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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">ALT 2022 Workshop</font></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Situating constituency within typological research<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><i class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Organizers by Jeff Good and Adam Tallman</font></i></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Studies of constituency normally focus on the analysis of a single language and center around issues
such as how robust the distinction is between words and phrases in a language or whether there is evidence for significant hierarchical structure within its clauses. However, despite its centrality to many theoretical approaches to the study of grammar, constituency
has yet to be considered systematically from a typological perspective. On the methodological side, key concerns center around the fact that so-called constituency “tests” do not necessarily converge on a single constituency analysis for a given structure.
Some analysts (e.g., Croft 2001) have taken this to suggest that attempts to provide constituency analyses for linguistic elements should be abandoned, while others view the issue in terms of making sure that only the “right” constituency tests are employed
(e.g., Carnie 2008). Related issues have emerged in the context of phonological constituency. Typological studies have argued that the attested diversity of phonological domains is inconsistent with theoretical approaches to phonological constituency such
as those associated with the prosodic hierarchy (e.g. Bickel et al. 2009). Other researchers have responded to this by pointing out that a more flexible model of phonological constituency might be able to handle this diversity (Bennet & Elfner 2018).</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">On the theoretical side, an important concern is whether there will always be a clear-cut distinction between
morphosyntactic constituency and phonological constituency in every language, without a need to posit any other kinds of constituency (Tallman 2021). On the typological side, many significant questions remain open, such as whether all languages show apparent
clustering of domains over which morphosyntactic and phonological generalizations apply in a way that is suggestive of the presence of constituency, whether such clusters pattern in a way that is consistent with commonly employed notions such as word and phrase (or
more theoretically oriented analogs such as X</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">⁰</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> and XP), and what the global distribution is of different kinds of phenomena typically associated with constituency.
In addition, there is the question of how patterns of constituency emerge historically and whether a diachronic approach to constituency may be more effective at accounting for observed typological generalizations than a synchronic one.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: 0.25in;">The goal of this workshop is to launch a discussion of
constituency from a typological perspective, especially in light of recent advances in quantitative approaches to typology and the study of grammar. Questions to be considered include what features of theoretical approaches to constituency can be usefully
adapted for typological investigation, what kinds of coding and data analysis strategies are needed to study constituency typologically, and how the tools of typology can be used to shed light on traditional distinctions, such as the contrast between </span><i class="" style="text-indent: 0.25in;">word</i><span class="" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"> and </span><i class="" style="text-indent: 0.25in;">phrase</i><span class="" style="text-indent: 0.25in;">,
and determine the extent to which such categories can be considered cross-linguistically valid. An additional consideration will be the extent to which observed typological patterns of constituency can be linked to patterns of language use. Contributions exploring
concerns emanating from formal linguistic theories, such as so-called bracketing paradoxes or discontinuous constituents, from a typological perspective, are also welcome. While the focus of the workshop is the typology of constituency, papers focusing on
specific languages will also be considered as long as they situate their results with respect to broader typological concerns.</span></font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Possible talks topics may include, but are not limited to:</font></div>
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<li class=""><span class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px;">Examinations of how to apply constituency tests proposed in the literature to typologically diverse languages</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px;">Comparisons of different constituency tests with attempts to assess how useful and reliable they are</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Discussions of how the results of constituency tests can be coded in a way which allows for rigorous typological analysis</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Consideration of the word/phrase distinction in morphosyntax and phonology and what kinds of data and methods are required to resolve debates around the validity of the distinction</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The role of templates, and similar kinds of restrictions on linear realization, in understanding the typology of constituency</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Studies of constituent structure in specific languages situated with respect to larger typological questions of constituency</span></li></ul>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">References</font></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; text-indent: 24px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Bennett, R., & Elfner, E. (2019). The Syntax-Prosody Interface. Annual Review
of Linguistics, 5, 151-171.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: 24px; font-size: 14px;">Bickel, B., Hildebrandt, K. A., & Schiering, R. (2009). The distribution of phonological </span><span class="" style="text-indent: 24px; font-size: 14px;">word
domains: A probabilistic typology. In J. Grijzenhout, & K. Baris (Eds.), Phonological</span><span class="" style="text-indent: 24px; font-size: 14px;"> Domains: Universals and Deviations (pp. 47–75). De Gruyter Mouton.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; text-indent: 24px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Carnie, A. (2000). On the definition of X0 and XP. Syntax, 3(2), 59–106.</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; text-indent: 24px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Croft, W. (2001). Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological
Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University </font></span><span class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; text-indent: 24px;">Press.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; text-indent: 24px;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Tallman, A. J. (2021). Constituency and coincidence in Chácobo (Pano). Studies
in Language, 45, 321–383.</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Information on submitting an abstract can be found on the general ALT 2022 abstract submission page:</b></font></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Please make sure to put the workshop title,<i class=""> <span class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class=""><font class="">Situating constituency within typological
research</font></span></span></i>, at the top of your abstract.</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2022</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class="">For more information, please contact the organizers:</i></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Jeff Good: <a href="mailto:jcgood@buffalo.edu" class="">jcgood@buffalo.edu</a> <br class="">
Adam Tallman : <a href="mailto:ajrtallman@utexas.edu" class="">ajrtallman@utexas.edu</a> <br class="">
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