4th IWSC & 1st IFOLAB: 4th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography & First International Forum on Language and Brain 第四届句法制图国际研讨会暨首届语言与脑科学国际论坛 Online October 29-November 3, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.syntacartography.com/col.jsp?id=114 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4thiwsc1stifolb |
Submission deadline | September 9, 2021 |
Acceptance notification | September 29, 2021 |
The international workshop on syntactic cartography (IWSC) is a biannual conference initiated in 2015 and has been financially supported by Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), aiming at gathering together linguists and scientists in the relevant fields who are interested in investigating the maps of syntactic structures as well as biological consequences of those syntactic structure distributions.
What's new for this year's event is that, to promote both the cartographic approach as well as the newly developed graduate program "language and human brain sciences' in BLCU, a newly proposed forum (the 1st International Forum on Language and Brain) will be held immediately after the 4th IWSC, as a separate but also interrelated part of the joint conference. The joint conference (4th IWSC & 1st IFOLAB) (IWSC&IFOLAB2021 hereafter) will be held on Oct 29th-Nov 3rd, 2021.
During the 2nd IWSC (2017), the organizing committee decided to make the selection procedure of conference topic(s) more interesting. The idea is to select topics for each conference among the key concepts or keywords related to syntactic cartography. The topic for the 3rd IWSC 2019 was of A-type: Acquisition and Language Disorders related to Syntactic Cartographic Studies; Adjectives and Adverbs; Aspects and Tense; Argument structures; Analyticity and Synthesis, etc. Following this convention, the topics for this year begin with "B"-terms, as follows:
Between Syntax and Discourse/Pragmatics/Semantics...(For Part I of the conference/IWSC2021) (Oct 29-Nov 1, 2021)
Brain and Language: New Trends and Current Issues (For Part II of the conference/IFOLAB2021)(Nov 2-3, 2021):
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
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 front 5 for Chinese.
3. Abstracts should be sent in PDF files.
4. All non-standard fonts should be embedded in the document.
5. Name your files with the author's name-conference name, e.g., if the author Xiaoxing submits his/her abstract to Part I of the conference, the file name should be xiaoxing-iwsc2021; likewise, if the submission is target to Part II, then the file should be named as xiaoxing-ifolab2021. If the paper has more than two authors, a "co" should be added after the first author's name, e.g., xiaoxing-co-iwsc2021 or xiaoxing-co-ifolab2021.
***Notice that only the abstracts submitted through easychair will be accepted.
List of Topics
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Between Syntax and Discourse/Pragmatics/Semantics...(For Part I of the conference, i.e. the 4th IWSC)
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Brain and Language: New Trends and Current Issues (For Part II of the conference, i.e. the 1st IFOLAB):
—The Neural Basis of Recursion
—Language and Mathematics in the brain
—Brain studies on the architecture of the language faculty
—Formal approaches to Neurodiversity
—Language, brains, and the limits of our understanding
Committees
Program Committee
- Luigi Rizzi Honorary Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Professor of linguistics at Collège de France
- Honorary Dean of the Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
- Fuzhen Si Chair of the Organizing Committee of IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Dean and professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
- Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai Vice-Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Professor of Linguistics at National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
- Jie Xu Vice-Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Head of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Macau
- Shengli Feng Vice-Chair of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Professor of linguistics at Beijing Language and Culture University
- Marcel den Dikken Honorary member of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Professor of linguistics, Department of English Linguistics, Eotvos Lorand University
- Member of the International Professors' Committee, Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
- Liping Wang Organizing Committee member of the IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Scientist at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhongru Xiong Organizing Committee member of the IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Vice-Dean and professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
- Giuseppe Samo Committee member of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Associate professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University;
- Wenying Daisy Liu Committee member of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Macau University
- Rui Gong Committee member of the International Association of Syntactic Cartography (Macau)
- Associate Professor of Beijing Forestry University
- Xu Chen Member of the Organizing Committee of IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
- Xing Kang Member of the Organizing Committee of IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics, Geneva University
- Fangfang Li Member of the Organizing Committee of IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
- Fuqiang Li Member of the Organizing Committee of IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Lecturer, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhuosi Luo Member of the Organizing Committee of IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
- Yangyu Sun Member of the Organizing Committee of IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Ph.D. Candidate, Padua University
- Yinghui Tian Member of the Organizing Committee of IWSC & IFOLAB2021
- Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
- Di Tian Office head of the Department of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
Keynote Speakers & Invited Speakers
Keynote speakers for IWSC2021:
- Adriana Belletti University of Siena
- Guglielmo Cinque University of Venice
- C. T. James Huang Harvard University
- Adam Ledgeway University of Cambridge
- Richard Kayne New York University
- Luigi Rizzi College of France
Invited speakers for IWSC2021:
- Valentina Bianchi University of Siena
- Giuliano Bocci University of Siena
- Silvio Cruschina University of Helsinki
- Marcel den Dikken Research Institute for Linguistics
- Yoshio Endo Kanda University of International Studies
- Shengli Feng Beijing Language and Culture University
- Christopher Laenzlinger University of Geneva
- Cecilia Poletto Padua / Frankfurt
- Genoveva Puskás University of Geneva
- Ur Shlonsky University of Geneva
- Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
- Sam Wolfe University of Oxford
- Jie Xu University of Macau
Keynote speakers for the IFOLAB2021
- Tom Bever University of Arizona
- Lera Boroditsky University of California, San Diego
- Yosef Grodzinsky Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- David Lightfoot University of Georgetown
- Andrea Moro Institute for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia
- Muming Poo Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Anna Maria Di Sciullo University of Quebec in Montreal
Venue
The conference will be held online via the voov meeting platform, more detailed information will be informed shortly before the conference is taking place.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to iwsc_brain2021@126.com.