<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="border:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 6px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">call for papers</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P><DIV style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 6px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Workshop on Empirical approaches to morphological case</FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="text-align: center; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; font-size: 4px; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(LSA Summer Institute, Stanford, CA, 21 July, 2007)</FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="text-align: auto;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">In recent years, new and varied approaches to the empirical study of morphological case have significantly increased our understanding of this empirical phenomenon. These approaches have informed more refined theoretical models which necessarily address interface questions, especially the interface of morphological case with semantics. Such studies may rely on corpora, experimental evidence, and the investigation of (synchronic and diachronic) variation and how it bears on synchronic analyses. </FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; font-size: 6px; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The aim of this workshop is to establish greater awareness of the benefit of different empirical approaches to the study of case, the insights that such studies provide, and how they inform theoretical models. Possible research questions may include, but need not be limited to, the following:</FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> <SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 6px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">- expanding our understanding of case phenomena through novel empirical methods</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">- investigating how morphological case interfaces with other aspects of the grammar</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">- hypothesizing on how this interface should be modelled theoretically</FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Talks will be 25 minutes long, with 5 mins for questions, in addition to the general discussion sessions during the day. </FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Invited presentations will be given by</FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">:</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Andrew Spencer (Essex)</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Miriam Butt (Konstanz)</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Joan Maling (Brandeis) and Jongsup Jun (Hankuk)</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Abstracts</FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">: Please send your anonymous abstracts of no more than 500 words (1 page) to Cathryn Donohue at: <A href="mailto:case07@gmail.com">case07@gmail.com</A>. Please include authors details and title of paper in the body of the message and attach the abstract to the message, ideally as a pdf file.</FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Abstracts are due on March 1st 2007. Notification will be sent out no later than March 21st.</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Outlines</FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">: As there will be discussion of the papers, we will ask that you provide us with an outline of your paper in advance of the workshop, no later than July 7th. </FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Important dates:</FONT></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.75in;border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Mar 1 Abstracts due </FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(pdfs to be sent to: <A href="mailto:case07@gmail.com">case07@gmail.com</A>)</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.75in;border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Mar 21 Notification of acceptance</FONT></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.75in;border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">July 7 Outline of papers due </FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(pdf to be sent to: <A href="mailto:case07@gmail.com">case07@gmail.com</A>)</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:.75in;border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">July 21 Workshop</FONT></B></SPAN></P><DIV style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">More information about the workshop, including the final program, will be posted on the workshop’s website in due course: <A href="http://www.unr.edu/homepage/donohue/case">http://www.unr.edu/homepage/donohue/case</A></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">For any questions about the workshop, please email your queries to either of the organizers: </FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Cathryn Donohue (<A href="mailto:donohue@unr.edu">donohue@unr.edu</A>) or Jóhanna Barðdal (<A href="mailto:johanna.barddal@uib.no">johanna.barddal@uib.no</A>.).</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>