32.843, FYI: Special Issue on Romance Morphology - Languages

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Subject: 32.843, FYI: Special Issue on Romance Morphology - Languages

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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:56
From: Leonardo M. Savoia [leonardomaria.savoia at unifi.it]
Subject: Special Issue on Romance Morphology - Languages

 
Special Issue:
''Recent Morphology Explorations in Romance Languages'' 
of the online journal  'Languages'.


Prof. Leonardo M. Savoia 

Department of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Florence, Florence,
Italy
Interests: morpho-syntax; phonology; linguistic variation; Romance languages;
Albanian

https://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2013-200007-S-3f2a3c293b302e-0.html


Dear Colleagues,

Morphological structure is a specialized property of human language often
studied for its apparent autonomy and its idiosyncrasies, notwithstanding its
crucial role in the externalization of syntactic structures. In fact, many
descriptive approaches substantially based on the word and paradigm pattern
(Blevins 2006; Maiden 2011), while highlighting relevant aspects of
morphology, fail to capture what we think is its fundamental trait, i.e., the
mapping of interpretive and structural properties of the sentence onto
morphemes. An interesting hypothesis is that morphology is based on the same
compositional mechanisms underlying syntax, able to combine roots with affixes
endowed with an interpretive import (Halle and Marantz 1993, Kramer 2014,
Manzini et al. 2020, Savoia et al. 2020).

Romance languages represent a privileged field of inquiry for morphology, both
because of their wide and intricate morphological variation and because of
their inflectional and derivational richness in the nominal and verbal
domains. This Special Issue will provide both new and updated analyses of
Romance morphology and interesting elements for understanding the nature of
morphological tools. The constraints on inflectional and derivational
exponents, the asymmetric distribution of gender and number inflections in DPs
and other syntactic contexts, syncretism, mesoclisis, and differential marking
phenomena can shed light on the role of semantic primitives at the basis of
the relation between morphology and syntax.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing
their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editor
<lsavoia at unifi.it> or to the Languages editorial office (languages at mdpi.com)
by the deadline of 31 July 2021. Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest
editors to ensure proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full
manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

Tentative completion schedule:

Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2021
Notification of abstract acceptance: 20 September 2021
Full manuscript deadline: 31 January 2022

Those who intend to contribute find the necessary information on the website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/Recent_Morphology_Explor
ations_in_Romance_Languages#editors


References

Blevins, James. 2006. Word-based morphology. Journal of Linguistics, 42:
531-573.

Halle, Morris and Alec Marantz. 1993. Distributed morphology and the pieces of
inflection. In The view from Building 20, edited by Ken Hale and Samuel J.
Keyser. Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press, pp. 111-176.

Kramer, Ruth. 2015. The Morphosyntax of Gender. Oxford: Oxford University
Press

Maiden, Martin 2011, Allomorphy, autonomous morphology and phonological
conditioning in the history of the Daco-Romance present and subjunctive.
Transactions of the Philological Society 109:59-91.

Manzini, M. Rita, Leonardo M. Savoia and Benedetta Baldi. 2020. Microvariation
and macrocategories: Differential Plural Marking and Phase theory. L’Italia
Dialettale, 82: 189-212.

Savoia, Leonardo M., Benedetta Baldi and M. Rita Manzini. 2020.
Micro-Variation in Nominal Plural in North-Lombard and Neighbouring
Rhaeto-Romance Varieties. A Phasal Treatment In Exploring Variation in
Linguistic Patterns, edited by Karolina Drabikowska and Anna Prażmowska.
Lubnlin: Wydawnictwo KUL, pp. 13-38

Prof. Leonardo M. Savoia
Guest Editor
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Romance





 



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