About The Workshop
Within the coordinated research project “Native and non-native phonology: Language contact effects and interaction with other components of grammar “ (PID2020-113971GB-C21 and PID2020-113971GB-C22), we are organizing a two-day workshop on “Nominal Inflection and word-formation at the phonology-morphology interface”, featuring the keynote speakers Jennifer L. Smith (UNC Chapel Hill, to be confirmed) and Martin Krämer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway).
Dates and places
25 January 2024
Universitat de Barcelona, Sala de Professors, Edifici Josep Carner
26 January 2024
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sala d'Actes B7/1056
Call for papers
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
Invited Speakers
Here are our invited speakers
Jennifer L. Smith
UNC Chapel Hill
Martin Krämer
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Workshop Program
Here is our workshop schedule. See also the PDF Final Program
Registration and welcoming remarks
Jennifer L. Smith (UNC Chapel Hill)
Morphological prominence and prosodic faithfulness in blend formation
Coffee break
Joan Mascaró
Feet in Romance: stress and word formation
Peter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári and Miklós Törkenczy
Phonologically motivated lexical repair strategies are conservative
Lunch
Camiel Hamans
Prosodic aspects of non-morphemic word formation
Jakob Maché
The prosody and intonation of vocatives revisited
Coffee break
Hemangini
Hypocoristic formation in Gujarati
Birgit Alber, Joachim Kokkelmans and Sabine Arndt-Lappe
The predictability of name truncation-factoring in time and space
Registration and welcoming remarks
Martin Krämer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
The Emergence of the (Un)Marked in Word (De)Formation: TETU and TETM in Prosodic morphology, clippings and secret languages
Coffee break
Aida Villaécija
Derivation in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) through Simultaneous Affixes: Incorporating Circular Movement and Handshape Parameters
Vassilios Spyropoulos, Anthi Revithiadou and Giorgos Markopoulos
Ablaut nominal formation in Greek: Unveiling a systematic pattern
Lunch
Nabila Louriz
Word vs root (de)nominal formation in Moroccan Arabic loanwords
Dominique Bobeck
Is there really root-and-pattern morphology?
Coffee break
Yonatan Goldshtein
Stød in Danish Compounds
Rose Fisher, B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam
Ee Messer, zwee Mess(e)r(e)? - Avoiding zero and non-trochaic marking in Pennsylvania Dutch plurals
Organizing Committee
This is our Organizing Committee
Scientific Committee
This is our Scientific Committee
Outi Bat-El
(Tel-Aviv University)
Jesús Jiménez
(Universitat de València)
Martin Krämer
(UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Maria Ohannesian
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Donca Steriade
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Maria de Mar Vanrell
(Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Sam Zukoff
(University of Caifornia Los Angeles)
Ryan Bennett
(University of California Santa Cruz)
Baris Kabak
(Universität Würzburg)
Violeta Martínez-Paricio
(Universitat de València)
Jennifer Smith
(The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Benjamin Storme
(Universiteit Leiden)
Marina Vigário
(Universidade de Lisboa)
Antonio Fábregas
(ISL-NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Michael Kenstowicz
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Andrew Nevins
(University College London)
Juliet Stanton
(New York University)
Nina Topintzi
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Eva Zimmerman
(Universität Leipzig)
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona
Sala de Professors, Edifi Josep Carner, Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació
The 25 January session of the workshop will take place at Universitat de Barcelona (UB).
Edifici Josep Carner
Sala de professors
Carrer Aribau, 2, 5th floor
Information point: 934 035 587
Workshop Venue 26 JAN: UAB
Event venue location info and gallery
TRAVEL INFORMATION: To the UAB | Session venue | Campus map
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra
Sala d'actes B7/1056, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
The workshop will take place at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). The easiest way to arrive to UAB from Barcelona is by train.
By train from Barcelona
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC)
Line Barcelona-Sabadell (S2) or Barcelona-Universitat Autònoma (S6).
Station: Universitat Autònoma.
In Barcelona, these trains stop at Catalunya, Provença, Gràcia, Muntaner and Sarrià.
The journey time to/from Barcelona is 38 minutes, and trains depart approximately every 10 minutes.
Travel Info
Getting to the UAB
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is located outside the city of Barcelona. Please visit the university website to check the best way of getting to UAB for you. We recommend taking Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) which provide frequent (every 10-15 mins), punctual and affordable service. You can take a FGC train from either of the three stations in the city: Catalunya, Provença or Gràcia. The lines that go to UAB are S2 (Line Barcelona-Sabadell) or S6 (Line Barcelona-Universitat Autònoma). The journey time to/from Barcelona is 45 minutes, and trains depart approximately every 10-15 minutes. The name of the station you have to get off at is Universitat Autònoma.
Getting to the Conference Venue (Sala d'Actes, Facultat de Fiolosofia i Lletres)
To get to the conference venue from the railway station, you have to take the main exit in the middle of the station, go downstairs, and then go straight: you will arrive at the square called Plaça Cívica with a restaurant building on your right. On your left there will be a candy shop; turn left, cross the square and continue along the path that goes up the hill behind the square. Halfway up, on your right you will see the building of the “Facultat de Psicologia”. Keep going up and after going around the “Auditori” you will arrive at the main door of the Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres. The conference room (Sala d'Actes) is to the left.
Campus map
Map FGC to Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
Map Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres to Sala d'Actes
Accomodation
Some good and economic options
Funding
Projects I+D+i/ PID2020-113971GB-C21 & I+D+i/ PID2020-113971GB-C22, awarded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Grups de recerca consolidats 2021SGR01084 i 2021SGR00787, finançats per la Generalitat de Catalunya.
