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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><br></font></span></b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Hello all,</font></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Please see the following ALT workshop on constituency below & consider submitting an abstract. It is due April 1st. <br></font></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"></font></span></b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><br></font></span></b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">ALT 2022 Workshop</font></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Situating constituency within typological research<u></u><u></u></font></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center"><i style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">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"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">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"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><span 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 style="font-size:14px">⁰</span><span 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"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><span 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 style="text-indent:0.25in">word</i><span style="text-indent:0.25in"> and </span><i style="text-indent:0.25in">phrase</i><span 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><font style="font-size:14px" face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Possible talks topics may include, but are not limited to:</font></div>
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<ul><li><span 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><span 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><span 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><span 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><span 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><span 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"><span style="font-size:14px"><b><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">References</font></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px;text-indent:24px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">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"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><span style="text-indent:24px;font-size:14px">Bickel, B., Hildebrandt, K. A., & Schiering, R. (2009). The distribution of phonological </span><span style="text-indent:24px;font-size:14px">word
domains: A probabilistic typology. In J. Grijzenhout, & K. Baris (Eds.), Phonological</span><span 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"><span style="font-size:14px;text-indent:24px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">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"><span style="font-size:14px;text-indent:24px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Croft, W. (2001). Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological
Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University </font></span><span 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"><span style="font-size:14px;text-indent:24px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Tallman, A. J. (2021). Constituency and coincidence in Chácobo (Pano). Studies
in Language, 45, 321–383.</font></span></div>
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<div><font style="font-size:14px" face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><b>Information on submitting an abstract can be found on the general ALT 2022 abstract submission page:</b></font></div>
<div><font style="font-size:14px" face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/alt2022/call-for-papers" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/alt2022/call-for-papers</a></font></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Please make sure to put the workshop title,<i> <span style="text-align:center"><span><font>Situating constituency within typological
research</font></span></span></i>, at the top of your abstract.</font></span></div>
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<div><font style="font-size:14px" face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2022</font></div>
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<div><font style="font-size:14px" face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><i>For more information, please contact the organizers:</i></font></div>
<div><font style="font-size:14px" face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Jeff Good: <a href="mailto:jcgood@buffalo.edu" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-il">jcgood@buffalo.edu</span></a> <br>
Adam Tallman : <a href="mailto:adam.james.ross.tallman@uni-jena.de">adam.james.ross.tallman@uni-jena.de</a> <br></font></div>
</div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Adam J.R. Tallman</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Post-doctoral Researcher <br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Friedrich Schiller Universität<br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Department of English Studies<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>