LINGUIST List 17.889

Thu Mar 23 2006

Calls: General Ling/UK;Spanish Ling/USA

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Patrick Honeybone, Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2006 Meeting
         2.    Regina Morin, 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Message 1: Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2006 Meeting
Date: 21-Mar-2006
From: Patrick Honeybone <patrick.honeyboneEd.ac.uk>
Subject: Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2006 Meeting



Full Title: Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2006 meeting Short Title: LAGB 2006
Date: 30-Aug-2006 - 02-Sep-2006 Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Contact Person: S.J. Hannahs
Web Site: http://lagb2006.ncl.ac.uk
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 03-Apr-2006

Meeting Description:

The 2006 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain will be held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, from 30th August to 2nd September. The local organisers will be S.J. Hannahs and Tina Fry. The Meeting will last four days and will feature several special events, including two invited speakers and an invited Language Tutorial.

LAGB Annual Meeting 2006: University of Newcastle upon Tyne

30th August to 2nd September 2006

Second call for papers

The deadline for abstracts is *3rd April 2006*

Highlights are the 2006 LAGB meeting are given below, but the full version of the first circular (with information about abstract submission, student bursaries and other LAGB-internal information) can be downloaded from this address:

http://www.lagb.org.uk/1nclcirc.pdf

Special events

1. The Henry Sweet Lecture 2006 will be delivered by Professor Nick Evans (University of Melbourne) on the evening of 30th August, with the title 'The pleasures and pains of careful articulation: stable nasal-stop clusters in Australian languages as a typological conundrum'.

2. The Linguistics Association Lecture 2006 will be delivered by Professor Sharon Inkelas (University of California, Berkeley) on 2nd September, with the title 'The flip side of blocking: multiple exponence in agglutinating languages'.

3. There will also be a special themed session on 2nd September organised by Sharon Inkelas and Andrew Spencer, related to the Linguistics Association Lecture, with the title 'Exponence in morphology and syntax', for which abstracts are now invited. These should be submitted in the same way as abstracts for the general sessions, but should be clearly marked that they are intended for the special session. For further details, see the call for papers for this session on the last page of the first circular, and included at the end of this message.

4. There will be a workshop on Teaching Linguistics at University organised by the UK Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.

5. There will be a Language Tutorial on Iwaidja, given by Professor Nick Evans (University of Melbourne).

6. There will be a session organised by the LAGB's Education Committee with the theme 'How can linguists help schools?' with contributions by Julie Blake (Villiers Park Educational Trust) and Sue Barry (Manchester Metropolitan) (see www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/ecsessions.htm).

Deadline for abstracts: *3rd April*. For details of abstract submission, see the full version of the first circular - abstracts may be submitted either electronically or in hard copy; sets of abstracts may be submitted together for a themed session of your choice.

**Call for papers for the themed session at the 2006 LAGB meeting, related to the Linguistics Association Lecture by Sharon Inkelas, and organised by Sharon Inkelas and Andrew Spencer.**

Exponence in morphology and syntax

Work in realizational theories of morphology has emphasized the complex many:many relationship between form and function, particularly in agreement, and has seriously undermined classical conceptions of the morpheme as a Saussurean sign (Matthews 1972, Anderson 1977). Parallel cases of many:many: exponence (multiple exponence) are also recognized in syntax (e.g. Sells 2004). At the same time, attention is being increasingly focussed on the role of stems in morphology as purely formal ('morphomic') objects (Aronoff 1992, 1994; Blevins 2003, 2005; Luis & Spencer 2005; Stump 2001, Inkelas & Zoll 2005, amongst others), adding a new dimension to the description and analysis of apparent cases of multiple exponence in morphology.

We invite papers which develop such theoretical ideas and which explore the complexity of exponence in morphology and/or syntax. Some of the questions we have in mind include, but are by no means limited to the following: 'how is exponence factored out between stems, affixes and non-concatenative exponents such as tone, length, or stress alternations?', 'how are stems organized into types within paradigmatic systems?', 'to what degree does multiple exponence involve co-dependency between a morphomic stem and affix, as opposed to semantically redundant affixation', 'how does reduplication relate to affixal, stem-based and non-concatenative exponence in a realizational framework?', 'how do we distinguish between a process which selects distinct, albeit related stems or affixes, from a process which selects a single stem/affix which then displays (perhaps suppletive) allomorphy?', 'what parallel kinds of multiple exponence phenomena are found in syntax?', 'in cases of partial grammaticalization, in which a construction shows some syntactic and some morphological properties, how is the division of labour best described?'. The answers to some of these questions will require an explicit account of how morphology and syntax interrelate. For instance, will it ultimately prove necessary to adopt some version of Construction Grammar to achieve a smooth interface between the two components? We particularly welcome submissions which address this more general issue.

References-Anderson, Stephen R. 1977. On the formal description of inflection. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society 13: 15-44.-Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by Itself. MIT Press.-Aronoff, Mark. 1992. Stems in Latin verbal morphology. In: Aronoff, Mark ed. 1992 Morphology Now. Albany: State University of New York Press. 5-32.-Sells, Peter 2004. Syntactic information and its morphological expression. In Louisa Sadler and Andrew Spencer (eds) Projecting Morphology. Stanford, CSLI Publications, 187-225.-Blevins, James P. 2003. Stems and paradigms. Language 79: 737-767.-Blevins, James P. 2005. Word-based declensions in Estonian. In Geert Booij and Jaap van der Marle (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2005. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 1-25.-Luís, Ana R. and Andrew Spencer 2005. A Paradigm Function account of 'mesoclisis' in European Portuguese. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.) Yearbook of Morphology 2004, Dordrecht: Springer, 177-228.-Stump, Gregory T. 2001. Inflectional Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.-Inkelas, Sharon and Cheryl Zoll. 2005. Reduplication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Abstracts are now invited for this session. They should be submitted in the same way as abstracts for the general sessions, but should be clearly marked that they are intended for this special themed session.


Message 2: 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Date: 21-Mar-2006
From: Regina Morin <rmorintcnj.edu>
Subject: 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest



Full Title: 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest Short Title: LASSO 2006
Date: 29-Sep-2006 - 01-Oct-2006 Location: Laredo, Texas, USA Contact Person: Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.tamiu.edu/coas/lla/lasso
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2006

Meeting Description:

HOSTED BY TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Appropriate to the site of this year’s meeting, the conference theme is “Transcending Borders”. The conference will feature a plenary address by Ana Celia Zentella, of the University of California, San Diego. Colleen Fitzgerald of Texas Tech University will present the Presidential Address.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: JUNE 1, 2006E-MAIL 250-500 WORD ABSTRACTS TO lasso2006tamiu.edu or visit the website http://www.tamiu.edu/coas/lla/lasso