Chains in Minimalism
February 12‐13, 2011
Yokohama National University
Yokohama, Japan
Invited Speakers:
This international workshop, which will be held at Yokohama National University
(YNU) in Japan, is part of a four year research project, now in its final
year, on "The Role of Chains and their Mechanisms of Interpretation in Minimalism", , funded by a Grant‐in‐Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The 2 day workshop will feature talks by some of the project members as well as by two invited keynote speakers. In addition, a number of slots will be made available for paper‐presentations solicited through this open call for papers and selected based on anonymous review of abstracts by two or more reviewers. The concept of 'chain' has long played a central role in the theory of generative grammar. Yet the precise nature of chains is still not well understood. Furthermore, within minimalism, many new questions about chains have been raised, including concerns about their very existence as syntactic objects. Our research project is focused on trying to address and answer the following sorts of questions:
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(Directions in Japanese; if you need information on how to reach the workshop
site in English, please contact the organizers at the email address below)
Workshop Organizers:
Roger Martin (YNU)
Tomohiro Fujii (YNU)
Email: chains.ynu/at_mark/gmail.com