Variation in Cyclicity
(Workshop at DGfS 2025)

Date: 04-Mar-2025 – 07-Mar-2025
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Nadja Fiebig
Meeting Email: nadja.fiebig@uni-leipzig.de
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/variation-in-cyclicity/

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2024

Meeting Description:

In linguistic theory, the concept of cyclicity refers to the notion that derivations are built in a stepwise manner. That is, grammatical processes may apply at different points of the derivation and hence, to different grammatical domains. While cyclicity is well-established both in Minimalist syntactic theories in the form of phases (e.g. Chomsky 2000) and phonological theories (e.g. Lexical Phonology, Stratal Optimality Theory, Harmonic Serialism, Cophonologies by Phase), little work discusses the question to what extent morphology is a cyclic module (e.g. recent work by Müller 2020 on Harmonic Serialism in morphology), or how the cyclic architecture of other modules, such as phonology and syntax, is reflected in morphology.

In general, there is little consensus across cyclic theories on the following questions:
– To what extent are cycles within a module different from each other?
– How are grammatical rules distributed across cycles?
– Are some cycles inherently iterative?
– What is the size of cyclic domains and is it universal?
– Is the number of domains universal?
-To what extent are cycles different across modules?
– Is there cyclicity in semantics?

Our workshop aims to fill this gap by bringing together theoretical linguists working on topics in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics to discuss the concept of cyclicity across theories and modules.

Invited speakers:
Anke Himmelreich (University of Bielefeld / University of Frankfurt)
Hannah Sande (UC Berkeley)

We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (+ 10 minutes discussion) in English. We are equally interested in theoretical and empirical contributions. Abstracts should be anonymously submitted to EASYABS via the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/vic-47dgfs/

Abstracts should be at most one page long, plus references on the second page, on A4 paper with 2.5cm margins on all sides, and must be set in Times New Roman font of at least 11 points. The deadline for submission is 15 August 2024; notification date is 31 August 2024.

Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2024