29.486, Calls: Language Documentation, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax / Snippets (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:34:21
From: Itamar Kastner [itamar at itamarkast.net]
Subject: Language Documentation, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax / Snippets (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Snippets 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 27-Apr-2018 

Call for Papers:

Special Issue on: Non-local contextual allomorphy

Guest editors: Beata Moskal and Itamar Kastner

In recent years, much work in morphology and its interfaces with syntax and
phonology has been devoted to understanding what the locality domains for
contextual allomorphy are. After Bobaljik's (2000) formalization of spell-out
proceeding from the inside outwards, Embick's (2010) influential proposal
triggered a new wave of work based on the premise that allomorphy can only be
conditioned between overt linearly adjacent elements. Developing the minimal
conditions on allomorphy further, Bobaljik (2012) argued for structural rather
than linear adjacency being the relevant factor (cf. the proposal of Adger et
al. 2003 that also crucially relies on structural adjacency). The past few
years in particular have seen an explosion of work which is testing these
claims, seeking to refine the theory of locality in allomorphy while trying to
maintain its restrictiveness (Marantz, 2013; Gribanova, 2015; Merchant, 2015;
Grestenberger, 2016; Moskal and Smith, 2016; Oseki, 2016; Ostrove, 2016; Smith
et al., 2016; Svenonius, 2016; Toosarvandani, 2016; Božič, 2017; Bobaljik
and Harley, 2017; Gribanova and Harizanov, 2017; Kastner, 2017; Kastner and
Zu, 2017).

Despite all this recent work, it is still unclear what kinds of allomorphic
interactions are possible across languages: can allomorphy be triggered across
one intervening head, or more? Should locality be computed linearly or
structurally? Do different domains apply to roots and to functional elements?
Do different domains constrain syntactic and phonological triggers?

These kinds of questions are currently being researched by linguists working
on a variety of languages, but the entire field stands to benefit from knowing
what the empirical state of affairs is, even if no single theory has been able
to capture all of the data yet. To this end, the journal Snippets
(http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/) will publish a special issue in which
scholars can draw attention to surprising allomorphic interactions they are
currently investigating. Snippets aims to publish specific remarks that
motivate research or that make theoretical points germane to current work. The
ideal contribution is brief, self-contained and explicit; see the website for
additional information and examples. For the current issue, submissions should
not include an explicit analysis of the data, but rather highlight its
relevance to existing debates. Authors may, of course, speculate on possible
approaches to accounting for the empirical phenomena.

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to snippetsallomorphy at gmail.com by
Friday, April 27, 2018 as a PDF attachment. The files must be anonymous, but
must be accompanied with information about the authors: name, affiliation, and
(postal or electronic) address. Submissions can be of any length below 500
words (including examples), with an additional half page allowed for diagrams,
tables, and references. The submissions may not contain footnotes or general
acknowledgments, except acknowledgment of funding sources, which must be
credited in a line following the references. Authors who wish to acknowledge
language consultants are allowed but not required to do so.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, April 27, 2018
Issue published: Fall 2018




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