34.3386, Calls: Prefixes and Suffixes in Current Theories of Grammar (ICL workshop)

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Subject: 34.3386, Calls: Prefixes and Suffixes in Current Theories of Grammar (ICL workshop)

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Date: 10-Nov-2023
From: Bartosz Wiland [bwiland at amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Prefixes and Suffixes in Current Theories of Grammar (ICL workshop)


Full Title: Prefixes and Suffixes in Current Theories of Grammar (ICL
workshop)

Date: 12-Sep-2024 - 13-Sep-2024
Location: Poznań, Poland
Contact Person: Bartosz Wiland
Meeting Email: bwiland at amu.edu.pl

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories;
Morphology; Phonology; Syntax

Call Deadline: 08-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

The aim of this workshop is to discuss the asymmetries in the behavior
of prefixes and suffixes (as well as other ‘pre-’ and ‘post-’
elements) in morpho-syntax and their status in modern theories of
grammar. Regarding the second, the particular goal is to consider how
current theories of the syntax–lexicon interface (e.g. Nanosyntax,
Distributed Morphology, Paradigm-Function Morphology, others) derive
pre- and post- placement in morphology and what predictions these
theories make about other related phenomena like affix order,
syncretism, allomorphy, word stress, and others.

Prefixes and suffixes don’t always exhibit the same set of properties.
In Slavic, for instance, unlike suffixes, many aspectual verbal
prefixes show syncretism with prepositions. Still in Slavic, prefixes
and suffixes behave differently at the interface with phonology (e.g.
vowel truncation and glide truncation processes eliminate vowel-vowel
and glide-consonant sequences at a suffix boundary, cf. Kayne 1967;
Gussmann 1980; Rubach 1984). These processes, however, don’t take
place at a prefix boundary, as illustrated by the Polish prefixed
forms na-uka ‘science’, nie-u-iszczenie ‘failure to pay’ or naj-lepszy
‘best’. Contrasts like these and similar have led to proposals to
treat at least certain classes of prefixes more like bound
prepositions (e.g. Matushansky 2002 for Russian, Biskup et al. 2011
for German), which raises further questions about the status of P
elements in morphosyntax vis-a-vis suffixes.

The derivation of prefixation vs. suffixation is also obtained
differently in competing theories of the syntax-lexicon interface,
even in theories that assume a version of Kayne’s 1994 LCA as a
guideline for linearization. Thus, in Nanosyntax, prefixes and
suffixes realize syntactically different structures: prefixes spell
out complex left branches (specifiers), suffixes spell out
constituents formed as a result of phrasal movement (Starke 2018). In
DM, in contrast, both prefixes and suffixes can spell out syntactic
terminals and their linear placement is determined by the adjunction
site of the moving head or a morpheme-specific pre- or post-
designation (e.g. Embick and Noyer 2007, Harley 2011). Yet, in an
approach like Paradigm Function Morphology, where the interface
between morphology and syntax is word-based rather than
morpheme-based, the placement of an affix before or after the stem is
part of rules of exponence (e.g. Bonami and Stump 2016). The workshop
aims to compare and explore the predictions the different theories
make about deriving pre- and post- affixation and closely related
phenomena.

We invite submissions dealing with the relevant prefix/suffix
characteristics stemming from other current theoretical orientations
in linguistics, as well as presentations including data from less
well-explored languages. Novel data will be very helpful and may
contribute to tipping the scales in the debate embracing competing
accounts.

Specific research questions include (but are by no means limited to)
the following:

1. How are prefixes and suffixes derived in grammar? Which theory of
spell-out makes correct predictions if a morpheme X will come out
before or after the stem?
2. What are grammatical differences, other than separability, between
prefixes and prepositions? If certain classes of prefixes are best
analyzed as prepositions, then what grammatical or interface factors
decide that they end up as bound or free?
3. Do different theories of deriving prefixes and suffixes make
predictions about the locality domains for root suppletion and
allomorphy. If yes, how exactly?
4. What is the best way to derive instances where a certain affix
appears as a suffix or as a prefix in a paradigm (e.g. Blix 2018 for
Arabic agreement)?
5. To what extent does pre- vs. post- placement in morphology differ
from pre- vs. post- placement in syntax?

References available at:
https://icl2024poznan.pl/userfiles/file/WS5_Prefixes_and_suffixes.pdf

Call for Papers:

Abstract submission for the Workshop must follow the general ICL
abstract submission guidelines, i.e. they should be anonymized,
contain the title, five keywords, and a text between 300 and 400 words
(including examples, excluding references). Abstracts will be
submitted via Easychair. The deadline for abstract submission will be
January 8th, 2024 (12.00 PM CET).

Submission link for ICL abstracts:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icl2024poznan

Each abstract will be reviewed anonymously by two reviewers (the
workshop convenor + an external reviewer). Notification of acceptance:
April 15th, 2024.



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