29.3590, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3590. Tue Sep 18 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3590, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Italy

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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:04:14
From: Laura Bafile [laura.bafile at unife.it]
Subject: Ferrara Workshop for PhD Students

 
Full Title: Ferrara Workshop for PhD Students 

Date: 29-Nov-2018 - 30-Nov-2018
Location: Ferrara, Italy 
Contact Person: Laura Bafile
Meeting Email: laura.bafile at unife.it
Web Site: http://sites.google.com/a/unife.it/workshop-on-features/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 21-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

Workshop for PhD students on Features.
In the workshop, Laura Bafile (University of Ferrara), M. Rita Manzini
(University of Firenze) and Diego Pescarini (CNRS & Université Côte d'Azur)
will present some issues in the phonology, morphology and syntax of features.
PhD students will make short presentations of their paper (10 minutes) which
will be followed by questions and discussion (20 minutes).
The authors of the selected papers will be invited to the workshop dinner on
November 29 and receive (partial) reimbursement for travel and/or
accommodation costs.


Call for Papers:

Features are a key concept of linguistics analysis, since they are
indispensable for capturing the regularities that emerge from linguistic
description and for allowing generalisations concerning the different
components of the grammar. Given their crucial role, features are a common
notion shared by all the different theoretical frameworks. As a consequence,
features are often taken for granted and their precise nature and properties
often remain somewhat confused.

>From a different perspective, not limited to the descriptive purposes,
features may be conceived of as the primitives of grammar, i.e. categories
that specify a content potentially relevant in different modules. From this
point of view, defining the exact nature of features is a crucial step in the
construction of a model of grammar. In phonology, the main, and controversial,
issues are the choice between monovalent or binary features and the one
between phonetically interpretable or substance-free features arbitrarily
associated to phonetic content. Similar issues potentially arise in
morphosyntax opposing bivalent features in the Hallean/Distributed Morphology
tradition to the monovalent categories of traditional and formal syntax (N, V,
…).  Other open issues concern the existence of meta-features
(interpretability) and the exact nature of operations on features (Agree). 

PhD students concerned with the subject are invited to submit a one-page
abstract by e-mail to laura.bafile at unife.it

Scientific board:

Laura Bafile (University of Ferrara) 
M. Rita Manzini (University of Firenze)
Diego Pescarini (CNRS & Université Côte d'Azur)

Notification to authors: 31 October 2018




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