36.3236, Calls: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Micromorphology of Inflection (Hungary)

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Date: 23-Oct-2025
From: David Erschler [erschler at bgu.ac.il]
Subject: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Micromorphology of Inflection


Full Title: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting:
Micromorphology of Inflection

Date: 28-May-2026 - 31-May-2026
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contact Person: David Erschler
Meeting Email: erschler at gmail.com
Web Site:
https://nytud.hu/en/event/22nd-international-morphology-meeting-2

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2025

Final Call for Papers:
The term “micromorphology” was coined by Stump 2017b for the
hypothesis that an affix can itself be morphologically complex.
Variations of this hypothesis and its uses have been investigated by
Bochner 1993, Soukka 2000, Luís and Spencer 2005, and Stump 2017a, b,
2023, among others. The relevant phenomenon is illustrated for
derivational suffixes in (1), see Stump 2017b for the demonstration
that (1) involves a complex suffix rather than iterative addition.
(1)     a.      whimsy → *whimsic, whimsical
        b.      type → *typic, typical
        c.      character → *characterist, characteristic
This special workshop focuses on instances of complex affix formation
in inflection, i.e., on the situation where more than one affix is
needed to create a particular form inside a paradigm and the
properties of the derived form are such that a micromorphological
account seems preferable. Cases of this type have not so far attracted
sufficient attention where it comes to inflection, and our workshop
aims to fill this gap.
We welcome abstracts dealing with the following issues:
 - Case studies of micromorphology in inflection, including
suprasegmental morphemes and circumfixes
 - Functional and diachronic motivations of micromorphology
 - Evidence for/against micromorphological analyses of specific
phenomena
 - Resolution of conceptual issues arising from non-simplex
inflectional morphology
The workshop is not restricted to any specific theoretical framework.
Abstract Submission:
The workshop forms part of the 22nd International Morphology Meeting
to be held in Budapest, May 28–31, 2026. Every talk will be allotted
30 minutes in total (20 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion).
Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint
abstract per author or two joint abstracts per author, and this
constraint includes submission to the main session and other
workshops. Abstracts should be anonymous, written in English and not
exceed 2 A4 pages (Times New Roman, 12pt font, single line spacing,
2.5-inch margins).
Please send your submission to Ora Matushansky,
ora.matushansky at cnrs.fr, by October 31, 2025. Notification will be
provided in December 2025.
Selected References:
Gardani, Francesco. 2015. Affix pleonasm. In An International Handbook
of the Languages of Europe, vol. 1, ed. by Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg
Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen and Franz Rainer, 537–550. Berlin: De Gruyter
Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246254-032.
Harris, Alice C. 2017. Multiple Exponence. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190464356.001.0001.
Luís, Ana, and Andrew Spencer. 2005. A paradigm function account of
‘mesoclisis’ in European Portuguese. In Yearbook of Morphology 2004,
ed. by Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle, 177–228. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Soukka, Maria. 2000. A descriptive grammar of Noon: A Cangin language
of Senegal. Munich: LINCOM Europa.
Stump, Gregory. 2017a. Polyfunctionality and the variety of
inflectional exponence relations. In Perspectives on Morphological
Organization: Data and Analyses, ed. by Ferenc Kiefer, James Blevins
and Huba Bartos, 9-30. Leiden: Brill.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004342934_003.
Stump, Gregory. 2017b. Rule conflation in an inferential-realizational
theory of morphotactics. Acta Linguistica Academica 64(1), 79–124,
http://akademiai.com/loi/2062.
Stump, Gregory. 2023. Morphotactics: A Rule-Combining Approach 169.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168205



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