31.2445, Calls: Morphology, Phonology, Typology/Greece

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Subject: 31.2445, Calls: Morphology, Phonology, Typology/Greece

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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:08:01
From: Nina Topintzi [topintzi at enl.auth.gr]
Subject: Artificial/peripheral structures: What can they tell us

 
Full Title: Artificial/peripheral structures: What can they tell us 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Nina Topintzi
Meeting Email: topintzi at enl.auth.gr

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology; Typology 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

Workshop Convenors: 
Nina Topintzi (topintzi at enl.auth.gr) 
Giorgos Markopoulos (g.markopoulos at aegean.gr)

Linguists’ endeavor to model speakers’ internal grammatical knowledge is often
hampered by the fact that the very linguistic data they examine may not
accurately reflect the underlying structure at hand. At the word level, this
may be due to, broadly speaking, extra-grammatical factors (e.g. frequency,
pragmatic context, diachrony, language contact,) that exert a specific
influence on the surface form of the word and, therefore, “blur” the
(morpho)phonological processes taking place.
In order to avoid this kind of opacity, a great body of phonological research
has shifted its focus from “conventional” data (i.e. actual words
well-established in the lexicon of a language) to newly formed structures that
have received little or no  extra-grammatical influence and could thus provide
better insight into speakers’ grammars. In particular, the research interest
has turned either into peripheral novel forms coined by (a group of) speakers,
for instance blends (e.g. Piñeros 2004; Schoenfeld, Cohen & Bat-El 2019),
language games (e.g. Vaux 2011; Krämer & Vogt 2018) and Pokémon names (e.g.
Shih et al. 2018; Kawahara et al. 2018), or into artificial structures that
are used as experimental material in order to reveal the speakers’ response to
new data, for instance novel formations / nonce words (e.g. Albright & Hayes
2003; Tessier & Becker 2018) and artificial mini-grammars (e.g. Finley 2016;
White et al. 2018).


Call for Papers: 

The workshop aims at bringing together scholars working on the
(morpho)phonology of different kinds of artificial/peripheral formations. We
thus welcome contributions that address (but are not necessarily limited to)
the following questions:
1. Why is it important to include artificial/peripheral formations in the
study of language and, specifically, in phonological theory?
2. Which artificial/peripheral formations are more promising to shed light on
speakers’ internal grammars? Are there any relevant fields that have been not
explored thus far?
3. How artificial/peripheral formations help us deepen our understanding of
how natural languages work?

We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 5-minute
discussion). Abstracts must be anonymous and should not exceed 300 words
(including examples, excluding references). 

They should be sent as a PDF attachment to the following email addresses:
topintzi at enl.auth.gr and g.markopoulos at aegean.gr.

Note: Provisional acceptance of abstracts will be sent by 30 October, 2020. A
proposal for the workshop (including the accepted abstracts) will then be
submitted to the organizers of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2021) in November. If the proposal is accepted, the
workshop will take place during the meeting over 1 or 2 days.




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