28.2991, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/Switzerland

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Subject: 28.2991, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:59:22
From: Franziska Stuntebeck [franziska.stuntebeck at uzh.ch]
Subject: Workshop: ''What is a Word?''

 
Full Title: Workshop "What is a Word?" 

Date: 14-Dec-2017 - 15-Dec-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Franziska Stuntebeck
Meeting Email: wordshop at linguistik.uzh.ch
Web Site: http://www.linguistik.uzh.ch/en/wordshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

The two-day workshop deals with the issue of wordhood in linguistics (esp.
morphology, syntax, and phonology) approaching this allegedly basic notion
from two different angles: formal grammar and comparative linguistics. The
objective is to discuss, understand, identify, and define what governs the
formation, the interpretation and the integration of words into the study of
linguistic phenomena. In particular, it reviews various theoretical positions
on this issue (e.g. in Nano-Syntax, Distributed Morphology and related
approaches, in Word and Paradigm Morphology and in Prosodic Phonology), and
surveys language specific word phenomena across the world. 

Keynote Speakers: 

- Prof. Heather Newell (Université de Québec à Montréal)
- Prof. James Blevins (University of Cambridge)
- Prof. Tom Leu (Université de Québec à Montréal)
- Prof. Götz Keydana (Universität Göttingen)
- Dr. Eric Lander (Göteborgs Universitet)
- Dr. Dieter Gunkel (University of Richmond)

Funding by the UZH Graduate Campus via a GRC Grant is gratefully acknowledged.


Call for Papers:

The detailed call can be found here: http://www.linguistik.uzh.ch/en/wordshop.

We hereby would like to invite junior researchers (post-docs and PhD students)
to submit papers and posters for the event. This workshop is conceived as a
platform for junior researchers to discuss and present their own work. 

We welcome abstracts with both formal grammar and comparative linguistics
backgrounds, concerned with any of the following topics (but not exclusively):
(i) the notion of word as a derived notion; (ii) word phenomena at the
interfaces of grammar (syntax-morphology, syntax-phonology,
morphology-phonology etc.); (iii) the typology of wordhood; (iv) the history
of the concept of word in pre-modern and early modern linguistic traditions.

Submission Guidelines: 

Abstracts concerned with any of the topics presented above are welcome.
Abstracts should be no longer than two pages in length (incl. examples and
references), in Times New Roman (12 pt letter type, single line spacing, 2,5
cm margins). Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one
joint abstract per author.

Each presentation will be allotted 30 minutes (20 minutes talk plus 10 minutes
Q&A/discussion).

Abstracts are submitted to wordshop at linguistik.uzh.ch.

The official language of the conference is English.

Call deadline: 31 August 2017
Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2017
  
Organization: 

- Dr. Lena Baunaz (University of Zurich)
- Tim Aufderheide (University of Zurich)
- Franziska Stuntebeck (University of Zurich)




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