Conf=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9rence_?=Tomas Riad, Saint-Denis, 28/02/2011

[Jean-Louis Aroui]

L'UMR 7023 a le plaisir de vous convier, dans le cadre des séances de son
séminaire (http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Seminaire-de-l-UMR-7023,50-.html),

le lundi 28 février
10h00-12h00,
Université Paris VIII, 2, rue de la liberté, 93200 Saint-Denis (métro
Saint-Denis Université, ligne 13), bâtiment D, salle D 143

à une conférence de Tomas RIAD (Université Paris 8 UMR 7023 / Stockholm
University)

intitulée

« The Prosodic Morphology of Swedish »

Résumé :
Swedish unmarked prosody spectacularly comes to the surface in
hypocoristic word formation, whereby long (Kata'rina) and short ('Bo)
names are turned into disyllabic forms ('Kattis, 'Bosse) with stress on
the initial syllable. In this presentation I look at the less spectacular
but much broader effects of prosodic wellformedness in the lexicon,
relating to both the stress system and the distribution of tone accent.
        The stress systems of the Germanic languages in general tend to be
analyzed as phonological, e.g. based on a phonological routine for stress
assignment (an algorithm), but with a certain morphological influence
expressed as properties of suffixes (cohering/non-cohering) or final
syllables (extrametrical/or not). Despite the generalizations one can
express via a stress algorithm (e.g. predominantly penultimate stress),
there is always a residue left, which requires diacritic marking.
        I’ll argue instead that much of the stress system, at least for
Swedish, is specified directly in morphemes. Morphemes are tonic, pretonic
or posttonic, which amounts to metrical specification, either directly
(many roots, suffixes and prefixes are tonic), or as subcategorizations
(pretonic prefixes, posttonic suffixes). In addition, there are
prosodically unspecified morphemes (all kinds), which get stress by a
phonological routine (stress rightmost). This allows us to better
understand how morphemes (etymologically native or not) combine or don’t
combine in the derivational lexicon. This approach makes Swedish stress
look much more like the accentual systems of Greek, Japanese and Basque,
which exhibit dominance relations between morphological specifications of
roots and suffixes.
        Swedish also has a marginal lexical tone accent distinction, which
is closely tied to the stress system, historically and synchronically.
Here, too, the traditional analysis is to treat so-called ‘accent 2’ as
due to a phonological generalization (polysyllabicity). I will show
instead that accent 2 is, and must be, lexical (in simplex forms) and that
it fits right into the lexical generalizations found for the stress
system.


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Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Aroui-Jean-Louis-.html

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