30.2676, Confs: Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Croatia
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Subject: 30.2676, Confs: Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Croatia
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:32:01
From: Jana Willer Gold [j.willer-gold at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Object Agreement Across Barriers 2019
Object Agreement Across Barriers 2019
Short Title: OAAB2019
Date: 16-Sep-2019 - 17-Sep-2019
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Contact: Jana Willer Gold
Contact Email: j.willer-gold at ucl.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/linguistics/linguistics-research/recently-funded-projects/agreement-mismatches-0
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology
Meeting Description:
Object Agreement Across Barriers Conference 2019 continues the tradition of
the Resolving Conflicts ABC 2017 (Dubrovnik), the Ellipsis ABC 2016 (Sarajevo)
and the Agreement ABC 2015 (Zadar) that preceded it, in inviting the
researchers to overcome theoretical, empirical and even modality barriers in
their understanding and modelling of agreement phenomena.
Keynote Speakers:
- Kristina Riedel (University of the Free State)
- Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
- Markus Steinbach (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
- Martina Gračanin Yüksek (Middle East Technical University)
Object Agreement ABC 2019 is organized as part of the project Agreement
Mismatches in Experimental Syntax: from Slavic to Bantu where the patterns of
gender agreement in coordination are studied with a uniform methodology in six
locations across South Slavic area and three locations across South Africa to
enrich, strengthen and reinforce the comparative analysis of two typologically
unrelated language families by means of the experimental methodology.
Two persisting questions in the literature on object agreement are: (i) which
objects can undergo agreement and under which circumstances (Kalin 2018); and,
(ii) what is the nature of the object marker - is it an agreement or clitic
(van der Wal to appear). Both questions ask for special attention as the
object marking is widely attested in a large number of typologically distant
language families under shared conditions. For examples, the notorious Romance
PCC constraint shares a relevant property with certain Bantu object marking
languages, namely that the constraint arises in the context of indirect
objects (Riedel 2009). The cross-family parallel extends to the optionality of
direct or differential object marking phenomena standardly argued to be driven
by semantic-pragmatic features such as animacy or specificity, although
recently reanalysed in terms of information structural properties such as
topicality or contrastive focus (Mursell 2018). At the same time, comparison
of morphologically distinct languages facilitates exploration of the nature of
the object marker, and the typological breadth of Semitic and other
morphologically diverse languages opens new perspectives on the underlyingly
skeleton supporting the objects that undergo agreement.
Moreover, in spite of the standard analysis of languages such as Slavic being
non-object marking, the conference invites authors to consider an alternative
approach: first, whether object clitics can be viewed as the result of a
structure that doubles their associated argument, as this has been treated as
agreement. Second, whether effects like the PCC (and especially reversals) can
be seen to involve agreement with the two internal objects (Stegovec 2017).
Third, whether relative pronouns that match in case can be thought of as
agreeing with an object (Gračanin-Yüksek 2013). And finally, whether
unaccusative subjects, if treated as deep objects, can be thought of as
manifesting object agreement depending on the timing. It is precisely trying
to think about whether and if all of these, and related processes are indeed
agreement and are indeed object agreement, that will lead to thinking about
object agreement as notion across barriers. The questions are even more
pertinent as they extend across modalities to sign languages (Pfau, Salzmann
and Steinbach 2018, Börstell 2019).
Program:
Object Agreement Across Barriers Conference 2019
16-17 September 2019, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Conference Program
Monday, 16 September 2019
08:30-08:45:
Registration
08:45-09:00:
Opening remarks by Andrew Nevins (University College London)
09:00-09:40:
Vicki Carstens (Southern Illinois University): Agreement with conjoined
objects in Swahili: an unlocking effect
09:40-10:20:
Rozenn Guerois and Maud Devos (Ghent University and RMCA & Ghent University,
Belgium): Micro-variation in object marking in North-Mozambican Bantu
languages
10:20-10:50: Coffee break
10:50-11:50:
Keynote speaker: Mark Baker (Rutgers University): On Agreeing with object to
create anaphoric relations: connecting clitic doubling, reflexive voice, and
switch reference
11:50-12:30:
Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin): PCC Effects in Berlin German and the Relevance of
Grammatical Relations
12:30-14:15: Lunch (provided)
14:15-15:15:
Keynote speaker: Kristina Riedel (University of the Free State): Object
marking in Bantu: reassessing agreement
15:15-15:45: Coffee break
15:45-16:25: Steven Foley (University of California, Santa Cruz): Object
agreement in South Caucasian via the Principle of Minimal Compliance
16:25-17:05: Jason Overfelt (University of Minnesota): Asymmetrical Symmetry
in Tigrinya Object Marking
17:05-17:45: Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Eva Maria Roessler (University of
Modena and Reggio Emilia and University of Minho): DOM and other Object
Marking Strategies - How Many Syntactic Probes?
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
09:00-10:00:
Keynote speaker: Markus Steinbach (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen):
Differential object marking in sign languages? Restrictions on object
agreement in German Sign Language
10:00-10:40:
Marina Milković and Ronnie Wilbur (University of Zagreb and Purdue
University): Agreement marking in Croatian Sign Language – a new view on the
old agreement
10:40-11:10: Coffee break
11:10-11:50:
Paul Widmer and Barbara Sonnenhauser (University of Zurich): Clauses as
objects. Manipulativity-driven agreement in Albanian
11:50-12:30:
Simone De Cia (The University of Manchester): Object-Past Participle Agreement
and Information Structure in Friulian
12:30-14:15: Lunch (provided)
14:15-14:55:
Anita Peti-Stantić and Jana Willer Gold (University of Zagreb and University
College London): Aux Clitic Drop In Object Clauses: Interaction Of Person,
Number And Case
14:55-15:35:
Tor A. Åfarli and Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Norwegian University of Science and
Technology and University of Delhi): Verbs, participles, and subject/object
agreement in Norwegian, English and Hindi
15:35-16:05: Coffee break
16:05-16:45:
Sakshi Bhatia and Brian Dillon (University of Massachusetts and UMass
Linguistics): Agreement attraction in Hindi: Object agreement parallels
Subject agreement
16:45-17:45:
Keynote speaker: Martina Gračanin-Yüksek (Middle East Technical University):
Relativization of (non-)subjects in Turkish
17:45-18:00:
Closing remarks
19:00-… Conference dinner
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