36.2079, Confs: Prosodic and Segmental Patterns in Morphology (DGfS 2026 Workshop) (Germany)

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Subject: 36.2079, Confs: Prosodic and Segmental Patterns in Morphology (DGfS 2026 Workshop) (Germany)

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Date: 07-Jul-2025
From: Dominique Bobeck [dom.bobeck at gmail.com]
Subject: Prosodic and Segmental Patterns in Morphology (DGfS 2026 Workshop)


Prosodic and Segmental Patterns in Morphology (DGfS 2026 Workshop)
Short Title: ProSegPatMo

Date: 24-Feb-2026 - 27-Feb-2026
Location: Trier, Germany
Contact: Dominique Bobeck
Contact Email: dom.bobeck at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/ProSegPatMo/

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology
Language Family(ies): Berber; Chadic; Cushitic; Penutian; Semitic

Submission Deadline: 15-Aug-2025

Templatic morphology is characterised by morphological exponents that
are either expressed by an invariant prosodic shape or by affixes that
require a templatic form of the base to which they attach. The
clearest examples can be found in Afroasiatic languages, as well as in
some languages of California, e.g., Palestinian Arabic suxn ‘hot’,
b-yusxun ‘it becomes hot’, saxxan ‘he heated (sth.) up’, sxuːne
‘fever’, and Sierra Miwok hallik-ihhɨʔ ‘he used to hunt’,
halik-mehnɨhakt̪eʔ ‘I was hunting on my way’, halki-paː ‘a good
hunter’, haːlik-t̪eːnɨ ‘to hunt along the trail’ (Zimmermann 2015; see
also Goldsmith 1990: 83–95). Templates are also visible in language
games and hypocoristics, in the sense that syllabic templates
determine the truncated form, e.g., German Sebastian → Basti ~ Sebi.
It is still a matter of debate what mechanisms drive templatic
morphology. Some researchers take templates to be the result of
realization rules, by which the morphology directly manipulates
phonological material. Others, such as Bye & Svenonius (2012) and
Bermúdez-Otero (2012), have insisted on a strict interpretation of
modularity, where only the phonology is allowed to manipulate
phonological material. On the latter approach, all morphology is
assumed to be concatenative, and templatic phenomena must be derived
phonologically from concatenative input strings. Moreover, the
cognitive reality of these formalizations remains an open question. We
welcome formal, experimental, and historical approaches to templatic
phenomena in Semitic languages and beyond. The kinds of questions that
we ask include at least the following:
 - What is the status of templatic morphemes and consonantal roots in
the grammar? Are they concrete phonological structures that are
combined in derivations? Or are they merely abstractions over sets of
items in the lexicon?
 - What can root-and-pattern morphology tell us about the interface
between morphology and phonology? Does morphology directly manipulate
phonological material?
 - Is templatic morphology categorically different from concatenative
morphology? Or do templatic phenomena arise in a phonological module
from concatenative inputs?
 - What psycholinguistic evidence is there for (or against) the
reality of templates and consonantal roots? How is templatic
morphology processed in the brain?
 - How might templatic morphology have evolved diachronically? How
does it change and decay? Can it spread via language contact, and if
so, under what conditions?
We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (+ 10 minutes
discussion) in English. Abstracts should be submitted anonymously.
Abstracts should be at most one page long, plus references on the
second page, on A4 paper with 2.5cm margins on all sides, and must be
set in Times New Roman font (or similar) of at least 11 points. The
deadline for submission is 31th July 2025; notification date is 1st of
September 2024.
The workshop is part of the DGfS meeting (Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft), held in Trier.
Organisers: Dominique Bobeck (University of Leipzig), Hamza Khwaja
(Leiden University), Nabila Louriz (University of Hassan II
Casablanca)
For a complete list of references, please visit the workshop website.



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