30.3565, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 30.3565, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:35:17
From: Jochen Trommer [jtrommer at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Iterativity in Grammar

 
Full Title: Iterativity in Grammar 
Short Title: IG 

Date: 02-Dec-2019 - 03-Dec-2019
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Jochen Trommer
Meeting Email: jtrommer at uni-leipzig.de
Web Site: https://home.uni-leipzig.de/jtrommer/Iterativity.html 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

Iterativity characterizes central phonological phenomena such as
syllabification, stress assignment and vowel harmony, but is also crucial to
major syntactic processes such as wh-movement (see e.g. Georgi 2017 and
references cited there), and found in many morphological constructions (as in
grand-grand-grand....mother). The motivation for this workshop is the
observation that iterativity is a much more pervasive property of linguistic
systems than is usually appreciated. Iterativity plays an important role in
highly heterogeneous current debates, for example on the mechanics of
syntactic Agree (Béjar & Rezac, 2009), and the evaluation of constraints in
Agreement-by Correspondence approaches to phonological assimilation and
dissimilation (Rose & Walker 2004, Bennett 2015). Importantly, recent
theoretical developments also suggest that the classical notion of iterative
rule application in phonology, which presupposes a built-in restriction to
some form of strict structural locality is an epiphenomenon of more general
mechanisms, either global constraint evaluation and independent constraints on
structural coherence (Walker 2014), or a more general iterative optimization
mechanism where locality restricts derivations and not structures as in
Harmonic Serialism (Kimper 2012).


Call for Papers:

 We invite abstracts on all aspects of grammatical iterativity, including, but
not restricted to the following questions:

- How to resolve the tension between formal and descriptive iterativity? We
are especially interested in contributions on phenomena which are intuitively
iterative, but might be better captured in a non-iterative way (as by parallel
constraint evaluation, see e.g. Walker 2014), and conversely in iterative
formalizations of data which are not prima-facie cases of iterativity (see
Müller 2019 on affix order).

- Why are comparable processes iterative in one language/grammar, but
non-iterative in another? Are there iterativity parameters (as for
phonological rules in Archangeli & Pulleyblank 1994, or are iterative and
non-iterative processes substantially different from each other (as has been
claimed for vowel harmony vs. metaphony, see e.g. Kaplan 2008)?

- Processing and Computation: How is the iterativity of specific processes
related to their complexity in human language processing and their
computational complexity? (see e.g. McMullin & Chandlee 2018, Keine to appear)

- How does iterativity of single processes relate to more global grammatical
iterativity? A case in point are grammatical formalisms where sets of
procedures apply iteratively, as in Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010, Müller
2019) or Stratal OT (Kiparsky 2015).

Invited Speakers:

Doreen Georgi (University of Potsdam)

Gereon Müller (Leipzig University)

Andrew Nevins (UCL, London)

Milan Rezac (CNRS-IKER, to be confirmed)

Rachel Walker (University of Southern California)

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts should be maximally two pages, including data, references, and
diagrams, in at least 11-point font, with one-inch (2,54 cm) margins.
Submissions must be anonymous and are limited to 2 per author, at least one of
which is co-authored. Only electronic submissions in pdf format will be
accepted. Send your abstract via email to jtrommer [æt] uni-leipzig.de by
October 15, 2019, 23:59 MET.




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