31.3257, Calls: Romance; Applied Ling, Morphology, Syntax/Greece

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3257. Mon Oct 26 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3257, Calls: Romance; Applied Ling, Morphology, Syntax/Greece

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:33:46
From: Senta Zeugin [senta.zeugin at uzh.ch]
Subject: Experimental approaches to Romance morphosyntax

 
Full Title: Experimental approaches to Romance morphosyntax 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Senta Zeugin
Meeting Email: senta.zeugin at uzh.ch
Web Site: http://www.sle2021.eu/call-for-workshop-papers 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

Convenors: Senta Zeugin1, Albert Wall2, Philipp Obrist1, Johannes Kabatek1,
Patrick Santos Rebelo1 (1Universität Zürich, 2Universität Wien)

Workshop description:
In the last decades, addressing linguistic issues by experiments has become an
established practice in linguistic research. Nonetheless, experiments are
significantly more common in certain areas of linguistics and in the study of
certain languages. In this workshop, we propose to focus on linguistic fields
and languages that only more recently have seen a surge in experimental
studies, namely morpho-syntactic features in Romance.

While researchers have been prolific in applying and adapting experimental
approaches to some languages, others lag behind. Germanic languages, English
and German in particular, feature a wide range of different experimental
studies, whereas significantly less work has been done on Romance. However,
especially in more recent years, Romance languages are making up ground, and
several topics have been addressed from an experimental point of view, e.g.
different aspects of pronoun resolution (Demestre et al. 1999, de la Fuente &
Hemforth 2013), Differential Object Marking (Nieuwland et al. 2013, Wall 2015
and Wall et al. 2020a on Spanish; Zeugin on Catalan; Montrul 2019 on Spanish
and Romanian), or Bare Nouns (Wall 2014, Beviláqua et al. 2016). Other
examples of morpho- syntactic features analysed in recent studies include
clitic doubling (von Heusinger & Tigau 2019 on Romanian), subject omission
(Soares et al. 2020 on Portuguese), leísmo (Rodríguez-Ordóñez on Spanish and
Basque), as well as morphological processing (Crepaldi et al. 2014 for
Italian) and issues at the syntax-information structure interface (Abeillé &
Winckel 2019). This is but a small selection of morpho-syntactic features that
can be studied via experimental methods and is by no means intended as a
limitation for possible workshop papers. We also strongly encourage papers
analysing several languages or dialects via parallel or comparable experiments
(e.g. Ionin et al. 2011, Wall et al. 2020a & 2020b), thus providing a more
robust basis for cross-linguistic comparison.

The aim of this workshop is to give visibility to these recent developments
and to bring together the corresponding lines of research, deriving the
greatest possible benefit of such a platform for researchers working on
similar topics. Concentrating on Romance languages ensures a high degree of
cross-linguistic comparability and transfer of insights, while at the same
time offering a wide range of cross-linguistic variation of morpho-syntactic
features to explore.

See http://www.sle2021.eu/call-for-workshop-papers for the full call for
papers including references.


Call for papers:

We invite papers addressing one or several of the following questions:
- How can experimental methods inform linguistic theory?
- What are the advantages and best practices in the application of null
hypothesis testing vs. exploratory data analysis?
- Are some methods more/less suited to the study of specific Romance
morpho-syntactic features?
- What are the advantages of a combination of different experimental methods
or of experimental and non-experimental methods?
- What is the potential of comparative/parallel studies applying experimental
methods to several languages?

Possible topics include:
- Papers addressing one or several specific morpho-syntactic features
- Papers with a focus on one or several Romance languages (or Romance
languages in contact with other languages)
- Papers combining different experimental methods or experimental and non-
experimental methods in studying Romance morpho-syntactic features
- Experimental approaches with a comparative/variational focus
- Discussions of specific methodological aspects of experiments, e.g.
experimental setup, Likert scales vs. magnitude estimation, statistical
analysis of experimental data etc.

We invite you to submit preliminary abstracts (max. 300 words) for a
20-minutes presentation in PDF or word format to senta.zeugin at uzh.ch by
15-Nov-2020. If the workshop proposal is accepted, all selected participants
will be invited to submit their full abstracts (max 500 words) to the general
call for papers of SLE 21 before January 15 2021.




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