CONFERENCE ON THE GRAMMAR OF IDIOMS

The CRISSP group at KU Leuven in Belgium have asked us to publicize their annual conference (8th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics), whose theme this year is The Grammar of Idioms. The conference, which is co-sponsored by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, will take place in Brussels on June 4-5th 2015 and will explore the phenomenon of idioms in all its aspects (syntax, semantics, processing, acquisition, diachrony), with the goal of better understanding how such expressions are able to occur within natural language, and what mechanisms they are governed by. The invited speakers are Christiane Fellbaum of Princeton, Manfred Sailer of the University of Frankfurt, and UCSC alumna Louise McNally of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. The abstract submission deadline is March 15th 2015. The call for papers is here.