CL Group
Alliance Project

Overview

The Alliance 05 Project: Interface Issues in Constraint Based Grammar is a collaboration between the Department of Language and Linguistics at Essex and UFR Linguistique, Paris 7, funded by the British Council, under the Alliance: Franco-British research partnership programme 2005. It is project number PN 05.001. The project starts in 2005.

The following is a shortened description of the proposed programme.

The project aims to promote research on a number of `interface issues' in the framework of `Constraint Based' Linguistic Theory, specifically (i) the interface between Syntax and Semantics and (ii) the interface between syntax and morphology.

Under (i) the project will pay particular attention to the syntax and semantics of Relative Clauses (especially the relation between Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses in English and French, and the status of resumptive pronouns in French and Welsh), Negation (where Welsh and French show interesting similarities and differences), and Coordination (where there appear to be analogous problems in teach of the three languages).

Under (ii) the project will pay particular attention to structures which seem to show a mixture of lexical or morphological properties and syntactic proporties: in particular, Clitics in Welsh and French, and `small' or `lite' constructions in English and French.

Practically, this collaboration will involve a number of individual exchanges, typically of a few days duration, to allow face-to-face collaborative work between individuals, and an end of year workshop to provide a focus and act as a forum for assessment of results, and progress, and as an aid to dissemination of results. The workshop will be open to everyone.

Project Proposal

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Workshops

1. April 2005 (Essex) (joint with `Cobalize').
2. October 2005 (Paris)
3. November 2005 (Essex)
4. May 2006 (Essex)
5. June 2006 (Paris)
6. Dec 2006 (Essex)

Project Report(s)

• Report for 2005 (pdf)

People

Essex

To contact everyone at Essex: doug@essex.ac.uk;rborsley@essex.ac.uk;louisa@essex.ac.uk;spena@essex.ac.uk

UFRL, Paris 7

To contact everyone at Paris 7: daniele.godard@linguist.jussieu.fr;anne.abeille@linguist.jussieu.fr;alain.rouveret@linguist.jussieu.fr

To contact everyone: doug@essex.ac.uk;rborsley@essex.ac.uk;louisa@essex.ac.uk;spena@essex.ac.uk;daniele.godard@linguist.jussieu.fr;anne.abeille@linguist.jussieu.fr;alain.rouveret@linguist.jussieu.fr

Links

• CL Group at Essex
• UFRL, Paris 7
• Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle