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<div dir="ltr">We invite abstracts for a<b> 'Workshop on "External" Agreement with Unexpected Targets'</b> to be submitted for consideration for the 52nd Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Leipzig, 21–24 August 2019.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Since this workshop is intended to be part of the annual meeting of the SLE it needs to go through a preliminary round of evaluation. If the proposal is successful, the participants will be asked to submit a full abstract. Provisional titles
and abstracts (up to 300 words) should be sent by <b>16 November 2018</b> to Marina Chumakina at the following address:
<a href="mailto:m.chumakina@surrey.ac.uk">m.chumakina@surrey.ac.uk</a></div>
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<b>Important dates:</b><br>
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Provision abstract deadline: 16 November 2018<br>
Notification of inclusion in workshop: 20 November 2018<br>
Notification of acceptance of workshop: 15 December 2018<br>
Deadline for the submission of full abstract if workshop proposal is successful: 15 January 2019<br>
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<b>Convenors:</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Marina Chumakina, Oliver Bond and Steven Kaye (Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey)<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>Background</b><br>
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Across the world’s languages, agreement is generally limited to relations between a verb and its arguments (clausal agreement) or a noun and its dependents (nominal agreement), and it usually occurs between elements belonging to particular parts of speech within
the boundaries of established syntactic constituents.<br>
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We focus on a radically different type of agreement, where the relation between the controller and the target is typologically and theoretically unexpected. Examples have been registered in abundance in one linguistic family, Nakh-Daghestanian, and have been
sporadically reported for other languages of the world (Antrim 1991, Fábregas and Pérez-Jiménez 2008, Ledgeway 2011 among others). Consider example (1), from the Nakh-Daghestanian language Avar, where the postposition žaniw ‘inside’ has the neuter noun tusnaq’
‘prison’ as its complement. Together, these elements form a postpositional phrase, tusnaqalda žaniw ‘in the prison’. However, agreement on the postposition, realized by the masculine singular suffix -w, is controlled by one of the verb’s arguments, the object
Rasul:<br>
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(1) tusnaq-al-da žani-w t’amuna niže-cːa Rasul<br>
prison(N)-SG.OBL-SUP in-M.SG put.PST 1PL.EXCL-ERG Rasul(M)[SG.ABS]<br>
‘We put Rasul in prison.’ <br>
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The agreement represented in (1) is striking: first of all, it is an unusual part of speech that shows agreement, namely a postposition. Secondly, the agreement happens with an unexpected controller: not the complement of the postposition, but the object of
the predicate. The target and controller in (1) ultimately belong to the same clause but do not form a local domain either in terms of strict locality (sisterhood) or high locality (such as verb-argument relations), as defined in Alexiadou et al. (2013: 3-4).
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Languages of the Andic group present an even more striking example: agreement in the nominal paradigm. The noun in the affective case (‘mother’) coding the experiencer argument of the verb haɢo ‘see’ has a morphological slot for agreement and agrees in gender
and number with the absolutive argument of the clause, as (2) and (3) from Andi illustrate:<br>
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(2) ilu-b-o q’inkom haɢo<br>
mother(II)-III.SG-AFF bull(III)[SG.ABS] see.AOR<br>
‘Mother saw a bull.’<br>
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(3) ilu-r-o c’ul haɢo<br>
mother(II)-V.SG-AFF stick(V)[SG.ABS] see.AOR<br>
‘Mother saw a stick.’ <br>
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These examples demonstrate that, first, agreement affects a much wider range of grammatical elements than previously thought and, second, agreement does not always correlate with syntactic structure; it can ‘sidestep’ syntactic relations, contrary to what has
been generally assumed. To capture the latter property of this phenomenon, we call it ‘external agreement’. This is, however, just a shorthand for a more accurate description: ‘agreement of non-verbal targets outside their minimal syntactic phrase, yet within
the clause’.<br>
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The aim of this workshop is to expand our understanding of how agreement works by investigating agreement phenomena such as arguments agreeing with other clause-level arguments, adpositions agreeing outside the adpositional phrase, and agreeing adverbs and
discourse particles, across the world’s languages. Our overarching research question is:
<b>What does external agreement tell us about the structure of human language?</b><br>
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To shed light on this problem, we invite papers that consider any of the following questions: <br>
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- What types of controllers and targets are involved in external agreement? <br>
- What are the structural constraints on non-local agreement?<br>
- What are the morphosyntactic properties of external agreement? <br>
- How does external agreement develop?<br>
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We welcome general typological and theoretical contributions to these topics, as well as case studies from languages, families or linguistic areas that relate to the main questions of the workshop.<br>
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<b>References</b><br>
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Alexiadou, Artemis, Tibor Kiss and Gereon Müller (eds) (2013). <i>Local Modelling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax</i>. Series: Linguistische Arbeiten 547. Berlin: De Gruyter.<br>
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Antrim, Nancy Mae (1991). ‘Italian adverbial agreement’, in Michael L. Mazzola (ed.),
<i>Issues and Theory in Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXIII, April 1–4, 1993</i>. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 129-40.<br>
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Baker, Mark (2014). ‘On dependent ergative case (in Shipibo) and its derivation by phase’,
<i>Linguistic Inquiry </i>4/3: 341-79.<br>
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Bond, Oliver, Greville G. Corbett, Marina Chumakina and Dunstan Brown (eds) (2016).
<i>Archi: Complexities of agreement in cross-theoretical perspective</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br>
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Carstens, Vicki, and Michael Diercks (2013). ‘Agreeing how? Implications for theories of agreement and locality’,
<i>Linguistic Inquiry</i> 44/2: 179-237.<br>
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Corver, Norbert (2007). ‘Dutch ’s-prolepsis as a copying phenomenon’, in Norbert Corver and Jairo Nunes (eds),
<i>Copy Theory of Movement</i>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 175-215.<br>
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Csirmaz, Aniko (2008). ‘The accusative case and aspect’, in Katalin É. Kiss (ed.),
<i>Event Structure and the Left Periphery: Studies on Hungarian</i>. Dordrecht: Springer, 159-200.<br>
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Fábregas, Antonio, and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (2008). ‘Gender agreement on adverbs in Spanish’,
<i>Journal of Portuguese Linguistics</i> 7: 25-45.<br>
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Haug, Dag T.T. and Tatiana Nikitina (2016). ‘Feature sharing in agreement’, <i>Natural Language and Linguistic Theory</i> 34: 865-910.<br>
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Ledgeway, Adam (2011). ‘Adverb agreement and split intransitivity: Evidence from southern Italy’,
<i>Archivio glottologico italiano</i> 96: 31-66.<br>
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Souag, Lameen (2015). ‘How to make a comitative preposition agree it-with its external argument: Songhay and the typology of conjunction and agreement’, in Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken and Paul Widmer (eds),
<i>Agreement from a diachronic perspective</i>. Berlin: De Gruyter, 75-100.
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<div>Dr. Oliver Bond<br>
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics<br>
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Surrey Morphology Group<br>
School of Literature and Languages<br>
University of Surrey<br>
Guildford<br>
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UK<br>
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Telephone: +44 (0)1483 689957<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:o.bond@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">o.bond@surrey.ac.uk</a><br>
Room: 01AC05, AC Building, fifth floor<br>
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Recent publications:<br>
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<div>Bond, Oliver, Greville G. Corbett, Marina Chumakina and Dunstan Brown (eds.). 2016.
<i>Archi: Complexities of agreement in cross-theoretical perspectives</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br>
<span><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/archi-9780198747291?cc=gb&lang=en&" target="_blank">Available now from OUP</a><br>
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<div>Bond, Oliver. 2016. Negation through reduplication and tone: Implications for the Lexical Functional Grammar/Paradigm Function Morphology interface.
<i>Journal of Linguistics</i>, 52, 2: 277-310. <br>
doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022226715000134" target="_blank">10.1017/S002222671500013</a><br>
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<div>Bond, Oliver and Gregory D. S. Anderson. 2014. Aspectual and focal functions of Cognate-Head-Dependent Constructions: Evidence from Africa.
<i>Linguistic Typology</i>, 18, 2: 215-250. <br>
doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2014-0010" target="_blank">10.1515/lingty-2014-0010</a></div>
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