LINGUIST List 21.3926 Tue Oct 05 2010 Calls: Morphology, Psycholing/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Matthew Baerman, Morphological Complexity & Psycholinguistics Message 1: Morphological Complexity & Psycholinguistics Date: 05-Oct-2010 From: Matthew Baerman <m.baermansurrey.ac.uk> Subject: Morphological Complexity & Psycholinguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Morphological Complexity & Psycholinguistics Date: 28-Jan-2011 - 28-Jan-2011 Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands Contact Person: Matthew Baerman Meeting Email: m.baermansurrey.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.morphology.surrey.ac.uk/Workshop.htm Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Psycholinguistics Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2010 Meeting Description: The Surrey Morphology Group and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics will host a one-day workshop entitled 'Morphological Complexity: Implications for Psycholinguistics', as part of a European Research Council project (grant number: ERC-2008-AdG-230268 MORPHOLOGY). The workshop will be held on 28 Jan (Friday), 2011, at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, with guest speakers Mirjam Ernestus (MPI Nijmegen and Radboud University) and Alice Harris (University of Massachussetts, Amherst). The workshop organizers are Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett & Dunstan Brown. By the term 'morphological complexity', we understand the extra layer of structure that morphological systems may introduce in between meaning and its expression, such as inflection classes or stem alternations. This layer may operate at cross-purposes to functional distinctions, attaining in some languages an astonishing degree of complexity. Such phenomena are a key resource for understanding mental processes as they represent an unconscious and yet highly structured autonomous system. This is the second in a series of workshops exploring the implications that morphological complexity has for various branches of linguistics. The first, held in January 2010 at Harvard, addressed questions of general linguistic theory. The present workshop focuses on psycholinguistics: how does the mind cope with apparently gratuitous morphological elaboration? 2nd Call For Papers We invite proposals for 20 minute talks (plus a 10-minute question period) on the theme of morphological complexity and psycholinguistics. Anonymous abstracts should be no more than one page, and should be sent as an e-mail attachment (in PDF or Word) to morphological.complexity AT googlemail.com. The due date is October 31, 2010. In order to provide some background on the larger project, we have made the original project position paper available on the project website: (http://www.morphology.surrey.ac.uk/Papers/Morphological_complexity.pdf). Any questions may be addressed to m.baerman AT surrey.ac.uk. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 05-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.