FW: Archi discussion on the WIKI

[Sadler, Louisa G]

From: "m.chumakina at surrey.ac.uk<mailto:m.chumakina at surrey.ac.uk>" <m.chumakina at surrey.ac.uk<mailto:m.chumakina at surrey.ac.uk>>

Dear Louisa,



we would like to invite people to discuss the Archi agreement on our WIKI pages, so can you please post the following text on am email list where most of the LFG people will see it.



Best regards,

Marina.



To: LFG community

From: Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina and Greville G. Corbett



It is time for more dialog across syntactic theories. To facilitate this, we are comparing and evaluating the claims of leading theories of syntax (HPSG, LFG and Minimalism) by focusing on one core area of syntax, namely agreement. Specifically, we are using data from the Daghestanian language Archi, which has an outstandingly rich and complex agreement system, for analyses in each of the leading theories.



The project From competing theories to fieldwork: the challenge of an extreme agreement system started at the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, in January 2012.



We invite you to participate in the project via the project WIKI: http://fahs-wiki.soh.surrey.ac.uk/groups/fromcompetingtheoriestofieldworkarchi/



The project is structured around a cycle of working seminars. The contributors are the typology/fieldwork team (Brown, Chumakina, Corbett), giving a clear account of the Archi material, and the three syntax experts, who are invited to give an analysis of the Archi constructions within their theory: HPSG account is provided by Robert Borsley (Essex), LFG account by Louisa Sadler (Essex) and minimalism account by Maria Polinsky (Harvard).



We have had three seminars (the introductory seminar, and two seminars dedicated to a specific agreement problems). The Archi materials and the syntactic accounts provided by our syntactic consultants are available on our WIKI website.



The WIKI is structured in the following way: an Archi agreement problem and three strands of syntactic accounts: analysis according to LFG framework, analysis according to Minimalism framework and analysis according to HPSG framework.