34.2272, Calls: 21st International Morphology Meeting

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Subject: 34.2272, Calls: 21st International Morphology Meeting

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Date: 18-Jul-2023
From: Francesco Gardani [francesco.gardani at uzh.ch]
Subject: 21st International Morphology Meeting


Full Title: 21st International Morphology Meeting
Short Title: IMM21

Date: 28-Aug-2024 - 30-Aug-2024
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact Person: Elisabeth Peters
Meeting Email: elisabeth.peters at wu.ac.at
Web Site: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/bizcomm/events/imm21/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2023

Meeting Description:

As in the past, the next Viennese IMM will again be a thematically
open venue hosting papers on all kinds of topics related to
morphology. Workshops up to a limit of eight papers are welcome on any
topic in morphology, excluding the meeting’s main topic. This time,
the main topic will be “Historical morphology and morphological
theory”.

Call for Papers:

While the first 100 years of the language sciences concentrated on the
historical study of languages to the point of exclusivity, with the
advent of structuralism and later generative grammar, the synchronic
approach became dominant in the middle of the 20th century. Several
decades ago, it may even have seemed as if historical linguistics was
on the wane, but new generations of linguists have rediscovered the
diachronic study of language, not as an end in itself, but with an eye
to what historical linguistics can contribute to our understanding of
human language in general. The dynamics of language change in fact
often provides privileged access to the inner workings of language. In
an endeavor to elaborate a comprehensive theory of human language,
historical linguistics, psycholinguistics and the study of language
acquisition, language typology and grammatical description complement
each other in a complex interplay. If we understand why languages
change continually, and why they do so in certain ways and not others,
we have gone a long way in getting a grip on the nature of human
language.

Morphology is present in human languages to vastly different degrees,
ranging from just some compounding in highly isolating languages to
the morphological exuberance of polysynthetic languages. It has been
called a luxury, a logically unnecessary part of human language, and
some theories of language have even tried to dissolve this nuisance in
phonology, syntax, and semantics. Instead of banning the troublemaker,
however, it could be more fruitful to try to explain why morphology
arises in language after language, and why it evolves in certain ways
but not in others. Once we have answered these and related questions,
our understanding of human language will be greatly enhanced.
Participants who want to contribute to the central topic of the
meeting are kindly asked not to lose sight of this general-linguistic
perspective and to make it clear how their case study relates to it.

Keynote speakers:
Peter Arkadiev (University of Mainz)
Claire Bowern (Yale University)
Angela Ralli (University of Patras)

Organizers:
Francesco Gardani (University of Zurich)
Franz Rainer (WU Vienna)

Conference manager:
Elisabeth Peters (WU Vienna)

Host:
WU Vienna, Welthandelsplatz 1, Vienna, Austria

Important dates:
Submission of workshop proposals: 21 July - 31 August 2023
Notification of acceptance for workshop proposals: 16 September 2023

Submission of abstracts: 1 September - 31 October 2023
Notification of acceptance for abstracts: 31 December 2023



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