30.2250, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2250. Wed May 29 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2250, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 23:53:34
From: Michael Everdell [EVERDELLM at GMAIL.COM]
Subject: The Grammar of Regularity and Idiosyncrasy

 
Full Title: The Grammar of Regularity and Idiosyncrasy 

Date: 13-Jul-2019 - 14-Jul-2019
Location: Davis, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Michael Everdell
Meeting Email: everdellm at gmail.com
Web Site: https://lsa2019.ucdavis.edu/weekend-conferences-symposia/ 

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

Call Deadline: 07-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

This workshop examines idiosyncratic form-meaning pairs and how they relate to
syntagmatic and paradigmatic regularities, exploring how, if at all, this
distinction is to be represented in the grammar.  Form-meaning idiosyncrasy
can arise within an otherwise regular system because either the form or the
meaning shifts, among other
things. Shifts in form relative to their morphological paradigms include
allomorphy, suppletion, portmanteaux, and lexical gaps. Shifts in meaning can
affect an entire morphological paradigm (shoot/shot up ‘inject’); a single
form (transmission ‘the mechanism that transmits power from an engine to the
wheels of a motor vehicle’); or a single alternant in a diathesis alternation
(transitive grow ‘cultivate’; compared to other uses of grow ‘increase in
size’). 

Although these form or meaning shifts give rise to idiosyncrasy in the
grammar, they may be accounted for in a principled way. However, theoretical
frameworks for modeling syntax and morphology and their connection to
semantics vary as to where in the grammar the idiosyncrasy-regularity
distinction is accounted for. In Distributed Morphology (DM) some analyses
involve high/low attachment (Harley 2008), or various post-syntactic
operations to account for suppletion and allomorphy (Embick 2010; Haugen &
Siddiqi 2016). In lexicalist accounts, idiosyncratic forms can be governed by
morphophonological word formation rules which are sensitive to particular
lexical items or features (Zucchi 1993; Aronoff 1994). Some construction
grammar approaches deny a qualitative distinction between idiosyncrasy and
syntactic regularity, replacing some or all compositional rules with
meaningful constructions (Goldberg 1995, 2006). Theories that decompose word
meaning into an idiosyncratic root and regular template (Dowty 1979, Levin and
Rappaport Hovav 1995; Harley 2012) can account for idiosyncrasy by proposing
restrictions on the ways that certain roots can combine with templates or with
sublexical modifiers. However, the assumption that the idiosyncrasy-regularity
distinction corresponds to a strict root-template distinction has been
challenged (Beavers and Koontz-Garboden 2012).

Appropriate talks will address phenomena relevant to the interplay between
idiosyncrasy and regularity. One goal is to highlight core shared insights
across theories in accounting for the above phenomena, so we especially
encourage a diverse range of theoretical approaches to modeling idiosyncrasy.


2nd Call for Papers:

This is the second call for abstracts for the poster session at The Grammar of
Regularity and Idiosyncrasy workshop at the 2019 Linguistic Institute at UC
Davis. 

We invite abstracts related to the topic of this workshop to be considered for
a poster session. Researchers at all levels are invited but we especially
encourage work from graduate students.

Confirmed Speakers: 

James Blevins (University of Cambridge) 
David Embick (University of Pennsylvania) 
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) 
Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY University at Buffalo) 
Beth Levin (Stanford University) 
Daniel Siddiqi (Carleton University) 
Ida Toivonen (Carleton University) 

Guidelines for submitting abstracts: 

Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via e-mail to Michael Everdell at
everdellm at texas.edu with the subject line 'Idiosyncrasy Workshop Poster
Abstract'
Abstracts must have no more than 500 words of narrative text. Titles,
examples, trees, tables, figures, captions, and references do not count toward
this 500 word limit.
The title of the abstract should appear at the top of the page but does not
count as part of the 500-word limit.
Abstracts must not exceed two pages including examples, references, figures,
etc.
Please include your name in the body of the e-mail but take care to anonymize
the abstract pdf itself.




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