33.1612, Calls: Ling. Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Socioling., Syntax; Germany

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Subject: 33.1612, Calls: Ling. Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Socioling., Syntax; Germany

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 13:06:00
From: Tonjes Veenstra [veenstra at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Flexible and Multiple Plural Marking in Language Contact and Creolization: Social and Situational Correlates

 
Full Title: Flexible and Multiple Plural Marking in Language Contact and Creolization: Social and Situational Correlates 

Date: 28-Nov-2022 - 29-Nov-2022
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Tonjes Veenstra
Meeting Email: fb3sfbflexnum at leibniz-zas.de

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

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

The Collaborative Research Centre 1412 (Register: Language Users' Knowledge of
Situational-Functional Variation) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Berlin invites you to a workshop
on the following topics from November 28-29 2022 in Berlin, preferably in
person or via Zoom.

Invited speakers include: 
Ulrike Albers (Université de la Réunion)
Artemis Alexiadou (ZAS / Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Topics:
In contact situations, languages can acquire flexible and multiple number
marking. For example, in the Creole language Bislama (Vanuatu), regular plural
marking is with the determiner ol, as in ol aelan ‘islands’, but it is also
possible to combine this marking with suffixal plural marking, as in ol erias
‘areas’, to rely only on English-type suffixal marking, or to leave out plural
marking altogether in spite of semantic plurality (Crowley 2004). The suffixal
plural marking is largely restricted to English-derived nominals (e.g. ol
nakamal, but ?ol nakamals ‘gathering houses’) and seems to be more frequent in
certain registers or genres (e.g., it occurs rarely in traditional stories).
As another example, the plural marker -o’ob in Yucatec Maya is optionally used
with noun phrases with plural reference, influenced by various linguistic
factors such as definiteness, specificity, and animacy (Lucy 1992, Butler
2012, 2021). Due to contact with Spanish, Yucatec Maya also exhibits flexible
plural marking: Loan words can carry either the Yucatec plural marker, as in
cura-o’ob ‘priest-PL’, or the Spanish plural marker, as in cura-s ‘priest-PL’,
both markers, as in cura-s-o’ob ‘priest-PL-PL’, or neither, as in cura
‘priest(s)’. As an effect of their exposure to Spanish, younger speakers and
speakers with higher levels of education use the plural marker more often
(Butler & Couoh Pool 2018). In more controlled speech production, some
speakers consider the absence of plural marking with plural reference to be an
effect of sloppy speech, which gives rise to hyper-correction effects in
associated registers. Such variation has been also reported for Tok Pisin
(Mühlhäusler 1985, Romaine 1992, Smith 2002) and Jamaican Creole (Bobyleva
2013, Patrick 2017). On the other hand, multiple markings appear to be absent
from French-based creoles (but see Albers 2020). Other types of
contact-induced variation have been reported for Afro-Hispanic varieties
(Lipski 2010) and Brazilian Portuguese (Guy 1981). 

Such variations of plural marking in contact situations are of still
under-explored relevance for the investigation of the nature of number marking
and of the social factors underlying synchronic variation. Wiltschko (2021)
summarizes different approaches to number marking and argues that it can be
realized at different syntactic levels within the nominal spine. Acquaviva
(2008), cf. also the overview article of Alexiadou (2021), pointed out the
presence of lexical plurals that interact with syntactic plural marking.
Flexible and multiple plural marking speak to these theoretical issues
directly. For example, as the suffixal marking in Bislama is restricted, it
may be of a derivational or even lexical nature (comparable to plural forms
like English fungus – fungi). Further questions of interest include: Does
language contact affect the use of plural in all syntactic environments, e.g.,
noun phrases with plural reference, constructions with classifiers, plural
agreement? What is the relevance of flexible or multiple number marking in
language contact situations for understanding the nature of optional number
marking? What does the co-occurrence of different systems in different parts
of the nominal inventory (native vs. loan words) imply for the structural
representation of plural in a given language? What is the role of multiple
exponence of plurality (if applicable)?



Call for Papers:

We invite presentations on empirical descriptions of contact-induced flexible
number marking and theoretical issues that are relevant for understanding of
the nature of this flexibility. 

We are particularly interested in contributions that address inter- and
intra-language variation in plural marking, in particular the social,
stylistic and genre-specific correlates of flexible and multiple plural
marking. 

Submission information:
- Please ensure anonymous submissions
- Two pages
- Font not smaller than 11 points, including examples
- Submit by August 1, 2022 to the conference email




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