Each Spring scholars with diverse backgrounds and theoretical perspectives gather for three days of talks and discussion, followed by our annual CLS banquet. The conference is divided into a Main Session, comprised of talks on a broad range of linguistic issues, and one or more Parasessions, comprised of talks on more particular issues within a sub-field of the discipline.
The 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society will be held April 19-21, 2012 in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. The conference will include a general session and three parasessions dedicated to: a) Agreement; b) Meaning and Cognition; c) Historical Phonology and Morphology.
Call for papers
Invited speakers:
Main Session
Marcel den Dikken, CUNY Graduate CenterKai von Fintel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan Yu, University of Chicago
Parasessions
Adam Albright, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nausicaa Pouscoulous, University College London
Parasession themes:
1) Agreement
We invite papers investigating agreement from multiple perspectives. We welcome re-evaluations of the phenomenon within well-established syntactic frameworks, as well as studies on the interface with other semantic/syntactic (e.g., boundedness, mass/count distinction) or morphophonological (e.g., multiple exponence) issues. Psycholinguistic investigations are also welcome.
2) Meaning and Cognition
We invite papers concerning the relation between semantic representations and cognitive processes. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the online integration of semantic and pragmatic information, real-time evidence of semantic composition, and the acquisition of specific categories of expressions (e.g., NPIs, number words, quantifiers). We also welcome computational approaches alongside experimental ones.
3) Historical Phonology and Morphology
We invite papers addressing issues in phonology and morphology, and their interaction, from a historical perspective. Works pertaining to such aspects as synchronic analysis, learning and variation are particularly welcome. In addition to more traditional studies, we also look forward to papers with a strong computational or experimental flavor.