Conference Description

Irregularity is a philological concept which is only insufficiently defined. It is normally associated with morphological properties although it has been applied also to other levels of grammar. The conference looks at irregularity from the vantage point of different theories, languages, and sub-systems of language. The history of the concept itself is traced back to its origins. The conference aims at preparing the grounds for an international and (within linguistics) interdisciplinary project on irregularity.

Invited speakers:

Greville Corbett (Surrey Morphology Group [http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/gcorbett.htm] )
Bernhard Hurch (Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Graz [http://www.uni-graz.at/ling/] )
Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara [http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/mithun/] )
Damaris Nübling (Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz [http://www.germanistik.uni-mainz.de/new_html/_historische/Mitarbeiter/d_nuebling/nuebling_start.html] )
Paolo Ramat (Università degli Studi, Pavia [http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=105] )

Papers and posters

Papers and posters on the following issues are welcome:

Irregularity in segmental and suprasegmental phonology
Irregularity in morphology
Irregularity in syntax
Irregularity in lexicon and semantics
Irregularity beyond the sentence boundaries
Irregularity and frequency effects
Typological Aspects of Irregularity
Irregularity and Diachrony
Irregularity and language contact
Irregularity in language acquisition and language loss
The history of the notion of Irregularity
Irregularity and Linguistic Theory

Papers and posters focusing on Irregularity phenomena in individual languages are welcome.

Submission of abstracts for section papers or posters (600 words maximum, with title and author identified) should be addressed to irregularity@uni-bremen.de by 30 June 2009. You will be notified of the acceptance/non-acceptance by 31 July 2009. At the current state of affairs listing of abstracts does not necessarily indicate acceptance.

Venue

The conference will be hosted by the University of Bremen (Germany) and is organised by the Institute of General and Applied Linguistics (IAAS) of the University of Bremen. The conference is scheduled for October 4–6, 2009 and forms part of a series of fifteen international conferences on the occasion of the Festival of languages (Bremen/Germany, 17 September – 7 October, 2009), also organised by the Institute of General and Applied Linguistics (IAAS) at the University of Bremen.

For details on various aspects of the venue please consult the following pages:

Proceedings

There are plans for the conference proceedings be published with a major publishing house.

Conference fees

The fees for this conference are as follows:

Conference fees
	Full rate	Student rate
until 15/8/2009	€ 100.00	€ 50.00
after 15/8/2009	€ 150.00	€ 75.00

In case you are in interested in attending other conventions of our "conference marathon" you should follow this link: Conference Fees Summary.

Registration

Please note that you can register for more than one conference in one booking. For details on the registraton procedure please consult Registration.

Irregularity in Morphology (and Beyond)