Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon
School of Arts and Humanities
University of Lisbon
Portugal
The 49th edition of GLOW will be held at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, from 22 to 25 March 2027 – 35 years after the 1992 Lisbon GLOW, where Richard Kayne presented the fundamentals of his antisymmetry of syntax in his keynote address.
The main colloquium (22–24 March) has no designated theme. Contributions are welcome on all topics, in all subdisciplines of the field, from any perspective compatible with generative objectives. The organisers of GLOW49 would like to promote representation of work on varieties of Portuguese and languages in the Portuguese-speaking world, as well as work on both spoken and signed modalities of language.
The main colloquium will feature two types of oral presentation (long presentations, max. 40 minutes, and shorter presentations, max. 25 minutes, each followed by a 10-minute question-and-answer period), and a wide selection of posters. Abstract submissions are limited to a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract per person. Please note that submitting the same abstract to both the main colloquium and one or more of the workshops is not permitted.
Abstracts should be submitted as fully anonymized PDF documents that do not exceed two single-spaced pages (A4 with 2.5 cm margins or US letter with 1 inch margins on all sides), including examples, references and tables/figures, in a font no smaller than 12pt Times New Roman. Below the title, please provide a list of max. 5 keywords.
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On 25 March, there will be three workshops in parallel sessions. The topics of the three workshops are the following:
The invited talk for the control workshop will be scheduled in such a way that participants of the clausal hypotaxis workshop will be able to attend this talk as well. The calls for papers for the individual workshops can be found by clicking on the titles of the workshops above.
Over the past decades, we have seen the rise and multiplication of approaches to phonological and morphological phenomena, and the way phonology and morphology interact. Within this wealth of research, many open questions keep powering novel research, leading to new discoveries. This workshop welcomes submissions aiming at advancing our understanding of the workings of phonology and morphology, and their interactions. We especially welcome contributions bringing new insights and/or refreshing views on longstanding issues in phonology, morphology, and their interface, as well as contributions addressing underrepresented languages, or using innovative methodological approaches.
Among the topics that have been subject to fervent discussion are those involving the architecture of the grammar and the lexicon. There is a wide consensus that grammar has a modular design and that grammatical modules may interact. Nevertheless, it is also known that the relations between grammatical components are not homogeneous. Bi-directional exchanges between phonology and morphology are documented, while this sort of interaction seems to be more limited, for instance, in the relations between phonology and syntax. Furthermore, and despite the evidence pointing to modularity and the distinction between grammar and the lexicon, several findings have been suggestive of the blurring between the boundaries involving grammar, the lexicon, and other grammatical modules. An intense debate is also in place concerning the sequential/ordered versus simultaneous/parallel views of grammar and phonological and morphological operations.
This workshop welcomes submissions that contribute to current fundamental questions, and have the potential to raise new questions and avenues of research in the areas of phonology and morphology, including, but not being limited to:
We invite abstracts for 25-minute in-person presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstract submissions are limited to a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract per person. Abstracts should be written in English and not exceed two single-spaced pages (A4 with 2.5 cm margins or US letter with 1 inch margins on all sides), including examples, references and tables/figures, in a font no smaller than 12pt Times New Roman. Please submit your abstract as a fully anonymized PDF document.
For inquiries about the workshop, please contact the workshop convener Marina Vigário using the following e-mail address: mvigario@edu.ulisboa.pt
Control refers to how an argument in a superordinate clause semantically dictates (or "controls") the subject of an embedded clause. Control is one of the oldest topics in generative grammar, but it is also one that continues to generate wide-ranging discussion, requiring contributions from both syntax and semantics.
The nature and the distribution of control, which includes the definition of the limits of obligatory and non-obligatory control, have been the subject of disagreement for many years. The discussion has been fed by new data including the identification of finite control and control in inflected infinitives in Portuguese, the discussion concerning the categorial nature of the complement of control verbs, the status of partial and split control, the distinction between complement and adjunct control, and the properties of backward control.
From the point of view of acquisition, control is also a well-known topic, which is nevertheless underexplored. A core question is how the child uses the input to extract relevant evidence to distinguish control from superficially identical structures. Additional questions in the literature concern the identification of the controller in different contexts, and the relative weight of syntax, semantics and extra-grammatical factors in children’s performance.
We invite contributions from different perspectives within generative grammar on one or more of the following topics:
Abstracts are solicited for 25-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) on any aspect of the syntax and semantics of control.
Aiming to foster fruitful dialogue between scholars with different theoretical orientations, the workshop welcomes contributions from any perspective compatible with generative objectives..
Abstract submissions are limited to a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract (or two co-authored abstracts) per person. Please note that this workshop will not accommodate on-line presentations.
Abstracts should be submitted as fully anonymized PDF documents that do not exceed two single-spaced pages (A4 with 2.5 cm margins or US letter with 1 inch margins on all sides), including examples, references and tables/figures, in a font no smaller than 12pt Times New Roman. Below the title, please provide a list of max. 5 keywords, and identify by its number(s) on the above list the issue(s) which the abstract seeks to address.
For inquiries about the workshop, please contact the workshop convener (Ana Lúcia Santos) using the following E-mail address: anas@edu.ulisboa.pt
The possibility of embedding clauses within other clauses in such a way that one clause dominates the other(s) is a salient manifestation of recursion in syntax, and a staple of English and typologically similar languages. It is not unrestricted, however; nor is it universally available in the world’s languages. This workshop is aimed at advancing our understanding of the syntax and semantics of clausal hypotaxis/subordination and the restrictions imposed on embedding a clause within a larger clause. It seeks to do so by focusing in particular on a number of central issues in the analysis of clausal recursion:
Abstracts are solicited for 25-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) on any aspect of the syntax and semantics of clausal hypotaxis, with preference given to proposals relating directly to one or more of the issues listed in (1)–(8).
Aiming to foster fruitful dialogue between scholars with different theoretical orientations, the workshop welcomes contributions from any perspective compatible with generative objectives.
Abstract submissions are limited to a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract per person. Please note that this workshop will not accommodate on-line presentations.
Abstracts should be submitted as fully anonymized PDF documents that do not exceed two single-spaced pages (A4 with 2.5 cm margins or US letter with 1 inch margins on all sides), including examples, references and tables/figures, in a font no smaller than 12pt Times New Roman. Below the title, please provide a list of max. 5 keywords, and identify by its number(s) on the above list the issue(s) which the abstract seeks to address.
For inquiries about the workshop, please contact the workshop convener (Marcel den Dikken) using the following E-mail address: mdikken@letras.ulisboa.pt
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The entire event will take place at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, whose Campo Grande campus is conveniently located and reachable on foot, by bike, by bus and by metro from all corners of Lisbon.
Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Letras
Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa
Phone: +351 21 792 00 14 11327
Email: GLOW49@letras.ulisboa.pt
