Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to our joined workshop on long-distance dependencies that will take place at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from October 4th to October 5th, 2018.

Long-distance dependencies are a well-explored field of investigation. It is concerned with constructions involving a constituent that may be moved over a clause boundary. Traditionally, they include several types of wh-movement. Focusing on interrogatives and relatives, this workshop intends to bring together syntacticians from different grammatical frameworks (HPSG, Generative Grammar and others). Transformational frameworks like Generative Grammar often explain long-distance dependencies as the result of a movement operation. In contrast, lexicalist frameworks such as Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) do not assume movement. The goal is to explore and compare the quality and quantity of construction specific and syntactic descriptions needed to capture long-distance phenomena.

Invited speakers:

• Rui P. Chaves (University at Buffalo)
• Caterina Donati (LLF Paris-Diderot)
• Anne Abeillé (LLF Paris-Diderot)
• Dominique Sportiche (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Bob Borsley (University of Essex)

Date: October 4-5, 2018

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Dorotheenstraße 24 | 10117 Berlin

For further information on the workshop program and the registration, please visit the website at http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/588647.html.

We encourage you to circulate the information widely so this workshop can feature as many specialists on long-distance dependencies as possible.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at the LDD-workshop in Berlin!

Best,

The organizing committee

Guido Mensching (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen),
Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin),
Franziska Werner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen),
Elodie Winckel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to ldd-workshop@uni-goettingen.de

The project Long-distance Dependencies in French: Comparative Analyses (HPSG and the Minimalist Program) is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (Research Group DFG MU 2822/9-1, ME 1252/14-1).