CfP: Morphology of the World's Languages, Leipzig, June 11-13 2009

[Balthasar Bickel]

Morphology of the World's Languages

Date and Venue: June 11-13 2009, University of Leipzig

The last years have seen substantial advances in the typological study  
and the formal modelling of natural language morphology. However,  
progress in the theoretical analysis of morphological systems  
highlights a basic empirical problem: We know too little about the  
morphology of too few languages and language families.

This conference in the tradition of Syntax of the World's Languages  
seeks to bring together researchers working on the documentation or  
analysis of morphological data from less widely studied languages to  
broaden the empirical scope of morphological theory. Contributions are  
expected to be based either on new data, new generalizations, or new  
approaches to analysis. All major theoretical frameworks are equally  
welcome, as is work done in analytical frameworks developed in  
typology or field linguistics.

Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to:

The Structure of Syncretism
Productivity in Derivation and Compounding
Nonconcatenative and Prosodic Morphology
Systematic and Idiosyncratic Aspects of Allomorphy
Affix Order
Boundaries of Morphology to Phonology and Syntax
Papers that adopt a diachronic/historical-comparative perspective or  
that discuss language-contact effects are also welcome, as are papers  
which study the morphology of understudied languages from the  
psycholinguistic or neurolinguistic side.

The conference will be sponsored by the Research Group on Grammar and  
Processing of Verbal Arguments and the Network Core Mechanisms of  
Exponence. The fifth meeting of the network which takes place  
immediately after the conference (June 14) is also open to the public.


Abstract Submission

We invite abstracts for 40 minutes presentations (including  
discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous, at most one page long  
(with an optional second page for data and references), and should be  
sent as a pdf attachment to:

doreengeorgi at gmx.de

Deadline for Abstracts: February 8 2008

Notification of Acceptance: February 28 2008


Invited Speakers:

Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)
Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)
Alice Harris (Stony Brook University)
Larry Hyman (University of Berkeley)
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Andrew Nevins (Harvard University)
Andrew Spencer (University of Sussex)
Dieter Wunderlich (Center for General Linguistics, Berlin)
Organization:

Balthasar Bickel
Doreen Georgi
Gereon Müller
Jochen Trommer
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