<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Workshop announcement:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">The grammar of reiteration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">in creole and other natural languages<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">UMR SFL, Paris, 18 juin 2009<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">call for abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">The theme of the workshop is the grammar of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">reiteration</i> — 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">The study of reiteration raises a number of descriptive and theoretical issues which include the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>- What types of (phonological, morphological, syntactic) structures may underly reiteration phenomena?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>- When reiteration involves two adjacent meaningful expressions, are they merged in syntax or in morphology?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>- Can we correlate types of reiteration and types of semantic effects?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>- Is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">copy</i> mechanism at work in the derivation of some reiteration data? If so, what type of copy mechanism?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>- Are some types of reiteration dependent on specific (phonological, morphologial, syntactic) properties, and if so, which ones?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">One-page (single-spaced) abstracts should be sent to : </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times"><</span><span style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <a href="mailto:taalwetenschap-fgw@uva.nl"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica; color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">taalwetenschap-fgw@uva.nl</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times">>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Please send 2 copies: one anonymous, one with author's identification, and type 'Abstracts Paris' in the 'object' slot of your email.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Deadine for submission: 1 March, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Acceptation notice: 1 April, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times CY"">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. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Amsterdam), Anne Zribi-Hertz (SFL/U. Paris-8).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span></font></body></html>