29.4124, Calls: General Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 29.4124, Calls: General Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:26:33
From: Marina Chumakina [m.chumakina at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: 'External' Agreement with Unexpected Targets

 
Full Title: 'External' Agreement with Unexpected Targets 

Date: 21-Aug-2019 - 24-Aug-2019
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Marina Chumakina
Meeting Email: m.chumakina at surrey.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

(Session of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)

Across the world’s languages, agreement is generally limited to relations
between a verb and its arguments (clausal agreement) or a noun and its
dependents (nominal agreement), and it usually occurs between elements
belonging to particular parts of speech within the boundaries of established
syntactic constituents.

We focus on a radically different type of agreement, where the relation
between the controller and the target is typologically and theoretically
unexpected. Examples have been registered in abundance in one linguistic
family, Nakh-Daghestanian, and have been sporadically reported for other
languages of the world (Antrim 1991, Fábregas and Pérez-Jiménez 2008, Ledgeway
2011 among others). Consider example (1), from the Nakh-Daghestanian language
Avar, where the postposition žaniw ‘inside’ has the neuter noun tusnaq’
‘prison’ as its complement. However, agreement on the postposition is
controlled by one of the verb’s arguments, the object Rasul:

(1)tusnaq-al-da žani-w t’amuna niže-cːa Rasul
prison(N)-SG.OBL-SUP in-M.SG put.PST 1PLEXCL-ERG Rasul(M)[SG.ABS]
‘We put Rasul in prison.’ 

The agreement represented in (1) is striking: first of all, it is an unusual
part of speech that shows agreement, namely a postposition. Secondly, the
agreement happens with an unexpected controller: not the complement of the
postposition, but the object of the predicate. The target and controller in
(1) belong to the same clause but do not form a local domain either in terms
of strict locality (sisterhood) or high locality (such as verb-argument
relations), as defined in Alexiadou et al. (2013: 3-4). We call this ‘external
agreement’. This is, however, just a shorthand for a more accurate
description: ‘agreement of non-verbal targets outside their minimal syntactic
phrase, yet within the clause’. 
The aim of this workshop is to expand our understanding of how agreement works
by investigating phenomena such as arguments agreeing with other clause-level
arguments, adpositions agreeing outside the adpositional phrase, and agreeing
adverbs and discourse particles. Our research questions are: 

- What types of controllers and targets are involved in external agreement?
- What are the structural constraints on non-local agreement?
- What are the morphosyntactic properties of external agreement? 
- How does external agreement develop?


Call for Papers:

Provisional titles and abstracts (up to 300 words) should be sent by November
16, 2018 to the following address: m.chumakina at surrey.ac.uk




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