28.1536, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax, Typology/USA

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Subject: 28.1536, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax, Typology/USA

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:24:13
From: Hisao Tokizaki [toki at sapporo-u.ac.jp]
Subject: Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables

Full Title: Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables 
Short Title: Phex KY 

Date: 26-Jul-2017 - 26-Jul-2017
Location: Lexington, Kentucky, USA 
Contact Person: Hisao Tokizaki
Meeting Email: toki at sapporo-u.ac.jp

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2017 

Meeting Description:

Phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure: Universals and
variables

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

Lexington, Kentucky (as a workshop in 2017 Linguistic Institute)
Organizers: Hisao Tokizaki and Yoshihito Dobashi

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 a condition on the prosody of wh-questions, which is further
elaborated 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. Some syntactic features can also be reduced to
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 in order 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. We hope that we could go a step
further in understanding the core properties of narrow syntax by identifying
the externalization processes. 

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. John
Benjamins. 
Boeckx, Cedric. 2014. Elementary syntactic structures: Prospects of a
feature-free syntax. Cambridge University Press.
Chomsky, Noam. 2001. Derivation by phase. Ken Hale: A life in language, ed. by
Michael Kenstowicz, 1-52. MIT Press.
Kayne, Richard S. 1994. The antisymmetry of syntax. MIT Press.
Moro, Andrea 2000. Dynamic antisymmetry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Richards, Norvin. 2016. Contiguity theory. 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.

Call for Papers:

We are pleased to announce Workshop: Phonological externalization of
morphosyntactic structure: Universals and variables, which is to be held on
July 26 in 2017 Linguistic Institute at Lexington, Kentucky. 

We have a limited number of slots for presentation in the workshop. We invite
abstracts no longer than two pages of A4/Letter (examples and references
included) with 2.5 cm/1 inch margins, single-spaced, with a font size of 12. 
Abstracts must be anonymous.  When you need to refer to your work, use
''Author (Year)''. 

Abstracts must be sent to: toki at sapporo-u.ac.jp 

Notification will be sent by mid May.

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