28.2974, Calls: International Symposium on Polyadjectival Nominals in Crosslinguistic Perspective

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Subject: 28.2974, Calls: International Symposium on Polyadjectival Nominals in Crosslinguistic Perspective

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:16:14
From: Paul Flanagan [p.flanagan at chester.ac.uk]
Subject: Typology/United Kingdom

 
Full Title: International Symposium on Polyadjectival Nominals in Crosslinguistic Perspective 
Short Title: ISPNP 

Date: 30-Aug-2017 - 31-Aug-2017
Location: Ormskirk, Lancashire, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Prof Anthony Grant
Meeting Email: granta at edgehill.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/2017/06/21/polyadjectival-nominals/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 19-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

It has been suggested by a number of theorists that there exist universal
structures which govern the order in which adjectives  are placed – which
explain why English says the big brown guard dog with the adjectives only
possible in that order – and that these structures are salient across a number
of languages.

This claim needs to be tested against empirical evidence from a wide
geographical and structural range of languages in order to test its validity. 
The adjectival category exhibits considerable variation in form from one
language to another, taking as it does structural features typical of nouns
and/or verbs, but sometimes being fairly distinctive from either category.
This symposium will investigate the extent to which adjective order
(‘adjective stacking’) reflects (or deviates from) that of English in a sample
of languages which is representative of the morphosyntactic diversity
exhibited by the adjective class. We intend to gather together people
investigating this topic in a range of languages and in relevant
co-disciplines in order to develop a comprehensive account and a cogent
narrative about polyadjectival nominal ordering and its implications for
understanding cognition and language.


Call for Papers:

We invite contributions on languages from a wide variety of language families,
particularly from languages (including those of East and Southeast Asia, West
Africa and native languages of the Americas) in which the adjective class is
often considered as a subgroup of verbs. Furthermore the phenomenon of
adjective stacking, as a process which adds incrementally to the sense of the
adjectival phrase, is one which is syntactically distinctive from the
behaviour of other word classes in most languages.

It is therefore hoped that by bringing together in-depth studies of adjective
ordering in a broad range of languages we can see the extent to which there
are universal structures which govern the syntax of adjectival phrases and
noun phrases with complex modification strings. The importance of this for our
understanding of human cognition, prototype theory and conceptual ordering is
very considerable.  Studies based on work with tagged corpora for various
languages, which facilitate speedy collection and analysis of polyadjectival
nominals, are especially robust methodologically and will be especially
welcome, as will papers which examine these issues within the psycholinguistic
spectrum.

Abstracts are invited.

Please send abstracts of up to 500 words to Prof Anthony Grant on the above
email address.




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