28.2477, Calls: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:39:31
From: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck [jeroen.vancraenenbroeck at kuleuven.be]
Subject: The Morphology and Semantics of Person and Number

 
Full Title: The Morphology and Semantics of Person and Number 
Short Title: BCGL 10 

Date: 04-Dec-2017 - 05-Dec-2017
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Meeting Email: jeroen.vancraenenbroeck at kuleuven.be
Web Site: http://www.crissp.be/bcgl-10-the-morphology-and-semantics-of-person-and-number/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

CRISSP is proud to present the tenth instalment of the Brussels Conference on
Generative Linguistics (BCGL), devoted to the morphology and semantics of
person and number.

Person (in pronominal elements such as independent pronouns, pronominal
clitics and affixes and agreement markers) is often believed to be a universal
morphosynctactic category in language, which shows great variation in its
morphology. This can be seen in for example the different syncretism patterns
that exist between the individual persons and across the numbers. Person and
number also show variation in the morphological composition of the individual
pronominal elements, in some cases resulting in a markedness hierarchy.
Semantic distinctions also play a role in these markedness relations. BCGL 10
wants to explore these and related issues.

Invited speakers:

- Matthew Baerman (University of Surrey)
- Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary University of London)
- Martina Wiltschko (The University of British Columbia)


Call for Papers: 

We invite work on questions such as (but not limited to) the following:

- Which syncretisms are possible in language and which are not? Also, why do
free pronouns show less syncretism than agreement markers?
- How can the attested and unattested syncretisms or partitions in pronominal
paradigms be explained?
- Which morphological compositions are possible in language and which are not?
- Can the last two questions raised above be explained by (universal) person
and number hierarchies?
- Is the inclusive a combination of first and second person or is it an extra
dis- tinction on top of first person?
- Why is third person so often different from the other persons, for example
by taking different number marking than the other persons or by being
syncretic with demonstratives?
- Is there a difference between number marking on nouns and number marking in
pronominal elements?
- Does pronominal number make a distinction between minimal-augmented and
singular-plural number systems or does it only make use of one number
distinction, and how can this be derived by morphosyntactic number features?
- Is singular the default number (i.e. lacking a feature specification), as
for ex ample Ackema & Neeleman (2017) suggest based on morphology, or is
plural the default number, as argued for by Sauerland (2008) based on
semantics, or do both singular and plural have a feature specification, (e.g.
Bobaljik 2008)?
- Is there a one-to-one relation between semantic and morphosyntactic person
and number features as suggested in e.g. Harbour (2016), or do these differ,
as hinted at by Zeijlstra (2015); Sauerland (2008)?
- Do the morphosyntactic person features refer to operations such as function
ap- plication (e.g. Ackema & Neeleman 2017; Harbour 2016) or do they
correspond to predicates (e.g. Harley & Ritter 2002)?
- Is there a different semantics for number features on pronominals and on
nominals, even in cases where they are morphosyntactically similar?

Abstract guidelines:

Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including data, references and
diagrams. Abstracts should be typed in at least 11-point font, with one-inch
margins (letter-size; 8½ inch by 11 inch or A4) and a maximum of 50 lines of
text per page. Abstracts must be anonymous and submissions are limited to 2
per author, at least one of which is co-authored. Only electronic submissions
will be accepted. Please submit your abstract using the EasyChair link for
BCGL10: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcgl10personandnumbe

Important dates:

First call for papers: June 5, 2017
Second call for papers: August 16, 2017
Abstract submission deadline: September 15, 2017
Notification of acceptance: October 16, 2017
Conference: December 4-5, 2017




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