Call Agreement 2014: Defining and mapping agreement

[Patricia Cabredo Hofherr]

   From : dunstan.brown at york.ac.uk


  Agreement 2014: Defining and mapping agreement

*Date*: 31 July 2014
*Location*: King's Manor, York, UK
http://www.york.ac.uk/language/research/projects/ctia/agreement2014/

*Invited speakers*:
Greville Corbett (Surrey), Jürg Fleischer (Marburg)

*Abstracts*:
No more than two A4 pages, in a size 12 Times font with one inch (2.54 
cm) margins all around, including examples and references. Abstract 
submissions should be made through EasyAbs 
(http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/agreement2014). The deadline for 
abstract submissions is 15 March 2014.

*Presentations*:
20 minutes in length with 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

*Call for papers*:
Agreement, in its simplest form, can be described as a situation where 
information associated with a 'controller' element also appears on 
another 'target' element. In many languages, agreement is pervasive, so 
much so that each of the major syntactic frameworks requires a way of 
dealing with it, either as a primitive operation such as Agree (as in 
Minimalism), or in terms of agreement, concord or index features (as in 
LFG and HPSG). However, despite extensive research, many aspects of 
agreement still remain deeply puzzling.

This workshop is devoted to a cross-disciplinary exploration of the 
agreement phenomenon, and the extent to which agreement may be defined 
in any given theory, as well as the ways in which agreement is expressed 
at the interfaces and/or mapped onto linguistic typologies. The workshop 
is not restricted to any particular theory or framework, and is open to 
any analysis that is firmly grounded in empirical data, which seeks to 
analyse agreement in morphology, syntax, semantics or its interfaces. 
Abstract submissions pertaining, but not limited, to the following 
questions are welcome:

 1. What counts or does not count as agreement, e.g. agreement vs.
    concord, syntactic vs. semantic agreement etc.?
 2. What can we learn from diachronic approaches to agreement in
    comparison with synchronic approaches?
 3. What benefits or challenges do different methods of studying
    agreement present, e.g. fieldwork, corpus methods?
 4. What is the nature of cross-linguistic variation of agreement, e.g.
    richness of agreement morphology, domains of agreement, syncretism etc.?
 5. How can typologies of agreement be expressed, e.g. using a
    multidimensional approach such as 'Canonical Agreement' (Corbett
    2002, Brown, Chumakina & Corbett 2012) as opposed to categorical
    approaches?
 6. What role does morphology play in agreement and what types of
    frameworks are best suited to expressing this? What are the benefits
    of inferential-realizational frameworks (Stump 2001, Brown &
    Hippisley 2012) compared with e.g. Distributed Morphology (Halle &
    Marantz 1993, 1994)?

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