31.2095, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Psycholing, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 31.2095, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Psycholing, Typology/Germany

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:29:28
From: Marie-Luise Popp [marie_luise.popp at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Edge-asymmetries in morphophonology (short workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS)

 
Full Title: Edge-asymmetries in morphophonology (short workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS) 
Short Title: EAIM at 43DGFS 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Marie-Luise Popp
Meeting Email: marie_luise.popp at uni-leipzig.de
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/edge-asymmetries/startseite 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

It is widely known that suffixes outnumber prefixes in inflectional
morphology. Specifically, WALS feature 26A ‘Prefixing vs. Suffixing in
Inflectional Morphology’ (Dryer 2013) counts 529 suffixing languages and only
152 prefixing languages.  While the asymmetries in the distribution of
prefixes and suffixes have been known for long, recent studies reveal
asymmetries in their morphophonological behaviour, as well. Concretely, Krämer
(2002) shows that dominant-recessive vowel harmonies can only be triggered by
suffixes but not prefixes. An exhaustive study on prosodic patterns in
Lithuanian by Kushnir (2018) reveals that there are four different prosodic
patterns in suffixes but only one pattern in prefixes. Moreover, Luís (2009)
argues that enclitics in European Portuguese are part of the grammatical word,
while the same elements as proclitics are not. While asymmetries like these
are frequently described in the literature, theoretic accounts that capture
this phenomenon (at least partially) are quite rare (Hyman 2002; Himmelmann
2014; Moskal 2015). This workshop aims to bring together linguists working on
different aspects of the phenomenon to initiate an empirically adequate
modelling of the phenomenon. In this workshop, we want to cover theoretical as
well as empirical aspects of prefix-suffix asymmetries with a focus on
research on non-European languages. Thus, we are looking forward to
contributions that provide insights in the following areas: theoretical
phonology, theoretical morphology, typology and psycholinguistics. 

Invited speaker: TBA

Please note also: A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are
available for accepted contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.


Call for Papers: 

The questions we want to address include (but are not limited to) the
following:

1. Are there asymmetries in phonological processes within or across languages?
2. Are there asymmetries in affix order within or across languages?
3. How can these asymmetries be modelled in linguistic theory?
4. What are possible explanations for the suffix-preference?
5. Do morphosyntactic categories (tense, agreement, case, ...) exhibit
different degrees of asymmetries?

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:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=eaim43dgfs# 

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 31 August
2020; notification date is 15 September 2020.




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