The Surrey Morphology Group is pleased to announce the next seminar in the seminar series within a research project 'From competing theories to fieldwork: the challenge of an extreme agreement system'.

TOPIC: syntactic accounts of the SEMANTIC AGREEMENT problem in Archi

Date: 25 October 2013 (Friday)

Location: University of Surrey Campus, Duke of Kent building, room 02DK02

Time: 9:30 -17:00

 Information, programme and materials are available here: http://fahs-wiki.soh.surrey.ac.uk/groups/fromcompetingtheoriestofieldworkarchi/wiki/11113/seminar_5.html

Materials from the previous seminars can be found on the project WIKI: http://fahs-wiki.soh.surrey.ac.uk/groups/fromcompetingtheoriestofieldworkarchi/wiki/

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 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 is structured around a cycle of working seminars. The contributors are the typology/fieldwork team (SMG), giving a clear account of the Archi material, and the three syntax experts, who 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 are free and open to PhD students. If you would like to participate, please let us know by emailing to Marina Chumakina (m.tchoumakina@surrey.ac.uk).

Best regards,

Marina