30.1922, Confs: General Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/United Kingdom

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Subject: 30.1922, Confs: General Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 23:43:55
From: Tim Feist [t.feist at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Non-canonicity in Inflection

Non-canonicity in Inflection 

Date: 21-Jun-2019 - 22-Jun-2019 
Location: University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom 
Contact: Tim Feist 
Contact Email: t.feist at surrey.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/lexical-splits/workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

Given the diversity of inflection systems, linguists still struggle to find
the means to characterise and compare inflectional morphology across
languages. The notion of Canonical Inflection provides one method for doing
this, by establishing a baseline from which to evaluate the inflectional
systems we encounter. In canonical inflection, the stems of individual words
remain unchanged between cells of a paradigm, while inflectional exponents are
encoded consistently, and uniquely, from one cell to the next. This is by no
means common, however. Instead, we find a multitude of deviations from this
idealization across the world's languages.

For instance, in Cupeño the verb ‘die’ has suppletive stems: /qaaw/ for
singular subjects, but /chix/ for plural subjects. In Dime person indexing on
verbs is present for all TAM values, bar the progressive past which leaves
person unmarked. In Skolt Saami stem allomorphy can involve up to eleven
different stems.

These examples all share the characteristic of splitting the paradigm into
different segments. Within each segment, canonical inflection obtains, but the
principles shift when you move to a new segment. By taking this more abstract
view of non-canonical inflection, we can talk about the relationship between
different segments of a split paradigm, independent of what is happening
inside them.

For instance, in some cases a split is fully regular in that it occurs across
an entire word class, while in other cases it may be an entirely irregular
property of the paradigm, restricted to a single lexeme. We can thus talk of a
split’s regularity irrespective of whether it manifests itself as suppletion,
periphrasis, or some other type of non-canonical inflection. Likewise, a split
in a paradigm may result in coherent groupings of cells, or disjunct
groupings.

Peering deeper below the surface, this diversity becomes even more apparent.
For example, many splits give rise to a paradigm cleaved into two, but in
other cases the result is a split three or more ways. Alternatively, distinct
factors, each of which results in a split in its own right, may combine
forces, and we talk of the resulting split being made up of several COMPONENT
splits (e.g. the potential eleven-way split in Skolt Saami stems arises from
the combination of a three-way split in consonant gradation, a two-way split
in vowel height alternations, and a two-way split in palatalization).

Program:

Friday 21 JUNE 2019

09:30–10:10
Registration & welcome

10:10–11:10
Erich Round – The view from Bentinck Island:  Lexical splits in Kayardild,
Yukulta and Lardil

11:10–11:40
Coffee break

11:40–12:20
Xavier Bach – Splits in possessive paradigms in South Halmahera-West New
Guinea languages

12:20–13:00
Borja Herce – Phonologically-conditioned stem alternations are morphomic in
Kiranti

13:00–14:00
Lunch

14:00–15:00
Louise Esher – Romance imperfects revisited

15:00–15:40
Pavel Štichauer & Xavier Bach – Mixed paradigms in Italo-Romance as
non-canonical inflectional classes

15:40–16:10
Coffee break

16:10–16:50
Greville Corbett – External splits: terms and typology

16:50–17:30
Matthew Baerman & Irina Monich – Nuer nominal inflection

19:00–22:00
Conference meal

Saturday 22nd JUNE 2019

09:30–10:30
Balthasar Bickel – Morphological dependencies

10:30–11:10
Andrew Spencer – Split inflectability

11:10–11:40
Coffee break

11:40–12:20
Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth – The limits of non-canonical morphology in inflexional
case systems

12:20–13:00
Silva Nurmio – Singulatives as non-canonical number inflection

13:00–14:00
Lunch

14:00–15:00
Enrique Palancar – Dealing with the extreme non-canonicity of Oto-Manguean
tonal inflection: the case of Amuzgo verbs

15:00–15:40
Timothy Feist & Enrique Palancar – The diachrony of stem alternation patterns
in Chichimec (Oto-Manguean, Mexico)

15:40–16:00
Coffee & close

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