Nominal Inflection
and Word-Formation
at the Phonology-morphology
Interface

Research Questions

Since the release in 1986 of “Prosodic Morphology” by McCarthy & Prince, a theory about how morphological and phonological objects interact with one another in a grammatical system, and since its implementation within a constraint-based model such as Optimality Theory in “Prosodic Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction” (McCarthy & Prince 1993, 2001), there have been countless applications of their precepts to a varied set of phenomena drawn from a wide variety of languages. With this workshop, we specifically seek original proposals, from any theoretical perspective, dealing with any aspect of the relationship between metrical structure and morphology, and more specifically with those aspects that concern the impingement of prosody on nominal inflection and word-formation.

These include but are not limited to phonologically-driven morpheme non-realization and shaping, phonologically-conditioned allomorph selection; metrical structure and word formation and adaptation (i.e. stress patterns in loanwords and, by extension, in second language phonology, the prosodic shape of blends, ideophones, truncates, acronyms, initialisms, etc.); the phonological and morphological effects of morpheme combinations, such as infixation, possible and impossible clitic combinations, deletion under formal identity; number and gender inflection in loans, etc.

A selection of the papers presented at the workshop will be published in a special volume of Catalan Journal of Linguistics.

Submission of abstracts

The workshop will feature 45 minute talks (30-35 minutes followed by 15-10 minutes for comments and questions). Abstracts must be submitted through EasyChair by October 10, 2023. Abstracts will be reviewed by 3 anonymous reviewers.

Abstract guidelines

Abstracts must be anonymous, maximally 1 page long (A4), with an extra page for references, 12 pt Times New Roman, with one-inch (2.54 cm) margins on all sides, and written in English, PDF format.

Important dates

• Abstract submission deadline: October 10, 2023
• Notification of acceptance: November 10, 2023
• Program announcement: to be announced
• Registration: to be announced