Full Title: Word order matters
Short Title: WOM

Date: 17-Sep-2020 – 20-Sep-2020
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact Person: Jacek Witkoś

Web Site: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020/Home

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax

Call Deadline: 22-Mar-2020

Meeting Description:

50th PLM special session convened by Jacek Witkoś and Przemysław Tajsner (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)

The syntax session of 50th PLM focuses on issues of word and morpheme order and the link between word/morpheme orders and syntactic relations. We invite submissions on the widest possible scope of current syntactic research touching upon the issue of word and morpheme order across the full spectrum of the linguistic atlas of the world.

Invited speaker:
Guglielmo Cinque (Ca’Foscari University of Venice)

Call for Papers:

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
– correlations between linear word order and hierarchical structure (e.g. left vs. right-branching structures, multidominance, conditions on linearization)
– precedence and scope
– anaphoric/cataphoric relations
– leftward and rightward movement operations
– misalignments between word order and right-branching structural hierarchy
– pre- vs. post- placement in phrasal syntax and morphology (e.g. prefix vs. suffix distinction, pre- vs. post- modification)
– sentence initial vs. sentence final markers (complementizers, particles, etc.)
– scrambling and information structure
– sentence cartography and left periphery
– ways of deriving word and morpheme orders (e.g. base generation, movement)

Fully anonymous pdf abstracts of 300 to 500 words (excluding the title, keywords, linguistic examples and references) must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=EKkLgS2uLwUkeqnWrvAJmW) and follow the general 50th PLM criteria specified at: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020/Abstract_submission.