32.3756, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Subject: 32.3756, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:48:40
From: Stela Manova [stela.manova at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Dissecting Morphological Theory 3: Diminutivization, Allomorphy and the Architecture of Grammar

Full Title: Dissecting Morphological Theory 3: Diminutivization, Allomorphy and the Architecture of Grammar 
Short Title: DMTD3 

Date: 01-Sep-2022 - 04-Sep-2022
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact Person: Stela Manova
Meeting Email: stela.manova at univie.ac.at
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/morphologytheories-diminutives 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2022 

Meeting Description:

Workshop to be held in conjunction with the 20th International Morphology
Meeting, Budapest, 1-4 September 2022, http://www.nytud.hu/imm20/ 

This is the third of a series of workshops on diminutive morphology and its
implications for morphological theory. The workshops are held in conjunction
with different international conferences:
https://sites.google.com/view/morphologytheories-diminutives. 

Diminutive morphology presents a number of challenges to morphological theory
and various issues have been discussed extensively: whether diminutivization
is derivation or inflection (Dressler 1989; Scalise 1988; Stump 1993; Manova
2011; Grandi & Körtvélyessy 2015); are diminutive suffixes heads and/or
modifiers (Wiltschko and Steriopolo 2007; Steriopolo 2009, 2015, 2016;
Gouskova & Bobaljik, to appear); do they attach “low” or “high” in the
syntactic tree (De Belder et al. 2014; Cinque 2015); which meanings are
associated with diminutive morphology (Dressler & Merlini Barbaresi 1994;
Jurafsky 1996) and so on. Nevertheless, there are still issues that have
remained unaddressed:

1) Why do some languages have large sets of diminutive affixes, while others
have very limited sets? 

2) What is a diminutive allomorph? (Should allomorphs have the same
semantic-pragmatic function, e.g. could they have different readings, either
positive or negative, depending on the situation? Should allomorphs be
associated with the same inflection class? Should allomorphs have the same
syntactic function: are they either heads or modifiers or could they be both;
could they attach at different “heights” in the syntactic tree, resulting in
“high” vs. “low” allomorphs?)

3) How does allomorph selection take place in diminutivization? (Is it based
on semantics, on form, on syntactic structure, on linearization, or on
extragrammatical information?)

4) Are gender and inflection class encoded in the same way in diminutive and
non-diminutive nouns? (If diminutive affixes impose gender and inflection
class, what does this mean for our understanding of the morphology-syntax
interface?)

5) What architecture of grammar best captures the peculiarities of diminutive
morphology? 
(a) Phonology after morphology, i.e. morphologically conditioned phonology
(and consequently phonology-free syntax)
(b) Phonology before morphology, i.e. phonologically conditioned morphology
(and maybe also syntax)
(c) A mixture of (a) and (b).

Organizers:
Stela Manova, University of Vienna, stela.manova at univie.ac.at 
Katharina Korecky-Kröll, University of Vienna,
katharina.korecky-kroell at univie.ac.at 
Olga Steriopolo, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin, olgasteriopolo at hotmail.com 

Scientific Committee:
Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt University & Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin
Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University, SUNY
Boban Arsenijević, University of Graz
Olivier Bonami, Université de Paris
Pavel Caha, Masaryk University, Brno
Guglielmo Cinque, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Marijke De Belder, University of Oldenburg
David Embick, University of Pennsylvania
Maria Gouskova, New York University
Laura Grestenberger, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Katharina Korecky-Kröll, University of Vienna
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice
Stela Manova, University of Vienna
Ora Matushansky, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Paris VIII
Olga Steriopolo, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin
Keren Rice, University of Toronto
Maria Voeikova, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Martina Wiltschko, ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite papers that tackle any aspect of diminutive allomorphy within any
linguistic theory, including papers on the diachronic development of
allomorphy in diminutive morphology. Contributions that analyze not only
selected affixes but also complete diminutive systems and/or relate their
findings to the architecture of grammar are particularly welcome.

The full CFP can be accessed at:
https://sites.google.com/view/morphologytheories-diminutives/calls-for-papers/
dmtd3

Abstract submission
2-page anonymous abstracts for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for
discussion) should be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmtd3.

Submission of the same abstract to both the workshop and the IMM20 main
session is not allowed. IMM20 submissions are limited to one individual and
one joint abstract (or two joint ones) per person. For additional information
on abstract submission, please check the IMM20 website:
http://www.nytud.hu/imm20/.

Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2022
Acceptance notifications: 31 May 2022 (for all sessions of IMM20)
Conference: 1-4 September 2022

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