The online workshop series “Syntax meets Orthography”, holds its 7th meeting in Luxembourg. It is the first in presence meeting and the closing workshop of the FNR funded project GRASP. The research project and the workshop series have a main interest in the intersection of syntax and orthography: syntactic spelling. The workshop analyses syntactic spelling in the languages French, German, Hebrew and Arabic. Syntactic spelling refers to spelling orthographic elements that are unrelated to phonology but carry morphosyntactic information. They are part of the graphematic word but provide information on the phrase and clause level, i.e., agreement. Two examples are plural spelling in French or capitalization of nouns in German. Syntactic spelling also refers to the act of spelling of a word form presented in a sentence and which may need cognitive syntactic processing.
The workshop has the aim to provide a theoretical framework for syntactic spelling. It will focus on two dimensions:
- The meaning of “syntax” in the syntactic spelling in a specific language and writing system.
- The impact for cognitive processes in syntactic spelling.
PRESENTERS
- Michel Fayol, University Clermont-Auvergne (France)
- Nanna Fuhrhop, University of Potsdam (Germany)
- Reinold Funke, Heidelberg University of Education (Germany)
- Esther Geva, University of Toronto (Canada)
- Elinor Haddad, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
- Ulrich Mehlem, University of Frankfurt (Germany)
- Marie Nadeau, University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada)
- Dorit Ravid, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
- Rachel Schiff, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
- Marie Van Reybroeck, University of Louvain (Belgium)
- Constanze Weth, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
CONTACT
In case you are interested to assist at the presentations, please contact: constanze.weth@uni.lu
Download the workshop programme