VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
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face="Times New Roman">Phonological Words in South Asia and Southeast
Asia<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Workshop to be held at the University of
Leipzig, Germany, September 19-20, 2007<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">(funded by the German Research Foundation,
DFG)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Invited
Speakers:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Gregory D. S. Anderson (University of Oregon
& Living Tongues Institute for Endangered
Languages)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Ashwini Deo (Yale
University)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Martine Mazaudon (LACITO, UMR 7107
CNRS-Paris 3 & 4)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Broadly speaking, the study of word structure is concerned with two
distinct but interdependent aspects of grammar. First, a word may be
prosodically defined by phonological patterns, e.g. assimilation, stress, or
tone, which reference a particular domain in morphological structure (e.g. a
combination of stem plus suffixes, excluding prefixes). Second, the grammatical
word may be defined with reference to syntactic and morphological patterns that
apply exclusively to a particular domain in morphological structure (e.g. a stem
plus affixes, excluding clitics). In recent years, the relationship between
prosodic and grammatical words has received increased attention (e.g. Hall &
Kleinhenz 1999, Dixon & Aikhenvald 2002).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Research on the cross-linguistic variation of word domains shed doubt on
approaches which aim at formulating a universal architecture of prosodic
structure and its dependence on morphological and syntactic components of
grammar. The assumptions of Prosodic Phonology (Nespor & Vogel 1986), for
instance, are contradicted by current research in a typological project on word
domains at the University of Leipzig (see
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~autotyp/projects/wd_dom/wd_dom.html for recent
publications).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>The languages of South and Southeast Asia provide a particular challenge
because in a number of South Asian languages sound patterns do not converge on a
single domain of ‘phonological word’ as predicted by theories, and in a number
of Southeast Asian languages, no or almost no sound pattern seems to target a
domain intermediate between the phrases and the foot. In our project we found
that the distribution of phonological domains is however best predicted not by
areal connections but by genealogical affiliation and thus ultimately by the
individual diachrony behind each language.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>We invite abstracts for a two-day workshop on word domains in South and
Southeast Asian languages. The meeting aims at bringing together research which
focuses on the prosodic and morphological word structure of languages spoken in
these areas. Contributions are expected to be theoretically and typologically
informed and should either concentrate on the analysis of word domains in
individual languages or address areal and/or diachronic aspects of word
structure by means of cross-linguistic comparison. One-page abstracts for
45-minutes presentations (30 min. talk + 15 min. discussion) should be submitted
electronically via e-mail attachment (mail to: schiering@uni-leipzig.de) and
should reach the organizers no later than April 16, 2007. Notification of
acceptance will be circulated in late April 2007.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">The organizing
committee:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">René Schiering
(schiering@uni-leipzig.de)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Balthasar Bickel
(bickel@uni-leipzig.de)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Kristine A. Hildebrandt
(Kristine.Hildebrandt@manchester.ac.uk)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>