The first international symposium “Morphology and its interfaces” will
be held at Université Lille 3, France on September 12–13, 2013. The
symposium will address questions related to the interfaces that
morphology may build with other linguistic disciplines: internal
interfaces between flexional and derivational morphology or external
interfaces between morphology and syntax, pragmatics, translation,
phonology, the lexicon, computational linguistics, and so on.
Three invited talks will be given during the symposium by Greville
Corbett (University of Surrey, UK), Muriel Norde (University of
Groningen, The Netherlands), Geert Booij (Universiteit Leiden, The
Netherlands).
The researchers are welcome to submit novel and original research work
concerned one way or another with the interfaces of morphology with
other linguistic disciplines.
The invited speakers and authors of selected papers will be invited to
submit an extended version of their paper to a post-conference special
issue of a journal.
Current deadlines (open to the participants of MI2013):
- Special issue of the Morphology journal
- The issue is dedicated to the morphology/phonology interface
- June 1st, 2014: Submission of manuscripts (25 pages max.)
- September 1st, 2014: Reviewer notifications
- November 1st, 2014: Modified version ready
- December, 2014: Publication
- Submission procedure http://www.editorialmanager.com/jomo/default.asp
- Special issue of the Lingvisticae Investigationes journal
Sponsors of the symposium
Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UK
- Brief bio: Greville Corbett's work addresses
different aspects, such as typology of languages, morphology and
especially the Network Morphology, the morphosyntactic features, the
Slavonic language family especially Russian, and colour terms (joint
work with Ian Davies, Psychology).
- Title of the presentation: The
syntax-morphology interface: the significance of split lexemes
- Abstract of the presentation: A clear principle
governing the syntax-morphology interface states that syntax is
morphology-free (Zwicky 1992: 354-356); that is, syntactic rules
cannot refer to morphological features. This principle excludes rules
of the type ‘verbs of inflectional class II take clause‐final
position’. This principle has survived well: when counter-examples
have been suggested, the data have typically been shown to be better
accounted for without contravening the principle (Corbett & Baerman
2006). It implies that the syntax-morphology interface is a featural
one (Stump 2001): thus a plural controller triggers plural agreement
because of its morphosyntactic specification and not because of its
morphological form; we see this clearly when, for instance,
indeclinable nouns control number agreement just as declinables
do. This framework depends on our having a clear notion of the lexeme.
As Blevins (forthcoming) points out, we expect that the forms of a
lexeme will be a single part of speech, will share a core lexical
semantics and argument structure, and will have a set of intrinsic
feature values that are invariant. Beyond this we need a
straightforward (ideally compositional) means of integrating lexical
and featural information. Against this background of assumptions, I
will examine items which we would normally characterize as lexemes yet
which are “split”. These are potentially problematic for one of three
reasons:
- (a) their intrinsic features (which we would expect to be
invariant) vary in different cells of the paradigm;
- (b) different cells of the lexeme’s paradigm have
varying syntactic requirements, or
- (c) different cells of the lexeme’s paradigm have
variations in their lexical semantics.
Muriel Norde, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Brief bio: Muriel Norde studied Scandinavian
and General Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, where she
received her PhD in 1997 on a thesis entitled The history of the
genitive in Swedish – a case study in degrammaticalization. In the
years that followed Muriel Norde worked as a teacher and researcher,
and left the Alma Mater in 2004 to accept a position as senior
lecturer at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Cultures at
the University of Groningen, where, four years later, she was
appointed full professor. Muriel Norde held her inaugural lecture on
September 15, 2009.
- Title of the presentation: Debonding of Dutch
intensifying prefixoids: a multiple source account
- Abstract of the presentation: A major issue in
morphological theory is the demarcation between inflection and
derivation. Various criteria have been proposed to distinguish between
these two types of bound morphemes (e.g. Bybee 1985, Beard 1998), but
none of these are entirely without exceptions. In this talk, I will
approach the inflection-derivation interface from a diachronic
perspective. More precisely, I will address the question of whether
inflectional and derivational affixes differ from each other in
debonding, i.e. “a change whereby a bound morpheme in a specific
linguistic context becomes a free morpheme” (Norde 2009: 186). I will
argue that debonding of inflectional material is primarily a
morpho-syntactic change without a change in function, whereas
debonding of derivational material results in an increase in semantic
substance. This difference is illustrated in the examples in (1)
(Norde 2009: 207, 213).
- 1a. áhči ja Issáh-a haga (abessive)
- father.sg.gen and Issát-sg.gen without
- ‘without father and (without) Issát’
- 1b. Die kerel heeft al tig vriendinnen gehad
- That guy has already dozens girlfriends had
- ‘That guy has already had dozens of girlfriends’
Example (1a) illustrates debonding of the abessive suffix in Northern
Saami, which has become a free morpheme that takes scope over larger
units (e.g. co-ordinated NPs as in (1a)). Note however that there is
no essential change in (grammatical) meaning between the abessive and
‘without’. Debonding of derivational affixes such as Dutch tig
‘dozens’ (from the numeral suffix in vijftig ‘50’,
zestig ‘60’), on the other hand, involves a change on the
semantic level as well, from modifying meaning (‘times ten’) in the
suffix, to ‘dozens, umpteen’ in the free quantifier with clear
emphatic function. These different outcomes of debonding are
suggestive of different properties of the input material, and hence
this dynamic approach may shed new light on the inflection-derivation
interface.
References
Bybee, Joan. 1985. Morphology. A study of the relation between meaning and form. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Beard, Robert. 1998. Derivation. In Spencer, Andrew & Arnold M. Zwicky (eds) The handbook of morphology, 44-65. Oxford: Blackwell.
Norde, Muriel. 2009. Degrammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Geert Booij, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
- Brief bio: The research of Geert Booij focuses
on theoretical and descriptive issues in morphology, phonology, and on
the interface between morphology, phonology, syntax, and
semantics. Dutch is his main, though not exclusive, object
language. Geert Booij is also interested in construction grammar as an
adequate framework to investigate syntactic constructions that have
morphology-like functions, and he is also developing a theory of
Construction Morphology.
- Title of the presentation: The interface between morphology and syntax, a Construction Morphology perspective
- Abstract of the presentation: Structural
regularities below the word level (morphology) are partially different
in nature from structural regularities above the word level
(syntax). Hence, morphology is a relatively autonomous module of
grammar. Yet, there are also many similarities between syntactic and
morphological representations. This is to be expected since ‘today’s
morphology is yesterday’s syntax’, and hence morphology and syntax
have properties in common. Moreover, lexical units can be either
morphological or syntactic in nature, which implies that there is no
principled boundary between syntax and lexicon. I will argue that the
framework of Construction Morphology, as outlined in Booij (2010),
enables us to do justice to the autonomy of morphology, but also to
the similarities between word structure and syntactic structure, and
the various form of interaction between morphology and syntax, such as
word-internal phrases and the morphological marking of specific
syntactic constructions.
References
Geert Booij (2010), Construction Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Organizers
Contact
morpho.interface.2013@gmail.com
Important dates (symposium):
| First call | October 2012 |
| Extended deadline for submission of abstracts | March 15th 2013 |
| Notifications | June 15th 2013 |
| Final version | July 15th 2013 |
| Symposium | September 12-13, 2013 |
| Special issue of the Morphology journal (open to the participants of MI2013) |
- The issue is dedicated to the morphology/phonology interface
- June 1st, 2014: Submission of manuscripts (25 pages max.)
- September 1st, 2014: Reviewer notifications
- November 1st, 2014: Modified version ready
- Submission procedure http://www.editorialmanager.com/jomo/default.asp
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| Special issue of the Lingvisticae Investigationes journal (open to the participants of MI2013) |
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| Publication of the proceedings | December 2014 |
Call for submissions to the symposium
Nowadays morphology cannot be studied without considering its
interfaces. For examples, inflection interacts with syntax, allomorphy
lies at the crossroad of phonology and morphology, word formation
deals with semantics, etc. Moreover, inflection and word formation
interact as well.
The first international symposium "Morphology and its interfaces",
will be held at Université Lille 3, France, September 12-13, 2013. It
aims at addressing questions related to morphology and its internal or
external interfaces, from a diachronic or a synchronic perspective.
Authors are invited to submit papers (for an oral presentation of 20
minutes followed by 10 minutes for discussion) dealing with interface
between inflection and word formation as well as interactions between
morphology and other domains of linguistics including but no limited
to:
- morphology and syntax
- morphology and semantics
- morphology and phonology
- morphology and the lexicon
- morphology and translation
- morphology and pragmatics
- morphology and computer sciences and natural language processing
The researchers are invited to submit novel and original research work
concerned one way or another with the interfaces of morphology with
other linguistic disciplines.
Abstracts must be anonymous, three to four pages long, including
examples, figures and references. The conference languages are English
and French. Page format: A4, 12-point font, single line spacing. File
submission format: .pdf
Submissions will be anonymously refereed by at least three reviewers.
The invited speakers and authors of selected papers will be invited to
submit an extended version of their paper to a post-conference special
issue of a journal.
Submission of final version through EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mi2013
- The authors must respect the stylesheet: template
- Abstracts must be three to four pages long, including examples, figures and references
- The conference languages are English and French
- File submission format: .pdf
- Without page numbering
The Organizers propose the gala dinner on September 12th in the evening.
[List of hotels can be found below]
Venue
Address of the Université Lille 3:
- 3 Rue du Barreau
- 59650 Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Plan of the Université Lille 3 site (
download)
The symposium will be held in building F.
To get to the Université from the town:
- it can be reached in 15-20 minutes from the city center or from the rail-stations
- metro line 1
- direction 4 cantons
- station Pont de bois
- then take the bridge over the avenue du Pont-de-Bois
Hotels
** Hotel continental
11 place de la Gare
59800 LILLE
Tel: +33 (0)3 20 06 22 24
http://www.hotel-continental.fr/
Single rooms: 62 to 85 €
Double rooms: 70 to 97 €
