30.1171, Calls: General Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Switzerland

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Subject: 30.1171, Calls: General Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:02:21
From: Alice Idone [dai at rom.uzh.ch]
Subject: The Many Facets of Agreement

 
Full Title: The Many Facets of Agreement 

Date: 03-Oct-2019 - 05-Oct-2019
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Michele Loporcaro
Meeting Email: dai at rom.uzh.ch
Web Site: http://www.dai.uzh.ch/conference 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 26-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Romance Studies organises a 2.5-day conference entitled
''The many facets of agreement'', which will take place at the University of
Zurich 3-5 October 2019. 

The conference is organized on the occasion of the release of ''The Zurich
database of agreement in Italo-Romance'' (DAI), the output of an SNF-funded
research project, which is meant to ease access to typologically interesting
data from Italo-Romance dialects to language typologists not specializing in
Romance dialectology. It will host presentations by the project's
international consultants, Prof. Greville Corbett and Prof. Jürg Fleischer,
intertwined with talks by further invited speakers, by project members and by
other colleagues working on agreement.

Convenors: Michele Loporcaro, Alice Idone, Tania Paciaroni, Serena Romagnoli,
Chiara Zanini 

Keynote Speakers: 

Prof. Balthasar Bickel (Zurich) 
Prof. Greville G. Corbett (Surrey) 
Prof. Sebastian Fedden (Paris)
Prof. Jürg Fleischer (Marburg)
Prof. Elvira Glaser (Zurich)
Prof. Elisabeth Stark (Zurich)
Prof. Paul Widmer (Zurich)


Call for Papers:

The theme of this conference is ''The many facets of agreement''. 

Agreement is a pervasive phenomenon in many languages of the world (Corbett
2006:1), the object of unrelenting typological work (e.g. Matasović 2018),
and a constant preoc¬cupation of linguists of all persuasions both in the
functional-typological approach (e.g. Nichols 2018, Forker 2018, Haig and
Forker 2018) and in the formalist camp (e.g. Baker 2008, Preminger 2014). Yet,
studies in the field still appear to be seeking a balance between large-scale
generalizations and the detailed investigation of typological rara (i.e.
traits that are ''so un-common across languages as not even to occur in all
members of a single [...] family or diffusion area'', Plank 2000, cited by
Cysouw and Wohlgemuth 2010:1). Notably, closer consideration of the latter may
lead one to challenge the former: see e.g. Loporcaro (2015:105-8) for
discussion of this issue, partly drawing on Italo-Romance rara now widely
accessible through the DAI and analyzed in depth in Paciaroni and Loporcaro
(2018).

With a view on furthering discussion in this area, the conference invites
abstracts for 20-minute presentations with a typologically-oriented focus on
agreement. We are particularly interested in papers dealing with the analysis,
both synchronic and diachronic, of (fragments of) the agreement system of
un(der)studied languages/language varieties. We also encourage contributions
concerned with theoretical issues (e.g. on the insights competing theories may
offer in relation to specific agreement phenomena) and with methods for the
study of agreement.

References:

Baker, Mark C. 2008. The syntax of agreement and concord. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 
Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cysouw, Michael and Jan Wohlgemuth. 2010. The other end of universals: theory
and typology of rara. In Jan Wohlgemuth and Michael Cysouw (eds). Rethinking
universals. How rarities affect linguistic theory. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton,
1-10.
Forker, Diana. 2018. Gender agreement is different. Linguistics 56(4):
865-894.
Haig, Geoffrey and Diana Forker. 2018. Agreement in grammar and discourse: A
research overview. Linguistics 56(4): 715-734.
Loporcaro, Michele. 2015. The impact of morphology on change in agreement
systems. In Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken and Paul Widmer (eds). Agree¬ment
from a diachronic perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 104-126.
Matasović, Ranko. 2018. An areal typology of agreement systems. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Nichols, Johanna. 2018. Agreement with overt and null arguments in Ingush.
Linguistics 56(4): 845-863.
Paciaroni, Tania and Michele Loporcaro. 2018. Overt gender marking depending
on syntactic context in Ripano. In Sebastian Fedden, Jenny Audring and
Greville G. Corbett (eds). Non-canonical gender systems. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 147-175.
Plank, Frans 2000. Das grammatische Raritätenkabinett. A leisurely collection
to entertain and instruct. Manuscript. Universität Konstanz.
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/Sprachbau/rara.html.
Preminger, Omer. 2014. Agreement and its failures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Abstract Submission Details:

Anonymous abstracts should not exceed 500 words (12-point Times New Roman
font, with single spacing) including examples, excluding references. They
should be submitted in electronic form (PDF or Word document) as attachment to
dai at rom.uzh.ch 
The email should specify author(s)' name(s) and affiliation. 

Abstract submission deadline: Friday 26 April 2019
Notification of acceptance: Friday 31 May 2019

Queries about the conference can be sent to this email: dai at rom.uzh.ch




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