MaS3 (Morphology as Syntax 3)

 Morphology as Syntax 3

LinguistList Announcement

Short Title: MaS3

Date: 15-Sep-2023 - 16-Sep-2023

Location: Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Contact: Tom Leu

Contact Email: leu.thomas@uqam.ca

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories

Meeting Description:

The purpose of this workshop is to investigate the relationship between morphology and syntax, and in particular to investigate the extent to which morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions. Can morphology and syntax be unified under purely Merge based theories with the same principles? If so, what does this tell us about the type of syntactic theory we should pursue?

Invited speakers (in alphabetical order):

Léna Baunaz (University of Geneva)

Vicki Carstens (University of Connecticut)

James Crippen (McGill University)

Peter Kondwandi Msaka (University of Malawi)

Neil Myler (Boston University)

Sandhya Sundaresan (SUNY Stony Brook)

Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø)

Papers on Negation and Quantifiers

Here is a series of five papers I have written recently concerning negation, quantifiers and negating quantifiers. They are all syntax/semantics interface papers, with a substantial semantic component. The constant theme throughout is the application of the basic framework of Collins and Postal 2014 to various phenomena. 

Guest Blog Post by Pauline Jacobson on Constituent Structure

Losing sight of the forest through the trees:  

Remarks on constituent structure and constituent structure tests 

Pauline Jacobson

Program in Linguistics

Brown University

Original .pdf Version

This is a guest blog which I was invited to write by Chris Collins. I am very grateful to Chris for the opportunity to write up and post these thoughts.  Needless to say, he doesn't necessarily agree with or endorse anything in these remarks.