30.435, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing/Austria

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Subject: 30.435, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing/Austria

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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:45:26
From: Francesco Gardani [francesco.gardani at uzh.ch]
Subject: 19th International Morphology Meeting

 
Full Title: 19th International Morphology Meeting 
Short Title: IMM19 

Date: 06-Feb-2020 - 08-Feb-2020
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: Elisabeth Peters
Meeting Email: Elisabeth.Peters at wu.ac.at
Web Site: http://www.wu.ac.at/imm19/19th-international-morphology-meeting/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

The next Viennese IMM will, in principle, be a thematically open venue hosting
papers on all kinds of topics related to morphology. Also workshops up to a
limit of twelve papers are welcome on any topic in morphology, excluding the
meeting’s main topic. This time, the main topic will be “Morphology in
contact”.

Language contact and borrowing have traditionally been considered one of the
principal sources of language change, along with sound change and analogy.
Despite this fact, contact phenomena occurring in the area of morphology were
long neglected. However, recent years have testified to an increasing interest
in this area of investigation, and several publications reflect this tendency,
such as Copies versus cognates in bound morphology (Johanson & Robbeets 2012),
Morphologies in contact (Vanhove et al. 2012), and Borrowed morphology
(Gardani et al. 2015).

The assumed rarity of morphological borrowing is reflected in all well-known
borrowability scales (from Whitney 1881: 19–20 to Matras 2007). Most such
scales assume that derivational affixes are more easily transferable than
highly bound inflectional affixes, an asymmetry attributed by Weinreich to
their different levels of entrenchment in the grammar: “the fuller the
integration of the morpheme, the less likelihood of transfer” (Weinreich 1953:
35). This conviction seems to have been taken for granted in all subsequent
work in the field without undertaking any serious attempt to substantiate it
quantitatively (a notable exception, based on a 100 language sample, is
Seifart 2017). As a consequence, we do not yet have a precise idea of the
global extent of the borrowing of morphological formatives and patterns (see
Gardani 2018). In particular, the topic of compound borrowing is virtually
uninvestigated (exceptions being Bağrıaçık et al. 2017 and Ralli in prep.).

Borrowed morphological formatives or patterns are often extracted from
borrowed words or constructions, respectively, and adapted on the background
of the morphology of the receiving language (Seifart 2015). Such processes of
adaptation remain to be studied in detail even in well-researched European
languages such as English, French, or German (cf. Müller et al. 2015, papers
90 to 96). In some cases, however, the borrowing process goes well beyond
single formatives or patterns, affecting the morphological system as a whole.
The result may be a morphology characterized by different strata, each with
its specific properties. English (cf. the debate about “level ordering”),
German (cf. Müller 2005), and Maltese (cf. Brincat & Mifsud 2016) are
notorious in this respect, while the effect of massive borrowing (from Latin
and modern European languages) is less visible in synchrony in the Romance
languages. In extreme cases, stratification is so strict that split,
compartmentalized, but co-existing morphological systems emerge, as has been
shown for some Berber varieties (cf. Kossmann 2010). In still other cases,
morphological compartmentalization concerns not only lexical-etymological
stratification but also morphological subcomponents: for example, in the
Australian bilingual mixed language Gurindji Kriol, Gurindji morphology
dominates the nominal system, while English-derived Kriol morphology provides
the verbal frame (Meakins 2011).

Because of its relative infrequency and of the different degrees of
borrowability of subcomponents of morphology, morphological borrowing and in
general, the effects of—both localized and areal—language contact on the
morphology of a recipient language are an important source of evidence for
morphological theory.

Website: https://www.wu.ac.at/imm19/19th-international-morphology-meeting/


Call for Papers:

The next Viennese IMM will, in principle, be a thematically open venue hosting
papers on all kinds of topics related to morphology. Also workshops up to a
limit of twelve papers are welcome on any topic in morphology, excluding the
meeting’s main topic. This time, the main topic will be “Morphology in
contact”.

Important dates:

Submission of workshop proposals: from 23 January to 15 March 2019
Notification of acceptance for workshop proposals: 31 March 2019
(papers/posters)
Submission of abstracts: from 31 March to 31 August 2019 (papers/posters)
Notification of acceptance for abstracts: 31 October 2019 (papers/posters)

Submission:

Submission of workshop proposals:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imm19
Submission of abstracts (starting 31 March):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imm19




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