Corpus-based and Experimental Approaches to Ellipsis






















< class="m_9087571474860224468date-display-single">< class="m_9087571474860224468date-display-single">Samedi 29 Juillet 2017,











Organisation : 








Anne Abeillé (Paris-Diderot), Philip Miller (Paris Diderot) et Jeffrey Runner (Rochester). Avec le soutien de l’IUF et du Labex EFL
























Lieu : 








2017 LSA Institute The University of Kentucky Lexington, KY



























Site Web : 





https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecbae2017








Invited speakers Lyn Frazier (UMass, Amherst) and Andrew Kehler (UC, San Diego)








Call for papers




Ellipsis is a central phenomenon at the interface between syntax, semantics, phonology and discourse. It has been, and continues to be, the focus of numerous publications (see e.g., Craenenbroek and Termmerman 2017). Despite a huge amount of theoretical work (from, e.g., Hankamer and Sag 1976 to current work by Johnson, Kehler, Merchant, van Craenenbroek) and a long tradition in psycho- and neurolinguistic experimentation (from Murphy 1985 and Tanenhaus and Carlson 1990 to current work by Frazier, Runner, Kertz, Kaan, etc.), major questions remain open, most centrally the question of whether it is necessary to hypothesize the existence of unpronounced syntactic structure at the ellipsis site.




The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers who have been working on elliptical phenomena (VP ellipsis, sluicing, gapping, RNR, etc.) in various languages, with special emphasis on solid empirical data, specifically through experimentation (acceptability and eye-tracking experiments, in particular) and corpus investigations. Contributions will be welcome concerning






1. the syntax and semantics of ellipsis using experimental methods ;




2. the way corpus data can be brought to bear on theoretical questions ;




3. how corpus data can interact with experimental results ;




4. the presentation of new resources, such as ellipsis annotation (e.g. Bos and Spenader 2011, Anand and McCloskey 2015).







A round table will be organized during the workshop on the creation of one or more ellipsis databases allowing researchers to share their data and experimental materials.




A special issue journal publication is planned for a selection of contributions to the workshop.




Submission guidelines




Abstracts must not exceed two A4 pages in length with 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins on all four sides, 12pt font size, single line spacing. Examples should be interleaved with the text. An additional two A4 pages may be included for references, tables and figures.




Abstracts should be submitted as .pdf documents via easychair : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecbae2017




Timeline




Submission Deadline : March 26 2017




Acceptance notification : April 29 2017




Workshop : July 29 2017




Organizers






• Anne Abeillé (U. Paris Diderot, anne.abeille@linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr)




• Philip Miller (U. Paris Diderot, philip.miller@univ-paris-diderot.fr)




• Jeffrey Runner (U. Rochester, Jeffrey.Runner@rochester.edu)