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[Sophie Wauquier sophie.wauquier@orange.fr [parislinguists]]

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Sujet : 	Workshop on Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone (Call for Papers)
Date : 	Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:34:52 +0100
De : 	Jochen Trommer <jtrommer at uni-leipzig.de>
Répondre à : 	Jochen Trommer <jtrommer at uni-leipzig.de>
Pour : 	mfm at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk



*Call for Papers*
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Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone: New Data and Theories
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13-14 June 2015

Leipzig

Whereas tone has played a central role in the evolution of phonological 
theory (Goldsmith 1976, Pulleyblank 1986, Yip 2002), the channels 
by which morphology and syntax trigger tonal reflexes or conversely 
restrict tonal alternations are still hardly understood. Firmly 
persuaded by Hyman's (2011) dictum that `tone can do everything 
segmental or metrical phonology can do' (and more), we think that it is 
absolutely essential for linguistics to develop a better understanding 
for the empirical richness and the theoretical implications of the 
morphosyntax of tone. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to 
this end which brings together descriptively and theoretically oriented 
linguists addressing questions such as:

• How does morphosyntactic structure interact with tonal phonology? Do 
syntactic constructions trigger specific tone patterns? Which types of 
morphosyntactic boundaries restrict (or are required by) general tonal 
alternations? Does opacity in tonal processes correlate with 
morphological and syntactic levels of derivation?

• How does tonal featural affixation work morphologically? how are tonal 
morphemes linearized? Where do they show systematic patterns of 
syncretism and blocking or multiple exponence? What is the distribution 
of tonal prefixation and suffixation? Is there a tonal equivalent to 
infixation, and how does tonal overwriting work in contrast to additive 
tonal morphology?

• What can tonal phenomena teach us about the morphology-syntax 
interface? Are tonal alternations at the phrasal level 
substantially different from word-level processes? Where do tonal 
alternations crosscut the boundaries between word-level morphology and 
phrasal syntax?

We invite abstracts for twenty-minute talks with a ten-minute 
discussion. We especially encourage contributions which present 
original fieldwork (or experimental results), but also highly welcome 
submissions that provide new theoretical approaches, establish new 
descriptive generalizations, or, simply, bring to the fore relevant data 
that have been published, but so far ignored in a the theoretical 
discussion.

*Invited Speakers*

• Yuni Kim (University of Manchester)
• Mary Paster (Pomona College)
• Gerrit Dimmendaal (University of Cologne)

*Abstract Submission*

Abstracts must be at most one page long. An optional second page is 
permitted for data and references. Abstracts must be anonymous.

Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per 
author, or two joint abstracts per author.

The abstract should be submitted as a PDF attachment and sent to the 
following e-mail address:

Eva.Zimmermann[aet]uni-leipzig.de

Please use `Abstract' as the Subject header and include the information 
in (1) - (4), which should constitute the body of the message. 
Please make sure that all fonts are embedded.

*Author Information*

• Name(s) of author(s)
• Title of talk
• Affiliation(s)
• E-mail address(es)

*Deadline for Submission: * March 31, 2015

*Notification of Acceptance: *April 15, 2015


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