26.337, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Phonology/Italy

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Subject: 26.337, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Phonology/Italy

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:39:05
From: David Goldstein [david.goldstein at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Diachronic Morphophonology: Lexical Accent System

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Full Title: Diachronic Morphophonology: Lexical Accent Systems 

Date: 31-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: David Goldstein
Meeting Email: david.goldstein at univie.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology 

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Languages such as Russian, Modern Greek, and Lithuanian have lexical accent, according to which the single surface accentual peak (or ictus) results from the accentual properties of its constituent morphemes and the prosodic phonology of the language (Revithiadou 1999, 2001). As this definition itself makes clear, the factors that determine the surface distribu- tion of the ictus are complex. While the archaic Indo-European languages (Sanskrit and Ancient Greek above all) support the reconstruction of lexical accent for the proto-language, the nature of this system, and its relation to morphophonological vowel alternations (ablaut), have been a central occupation of Indo-European linguistics for well over a century (e.g. Hirt 1895, 1900, Pedersen 1926, Kuiper 1942, Schindler 1972a, 1972b, Eichner 1973, Schindler 1975). In recent years, moreover, increasing attention has been paid to the question of how the insights of this research program can be reconciled with advances in the application of morphophonological theory to lexical accent systems (Kiparsky 2010, Kümmel 2014, Kiparsky forthcoming, with further literature below).

Given these complexities, it is thus not surprising that over time, lexical systems are often replaced by systems in which the ictus is determined solely by prosodic structure. Such a change took place in Germanic, for instance, as it replaced the older system of lexical accentuation known from Sanskrit and Ancient Greek with word-initial ictus. The Italic languages inherited a lexical accent system (Vine 2012), and then underwent a similar fate, first shifting to word-initial ictus, which in turn was replaced in Latin by the antepenulti- mate rule (Mester 1994). Loss is not a given, however, as Russian still maintains a lexical accent system (although it has undergone changes from its postulated Proto-Indo-European ancestor). Interestingly, we can in some case witness changes-in-progress, for instance within Sanskrit, we can observe certain lexical items within inflectional classes following a newer prosodically-determined accentuation in contrast to the older system of lexical accentuation
(Lundquist 2014).

This workshop aims to investigate diachronic prosodic change within lexical accent systems —to explore how and why the accentual properties of individual morphemes change and what factors contribute to the diachronic (in)stability of lexical accent.

The full workshop description can be found here: http://www.ichl22.unina.it/materiali/workshop/WS-Diachronic-Morphonology.pdf.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 35-minute talks (plus 10 min. discussion). They should be anonymous. Contact details (name, affiliation and email address) and the title of the talk should be included in the body of the email. Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including examples and references (1 inch margin all around, font 12 pt, notes 10). Please send Word / Open Office / Word Perfect files and use Unicode fonts to: infoichl22 at unina.it.

Please indicate that your abstract is to be considered for the workshop on diachronic morphophonology.

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