26.1637, Calls: Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1637. Thu Mar 26 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1637, Calls: Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:58:04
From: Jochen Trommer [jtrommer at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone: New Data and Theories

Full Title: Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone: New Data and Theories 
Short Title: MTT 

Date: 12-Jun-2015 - 13-Jun-2015
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Eva Zimmermann
Meeting Email: eva.zimmermann at uni-leipzig.de
Web Site: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~featuralaffixes/ToneWorkshop.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

Whereas tone has played a central role in the evolution of phonological theory (Goldsmith 1976, Pulleyblank 1986, Yip 2002), the channels by which morphology and syntax trigger tonal reflexes or conversely restrict tonal alternations are still hardly understood. Firmly persuaded by Hyman's (2011) dictum that `tone can do everything segmental or metrical phonology can do' (and more), we think that it is absolutely essential for linguistics to develop a better understanding for the empirical richness and the theoretical implications of the morphosyntax of tone. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to this end which brings together descriptively and theoretically oriented linguists addressing questions such as:

- How does morphosyntactic structure interact with tonal phonology? Do syntactic constructions trigger specific tone patterns? Which types of morphosyntactic boundaries restrict (or are required by) general tonal alternations? Does opacity in tonal processes correlate with morphological and syntactic levels of derivation?

- How does tonal featural affixation work morphologically? how are tonal morphemes linearized? Where do they show systematic patterns of syncretism and blocking or multiple exponence? What is the distribution of tonal prefixation and suffixation? Is there a tonal equivalent to infixation, and how does tonal overwriting work in contrast to additive tonal morphology?

- What can tonal phenomena teach us about the morphology-syntax interface? Are tonal alternations at the phrasal level substantially different from word-level processes? Where do tonal alternations crosscut the boundaries between word-level morphology and phrasal syntax?

Invited Speakers:

Yuni Kim (University of Manchester)
Mary Paster (Pomona College)
Gerrit Dimmendaal (University of Cologne)

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for twenty-minute talks with a ten-minute discussion. We especially encourage contributions which present original fieldwork (or experimental results), but also highly welcome submissions that provide new theoretical approaches, establish new descriptive generalizations, or, simply, bring to the fore relevant data that have been published, but so far ignored in a the theoretical discussion.

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts must be at most one page long. An optional second page is permitted for data and references. Abstracts must be anonymous. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author. 

The abstract should be submitted as a PDF attachment and sent to the following email address:

Eva.Zimmermann at uni-leipzig.de

Please use `Abstract' as the Subject header and include the information in (1) - (4), which should constitute the body of the message. Please make sure that all fonts are embedded.

Author Information:

(1) Name(s) of author(s)
(2) Title of talk
(3) Affiliation(s)
(4) Email address(es)

Deadline for submission: March 31, 2015
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2015

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