<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Call for expressions of interest:<b style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> ‘Typological approaches to linguistic levels’</span></b></div><div dir="ltr"><div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(76,17,48)">ALT Workshop, Pavia, 4–6 September 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(76,17,48)">Convenors: John Mansfield and Adam Tallman</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(76,17,48)">Expression of interest due: 1 November 2018</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font color="#4c1130" face="Times New Roman">Workshop description:</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(76,17,48)">Many linguistic
theories assume that languages are organized into levels such as
morph/word/phrase, X/X'/X'' and PWord/PPhrase/IPhrase. The most contentious of
these is the idea that morphology and syntax are distinct systems of
organization (Baerman, Brown and Corbett 2017; Bruening 2018). However, there
are more general typological problems faced by all theories of linguistic
levels.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(76,17,48)">One problem is identifying
criteria that distinguish levels in linguistic structure (Croft 2001;
Haspelmath 2011). Identifying a word constituent based on one criterion alone
results in circularity and lack of comparability across languages, while on the
other hand, multiple criteria fail to align. One solution is to reject platonic
notions of ‘word’ and instead begin from the criteria themselves, generating
cross-linguistic comparisons of criterial (non-)alignment (Bickel, Hildebrandt,
Schiering 2010; Bickel & Zuñiga 2017). Another posits that words cluster
around the most informative boundary types<i> </i>(Geertzen, Blevins,
Milin 2017). A third approach tests whether languages vary in the extent to
which they motivate a distinction between morphology and syntax (Tallman and
Epps <i>forthcoming</i>; Tallman et al. 2018).<b> </b>Some linguists have
challenged the idea that morphosyntactic words can be motivated <i>at
all </i>without phonological criteria (Dryer ms), undermining the
empirical basis of keeping morphosyntactic and phonological constituency
distinct without stipulation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#4c1130" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px">In this workshop we seek contributions that empirically interrogate levels of linguistic structure, as opposed to assuming their existence. We welcome quantitative approaches, information-theoretic methods, morphological, syntactic and prosodic studies. We also welcome contributions from lesser studied languages that shed particular light on the problem of linguistic levels.</span></font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#4c1130" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#4c1130" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px">Conference information: <a href="https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/alt2019/home">https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/alt2019/home</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#4c1130" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#4c1130" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px">To submit an expression of interest please contact the convenors with a title and a brief provisional abstract (max. 300 words):</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#4c1130" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px">John Mansfield (<a href="mailto:john.mansfield@unimelb.edu.au">john.mansfield@unimelb.edu.au</a>)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#4c1130" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px">Adam Tallman (<a href="mailto:ajrtallman@utexas.edu">ajrtallman@utexas.edu</a></span></font><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(76,17,48);font-family:"Times New Roman"">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(76,17,48);font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Dates:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Submit expression of interest: 1 November 2018</font></p>

Workshop proposal submission to ALT: 15 November 2018</div><div>Workshop acceptance notification: 25 November 2018</div><div>Conference: 4-6 September 2019<br>

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Wylie, Eric Adell, Natalia Bermudez, Gladys Camacho, Patience Epps, Michael
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