28.2482, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Psycholing, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 28.2482, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Psycholing, Typology/Germany

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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:41:51
From: Beata Moskal [moskal at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Markedness: Perspectives in Morphology and Phonology

 
Full Title: Markedness: Perspectives in Morphology and Phonology 

Date: 13-Jul-2017 - 14-Jul-2017
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
Contact Person: Beata Moskal
Meeting Email: moskal at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Web Site: http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~moskal/markedness.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 10-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Markedness: perspectives in morphology and phonology

At the heart of the notion 'markedness' lies asymmetric behaviour of two units
on a certain scale, such as, for instance, frequency, complexity, tangibility,
etc. However, as noted by many authors (Rice 2007, Hume 2011 among many
others), it is difficult to formalize and capture exactly, since there is no
consensus on what scale (or scales) markedness should be measured on.

This workshop has as its aim to disentangle the various notions of markedness,
and how they would apply in phonology and morphology.

In addition to the question of which scales are relevant, there is an
overarching question where markedness belongs in the classical Chomskyan
architecture of performance and competence. Most researchers agree that, at a
minimum, markedness factors are observed on the performance side, but views
are more divided on whether markedness factors also play a role on the
competence side.

Another factor relates to the various grammatical modules: is markedness in
phonology the same as in morphology? For instance, phonetic factors in
phonology (e.g. articulatory simplicity) and phonetic factors in morphology
(e.g. overt marking of affixes) differ in nature. On the other hand, there are
many similarities: phonology and morphology both contain processes involving a
trigger and target, configurations that have been used extensively to develop
a theory of markedness.

Invited speakers:
- Martin Haspelmath (MPI Jena/University of Leipzig)
- Elizabeth Hume (University of Canterbury)
- Yuni Kim (University of Essex/University of Manchester)
- Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
- Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)
- Andrew Nevins (University College London)
- Bridget Samuels (University of Southern California)
- Jochen Trommer (University of Leipzig)
- Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (KU Leuven)
- Eva Zimmermann (University of Leipzig)


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts addressing issues including, but not limited to, the
following:
- Does markedness have a place in the competence component?
- Does markedness represent absolutes or tendencies?
- The representation of markedness
- How to evaluate markedness in morphology and/or phonology
- The similarities and/or differences between phonological and morphological
markedness
- Markedness reversals
- Paradigmatic vs. syntagmatic markedness
- Opposing markedness considerations (e.g., Bale, Gagnon & Khanjian 2011 argue
that morphologically singular is unmarked but semantically plural is unmarked)
- The psychological reality of markedness

For more information and submission guidelines, see
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~moskal/markedness.html .




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