[Lingtyp] Workshop at the International Morphology Meeting 22: Micromorphology of Inflection

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*Micromorphology of Inflection (Workshop at the 22nd  International
Morphology Meeting, Budapest, May 28-31, 2026)*

Workshop conveners: Ora Matushansky (CNRS) and David Erschler (Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev)

*Call for papers*

The term “micromorphology” was coined by Stump 2017b for the hypothesis
that an affix can itself be morphologically complex. Variations of this
hypothesis and its uses have been investigated by Bochner 1993, Soukka
2000, Luís and Spencer 2005, and Stump 2017a, b, 2023, among others. The
relevant phenomenon is illustrated for derivational suffixes in (1), see
Stump 2017b for the demonstration that (1) involves a complex suffix rather
than iterative addition.

(1)        a.           whimsy → *whimsic, whimsical

              b.           type → *typic, typical

              c.           character → *characterist, characteristic

This special workshop focuses on instances of complex affix formation in
inflection, i.e., on the situation where more than one affix is needed to
create a particular form inside a paradigm and the properties of the
derived form are such that a micromorphological account seems preferable. Cases
of this type have not so far attracted sufficient attention where it comes
to inflection, and our workshop aims to fill this gap.

We welcome abstracts dealing with the following issues:

➢ Case studies of micromorphology in inflection, including suprasegmental
morphemes and circumfixes

➢ Functional and diachronic motivations of micromorphology

➢ Evidence for/against micromorphological analyses of specific phenomena

➢ Resolution of conceptual issues arising from non-simplex inflectional
morphology

The workshop is not restricted to any specific theoretical framework.

*Abstract Submission:*

The workshop forms part of the 22nd International Morphology Meeting to be
held in Budapest, May 28–31, 2026. Every talk will be allotted 30 minutes
in total (20 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion).

Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint
abstract per author or two joint abstracts per author, and this constraint
includes submission to the main session and other workshops. Abstracts
should be anonymous, written in English and not exceed 2 A4 pages (Times
New Roman, 12pt font, single line spacing, 2.5-inch margins).

Please send your submission to Ora Matushansky,
ora.matushansky at cnrs.fr, by *October
**31**, 2025*. Notification will be provided in December 2025.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Gardani, Francesco. 2015. Affix pleonasm. In An International Handbook of
the Languages of Europe, vol. 1, ed. by Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg
Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen and Franz Rainer, 537–550. Berlin: De Gruyter
Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246254-032.

Harris, Alice C. 2017. Multiple Exponence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190464356.001.0001.

Luís, Ana, and Andrew Spencer. 2005. A paradigm function account of
‘mesoclisis’ in European Portuguese. In Yearbook of Morphology 2004, ed. by
Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle, 177–228. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Soukka, Maria. 2000. A descriptive grammar of Noon: A Cangin language of
Senegal. Munich: LINCOM Europa.

Stump, Gregory. 2017a. Polyfunctionality and the variety of inflectional
exponence relations. In Perspectives on Morphological Organization: Data
and Analyses, ed. by Ferenc Kiefer, James Blevins and Huba Bartos, 9-30.
Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004342934_003.

Stump, Gregory. 2017b. Rule conflation in an inferential-realizational
theory of morphotactics. Acta Linguistica Academica 64(1), 79–124,
http://akademiai.com/loi/2062.

Stump, Gregory. 2023. Morphotactics: A Rule-Combining Approach 169.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168205
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