Updated Version: TEAL-13  CALL FOR PAPERS

MAY 12-14, 2023
NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
https://sites.google.com/ntnueng.tw/teal13

NEW submission deadline: January 6, 2023 (Taiwan Time)
Notification of acceptance: Around mid-February, 2023
Conference dates: May 12-14, 2023

We invite submissions for a 20-minute talk (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or
a poster, addressing theoretical problems in languages spoken in the area of East Asia,
such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or the minority languages spoken in China and/or
Taiwan, and in the area of Southeast Asia, such as Vietnamese. We welcome
comparative work in syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, language
acquisition, or psycho/neurolinguistics that contributes to the understanding of Universal Grammar.

theme of Silence in East Asian Languages. Silence refers to anything that is not
morphologically realized, including ellipsis and empty categories resulting from
movement or base-generated (such as null subjects/objects/topics, pro/Pro, covert
modals, implicit light verbs/applicatives). An amazing accomplishment of theoretical
linguistic research is the discovery that different types of silence can/must be
distinguished and that East Asian languages differ as a group from English and
European languages in a clustering of properties, and from each other with respect to
(some of) these properties. But what are the real differences among these languages, if
there are? And if true differences exist, what clues/correlations do we have in order to
understand the differences and how can they be described? We encourage studies
focusing on this theme, though we also cordially welcome original submissions on any other theoretical issues.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Michael Kenstowicz (MIT)
Min-Joo Kim (Texas Tech University)
Yen-hui Audrey Li (University of Southern California)
Trang Phan (Vietnam National University, Hanoi)
Rint Sybesma (Leiden University)
Daiko Takahashi (Tohoku University)

• Abstracts must be in PDF format. 
• Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed two pages of letter-sized or A4 paper, including data and references. 
• Abstracts should have 1″ margins on all sides and use font size 12 throughout.
• Abstracts should have a clear title.

• Abstracts and their metadata should not identify the author(s).
• Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author. 
• Abstracts should not present work that has already been published or accepted for
publication.
• Please indicate whether your submission is for a talk or a poster presentation or both on the submission page.
• The abstract must be submitted electronically using EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=teal13.

https://sites.google.com/ntnueng.tw/teal13

For questions, please contact the Organizing Committee at tealthirteen@gmail.com.