar of Raising and Control
Date: July 8-10, 2005
Time:
Friday, 6pm-8:15pm
Satruday, 8:30am-6:30pm
Sunday, 8:30am-12:30pm
Location: Harvard, Emerson 101

New Horizons in the Grammar of Raising and Control, supported by a National Science Foundation grant, is a project consisting of a three-hour panel at the January 2005 Linguistic Society of America annual meeting in San Francisco , and a workshop at the July 2005 LSA Linguistic Institute at Harvard/MIT. The topic of these meetings is the analysis of two grammatical constructions, Raising and Control, which have been central to the development of linguistic theory over the past 40 years. The aim of the January 2005 panel is to articulate a common set of research questions and formulate a range of possible hypotheses which to be addressed at the July 2005 workshop. Issues addressed at the January panel will include (i) the scope and limitations of movement accounts (covert and overt) in accounting for these constructions, (ii) the role of semantics and syntax, respectively, in the articulation of adequate analyses, (iii) the syntactic and semantic properties of relevant null categories, and (iv) the cross-linguistic typology of these constructions (e.g. forward and backward Raising and Control). Workshop participants will be asked to address these and other relevant issues, and are invited to bring new empirical data, especially from understudied languages, into focus. Participation will be sought both from among theoretical linguists and from linguists whose research interests lie in the interdisciplinary areas of language acquisition, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and language variation, and neurolinguistics.

Organizers:
William D. Davies (U of Iowa ) and Stanley Dubinsky (U of South Carolina )

Contact:
Stanley Dubinsky
Linguistics Program
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

e-mail: dubinsky@sc.edu
Phone: 803-777-2063
Fax:   803-777-9064
web: http://www.cas.sc.edu/ling/grc/

Invited Speakers
Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University) & Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland)
Maria Polinsky (University of California, San Diego) & Eric Potsdam (University of Florida)
Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut)

Deadline for abstract submission:
March 1, 2005
Call for Proposals