26.3371, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology/Switzerland

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Subject: 26.3371, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:59:28
From: Rik van Gijn [erik.vangijn at uzh.ch]
Subject: Inheritance Hierarchies in Morphology

Full Title: Inheritance Hierarchies in Morphology 

Date: 10-Nov-2015 - 11-Nov-2015
Location: Zürich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Tania Paciaroni
Meeting Email: igm at ds.uzh.ch.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology 

Call Deadline: 12-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

Inheritance Hierarchies in Morphology
10 – 11 November 2015
Universität Zürich
Keynotes: Geert Booij (Universiteit Leiden) and Dunstan Brown (University of York)

Inheritance hierarchies or inheritance networks are an important part of a number of contemporary morphological theories, such as Construction Morphology (Booij 2010),Network Morphology (Brown and Hippisley 2012), and Word Grammar (Hudson 2006). Such approaches contrast with rule-based morphological models such as Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993). Inheritance networks have been invoked to yield new perspectives on long-standing issues in morphology like productivity and regularity (Brown forthc.), holistic morphological typology (Brown 2010), and multi-word units (Booij 2010). However, much remains to be explored concerning the precise nature and architecture of these inheritance hierarchies. For instance, hierarchies of different types have been proposed (e.g. lexical class hierarchies, ontological hierarchies, syntactic hierarchies, and morphological hierarchies), but it is not clear what the restrictions (if any) on an inventory of hierarchies are or how the differe
 nt hierarchies relate to or interact with each other.

Call for Papers:

The workshop will bring together linguists from several backgrounds to explore questions related to inheritance networks in morphology. Questions we would like to address include (but are not limited to):

- What level of abstractness is defendable or feasible in a hierarchical lexicon?
- To what extent are different (types of) hierarchies comparable?
- Is there psycholinguistic evidence for inheritance hierarchies?
- Can inheritance hierarchies shed new light on diachronic processes?
- In what way do inheritance-based approaches change our perspective on paradigmatic relations, both in word formation and in inflection?
- Rule-based versus inheritance-based approaches: do we need a hierarchical lexicon?

Applicants are invited to send in an anonymous abstract in pdf format of 1 page maximum (excluding references) before 13 September 2015 to igm at ds.uzh.ch. Notification of acceptance will be given on 30 September. Doctoral students in particular are encouraged to hand in an abstract.

If you have any questions, please contact us at the above address.

Per Baumann, Rik van Gijn, Anja Hasse, Patrick Mächler, Tania Paciaroni, Claudia Schmid, Florian Sommer (IG Morphologie, Universität Zürich)

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