Flexible Syntax 2024

8-9 November 2024

University of Vienna, Institute of Linguistics

Workshop Venue: Hörsaal 1, 1st floor, Sensengasse 3a, 1090, Vienna

Organisers:
Marika Lekakou (Univerity of Ioannina)
Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (University of Vienna)
Rob Truswell (University of Edinburgh)

Keynote speakers

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Fatima Hamlaoui
University of Toronto

A flexible approach to the syntax-prosody interface

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Ad Neeleman
University College London

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joint work with Klaus Abels (UCL)

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Tali Siloni
Tel Aviv University

Agreement Asymmetries

joint work with Nofar Rimon (Harvard University)

FLEXIBLE SYNTAX 2024

PROGRAMME 

8-9 November 2024

University of Vienna, Institute of Linguistics

Organisers:
Marika Lekakou (Univerity of Ioannina)
Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (University of Vienna)
Rob Truswell (University of Edinburgh)

Workshop Venue: Hörsaal 1, 1st floor, Sensengasse 3a, 1090, Vienna

Friday, 8 November

8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION

9:00-10:10

Invited talk: Tali Siloni (Tel Aviv University)
Agreement Asymmetries

10:10-10:40

Marika Lekakou (University of Ioannina), Kriszta Eszter Szendröi (University of Vienna), Rob Truswell (University of Edinburgh):
Flexible Syntax 25 years on: an overview

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-11:45

Lena Borise (CNRS/University of the Basque Country), Andreas Pregla (University of Potsdam) Balázs Surányi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
Postverbal adverbs and PP-adverbials in flexibly verb-final languages: the challenges 

11:45-12:20

Hedde Zeiljstra (University of Gottingen)
The configurational matrix 2.0

12:20-12:55

Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge/ IUSS Pavia)
Against Input Generalisation

12:55-14:45

Lunch break

14:45-15:20

Irina Burukina (Eötvös Loránd University & Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics), Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna)
Multi-level datives and (in)flexible syntax

15:20-15:55

Tamás Halm (NYTUD, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
The (in)flexibilty of truncation: the rigid (?) syntax of minimal VPs in Hungarian and beyond

15:55-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:40

Invited talk: Ad Neeleman (University College London)
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Saturday, 9 November

10:00-11:10

Invited talk: Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University)
Pro drop and the morphological structure of inflection

11:10-11:40

Coffee break

11:40-12:15

Jan-Wouter Zwart & Marjolein Wietske Talsma (University of Groningen)
Top-down derivation as flexible syntax

12:15-12:50

Elena Titov (University College London)
Russian obligatory wh-fronting, pronouns and the wh-parameter

12:50-13:25

Klaus Abels (University College London)
Surface scope and inverse linking

13:25-15:00

Lunch break

15:00-15:35

Daniel Büring (University of Vienna)
Flexible Semantics

15:35-16:05

Coffee break

16:05-17:05

Round-table discussion

17:05-17:15

Closing statement

Registration

Call for Papers

A workshop will be held at the University of Vienna on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of Flexible Syntax (Neeleman and Weerman 1999), to evaluate the contributions of this distinctive minimalist theory of syntax.

Flexible Syntax shares with Minimalism (Chomsky 2005) and other generative theories the idea that the architecture of the grammar is modular, and that syntax is one of the modules. It subscribes to the idea that the atomic units in syntax are heads and features, and the only syntactic operations are Merge and a relation between unvalued and valued features, Agree. It maintains that word order patterns, regularities and constraints can be successfully derived from some key structural relations derived from these primitives, such as c-command (Reinhart 1983) and intervention effects. Finally, it views syntax as interface-driven, in that it devolves explanation for putatively syntactic phenomena to the interfaces (with other grammatical modules and with the lexicon).

At the same time, Flexible Syntax differs from more mainstream minimalist works in that there is no need to check selectional requirements immediately. In other words, the syntactic derivation allows for the flexibility that a feature that could have been checked at an earlier point gets carried further in the derivation and checked later. This flexibility allows for elegant treatments of phenomena such as A- and A’-scrambling, complex predicates, and the syntax of ditransitives. This syntactic core is supplemented by interface-based analyses of scope shift, case assignment, information structure, and several morphological and lexical phenomena.

We welcome abstracts for 30-minute talks evaluating the theoretical contributions of Flexible Syntax, or on any empirical topic related to work carried out within this theory. We do not intend the workshop to be restricted to Flexible Syntax research, but preference will be given to submissions which draw explicit links to Flexible Syntax.

Submission guidelines:
Please anonymise abstracts
2 pages A4, incl. examples and references
11pt Times New Roman, 2.5cm margins
Submit by email to 2024.flexisyn@gmail.com 
please indicate your name and affiliation in the body of the email
 
Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2024

Important dates

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2024
Notifications: July 5, 2024
Workshop: Nov 8-9, 2024

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