Ellipsis is a central phenomenon at the interface between syntax, semantics, phonology and discourse. It has been, and continues to be, the focus of numerous publications. Specifically, a major handbook on the subject has recently been published (van Craenenbroeck & Temmerman 2018). Despite a huge amount of theoretical work (from, e.g., Hankamer & Sag 1976 to current work by Johnson 2001, Merchant 2001, van Craenenbroek 2010), a long tradition in psycholinguistic experimentation (from Murphy 1985 and Tannnenhaus & Carlson 1990 to current work by Frazier 2013, Kertz 2013, Kim & Runner 2017), and recent corpus work (e.g., the Santa Cruz Ellipsis Project), major questions remain open, most centrally the question of whether it is necessary to hypothesize the existence of unpronounced syntactic structure at the ellipsis site.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers who have been working on elliptical phenomena with special emphasis on methodologies aiming to improve the empirical foundations of the discussion, specifically psycholinguistic experimentation (acceptability and eye-tracking experiments, in particular) and corpus investigations. Contributions will be welcome concerning (i) the specific experimental methodologies being used in psycholinguistics, and how they can be improved to give more reliable and interpretable results; (ii) the way corpus data can be brought to bear on theoretical questions; and (iii) how corpus data can be used to improve the results of psycholinguistic experiments, specifically by increasing the naturalness of the materials by providing new hypotheses. We are proposing this conference as a continuation of a conference series held successfully during the LSA 2017 and 2019 Linguistic Institutes, online in 2020, and during the SLE 2022 conference.
We invite anonymous submissions to the ECBAE workshop:
All abstracts should be submitted in via EasyChair.
All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers are expected to give a 30-minute presentation. The workshop proceedings will be published online in a collective volume. A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference.
Abstract submission deadline: 3 March 2023 (anywhere on earth)
Notifications of acceptance: 17 April 2023
Please direct any questions to the local organizing committee chairs: Gabriela Bîlbîie and Joanna Nykiel (ecbae2023@gmail.com).