33.847, Confs: Afroasiatic; Morphology/France

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Subject: 33.847, Confs: Afroasiatic; Morphology/France

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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 22:34:12
From: Itamar Kastner [itamar at itamakast.net]
Subject: Workshop on Prefixes vs Suffixes in Afroasiatic

 
Workshop on Prefixes vs Suffixes in Afroasiatic 

Date: 11-Mar-2022 - 12-Mar-2022 
Location: Paris/hybrid, France 
Contact: Itamar Kastner 
Contact Email: itamar at itamarkast.net 
Meeting URL: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/itamar/afroasiatic-workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology 

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic 
Meeting Description: 

It is common to divide verbal forms in Semitic and much of Afroasiatic into
two paradigms, depending on whether agreement affixes are prefixes or
suffixes. In one paradigm, the exponents of person, number and gender are
suffixal while the other paradigm has both prefixes and suffixes. For example,
Hebrew past tense is typically suffixal (e.g. axal-tem ‘you.PL ate’) while
non-past is prefixal as well as suffixal (to-xl-u ‘you.PL will eat’).
Crucially, no language in this family has a purely prefixal verbal paradigm.

Halle (1997) assumed that the position of the affixes is an idiosyncratic
property of a given item, encoded in its Vocabulary entry. Much of the
subsequent research in this domain has found this assumption unsatisfactory;
in many cases, for example, the distinction is based on the tense (or aspect)
of the verb. Yet this generalization does not apply across all forms, much
less all languages. Recent work has attempted to explain or derive the
properties and the position(s) of phi features in the Semitic verb from the
interplay of morphological, syntactic and phonological rules or constraints,
including verb movement or linearizaton-related constraints.

This mini-workshop focuses on the prefix-suffix issue in Afroasiatic and hopes
to engage a discussion among researchers concerned with different facets of
this issue. The workshop will be run in hybrid fashion; registration for
online participation is free
(https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/itamar/afroasiatic-workshop/).
 

Program:

Friday, 11 March

12:00-12:15  
Jean Lowenstamm  
CNRS  
Confronting the golem

12:15-12:50  
Itamar Kastner  
University of Edinburgh  
No easy -fix

12:50-13:40  
Gioia Cacchioli  
Université de Genève  
The Tigrinya zə- prefix: A Morphological Reflex of Successive-Cyclic Movement

(Break)

14:10-15:00  
Noam Faust  
Université de Paris 8 and CNRS  
nifʕal: a defective story

15:00-15:50  
Iris Kamil  
University of Vienna  
t-Forms of the Akkadian Stative

(Break)

16:20-17:10  
Ruth Kramer  
Georgetown University  
The Morphosyntax of Imperative Agreement in Ethiosemitic

17:10-18:00  
Daniel Harbour  
QMUL  
Dispatches from Babel: What the Old Testament teaches of scaffolding

Saturday, 12 March

12:00-12:50  
Alexander Martin  
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université de Paris, CNRS  
Revisiting the prefix/suffix asymmetry: Experimental evidence from Kîîtharaka

12:50-13:40  
Sabrina Bendjaballah  
CNRS  
The role of templates in the morphology of Taqbaylit Berber stative verbs

(Break)

14:10-15:00  
Mohamed Lahrouchi and Noam Faust  
Université de Paris 8 and CNRS  
The locus of gender in Tashlhiyt Berber nouns

15:00-15:50  
Matthew Hewett  
University of Chicago  
Distributing Semitic verbal affixes across modules

(Break)

16:20-17:10  
Jean Lowenstamm  
CNRS  
Remarks on Person, Number and Gender Exponence in Semitic

17:10-18:00  
Andrew Nevins and Ur Shlonsky  
UFRJ/UCL & Université de Genève  
Rescaffolding the bundle: Notes towards a syntactic account of Afroasiatic
inflection

18:00-18:30  General discussion





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