workshop announcement

[Anne Zribi-Hertz]

Workshop announcement:

The grammar of reiteration
in creole and other natural languages

UMR SFL, Paris, 18 juin 2009

call for abstracts

This one-day workshop is organised in relation to the Van Gogh  
Project 30-670 'Topic, focus and reduplication: a cross-linguistic  
approach", jointly directed by the University of Amsterdam and the  
Groupe de Recherche sur les Grammaires Creoles (Research Project on  
Creole Grammars), UMR SFL/University of Paris-8/CNRS.

The theme of the workshop is the grammar of reiteration — a  
nontechnical term chosen to encompass any linguistic form involving  
two or several occurrences of the same expression within the bounds  
of a certain domain, regardless of linear adjacency between the  
reiterated strings.

Reiteration phenomena are clearly heterogeneous in nature and call  
for diverse analyses bringing out (morpho)phonological, (morpho) 
syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic constraints and generalisations.  
The research groups organising the workshop have a special interest  
in Creole languages — which justifies their being overtly  
distinguished in the proposed title. However, since Creole grammars  
activate exactly the same types of grammatical mechanisms as other  
natural languages, projects based on non-Creole languages may also  
crucially contribute to our global understanding of reiteration.

The study of reiteration raises a number of descriptive and  
theoretical issues which include the following:
- What types of (phonological, morphological, syntactic) structures  
may underly reiteration phenomena?
- When reiteration involves two adjacent meaningful expressions, are  
they merged in syntax or in morphology?
- Can we correlate types of reiteration and types of semantic effects?
- Is a copy mechanism at work in the derivation of some reiteration  
data? If so, what type of copy mechanism?
- Are some types of reiteration dependent on specific (phonological,  
morphologial, syntactic) properties, and if so, which ones?

Eight 35-minute talks (+ 10' for discussion) will be selected for the  
workshop. Abstract selection will favour projects based on the in- 
depth study of one (or two) specific languages.

One-page (single-spaced) abstracts should be sent to : <  
taalwetenschap-fgw at uva.nl>.
Please send 2 copies: one anonymous, one with author's  
identification, and type 'Abstracts Paris' in the 'object' slot of  
your email.

Deadine for submission: 1 March, 2009.
Acceptation notice: 1 April, 2009.

Scientific/organising committee: Enoch Aboh (ACLC/U. Amsterdam),  
Muhsina Alleesaib (SFL/U. Paris-8-ZAS/Berlin), Hans den Besten (ACLC/ 
U. Amsterdam), Herby Glaude (SFL/U. Paris-8-ACLC/U. Amsterdam),  
Norval Smith (ACLC/U. Amsterdam), Anne Zribi-Hertz (SFL/U. Paris-8).





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