International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies

句法制图国际研究协会

Mapping Syntax - Universals, Variation, Acquisition, and Change

This year marks 25 years since the publication of Luigi Rizzi's (1997) 'The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery', one of the foundational works of the cartographic enterprise (cf. i.a. also Belletti 1990, Cardinaletti 1997, and Cinque 1999), a research programme which has had a profound and enduring influence on linguistic research regarding language universals, variation, acquisition, and change (see Cinque and Rizzi 2009 and Shlonsky 2010 for recent overviews).

To mark the 25th anniversary of Rizzi (1997), a workshop will take place in Oxford from the 16th to 18th of November. The aims of the workshop are to consider the major achievements of the cartographic enterprise over the last three decades and to provide a forum for presenting novel research which showcases the enduring potential of cartography in the decades to come.

The workshop will have keynote talks from the following invited speakers:

Professor Adriana Belletti (University of Siena)

Professor Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia)

Professor Guglielmo Cinque (University Ca' Foscari Venice)

Professor Naama Friedmann (University of Tel Aviv)

Professor Cecilia Poletto (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, University of Padua)

Professor Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France)

Professor Fuzhen Si (Beijing Language and Culture University)

For more details of this workshop, please visit https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/mapping-syntax

The cycle of webinars entitled "Syntax Silk Road: Meetings in Cartography" organized is between the Beijing Language & Culture University and the University of Padua and co-organized with the International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies (based in Macao). During these events, held on a weekly basis on Fridays (19h Beijing Time, 12h Padua Time)2020, researchers participated in the events discuss (advanced) presentations inCartography.

The calendar was set as follows.

20/11   Linda Badan

(Ghent University)

27/11   Masatoshi Honda

(Yokohama College of Commerce)

04/12   Caterina Bonan

(University of Cambridge)

11/12   Aquiles Tescari Neto

(UniCampinas)

The event videos have been published by Theoretical Linguistics @ Wudaokou Station platform. The following is the QR code of the Wudaokou Station.

Lecture 1:

Discourse Markers in the Regional Italian of Veneto

威尼托地区意大利语中的话题标记

by Linda Badan

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aPBnPto4BIgUsNtmR0PgOQ

Lecture 2:

Two Types of Focus Fronting : Evidence from Particle Fronting

(两种类型的前置焦点：前置小词中的证据)

by Mashatoshi Honda

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ST5WhxiYNJrVGIdxQtJY7A

Lecture 3:

So far yet so close: on comparing Northern Italian and Asian Wh-in-situ

(天涯若比邻：意大利北部方言与亚洲语言中的Wh-原位现象对比分析)

by Caterina Bonan

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/By9DDQdLbV0gS9UOuTwQiA

Lecture 4:

Why we should not call high adverbs 'sentence adverbs'

为什么不能把高位副词称为“句子副词”

by Aquiles Tescari Neto

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/E_526BjLUh1JFk5WIylN1A