27.2340, Calls: Cognitive Sci, General Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Norway

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Subject: 27.2340, Calls: Cognitive Sci, General Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Norway

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 15:48:01
From: Antonio Fábregas [antonio.fabregas at uit.no]
Subject: Hierarchical Structures in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax

Full Title: Hierarchical Structures in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax 

Date: 27-Oct-2016 - 28-Oct-2016
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact Person: Antonio Fábregas
Meeting Email: antonio.fabregas at uit.no
Web Site: https://castl.uit.no/index.php/component/content/article/100-uncategorised/357-hierarchical-structures-in-phonology-morphology-and-syntax 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2016 

Meeting Description:

Hierarchical structures in phonology, morphology and syntax
CASTL, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway

Organised by: Peter Svenonius, Gillian Ramchand, Martin Krämer, Antonio
Fábregas

Keynote Speakers:

Laura Downing (University of Gothenburg-UiT)
Natalia Slioussar (HSE Moscow & St. Petersburg State University)
Michael Wagner (McGill University)
Rachel Walker (University of Southern California)

Aims and content of the workshop

The hierarchical organization of linguistic structures in syntax, phonology,
and morphology is a fundamental part of current linguistic research, either as
a background assumption or as a focus of inquiry.

Linguistic hierarchy can be understood in two ways, structural and categorial.

Structural hierarchy is purely configurational: the subject of a matrix clause
c-commands the subject of an embedded complement clause because the matrix is
hierarchically superior to the complement. Morphology has an analogue (or
homologue) of this; for example, a deverbal nominalization involves a nominal
element which is superior to a verbal element (this is often analyzed as
syntactic embedding, hence a homologue). This kind of purely structural
hierarchy is less typical in phonology, but may exist. For example, purely
structural hierarchy could be seen in a feature geometry if the difference
between V-place and C-place is that C-place is an undominated place node,
while V-place is a place node which is embedded inside another place node. 

The other sense of linguistic hierarchy is categorial. Categorial hierarchy
involves an extrinsic asymmetry between categories, for example in a thematic
hierarchy where Agent outranks Patient, or a grammatical function hierarchy
where Subject outranks Object, or a sonority hierarchy where vowel outranks
liquid. Categorial hierarchies have disparate sources. A nonuniform taxonomic
organization of features, for example one in which a tense-lax distinction is
relevant for vowels but not consonants, can be understood in terms of
categorial hierarchy.

Generative linguistics has often reduced categorial hierarchy to structural
hierarchy, for example in deriving many properties of subjects from their
occupying a high structural subject position rather than their bearing a
distinct grammatical function.

However, the functional hierarchy which is the focus of cartography centrally
links categorial to structural hierarchy without reducing either to the other,
so that when for example C and T are combined in a single clause, C
structurally dominates T and is a distinct category. A feature geometry (like
the one proposed by Harley and Ritter for phi) may be understood to restrict
merge, projection, or labeling in such a way that structural hierarchy
respects or reflects categorial hierarchy.

Call for Papers:

We invite two-page abstract submissions (Times NR 12, single-spaced, margins
set to 2.54/3.17), including examples and references, for 40 minute-long oral
presentations (30+10). Submissions should be sent as anonymous attachments to:

hierarchicalstructurecastl at gmail.com  

Important Dates:

Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2016
Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2016
Workshop: 27-28 October 2016

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