International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies

句法制图国际研究协会

The 5th IWSC (2023): The 5th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (the 2nd notice)

Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

October 29-30, 2023

Abstract submission deadline: May 31st, 2023

The International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC) is a biannual conference initiated in 2015, which has been co-organized and supported financially by the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (IAOSCS) (Macao) and the Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU). It aims at bringing together linguists and scientists from other relevant fields who are interested in investigating the "maps" of syntactic structures. During the 2nd IWSC (2017), the organizing committee decided to select topics for its subsequent conferences alphabetically. Consequently, the main topics for the 3rd IWSC (2019) were A-based and then the 4th IWSC (2021) focused predominantly on B-initiated terms. Following the same tradition, the key topics of the 5th IWSC will be C-initiated, including but not limited to the following recommended by the organizing committee members: C/case (and agree); causative; child language acquisition; Cinque hierarchy; clitics; complementizer; criteria features and the left periphery; crosslinguistic variation, etc..

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal.

1. Abstracts are limited to one page (using 1-inch margins on all sides), including examples and (selected) references.

2. Abstracts must be written in English or in Chinese. Please use standard Times New Roman font, size 12 pt for English or Song font 5 for Chinese, single spaced.

3. Abstracts should be sent in PDF files.

4. All non-standard fonts should be embedded in the document.

5. Name your files in the format "author's name-conference name", e.g., xiaoxing-iwsc2023. If the paper has more than one author, a "co" should be added after the first author's name, e.g. xiaoxing-co-iwsc2023.

6. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author.

*** Only the abstracts submitted through the Easychair‍ will be considered.

*** Abstract submission deadline: May 31st, 2023.

*** The abstracts will be peer-reviewed and the notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors by June 19th, 2023.

List of Topics

C/case (and agree)

Causative

Child language acquisition

Cinque hierarchy

Clitics

Complementizer

Computational language models

Criteria features and the left periphery

Crosslinguistic variation

......

Keynote Speakers & Invited Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

(1) Adriana Belletti                         University of Siena

(2) Guglielmo Cinque                       University of Venice

(3) Richard Kayne                            New York University

(4) Christopher Laenzlinger               University of Geneva

(5) Adam Ledgeway                          University of Cambridge

(6) Andrea Moro                               Institute for Advanced Study IUSS

(7) Michal Starke                              Masaryk University

(8) Genoveva Puskás                        University of Geneva

(9) Luigi Rizzi                                   Collège de France

(10) Ur Shlonsky                              University of Geneva

(11) Sam Wolfe                                University of Oxford

Invited Speakers:

(1) Valentina Bianchi                         University of Siena

(2) Giuliano Bocci                              University of Siena

(3) Silvio Cruschina                           University of Helsinki

(4) Yoshio Endo                                Kanda University of International Studies

(5) Linda Badan                                Ghent University

(6) Victor Pan                                   Chinese University of Hong Kong

(7) Cecilia Poletto                              University of Padua

                                                       / Frankfurt am Main

(8) Dingxu Shi                                  Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

(9) Sze-Wing Tang                            Chinese University of Hong Kong

(10) Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai                    National Tsinghua University (Taiwan)

(11) Jie Xu                                       University of Macau

Registration Fee

The conference registration fee is 1200 RMB (600 RMB for students) covering access to all sessions, lunch, coffee breaks and conference materials.

Venue

The conference will be held at Beijing Language and Culture University.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to iwsc2023@126.com

Organizing Committee

Luigi Rizzi                Honorary Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao)/Collège de France

Fuzhen Si                   Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC (2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University   

Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai   Vice-Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao)/National Tsinghua University               

Jie Xu                         Vice-Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao)/University of Macao

Sze-Wing Tang           Vice-Chair of the International Association of SyntacticCartographic Studies (Macao)/Chinese University of Hong Kong

Changyin Zhou       Executive Editor of the Journal of Beijing International Studies University/Beijing International Studies University

Wenying Liu              Secretary General of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao)/Macau University of Science and Technology

Fuqiang Li                Executive chair of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xu Chen                   Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Qufu Normal University

Rui Gong                  Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Forestry University

Haoyue Hu                Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Tsinghua University

Xing Kang                Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/University of Geneva

Fangfang Li              Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University

Xuefeng Li               Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Anhui University of Finance and Economics

Zhuosi Luo               Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Georgetown University

Giuseppe Samo        Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University

Zhong Shi                 Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University   

Yangyu Sun              Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/University of Milano-Bicocca

Wenli Tang               Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC 2023/University of Geneva

Yinghui Tian             Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University

Zhuye Wang              Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC 2023/Beijing Language and Culture University

Sponsors

Beijing Language and Culture University

International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (IAOSCS)(Macao)

Journal of Beijing International Studies University

“C” you in October!

The 2nd General Meeting of IAOSCS Held on December 29, 2022

The Council of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao) held a meeting online at 20:00 (Beijing Time) on December 29. Honorary President Luigi Rizzi, President Fuzhen Si, Vice President Sze-Wing Tang, Vice President Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Chairperson of the Supervisory Committee Jie Xu, Vice Chairperson of Council Giuseppe Samo, Vice Chairperson of Council Aquiles Tescari Neto, and other committee members attended the meeting.

President Fuzhen Si chaired the meeting. She opened with an annual report of the major events of the Association in 2022, following which was a free discussion on The 5th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC 2023). According to the tradition, IWSC 2023 will center on topics beginning with letter C. Committee members contributed candidate themes, which include criteria features, category, cartographic representation of hierarchy, cognitive concepts, cross-linguistic variation, computational linguistics, clitics, comparative studies and so on. The Executive Committee then presented a proposal to host an online summer school in the form of a two-level lecture series: Basics & Frontier, scheduled for July 17-28, 2023. The event will be free of charge so as to reach the broadest audience.

The committee also discussed a proposal by Prof. Aquiles Tescari Neto to launch a project to create book series on syntactic cartography, in parallel with the Oxford "Studies on Comparative Linguistics" and "Syntactic Cartography" series so as to keep the syntactic cartography enterprise alive. Finally, a new term of office for the Executive Committee was confirmed, which covers the time range of 2023 to 2025. The meeting ended on a cheerful note, with President Fuzhen Si sending best wishes for a Happy New Year.

The 5th IWSC (2023): The 5th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography

Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

October 29-30, 2023

The International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC) is a biannual conference initiated in 2015, which has been co-organized and supported financially by the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (IAOSCS) (Macao) and the Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU). It aims at bringing together linguists and scientists from other relevant fields who are interested in investigating the "maps" of syntactic structures. During the 2nd IWSC (2017), the organizing committee decided to select topics for its subsequent conferences alphabetically. Consequently, the main topics for the 3rd IWSC (2019) were A-based and then the 4th IWSC (2021) focused predominantly on B-initiated terms. Following the same tradition, the key topics of the 5th IWSC will be C-initiated, including but not limited to the following recommended by the organizing committee members: C/case (and agree); causative; child language acquisition; Cinque hierarchy; clitics; complementizer; criteria features and the left periphery; crosslinguistic variation, etc..

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal.

1. Abstracts are limited to one page (using 1-inch margins on all sides), including examples and (selected) references.

2. Abstracts must be written in English or in Chinese. Please use standard Times New Roman font, size 12 pt for English or Song font 5 for Chinese, single spaced.

3. Abstracts should be sent in PDF files.

4. All non-standard fonts should be embedded in the document.

5. Name your files in the format "author's name-conference name", e.g., xiaoxing-iwsc2023. If the paper has more than one author, a "co" should be added after the first author's name, e.g. xiaoxing-co-iwsc2023.

6. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author.

*** Only the abstracts submitted through the Easychair‍ will be considered.

*** Abstract submission deadline: May 19th, 2023.

*** The abstracts will be peer-reviewed and the notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors by June 19th, 2023.

List of Topics

C/case (and agree)

Causative

Child language acquisition

Cinque hierarchy

Clitics

Complementizer

Computational language models

Criteria features and the left periphery

Crosslinguistic variation

......

Keynote Speakers & Invited Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

(1) Adriana Belletti                         University of Siena

(2) Guglielmo Cinque                       University of Venice

(3) Richard Kayne                            New York University

(4) Christopher Laenzlinger               University of Geneva

(5) Adam Ledgeway                          University of Cambridge

(6) Andrea Moro                               Institute for Advanced Study IUSS

(7) Michal Starke                              Masaryk University

(8) Genoveva Puskás                        University of Geneva

(9) Luigi Rizzi                                   Collège de France

(10) Ur Shlonsky                              University of Geneva

(11) Sam Wolfe                                University of Oxford

Invited Speakers:

(1) Valentina Bianchi                         University of Siena

(2) Giuliano Bocci                              University of Siena

(3) Silvio Cruschina                           University of Helsinki

(4) Yoshio Endo                                Kanda University of International Studies

(5) Linda Badan                                Ghent University

(6) Victor Pan                                   Chinese University of Hong Kong

(7) Cecilia Poletto                             University of Padua / Frankfurt

(8) Dingxu Shi                                  Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

(9) Sze-Wing Tang                            Chinese University of Hong Kong

(10) Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai                    National Tsinghua University (Taiwan)

(11) Jie Xu                                       University of Macau

Registration Fee

The conference registration fee is 1200 RMB (600 RMB for students) covering access to all sessions, lunch, coffee breaks and conference materials.

Venue

The conference will be held at Beijing Language and Culture University.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to iwsc2023@126.com

Organizing Committee

Luigi Rizzi                Honorary Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao)/Collège de France

Fuzhen Si                   Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC (2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University   

Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai   Vice-Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao)/National Tsinghua University               

Jie Xu                         Vice-Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao)/University of Macao

Sze-Wing Tang           Vice-Chair of the International Association of SyntacticCartographic Studies (Macao)/Chinese University of Hong Kong

Changyin Zhou       Executive Editor of the Journal of Beijing International Studies University/Beijing International Studies University

Wenying Liu              Secretary General of the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (Macao)/Macau University of Science and Technology

Fuqiang Li                Executive chair of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xu Chen                   Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Qufu Normal University

Rui Gong                  Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Forestry University

Haoyue Hu                Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Tsinghua University

Xing Kang                Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/University of Geneva

Fangfang Li              Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University

Xuefeng Li               Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Anhui University of Finance and Economics

Zhuosi Luo               Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Georgetown University

Giuseppe Samo        Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University

Zhong Shi                 Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University   

Yangyu Sun              Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/University of Milano-Bicocca

Wenli Tang               Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC 2023/University of Geneva

Yinghui Tian             Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC(2023)/Beijing Language and Culture University

Zhuye Wang              Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th IWSC 2023/Beijing Language and Culture University

Sponsors

Beijing Language and Culture University

International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (IAOSCS)(Macao)

Journal of Beijing International Studies University

“C” you in October!