The first international symposium “Morphology and its interfaces” will
be held at Université Lille 3, France on September 12–13, 2013. The
symposium will address questions related to the interfaces that
morphology may build with other linguistic disciplines: internal
interfaces between flexional and derivational morphology or external
interfaces between morphology and syntax, pragmatics, translation,
phonology, the lexicon, computational linguistics, and so on.
Three invited talks will be given during the symposium by Greville
Corbett (University of Surrey, UK), Muriel Norde (University of
Groningen, The Netherlands), Geert Booij (Universiteit Leiden, The
Netherlands).
The researchers are welcome to submit novel and original research work
concerned one way or another with the interfaces of morphology with
other linguistic disciplines.
Notifications: June 15th 2013.
The invited speakers and authors of selected papers will be invited to
submit an extended version of their paper to a post-conference special
issue of a journal.
Sponsors of the symposium
Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UK
Greville Corbett's work addresses different aspects, such as typology
of languages, morphology and especially the Network Morphology, the
morphosyntactic features, the Slavonic language family especially
Russian, and colour terms (joint work with Ian Davies, Psychology).
Abstract of the presentation: TBA
Muriel Norde, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Muriel Norde studied Scandinavian and General Linguistics at the
University of Amsterdam, where she received her PhD in 1997 on a
thesis entitled The history of the genitive in Swedish – a case
study in degrammaticalization. In the years that followed Muriel
Norde worked as a teacher and researcher, and left the Alma Mater in
2004 to accept a position as senior lecturer at the Department of
Scandinavian Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen,
where, four years later, she was appointed full professor. Muriel
Norde held her inaugural lecture on September 15, 2009.
Abstract of the presentation: TBA
Geert Booij, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
The research of Geert Booij focuses on theoretical and descriptive
issues in morphology, phonology, and on the interface between
morphology, phonology, syntax, and semantics. Dutch is his main,
though not exclusive, object language. Geert Booij is also interested
in construction grammar as an adequate framework to investigate
syntactic constructions that have morphology-like functions, and he is
also developing a theory of Construction Morphology.
Abstract of the presentation: TBA
Organizers
Contact
morpho.interface.2013@gmail.com
Call for submissions
Nowadays morphology cannot be studied without considering its
interfaces. For examples, inflection interacts with syntax, allomorphy
lies at the crossroad of phonology and morphology, word formation
deals with semantics, etc. Moreover, inflection and word formation
interact as well.
The first international symposium "Morphology and its interfaces",
will be held at Université Lille 3, France, September 12-13, 2013. It
aims at addressing questions related to morphology and its internal or
external interfaces, from a diachronic or a synchronic perspective.
Authors are invited to submit papers (for an oral presentation of 20
minutes followed by 10 minutes for discussion) dealing with interface
between inflection and word formation as well as interactions between
morphology and other domains of linguistics including but no limited
to:
- morphology and syntax
- morphology and semantics
- morphology and phonology
- morphology and the lexicon
- morphology and translation
- morphology and pragmatics
- morphology and computer sciences and natural language processing
The researchers are invited to submit novel and original research work
concerned one way or another with the interfaces of morphology with
other linguistic disciplines.
Abstracts must be anonymous, three to four pages long, including
examples, figures and references. The conference languages are English
and French. Page format: A4, 12-point font, single line spacing. File
submission format: .pdf
Submissions will be anonymously refereed by at least three reviewers.
The invited speakers and authors of selected papers will be invited to
submit an extended version of their paper to a post-conference special
issue of a journal.
Important dates:
| First call | October 2012 |
| Extended deadline for submission of abstracts | March 15th 2013 |
| Notifications | June 15th 2013 |
| Final version | July 2013 |
| Symposium | September 12-13, 2013 |
| Publication of the proceedings | Spring 2014 |
