34.2927, Calls: The Determinism Assumption in Morphology

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Subject: 34.2927, Calls: The Determinism Assumption in Morphology

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Date: 06-Oct-2023
From: Dunstan Brown [dunstan.brown at york.ac.uk]
Subject: The Determinism Assumption in Morphology


Full Title: The Determinism Assumption in Morphology
Short Title: DAiM

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Dunstan Brown
Meeting Email: dunstan.brown at york.ac.uk
Web Site:
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2024/list-of-workshop-proposals/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Morphology; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics;
Typology

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

We're proposing a workshop for the Societas Linguistica Europaea 2024
conference entitled "The Determinism Assumption in Morphology" and
would like to invite contributions as below.

We welcome submissions of abstracts from researchers at any level of
seniority who are working on relevant topics; postgraduate students
and postdoctoral fellows are especially encouraged to submit. We aim
to have the workshop consider the phenomena under investigation in a
diverse range of languages and relevant sub-fields (see below for a
fuller description).

Interested colleagues should submit a 300-word abstract by 10 November
2023 to dunstan.brown at york.ac.uk. We will make selections and inform
all presenters of acceptance of their abstracts before the workshop
proposal is submitted to the Society.

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Many models of morphology are essentially deterministic. That is,
computation of the morphological realization yields one outcome.
Recent advances have accepted the challenge that non-deterministic
morphology poses (see Blevins, Milin and Ramscar 2017; Kapatsinski
2022), but determinism still pervades much reasoning about both
derivational and inflectional morphology. For word-formation,
different processes are associated with different functions or
meanings, rather than being treated as manifestations of the same
underlying conceptual structure with more than one outcome. For
inflection, the assumption appears to be even stronger, namely that
where we have to deal with particular inflectional features there is
by default a biunique mapping between form and function (but with
well-known violations of this such as syncretism). The determinism
assumption for morphology also forms an important contrast with
conceptions of syntax, where the structures described, in whatever
form or framework, can involve multiple constituent types for the same
categorial distinction.

This workshop is an invitation to researchers of all persuasions
interested in interrogating this Determinism Assumption and what this
might tell us about morphology in general and its relationship with
other elements of language. In doing this we welcome contributions
that address: the broader typological context of non-deterministic
inflectional morphology; the relationship between non-deterministic
outcomes and frequency; non-determinism’s relationship to the
structure of the lexicon; its sociolinguistic aspects (intersection
with age, education, region or gender); its relationship to language
acquisition and attrition; its cognitive aspects; our attempts to
model non-deterministic outcomes computationally; and our attempts to
represent them in prescriptive or norm-creating works.

Key research questions for the workshop include, but are not limited
to, the following:

- Is there an underlying theoretical unity to the set of morphological
phenomena that involve non-determinism or are they merely
manifestations of a diverse range of factors that shape morphological
systems?
- To what extent do the manifestations of non-determinism in
morphology change over the life-cycle, according to age, region,
educational background or gender?
- Is non-determinism to be seen as a challenge in child language
acquisition, or a natural consequence of the world, linguistic and
other, in which humans grow up?
-  Is it correct to consider that linguistic authorities (such as
language institutes) contribute to a deterministic view of standard
morphological systems?
- What types of methods and models (computational, corpus-based or
experimental) should we apply in the study of non-deterministic
morphological phenomena?

A major contribution of the workshop will be to expand on our
understanding of non-determinism as it arises from corpus data;
appears in experimental data; and can be reflected in computational
approaches as well as in language planning.

A fuller version of this proposal will be found on the SLE website
shortly.

Call for Papers:

Interested colleagues should submit a 300-word abstract by 10 November
2023 to dunstan.brown at york.ac.uk. We will make selections and inform
all presenters of acceptance of their abstracts before the workshop
proposal is submitted to the Society.



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