30.1664, Calls: Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Croatia

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Subject: 30.1664, Calls: Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Croatia

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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 23:54:39
From: Jana Willer Gold [j.willer-gold at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Object Agreement Across Barriers 2019

Full Title: Object Agreement Across Barriers 2019 
Short Title: OAAB2019 

Date: 16-Sep-2019 - 17-Sep-2019
Location: Zagreb, Croatia 
Contact Person: Jana Willer Gold
Meeting Email: j.willer-gold at ucl.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/linguistics/linguistics-research/recently-funded-projects/agreement-mismatches-0 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2019 

Meeting Description:

Object Agreement Across Barriers Conference 2019 continues the tradition of
the Resolving Conflicts ABC 2017 (Dubrovnik), the Ellipsis ABC 2016 (Sarajevo)
and the Agreement ABC 2015 (Zadar) that preceded it, in inviting the
researchers to overcome theoretical, empirical and even modality barriers in
their understanding and modelling of agreement phenomena.

Keynote Speakers:

- Kristina Riedel (University of the Free State)
- Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
- Markus Steinbach (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
- Martina Gračanin Yüksek (Middle East Technical University)

Object Agreement ABC 2019 is organized as part of the project Agreement
Mismatches in Experimental Syntax: from Slavic to Bantu where the patterns of
gender agreement in coordination are studied with a uniform methodology in six
locations across South Slavic area and three locations across South Africa to
enrich, strengthen and reinforce the comparative analysis of two typologically
unrelated language families by means of the experimental methodology. 

Two persisting questions in the literature on object agreement are: (i) which
objects can undergo agreement and under which circumstances (Kalin 2018); and,
(ii) what is the nature of the object marker - is it an agreement or clitic
(van der Wal to appear). Both questions ask for special attention as the
object marking is widely attested in a large number of typologically distant
language families under shared conditions. For examples, the notorious Romance
PCC constraint shares a relevant property with certain Bantu object marking
languages, namely that the constraint arises in the context of indirect
objects (Riedel 2009). The cross-family parallel extends to the optionality of
direct ordifferential object marking phenomena standardly argued to be driven
by semantic-pragmatic features such as animacy or specificity, although
recentlyreanalysed in terms of information structural properties such as
topicality or contrastive focus (Mursell 2018). At the same time, comparison
of morphologically distinct languages facilitates exploration of the nature of
the object marker, and the typological breadth ofSemitic and other
morphologically diverse languages opens new perspectives on the underlyingly
skeleton supporting theobjects that undergo agreement.  

Moreover, in spite of the standard analysis of languages such as Slavic being
non-object marking, the conference invites authors to consider an alternative
approach: first, whether object clitics can be viewed as the result of a
structure that doubles their associated argument, as this has been treated as
agreement. Second, whether effects like the PCC (and especially reversals) can
be seen to involve agreement with the two internal objects (Stegovec 2017).
Third, whether relative pronouns that match in case can be thought of as
agreeing with an object (Gračanin-Yüksek 2013). And finally, whether
unaccusative subjects, if treated as deep objects, can be thought of as
manifesting object agreement depending on the timing. It is precisely trying
to think about whether and if all of these, and related processes are indeed
agreement and are indeed object agreement, that will lead to thinking about
object agreement as notion across barriers. The questions are even more
pertinent as they extend across modalities to sign languages (Pfau, Salzmann
and Steinbach 2018, Börstell 2019).

Call for Papers:

OAAB2019 conference is open for contributions in various directions as the
title refers not only to syntactic barriers and domains (which are of great
interest, e.g. long-distance object agreement, or object agreement into
coordinate phrases) but also across disciplinary barriers (e.g. Slavicists,
Bantuists, sign language researchers) that bring theoretical excellence and a
new empirical domain to a new part of the language map for the discussion of
object agreement. Considering the extent and layering of the topic, the
conference invites clearly written and theoretically innovative submissions
for talks with the potential to have an empirical and experimental impact on
furthering our understanding of object agreement resolution in all areas of
theoretical linguistics (across any theory), comparative linguistics,
typological linguistics, sign language, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics,
language acquisition, and clinical linguistics.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15 May 2019

Abstracts should be submitted using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=oaab2019;welcome=1

- Abstracts are invited for either an oral presentations (20 min + 10 min) or
a poster presentation.
- Abstracts may not be longer than 2 pages in A4 format (including references)
with 2.5 cm margins on all sides, single-spaced with a font size not smaller
than 12pt. Examples, tables, graphs et cetera are to be intertwined in the
text in the appropriate place and not collected at the end.
- Submissions are restricted to a maximum of one single-authored and one
co-authored abstract (or two co-authored abstracts) for both events.
- The abstracts must be anonymous and not identify the name or affiliation of
the author(s) in the abstract, the title, or the name of the document.
Abstracts should be submitted as .pdf files with one word from the title as
the file name.
- Submissions will be anonymously refereed.

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