IWSPM2024: International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024 Meeting Dates: 16-17 November, 2024 Venue: Ichigaya Campus, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/iwspm2024/home Predication is a relation between predicates and their subjects, or, more generally, arguments for which they select. Predication plays an important part in natural language syntax. Modification is a device enriching the information conveyed by a constituent, which is carried out by adding an element to that constituent (standardly via adjunction). Both predication and modification come in a wide variety of forms. Attempts to generalize over predication and modification face a number of important questions, e.g., about optionality, the category of the subject and the syntactic mechanism by which predicates and modifiers are related to their ‘significant others’. The division of labor between predication and modification is not always clear-cut : thus, depictive secondary predication and relativization appear to straddle the boundaries between predication and modification. Detailed investigations of the various constructions relevant to predication and modification enhance our understanding of natural-language syntax and its interface with meaning ( both semantics and pragmatics). Research questions to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to: 1. What factors differentiate between predication and modification in syntactic terms? 2. Is it possible to reduce the distinction between predication and modification to some syntactically definable notions, such as complementation, specification, adjunction, dedicated (lexical/functional) heads? 3. Are there dedicated syntactic structures for predication and modification, and if so, what are they rooted in? 4. Do the syntactic structures assigned to predication and modification vary cross-linguistically, and if so, what underlies the variations? 5. Are there any diachronic data that tell us whether, and if so, how the syntax of predication and modification has evolved over time? 6. Are there any syntactic constructions that can be ambiguous between predication and modification, and if so, what underlies this ambiguity and how can it be diagnosed? 7. Are there distinct structural relations involved in modification, and if so , what determines their distribution and how can it be diagnosed? This workshop will foster fruitful dialogue between researchers through analyses of a selection of construction types involving predication and modification, from a wide range of languages and analytical perspectives. Keynote Speakers: Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics , Budapest) and Mamoru Saito (Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama) Important Dates Call Deadline: 31 July 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 7 September 2024 Meeting Dates: 16-17 November 2024 Registration for Participants: Pre-registration is required. There will be no registration fee. Call for Papers: We invite submissions of abstracts for 25-minute presentations (followed by 10 -minute discussions) on any topic in the syntax of predication and modification and/or its interface with semantics. We especially welcome submissions addressing questions from a formal syntactic perspective. Abstracts may not exceed two pages (A4 with 2.5 cm margin or US letter with 1 inch margins on all sides), including examples, references and tables/figures. Fonts should be no smaller than 12 points. The top of the first page should include the title of the paper and, on a separate text line, up to 5 keywords. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF via the workshop webpage. Abstract submission webpage: https://forms.gle/BUs2peJmrY6gwjBW8 --

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