26.1557, Calls: Morphology, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1557. Mon Mar 23 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1557, Calls: Morphology, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax/Canada

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:15:37
From: Eric Mathieu [emathieu at uottawa.ca]
Subject: Gender, Class, and Determination: A Conference on the Nominal Spine

Full Title: Gender, Class, and Determination: A Conference on the Nominal Spine 

Date: 18-Sep-2015 - 20-Sep-2015
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 
Contact Person: Eric Mathieu
Meeting Email: gender at uottawa.ca
Web Site: http://artsites.uottawa.ca/gender/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 30-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

This conference, the ninth in a series dedicated to issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, brings together a working group of Canadian and international linguists who specialize on the noun phrase. We are interested in the many ways in which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form with other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary convention. We try to determine what is responsible for this type of classification, paying special attention to the functional and lexical categories that make up the syntactic spine. This topic is a natural continuation in the Canadian series on nouns, which has considered various other aspects of structure internal to noun phrases (e.g. relative clauses, modifiers, determiners). This conference focuses specifically on how gender can sometimes function as a classifying device 
 and how, in the absence of gender as a classifying device, determiners and other functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap. The papers in this conference could focus on empirical questions such as these but many other questions will arise:

I. What is the relationship between gender, number and classification?

II. What is the role of the plural (some languages have many plurals, e.g. Arabic)?

III. What is the role of the determiner in the noun phrase? Is it obligatory, is it related to phasehood, and if so, how?

September 18-20, 2015, at the University of Ottawa

Invited Speakers:

Paolo Acquaviva (UCD)
Hagit Borer (QMUL)
Marijke De Belder (HUB Brussels)
Zeljko Boskovic (UConn)
Rose-Marie Déchaine (UBC)
Carrie Gillon (ASU)
Ruth Kramer (Georgetown)
Diane Massam (Toronto)
Ileana Paul (Western)
Elizabeth Ritter (Calgary)
Martina Wiltschko (UBC)

Student Invited Speaker:

Clarissa Forbes (Toronto)

Organizing Committee:

Myriam Dali
Eric Mathieu
Gita Zareikar

Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed 2 pages in length, in 11 pt. font, with 1-inch/2,5-cm margins, including examples and references (maximum of two abstracts per person, one as sole author, one as co-author or two as co-author). Abstracts may be submitted for oral presentations or posters (One or more poster sessions will be organized, depending on demand).

Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: May 30, 2015.

Please send your abstracts to this address: gender at uottawa.ca

Notification of Acceptance: June 15
Registration Starts: June 20
Deadline for Early Bird Registration: July 15
Registration Ends: August 15
Program Published: June 30, 2015

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