33.3143, Calls: Morphology/Greece

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3143. Sat Oct 15 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3143, Calls: Morphology/Greece

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 20:39:04
From: Neil Bermel [n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop: Re-evaluating the relationship between defectivity and overabundance

 
Full Title: Workshop: Re-evaluating the relationship between defectivity and overabundance 

Date: 29-Aug-2023 - 01-Sep-2023
Location: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Neil Bermel
Meeting Email: n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/feastandfamine 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology 

Call Deadline: 08-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

There is an increasing body of research on defectivity (paradigm gaps) and
overabundance (multiple forms filling the same paradigm cell, termed variously
‘competing’, ‘doublet’ or ‘rival’ forms). Both phenomena reveal important
insights into how linguistic morphology works, in particular in relation to
where the non-deterministic application of rules is acceptable and to the
basis for speakers’ certainty about which rules to apply. 

Many accounts of defectivity start from the observation that multiple
possibilities for the realisation of a form create clashes that lead to a
paradigm gap (Hudson 2000), although recent studies have problematised this
explanation (Sims 2015). Overabundance has frequently been dealt with in the
literature as a case of semantic/functional overdifferentiation or variation
conditioned along various axes (Brown 2007, Thornton 2012). However, the
existence of non-conditioned overabundance presents an alternative and
well-attested outcome in a diverse range of languages (Thornton 2019:224),
thereby indicating that defectivity is thus not the only potential resolution
of such a clash. More investigation is needed to understand the ways these two
phenomena are treated by learners and language users, the theoretical
dimensions along which these two phenomena relate to each other, and the ways
they can be represented in descriptions of language aimed at the public. 

This workshop considers the extent to which the associated properties of
defectivity and overabundance overlap by bringing together researchers working
on paradigm gaps and rival forms in a variety of sub-fields, including corpus
linguistics, historical linguistics, child language, language planning,
morphology, typology, computational modelling, psycholinguistics and
sociolinguistics. It is rooted in work based in the Feast and Famine project,
funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council, but is open to
researchers from a broad variety of languages and perspectives.

References: 

    Brown, Dunstan. 2007. Peripheral functions and overdifferentiation: the
Russian second locative. Russian Linguistics 31, 61-76. 
    Hudson, Richard. 2000. I amn’t. Language 76(2), 297–323.
https://doi.org/10.2307/417658
    Sims, Andrea. 2015. Inflectional defectiveness. Cambridge: CUP. 
    Thornton, Anna. 2011. Overabundance (multiple forms realizing the same
cell): a non-canonical phenomenon in Italian verb morphology. In Maiden,
Martin et al. (eds.), Morphological autonomy, 358-381. Oxford: OUP. 
    Thornton, Anna. 2019. Overabundance: a canonical typology. In Rainer,
Franz et al. (eds.), Competition in inflection and word-formation, 223-258.
Studies in Morphology 5. Dordrecht: Springer.

Workshop convenors: Neil Bermel (University of Sheffield) and Dunstan Brown
(University of York)


Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions of abstracts from researchers at any level of seniority
who are working on overabundance (morphological variation) and defectivity
(paradigm gaps); postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows are especially
encouraged to submit. We aim to have the workshop consider the phenomena under
investigation in a diverse range of languages and relevant sub-fields.
Interested parties should submit a 300-word abstract by 8 November 2022 to the
nominated contact. We will make selections and inform all presenters of
acceptance of their abstracts before the workshop proposal is submitted to the
Society.

Contact email: n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk




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