32.2156, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Belgium

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Subject: 32.2156, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:00:53
From: Edoardo Cavirani [cavirani.edoardo at gmail.com]
Subject: 14th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics

 
Full Title: 14th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics 
Short Title: BCGL14 

Date: 16-Dec-2021 - 17-Dec-2021
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Edoardo Cavirani
Meeting Email: bcgl14 at crissp.be
Web Site: https://www.crissp.be/bcgl-14-where-syntax-and-phonology-meet/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 17-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology (CRISSP) of KU
Leuven invites abstracts for the 14th edition of the Brussels Conference on
Generative Linguistics (BCGL 14), to be held on 16–17 December 2021. The
conference will take place in Brussels if permitted by local COVID
19‐regulations, and online if not. The theme of BCGL 14 is the nature of PF
and the syntax‐phonology boundary.


Call for Papers: 

Work on the interface connecting phonology and (morpho)syntax has been the
topic of much generative linguistic research throughout the last couple of
decades. Recurring topics of investigation within this tradition are (i)
reference strategy (whether the domains where phonological processes apply are
determined by syntax directly, or are mediated by the Prosodic Hierarchy),
(ii) locality (what kinds of syntactic objects constitute the domain for
phonological operations), (iii) exponence (what are the targets of
phonological realization), and (iv) visibility and directionality (how much
access and influence syntax and phonology have on each other).

A crucial component featuring in most of the work addressing the
aforementioned topics is PF, which is traditionally considered the interface
level connecting morphosyntax and phonology. However, since the scope of
narrow syntax has been progressively shrunk in Minimalism, properties
previously attributed to this component are being outsourced to PF, which has
thus been argued to host operations such as linearization, heavy NP‐shift,
head movement, clitic placement, copy deletion, etc. Hence, whereas within the
traditional Y‐model PF was conceived of as an interpretive component
coextensive with the phonological module, in recent years it has come to refer
to a component that hosts a whole range of operations that deal with
non‐(exclusively‐)phonological matter. This can be clearly observed in
DM‐based approaches, where PF is conceived of as an internally complex
derivational component, but also in more phonologically oriented work, where
the mapping between narrow syntax and phonetics is decomposed into several
computational systems.
The overall picture is one in which, despite the considerable explanatory
burden placed on PF, the latter’s properties are poorly understood, often
vaguely and inconsistently defined, hardly compatible with modularity, or,
possibly, with phonology itself. For instance, the ‘P’ in PF is variably
understood as standing for ‘phonology’ or ‘phonetics’, and despite the fact
that PF is often assumed to be coextensive with the phonological module, it is
argued to be able to handle both phonological and morphological primitives. We
believe that the central role played by PF in current theorizing requires us
to sharpen our understanding of this component, and ideally to converge on a
conception of it that is compatible with the properties of the interfacing
modules and the overall architecture of grammar.

Work addressing such topics is usually carried out within a single
subdiscipline, i.e. either by syntacticians, morphologists, or phonologists,
who rarely have the chance to compare and discuss each other’s perspectives,
thereby benefiting from each other’s insights. A couple of notable exceptions
are two workshops organized at Stanford University in 1988 and 2012. BCGL14
intends to continue along this path, and aims at bringing together
phonologists and (morpho)syntacticians to stimulate an interdisciplinary
discussion on the nature and the properties of PF, with specific reference to
the following questions:

 - What are the status and the properties of PF in modular Minimalist
approaches?
 - If PF imposes conditions on syntactic computation, what kind of conditions
would they be? 
 - How would this conditioning work exactly, i.e. how would it be implemented?
How and when do syntax and PF “see each other”?
 - If these conditions are of a phonological nature, what is the kind of
phonological information syntax can access? Relatedly, how does this fit with
the assumption that syntax is phonology‐blind?
 - Is it possible to develop a (representational) theory of phonology such
that some of the alleged PF‐operations can be understood as purely
phonological?
 - Would an explicit distinction between phonology and phonetics help in
further reducing PF to a purely phonological component?

Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including data, references, and
diagrams. Abstracts should be typed in at least 11‐point font, with one‐inch
margins (letter‐size; 8.5 by 11 inch or A4) and a maximum of 50 lines of text
per page. Abstracts must be anonymous and submissions are limited to 2 per
author, at most one of which is single‐authored. Only electronic submissions
will be accepted. Please submit your abstract using the EasyChair link for
BCGL14: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bcgl14




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