LINGUIST List 22.4970 Sat Dec 10 2011 Confs: Morphology, Lang Documentation, Ling Theories, Syntax/UK Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Marina Chumakina , Workshop on Agreement in Archi Message 1: Workshop on Agreement in Archi Date: 09-Dec-2011 From: Marina Chumakina <m.tchoumakinasurrey.ac.uk> Subject: Workshop on Agreement in Archi E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Agreement in Archi Date: 16-Jan-2012 - 16-Jan-2012 Location: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom Contact: Marina Chumakina Contact Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax Meeting Description: A research project 'From competing theories to fieldwork: the challenge of an extreme agreement system' starts at Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, in January 2012. The aim of the project is to create a framework for comparing and evaluating the claims of leading theories of syntax (HPSG, LFG and Minimalism) by focusing on one core area of syntax, namely agreement. Specifically, we shall use data from the Daghestanian language Archi, which has an outstandingly rich and complex agreement system, for analyses in each of the leading theories. The project will be structured around a cycle of working seminars. The contributors will be the typology/fieldwork team (SMG), giving a clear account of the Archi material, and the three syntax experts, who will be invited to give an analysis of the Archi constructions within their theory: the HPSG account will be provided by Robert Borsley (Essex), the LFG account by Louisa Sadler (Essex) and the Minimalism account by Maria Polinsky (Harvard). The seminars will be organised by the Surrey Morphology Group and are open to PhD students. If you would like to participate, please let us know in advance by emailing to Marina Chumakina (m.tchoumakinasurrey.ac.uk). The first three seminar dates are: Introductory seminar Monday January 16 Seminar 1 Friday March 2 Seminar 2 Friday June 1 The preliminary schedule for the Introductory seminar is as follows: 9:30 - 10:00 Welcome coffee 10:00 - 10:30 Welcome talk, Greville Corbett. 10:30 - 13:00 General overview of Archi (sound system, inflectional morphology, syntax - concentrating on phenomena essential for this project), Greville Corbett and Marina Chumakina. This will include a 30 minutes coffee break at 11:00 13:00 - 14: 00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:15 Basic agreement terms, Greville Corbett 14:15 - 14:45 Agreement in HPSG, Robert Borsley 14:45 - 15:15 Agreement in LFG, Louisa Sadler 15:15 - 15:45 Coffee 15:45 - 16:15 Agreement in Minimalism, Maria Polinsky 16:15 - 16:45 Ontology and agreement domains in Archi, Dunstan Brown Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 10-Dec-2011       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.