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来研究一套被称为外部占有的语言结构和世界各地发现的某些名词并入现象。这些结构在很大程度上被归为特定语言的“深奥特质”，但实际上它们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中所涉及的动词的假定特征不一致。 因此，这些构造构成了任何适当的句法和自然语言理论的限制情况。 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，以尽可能全面和全面地了解这一现象。我们已经明确选择了我们认为可以在该领域的主要理论分歧中一起交谈和倾听的学者。此外，学者谁已经探讨了这些结构在广泛的语言（原住民北部，中部，南美洲;印欧语，包括罗曼语，日耳曼语和斯拉夫语;非洲包括尼罗河，班图;澳大利亚; Cinitic等），谁可以深入讨论特定的数据，将被包括在内。 会议将于1997年9月7日至10日在俄勒冈州大学举行。会议之后，将出版一本经过编辑的文集，传播重要的调查结果。这将是第一卷的外部占有现象，并将包含实质性的文章，在理论上的进步，在理解动词的论点结构，句法，类型学，语言处理和认知。 一方面，通过将实地数据与尚未解释它们的理论和心理模型结合在一起，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.