Experimental and
Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) 2022
Final Call for Papers
We are very
pleased to announce that we are planning to submit a proposal for the fourth
edition of the Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE)
workshop to the international conference Societas
Linguistica Europaea SLE 2022, which will be held at the University of
Bucharest between 24 August and 27 August 2022.
The main purpose of the ECBAE workshops is to bring
together researchers who have been working on elliptical phenomena (VP
ellipsis, sluicing, stripping, gapping, RNR, etc.) in various languages, with
special emphasis on solid empirical data, specifically through experimentation
and corpus investigations. Contributions
will be welcome concerning (i) the specific experimental methodologies being
used in psycholinguistics, and how they can be improved to give more reliable
and interpretable results; and (ii) the way corpus data can be brought to bear
on theoretical questions, and to improve the results of psycholinguistic
experiments, specifically by increasing the naturalness of the materials by
providing new hypotheses.
This iteration of ECBAE also especially welcomes submissions
addressing issues surrounding ellipsis identity. We are particularly interested
in contributions tackling one or more of the following questions:
I. How can we define identity
conditions between ellided materials and antecendent materials from the
discourse? E.g.:
– Must identity conditions include syntactic descriptions (phrase markers
/ LFs / Structured Meanings)?
– Alternatively, can identity conditions be stated over purely semantic or
pragmatic objects, with no associated „syntactic forms“ (e.g.,
syntactically unstructured propositions, common ground inventory, etc.)?
– Are hybrid conditions needed that reference both of the above?
II. What precisely are the relations
that have to hold between elliptical utterances and their antecedents in the
discourse? E.g.:
– What role (if any) do discourse-structuring mechanisms, such as
coherence / anaphoric accessibility relations, QUDs and/or contrastivity, play
in licensing ellipsis?
– Do we need different identity conditions and/or discourse relations for
different types of ellipsis (e.g., clausal versus predicate ellipsis)?
– Also, can antecedents for ellipsis
be accommodated (i.e., have no explicit mention the preceding discourse), and,
if so, what are the restrictions on accommodation?
If you are
interested in submitting a paper to the ECBAE 2022, please send a provisional
abstract (max. 300 words) to ecbae4@gmail.com
before 11 November 2021, and we will
prepare the workshop proposal based on your preliminary submissions, and submit
it before 20 November 2021. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be
by 15 December 2021. After our workshop
proposal has been accepted, all preliminary workshop participants will be
invited to submit their full abstracts in Easychair before 15 January 2022.
We are looking forward to receiving
your preliminary contribution to our next ECBAE workshop.
Best,
Gabriela Bîlbîie, James Griffiths, Volker
Struckmeier