33.3128, Confs: General Linguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3128. Fri Oct 14 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3128, Confs: General Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 20:05:21
From: Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan [Nuhbalaoglu at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Workshop on Word Order in the Nominal Domain: Factors, Perspectives, and Approaches

 
Workshop on Word Order in the Nominal Domain: Factors, Perspectives, and Approaches 
Short Title: WONDo 

Date: 10-Nov-2022 - 11-Nov-2022 
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
Contact: Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan 
Contact Email: Nuhbalaoglu at em.uni-frankfurt.de 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/wondo2022/homepage 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This two-day workshop is organized by the doctoral researchers of RTG ‘Nominal
Modification’ and aims at bringing together junior and senior researchers
working on word order in the nominal domain.
The nominal domain is as rich in its structural composition as the clausal
domain. It is well established that the order of nominal modifiers varies both
across and within languages; nonetheless, compared to the extensive literature
exploring word order phenomena in the clausal domain, the nominal counterparts
of such phenomena have received less attention. Moreover, specific aspects of
nominal word order – such as  the ordering of adjectives – have been explored
more extensively than others. Even in these cases, many questions still remain
open and word order phenomena in the nominal domain in general remain
ill-understood.

Of central interest to this workshop is the exploration of different factors
that are relevant to word order in the nominal domain. In the existing
literature, a number of such factors have been identified, relating to
typology, syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics and
cognition i.a., as well as their interfaces. As a result, different views have
been expressed on the causes and effects of word order patterns across
languages. However, these views are typically discussed independently and,
consequently, there is little or no consensus among existing approaches. 
Hence, the aim of this workshop is twofold: (i) to investigate – both formally
and experimentally – a variety of factors that interact with the placement and
ordering of nominal modifiers intra- and cross-linguistically and (ii) to
offer a forum for exchanging views on the factors influencing word order
phenomena in the nominal domain. 
Topics of particular interest to this workshop are factors related to:

- The Syntax-Semantics Interface
Word order phenomena in the nominal domain have mainly been attributed to the
different semantic interpretations that result from different order patterns
of nominal modifiers; however, there is no consensus as to which semantic
parameter(s) can better predict and account for all the existing patterns. 

- Morphosyntax
Morphological contrasts have been considered an accidental reflex of the
underlying structural and/or semantic properties of nominal word order;
nevertheless, it has also been suggested that morphological properties may
determine the ordering of nominal modifiers.

- The Syntax-Phonology Interface
It has been suggested that word order patterns in the nominal domain may be
the result of phonological requirements and, thus, directly determined by
phonological factors; the opposite may as well be true, however, given that
differences in the placement of nominal modifiers may affect the phonological
structure of the nominal constituent.

- Experimental approaches
Word order phenomena in the nominal domain have also been attributed to
cognitive and processing constraints. Recent work employing experimental and
psycholinguistic methods is shedding light on the extent to which these
factors can account for ordering patterns observed within and across
languages. 

Invited Speakers
- Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh)
- Min-Joo Kim (Texas Tech University)
- Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University of College London)
- Peter Svenonius ( Arctic University of Norway)

Participation: Free of costs
Registration:  Due date October 31st, 2022
https://sites.google.com/view/wondo2022/registration
 






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