International Conference on External Possession and Related Noun Incorporation Phenomena, Eugene, OR, Sept. 7-10, 1997

这次国际会议汇集了专家学者，研究一组被称为外部所有的语言结构和世界各地发现的某些名词并入现象。这些构式在很大程度上被归因于特定语言的“深奥特质”，但它们实际上挑战了大多数提出的句法理论。这是因为所涉及的句子的特征与这些句子所涉及的动词的假设特征不相对应。因此，这些结构构成了任何适当的句法和自然语言理论的极限情况。会议将包括句法、词汇、动词结构、语义学和心理语言学方面的专家学者，以努力对这些现象有一个尽可能全面和全面的看法。已经明确选择了我们认为可以跨越该领域主要理论分歧一起很好地交谈和倾听的学者。此外，用多种语言(北美土著、中美洲、南美洲；印度支那语包括罗曼语、日耳曼语和斯拉夫语；非洲语包括尼罗的语、班图语；澳大利亚人；Cinitic等)探索过这些结构的学者，以及能够深入谈论特定数据的学者将被包括在内。会议将于1997年9月7日至10日在俄勒冈大学举行。会议结束后，编辑后的卷将传播重要的发现。这将是关于外部占有现象的第一卷，并将包含大量关于动词论元结构、句法、类型学、语言处理和认知方面的理论进展的文章。一方面，通过收集实地数据，另一方面，通过尚未解释这些数据的理论和心理学模型，该项目将有助于为心理语言学和理论语言学的新研究议程奠定基础。

This international conference brings together expert scholars to investigate a set of language structures referred to as External Possession and certain Noun Incorporation phenomena found around the world. These constructions have been largely relegated to "esoteric idiosyncrasies" of particular languages, but they in fact challenge most proposed theories of syntax. This is because features of the sentences involved fail to correspond with supposed features of the verbs involved in those very sentences. Thus, these constructions constitute limiting cases for any adequate theory of syntax and natural language. The conference will include expert scholars in syntax, lexicon, verb structure, semantics, and psycholinguistics, in an effort to get as holistic and comprehensive a view of the phenomena as possible. Scholars have been explicitly chosen who we believe can talk and listen well together across the major theoretical divides in the field. Additionally, scholars who have explored these constructions in a wide range of languages (Native North, Central, South American; IndoEuropean including Romance, Germanic, and Slavic; African including Nilotic, Bantu; Australian; Cinitic among others), and who can talc about particular data in depth, will be included. The conference will be held at the University of Oregon from September 7 through 10, 1997. Following the conference, an edited volume will disseminate significant findings. This will be the first volume on external possession phenomena, and will contain substantive articles bearing on theoretical advances in the understanding of verbal argument structure, syntax, typology, language processing, and cognition. In bringing together field data on the one hand, with theoretical and psychological models which do not yet account for them on the other, the project will help set the stage for new research agendas in both psycholinguistics and theoretical linguistics.