27.2950, Confs: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 27.2950, Confs: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:04:53
From: Artemis Alexiadou [artemis.alexiadou at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: The Word and the Morpheme

The Word and the Morpheme 

Date: 22-Sep-2016 - 24-Sep-2016 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Artemis Alexiadou 
Contact Email: artemis.alexiadou at hu-berlin.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/department/staff/artemis_alexiadou/workshopwordmorpheme 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The word is a central notion in descriptive linguistics but has persistently
resisted theoretical analysis. As Bolinger put it in 1963, “Why is it that the
element of language which the naive speaker feel that he knows best is the one
about which linguists say the least?” Phonological, morphological, lexical and
syntactic diagnostics frequently misalign, leading to multiple overlapping but
imperfectly matching notions of word.

In Lexicalist approaches to grammar (e.g. Kiparsky 1982, Williams 1981, 2003,
Levin and Rappaport Hovav 2005) the word is an axiomatic unit, the
encapsulated output of a word formation component (WF), with phonological,
syntactic, and semantic properties, and input to the syntax. On such accounts,
morphemes are the minimal listed sound-meaning pairings which are building
blocks for WF (see also Wunderlich 1996 and later). The Lexicalist approach is
also compatible with an ‘amorphous,’ or process-based approach to morphology
(Anderson 1992, Beard 1995), it is said that there are no morphemes, rather
exponence is the effect of morphophonological rules applying in WF. Mueller
(2013) goes one step further by allowing rules of exponence greater access to
the phonological properties of exponents. 

Lexicalist accounts posit two distinct components, namely WF and the syntax,
with many similarities between them. Syntactic approaches to word formation
eliminate the redundancy by allowing word formation to take place in the
syntax. Distributed Morphology (DM) is the most prominent and influential of
these (Halle and Marantz 1993, Marantz 1997, Alexiadou 2001, Embick and Noyer
2007, Harley 2014, Embick 2015). In DM, lexical stems are built from
uncategorized roots by merging them with a categorizing head. Each functional
head, including derivational and inflectional elements, is a morpheme, and
various operations combine them into maximal X0s, which are words. Starke’s
(2009) Nanosyntax follows DM in eliminating the WF component and building all
words in syntax, but deviates from DM in allowing exponent insertion to target
phrasal nodes. Each head corresponds to a single feature, and a morpheme is a
phrasal constituent created by syntactic operations of merge and move.

Borer (2005ab, 2013) pursues a different view with Exo-skeletal Syntax (ES).
In ES, lexical words are based on categoriless roots: category is implied
directly by the functional structure. Unlike DM, ES distinguishes sharply
between derivational morphology and inflectional morphology. Derivational
heads correspond to morphemes, but inflectional heads are realized
amorphously. A bound inflectional affix is not a morpheme, but is rather the
phonological material added to a stem by a morphological rule. Heads in the
extended projection therefore have a special status in ES for the purposes of
word formation. This is also true of Spanning (Ramchand 2008, Svenonius 2012,
2016), a development of Mirror Theory (Brody 2000), in which there is a strong
bidirectional correlation between words and spans, or sequences of heads in an
extended projection. Spanning shares with nanosyntax the proposal that
morphemic exponents can be larger than a syntactic head, and also follows it
in cleaving closer to DM than to ES when it comes to treating morphemic
exponents as lexical items rather than rules, the treatment of morphology as
essentially concatenative (Bye and Svenonius 2012), and the downplaying of the
distinction between inflection and derivation.

Program:

Thursday September 22

09:30-10:00
Registration

10:00-10:15
Welcome

10:15-11:45
TBA
David Pesetsky

11:45-12:25
Restrictions on allomorphy across words
Víctor Acedo-Matellan

12:25-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:40
Monotonic DM as consequence of a pairing with LFG
Ash Asudeh & Daniel Siddiqi

14:40-15:20
Locality of Allomorhy and Allosemy: A Reply to Marantz (2013)
Yusuke Yoda

15:20-16:00
Morphemes in Competition
Paul Kiparsky

16:00-17:30
Poster session with coffee

17:30-18:30
TBA
David Embick

18:30-19:30
Reception

Friday September 23

10:00-11:30
Minimize Satisfaction in Harmonic Serialism
Gereon Müller

11:30-12:10
M-word vs. ω-word: Top down prosody vs. bottom up syntax
Güliz Günes & Asli Göksel

12:10-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00
TBA
Hagit Borer

15:00-15:40
How syntax and phonology d(e)rive (Na-Dene) morphology
James Crippen & Rose-Marie Déchaine

15:40-16:10 Coffee break

16:10-16:50
The zero-derived causative alternation in Hebrew is rare, but systematic
Itamar Kastner

16:50-17:30
The Dual Nature of Lithuanian reflexive -si-: the DM approach
Milena Sereikaite

17:30-18:30
Commentary
Elena Anagnostopoulou

19:30
Conference dinner

Saturday September 24

10:00-11:30
Phonological affixation
Heather Newell

11:30-12:10
Phrasal polysynthetic words in Inuit: evidence from syntax and phonology
Richard Compton, Anja Arnhold & Emily Elfner

12:10-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:10
Computational modeling of hierarchical morphological structures
Yohei Oseki & Alec Marantz

14:10-15:10
TBA
Peter Svenonius

15:10-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:30
Commentary
Dieter Wunderlich

16:30
Closure

Poster Presentations:

Multifunctionality in Icelandic morphology: Inflectional endings as diacritics
Kristján Árnason

A Constraint on Double Negation
Karen De Clercq & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd 

The Structures of Denominal Location and Locatum Verbs in Kavalan
Dong-yi Lin

Roots, voice and anti-causativity within the word
Mohamed Naji

Two types of multi-lexeme derivatives in Spanish
Katya Pertsova

The status of the N1 in compounds
Stefanie Roessler, Thomas Weskott & Anke Holler

Phonology- Morphology Interface: A Case Study of Stress Assignment in Magahi
Sweta Sinha

More distributed than Distributed Morphology: Rethinking the shape of mental
lexicon
Julio C. Song

A change in gender morphemes for evaluative purposes
Olga Steriopolo & Elena Steriopolo

Registration:

Please register by September 1 by filling out this form:
http://hfntnu.wufoo.com/forms/sbxpdj00uepqlb/

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