33.2422, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 33.2422, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:57:29
From: Sebastian Fedden [sebastian.fedden at gmail.com]
Subject: 45th DGfS Annual Meeting 2023 AG8: Uninflectedness

 
Full Title: 45th DGfS Annual Meeting 2023 AG8: Uninflectedness 
Short Title: 45th DGfS 2023 AG8 

Date: 08-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact Person: Sebastian Fedden
Meeting Email: sebastian.fedden at sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

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

Call Deadline: 26-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

Work on inflectional morphology often starts out from the canonical baseline
that it is regular and productive (Corbett 2015). In canonical inflection, all
lexemes in a given word class have the same inflectional properties. However,
many languages have subsets of lexemes that do not inflect, while the rest of
the items in the same word class do. For example, while Russian nouns
typically inflect for two numbers and six cases, the noun pal'to ‘coat’ has
the same form for all number and case combinations. Likewise, Italian nouns
typically have singular and plural forms, but there are uninflected nouns as
well, e.g. gorilla. Examples of uninflectedness can also be found in
agreement, where some lexemes may not inflect as targets while others do, for
example, in the Nakh-Dagestanian languages Archi, Ingush and Tsez only a
subset of verbs agree.

Uninflectedness raises (i) systemic, (ii) typological and (iii) diachronic
questions:

(i) It contributes to the question of partial rules (Spencer 2020). Answering
questions such as how and why languages use partial rule systems when it would
appear simpler to have general rules will advance our knowledge of the role of
grammatical rules in human language. 

(ii) Uninflectedness has not been investigated from a typological perspective.
We need to ask how widespread it is and whether it displays typological
distributions.

(iii) Languages are systems in flux, and to reduce the cognitive load that a
partial rule system entails we might assume that uninflectedness should be
ironed out over time and all items become either inflecting or non-inflecting.
We need to verify whether this is the case.

Keynote speakers:
Greville G. Corbett
Andrew Spencer

References
Corbett, Greville G. 2015. Morphosyntactic complexity: a typology of lexical
splits. Language 91. 145-193.  
Spencer, Andrew. 2020. Uninflectedness: Uninflecting, uninflectable and
uninflected words, or the complexity of the simplex. In Lívia Körtvélyessy &
Pavel Štekauer (eds.), Complex words: Advances in morphology, 142–158.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Call for Papers:

In this workshop we will chart the extent of the attested phenomena in a range
of different languages. We invite papers on uninflectedness from a
theoretical, typological or diachronic perspective.

Call Deadline: 26 August 2022 

Time for talks: 20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion 
Workshop language: English 

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=45thdgfsannualmeetin

Abstract submission guidelines: 
Abstracts should be submitted anonymously in PDF format. They should be
written in English and not exceed 300 words (not counting references). Please
include a list of up to 5 keywords. 

Workshop information: 
The event will most likely be held as an on-site workshop. Please be prepared
to travel to Cologne in order to participate.

Please note that the regulations of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) do
not allow workshop participants to present two or more papers in different
workshops. However, you are allowed to be named co-authors in more than one
presentation. 

Travel grants: 
A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income. 

Important dates: 
Deadline for abstract submission: 26 August 2022, 23:59 CET 
Notification of acceptance: Early September, 2022 

Workshop organizers: 
Sebastian Fedden (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)
Enrique Palancar (CNRS/SeDyL, Paris)

Contact: For all questions, please email sebastian.fedden at sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
Conference website: https://dgfs2023.uni-koeln.de/en/




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