28.1774, Confs: Gen Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/UK

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Subject: 28.1774, Confs: Gen Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/UK

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:02:54
From: Melisa Rinaldi [m.g.rinaldi at qmul.ac.uk]
Subject: Roots V

Roots V 

Date: 17-Jun-2017 - 18-Jun-2017 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Melisa Rinaldi 
Contact Email: m.g.rinaldi at qmul.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://actlblog.wordpress.com/roots/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Roots V will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics of Queen Mary,
University of London and the Department of Linguistics of University College
London on June 17-18, 2017 (with an opening session on the evening of June
16).

Organizers: Hagit Borer (QMUL), Andrew Nevins (UCL)

The relationship between syntactic structure and syntactic terminals has
always been at the core of important debates within generative grammar. Are
such terminals phonologically abstract or concrete? Do they correspond to
features, to 'morphemes', or are they fully listed items, possibly 'words' or
'lexemes'? If the latter, do such terminals correspond to well-defined units
of meaning? Do they have syntactic properties which inform the structure they
project, or do the properties of terminals derive from the structure that they
are embedded within, and with the structure itself otherwise constructed?
Finally, are there 'syntactic terminals' in the commonly understood sense
altogether?

In the past two decades or so, a body of research has emerged which seeks to
disassociate the hitherto assumed link between syntactic terminals and 'words'
or 'lexemes'. In their stead, the syntactic terminals of functional heads are
frequently assumed to consist of abstract formal features which are
phonologically realized post-syntactically, while non-functional terminals are
frequently assumed to consist of roots, with the latter presumed to have no
syntactic category, and little, if any, other properties which could impact
the syntax. Within such approaches, the 'lexeme' as such, is at best a
derivative notion, and the 'word' is treated as an emerging configuration
created by syntactic combinatorial processes, and corresponding, within any
given phonological system, to some well-formed phonotactic unit (e.g., the
domain of main stress in English).

This research agenda remains incomplete, however, without a fuller theoretical
articulation of the way in which the combination of roots and formal features
conspire to give rise to the properties traditionally associated with 'words'
or 'lexemes'. 

Constructive dialogues intending to elaborate on the properties of roots have
informed a series of workshops in the past 9 years, and we view this workshop
as the latest among them, bringing together researchers working within
different approaches to discuss the place of roots in present day linguistic
modeling:

1. Can roots be inserted in any syntactic context (with clashes conceptually
and contextually excluded), or do roots come with some properties that delimit
their syntactic insertion (e.g. ontological types or selected arguments)?
2. How does syntactic category come about, in the absence of listed
categorical specification for roots?
3. What (if any) are the phonological properties of roots? Is there root
suppletion? Do roots exercise (morpho)phonological selection, and if so, how
is it delimited?
4. What (if any) are the phonological realizations of formal features
(Vocabulary items, in DM)? Can Vocabulary Items exercise (morpho)phonological
selection?
5. What (if any) are the semantic properties of roots? Do roots have meaning,
or content, in isolation? How do they acquire content in context?
6. How can we model the non-compositional content of complex words? Note that
this is a question regardless of whether roots in isolation have content.
7. What psycho- and neurolinguistic evidence can be brought to bear on the
existence of roots as well as possibly formal features as syntactic terminals?

Invited Speakers:

Edit Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Noam Faust (Université Paris 8)
Heidi Harley (University of Arizona)
Jason Merchant (University of Chicago)
Neil Myler (Boston University)
Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona)

Program: 

Roots V

Friday June 16 (held at UCL):

18:00 - 19:00:
Invited Talk: Edit Doron
The causative component of psych-verbs

Saturday June 17 (held at QMUL):

09:00 - 10:00:
Invited Talk: Jason Merchant
Roots don't select, categorial heads do: l-selection of PPs may vary by
category

10:00 - 10:50:
Moreno Mitrovic and Phoevos Panagiotidis
The categorial anatomy of adjectives

10:50 - 11:10: Coffee break

11:10 - 11:50: 
Ora Schwarzwald
Newly formed consonantal roots in Modern Hebrew

11:50 - 12:30: 
Si Berrebi & Noa Bassel
Manner islands: syntactic evidence in favor of a lexical constraint

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 - 14:40:
Sam Steddy
Limits on Compounding

14:40 - 15:20: 
Chechen Song
There is no root-root merger: revisiting Chinese non-endocentric compounds

15:20 - 16:50: 
Poster Session:
Victor Acedo-Matellán & Cristina Real-Puigdollers, Paula Armelin, Leah Bauke,
Fulang Chen, Shiloh Drake, Patricia Irwin, Loes Koring & Rosalind Thornton,
Dimitris Micheliodakis & Nikos Angelopoulos, Yohei Oseki, Abigail Thornton.

16:50 - 17:40:
Itamar Kastner
Revisiting the roots of Semitic morphology

17:40 - 18:40:
Invited Talk: Adam Ussishkin 
The Semitic firewall: Maltese roots and lexical access

Sunday June 18 (held at QMUL):

09:00 - 10:00:
Invited talk: Neil Myler
Attributive Possession and the Contributions of Roots

10:00 - 10:50:
Artemis Alexiadou, Fabienne Martin & Florian Schäfer
Optionally causative manner verbs: when implied results get entailed

10:50 - 11:10: Coffee break

11:10 - 11:50: 
Jurij Bozic
Roots and non-locally triggered allomorphy

11:50 - 12:30:
Vassilios Spyropoulous, Anthi Revithiadou & Giorgos Markopoulos
Root Allomorphy in Greek: Templatic representations and readjustment rules

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 - 15:00:
Invited talk: Noam Faust
Root allomorphy in Semitic: implications for a general theory of allomorphy

15:00 - 15:40:
Jason Ostrove
Root Suppletion in the context of morphological case in Scottish Gaelic

15:40 - 16:20:
Miloje Despic 
(Non-)Intersective Adjectives and Root Suppletion

16:20 - 16:50: Coffee break

16:50 - 17:40: 
Ivona Kucerova & Adam Szczegelniak 
Roots, their structure and the consequences for derivational timing: A case
study from gender-marking languages

17:40 - 18:40:
Invited talk: Heidi Harley
The morphosyntax of Korean honorific suppletion and locality constraints on
conditioning domains.

The program can be found at
https://actlblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/roots-v-programme1.pdf as well.

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