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Date: 09-Dec-2011
From: Marina Chumakina [m.tchoumakina at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Agreement in Archi


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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:41:28
From: Marina Chumakina [m.tchoumakina at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Agreement in Archi

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Workshop on Agreement in Archi 

Date: 16-Jan-2012 - 16-Jan-2012 
Location: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom 
Contact: Marina Chumakina 
Contact Email: m.tchoumakina at surrey.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

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

The aim of the project is to create a framework for 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 shall use 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 will be structured around a cycle of working seminars. The contributors will be the typology/fieldwork team (SMG), giving a clear account of the Archi material, and the three syntax experts, who will be invited to give an analysis of the Archi constructions within their theory: the HPSG account will be provided by Robert Borsley (Essex), the LFG account by Louisa Sadler (Essex) and the Minimalism account by Maria Polinsky (Harvard). 

The seminars will be organised by the Surrey Morphology Group and are open to PhD students. If you would like to participate, please let us know in advance by emailing to Marina Chumakina (m.tchoumakina at surrey.ac.uk). 

The first three seminar dates are: 

Introductory seminar	Monday January 16 
Seminar 1	Friday March 2 
Seminar 2	Friday June 1 

The preliminary schedule for the Introductory seminar is as follows: 

9:30 - 10:00 
Welcome coffee

10:00 - 10:30 
Welcome talk, Greville Corbett. 

10:30 - 13:00 
General overview of Archi (sound system, inflectional morphology, syntax - concentrating on phenomena essential for this project), Greville  Corbett and Marina Chumakina. This will include a 30 minutes coffee  break  at 

11:00 

13:00 - 14: 00 
Lunch 

14:00 - 14:15 
Basic agreement terms, Greville  Corbett

14:15 - 14:45 
Agreement in HPSG, Robert Borsley 

14:45 - 15:15 
Agreement in LFG, Louisa Sadler 

15:15 - 15:45 
Coffee 

15:45  - 16:15 
Agreement in Minimalism, Maria Polinsky 

16:15 - 16:45 
Ontology and agreement domains in Archi, Dunstan Brown






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