<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; "><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Morphology of the World's Languages</b></p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date and Venue:</b> June 11-13 2009, University of Leipzig</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The last years have seen substantial advances in the typological study and the formal modelling of natural language morphology. However, progress in the theoretical analysis of morphological systems highlights a basic empirical problem: We know too little about the morphology of too few languages and language families.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">This conference in the tradition of <a href="http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~gast/swl3/" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 144); text-decoration: none; ">Syntax of the World's Languages</a> seeks to bring together researchers working on the documentation or analysis of morphological data from less widely studied languages to broaden the empirical scope of morphological theory. Contributions are expected to be based either on new data, new generalizations, or new approaches to analysis. All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, as is work done in analytical frameworks developed in typology or field linguistics.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to:</p><ul style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><li>The Structure of Syncretism</li><li>Productivity in Derivation and Compounding</li><li>Nonconcatenative and Prosodic Morphology</li><li>Systematic and Idiosyncratic Aspects of Allomorphy</li><li>Affix Order</li><li>Boundaries of Morphology to Phonology and Syntax</li></ul><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Papers that adopt a diachronic/historical-comparative perspective or that discuss language-contact effects are also welcome, as are papers which study the morphology of understudied languages from the psycholinguistic or neurolinguistic side.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The conference will be sponsored by the <a href="http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~va/" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 144); text-decoration: none; ">Research Group on Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments</a> and the <a href="http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~exponet/" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 144); text-decoration: none; ">Network Core Mechanisms of Exponence</a>. The fifth meeting of the network which takes place immediately after the conference (June 14) is also open to the public.</p><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr><h3 style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 12pt; ">Abstract Submission</h3><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">We invite abstracts for 40 minutes presentations (including discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous, at most one page long (with an optional second page for data and references), and should be sent as a pdf attachment to:</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">doreengeorgi<b>@</b>gmx.de</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Deadline for Abstracts:</b> February 8 2008</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Notification of Acceptance: </b>February 28 2008</p><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Invited Speakers:</b></p><ul style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><li>Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)</li><li>Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)</li><li>Alice Harris (Stony Brook University)</li><li>Larry Hyman (University of Berkeley)</li><li>Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)</li><li>Andrew Nevins (Harvard University)</li><li>Andrew Spencer (University of Sussex)</li><li>Dieter Wunderlich (Center for General Linguistics, Berlin)</li></ul><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Organization:</b></p><ul style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><li>Balthasar Bickel</li><li>Doreen Georgi</li><li>Gereon Müller</li><li>Jochen Trommer</li></ul></span></div></div></body></html>