28.2929, Confs: Ling Theories/USA

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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:59:24
From: Hisao Tokizaki [toki at sapporo-u.ac.jp]
Subject: Workshop: Phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure: Universals and variables

Workshop: Phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure: Universals and variables 
Short Title: Phex-KY 

Date: 26-Jul-2017 - 26-Jul-2017 
Location: Lexington, KY, USA 
Contact: Hisao Tokizaki 
Contact Email: toki at sapporo-u.ac.jp 
Meeting URL: https://toki482.wixsite.com/phex-kentucky-2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

Workshop:
Phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure: Universals and
variables

Description: 
The goal of this workshop is to clarify the processes of externalization that
map hierarchical morphosyntactic structure to linear phonological objects. We
aim to construct a theoretical model where morphosyntactic structure is
universal while variations between languages are limited to phonology.
Government and Binding theory tried to capture universal properties of
languages in terms of principles, while the variation between languages was
ascribed to parameters in the computational system. From 1990s, generative
linguists started to ascribe language variation to a detectable system that
lies outside of narrow syntax (cf. Chomsky’s (2001) Uniformity Principle).
Boeckx (2014) argues that parameters should be attributed to morphophonology
and the interface at PF. Some studies have proposed replacing syntactic
parameters with phonological differences between languages. Richards (2010)
proposes the condition on the prosody of wh-questions, which is extended as
Generalized Contiguity in Richards (2016). For example, Richards argues that
the pro-drop parameter is derivable from the position of metrical boundaries.
Tokizaki (2011, 2013) argues that the head-directionality parameter and the
compounding parameter can be derived from word-stress location in a language.
Eliminating syntactic features can also be done in terms of conditions on
linearization. Kayne (1994) proposes Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA), which
assumes that asymmetrical structure is linearized properly at PF. Given this
antisymmetry thesis, the relation between structure and movement has been
investigated by Moro (2000), Barrie (2011) and Bauke (2014). These studies can
also do away with syntactic parameters that are built on the syntactic formal
features triggering movement. We would like to discuss these topics with
participants of different backgrounds because we need to investigate the
mapping from syntax to phonology from various points of view. We aim to show
what kind of information is necessary for externalization. When the
externalization process is identified, we can reveal the properties of core
syntax.

References:
Barrie, Michael J. M. 2011. Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun
Incorporation. Springer.
Bauke, Leah S. 2014. Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
Boeckx, Cedric. 2015. Elementary Syntactic Structures: Prospects of a
Feature-Free Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chomsky, Noam. 2001. “Derivation by Phase,” Ken Hale: A Life in Language. ed.
by Michael Kenstowicz, 1-54, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Kayne, Richard S. 1994. The Antisymmetry of Syntax. MIT Press.
Moro, Andrea. 2000. Dynamic antisymmetry. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Richards, Norvin. 2010. Uttering Trees. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Richards, Norvin. 2016. Contiguity Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Tokizaki, Hisao. 2011. The Nature of Linear Information in the Mophosyntax-PF
Interface,” English Linguistics 28, 227–257.
Tokizaki, Hisao. 2013. “Deriving the Compounding Parameter from Phonology,”
Linguistic Analysis 38, 275-303.

Wednesday, July 26, 2017
JSB 108, University of Kentucky, KY, USA
As a part of Linguistic Society of America, Linguistic Institute 2017

12:50 
Welcome

1:00 
Norvin Richards (MIT) 
Detecting Prosodic Activity in Contiguity Theory 

1:50 
Yoshihito Dobashi (Niigata University)
Interpretability of Syntactic Objects and Prosodic Domains 

2:40 
Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University)
The phonetic salience of phonological head-dependent structure

3:20 
Hitomi Onuma (Iwate Medical University）
Velar softening and melodic complexity in English

4:10 
Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University)
Deriving word order universals from phonology 

4:50 
Discussion

5:00 
Close

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