20.928, Calls: General Ling/France

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Subject: 20.928, Calls: General Ling/France

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Date: 17-Mar-2009
From: Enoch O. Aboh < e.o.aboh at uva.nl >
Subject: The Grammar of Reiteration in Creole and Other Natural Languages

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:29:24
From: Enoch O. Aboh [e.o.aboh at uva.nl]
Subject: The Grammar of Reiteration in Creole and Other Natural Languages

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Full Title: The Grammar of Reiteration in Creole and Other Natural Languages 

Date: 18-Jun-2009 - 18-Jun-2009
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Anne Zribi-Hertz
Meeting Email: taalwetenschap-fgw at uva.nl

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Creole 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2009 

Meeting Description:

The Grammar of Reiteration in Creole and Other Natural Languages

This one-day workshop is organised in relation to the Van Gogh Project 30-670
'Topic, focus and reduplication: a cross-linguistic approach', jointly directed
by the University of Amsterdam and the Groupe de Recherche sur les Grammaires
Creoles (Research Project on Creole Grammars), UMR SFL/University of Paris-8/CNRS. 

Call for Papers  

The theme of the workshop is the grammar of reiteration Ñ a nontechnical term 
chosen to encompass any linguistic form involving two or several occurrences 
of the same expression within the bounds of a certain domain, regardless of
linear adjacency between the reiterated strings. 

Reiteration phenomena are clearly heterogeneous in nature and call for diverse
analyses bringing out (morpho)phonological, (morpho)syntactic, semantic and/or 
pragmatic constraints and generalisations. The research groups organising the
workshop have a special interest in Creole languages Ñ which justifies their
being overtly distinguished in the proposed title. However, since Creole
grammars activate exactly the same types of grammatical mechanisms as other
natural languages, projects based on non-Creole languages may also crucially
contribute to our global understanding of reiteration. 

The study of reiteration raises a number of descriptive and theoretical issues
which include the following: 
- What types of (phonological, morphological, syntactic) structures may underlie
reiteration phenomena? 
- When reiteration involves two adjacent meaningful expressions, are they merged
in syntax or in morphology? 
- Can we correlate types of reiteration and types of semantic effects? 
- Is a copy mechanism at work in the derivation of some reiteration data? If so,
what type of copy mechanism? 
- Are some types of reiteration dependent on specific (phonological,
morphological, syntactic) properties, and if so, which ones? 

Eight 35-minute talks (+ 10' for discussion) will be selected for the workshop.
Abstract selection will favour projects based on the in-depth study of one (or
two) specific languages. 

One-page (single-spaced) abstracts should be sent to : < taalwetenschap-
fgw at uva.nl>. Please send 2 copies: one anonymous, one with author's
identification, and type 'Abstracts Paris' in the 'object' slot of your email. 

Deadine for submission: 1 April, 2009. 
Acceptation notice: 1 May, 2009. 

Scientific/organising committee: Enoch Aboh (ACLC/U. Amsterdam), Muhsina 
Alleesaib (SFL/U. Paris-8-ZAS/Berlin), Hans den Besten (ACLC/U. Amsterdam), 
Herby Glaude (SFL/U. Paris-8-ACLC/U. Amsterdam), Norval Smith (ACLC/U. 
Amsterdam), Anne Zribi-Hertz (SFL/U. Paris-8).

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