SinFonIJA 17 (Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis)
A special issue of Languages (ISSN 2226-471X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 May 2025) | Viewed by 506
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multifunctionality; clitics; morphology; semantics
Interests: multifunctionality; clitics; morphology; semantics
Interests: multifunctionality; clitics; morphology; semantics
Interests: Slavic syntax; morphology; experimental linguistics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to submit to this Special Issue, which will be dedicated to sharing proceedings from the 17th conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA), which took place at the University of Nova Gorica on September 26–28, 2024. The conference included contributions on phonology, syntax, semantics, and morphology.
The conference included a workshop on Multifunctionality in Morphology, which explored morphemes with several more-or-less related functions across derivational and inflectional morphology. Previous work investigating multifunctional morphemes (e.g., De Belder 2011, Lowenstamm 2014, Simonović and Mišmaš 2020, 2022, Gouskova & Bobaljik 2022) had focused mostly on individual affixes. The workshop was part of an effort to study this phenomenon more systematically, and the contributions shared at the conference presented new examples of multifunctional morphemes from a number of different languages, including Slavic affixes and Chinese classifiers.
A number of contributions explored the syntactic and prosodic properties of clitics and embedding in Slavic languages, and in particular, Serbo-Croatian. Some contributions sat at the interface of syntactic properties and semantic interpretation in the domain of definiteness and uniqueness. While most of the talks were theoretical, some were experimental or acquisitional in nature. Overall, the conference and resulting proceedings captured the state of the art of generative linguistics in Slavic and other languages.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400-600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send this to the Guest Editors (madeleine.butschety@ung.si, guy.tabachnick@ung.si) or to the Languages Editorial Office (languages@mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors for the purpose of ensuring proper fit within the scope of this Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
References:
- De Belder, Marijke. 2011. Roots and affixes: Eliminating lexical categories from syntax. PhD Thesis: Utrecht University.
- Gouskova, Maria and Jonathan David Bobaljik. 2022. The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40 (4): 1075–1115.
- Lowenstamm, Jean. 2014. Derivational affixes as roots: Phasal spell-out meets English stress shift. In Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer & Florian Schäfer (eds), The syntax of roots and the roots of syntax, 230–259. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Simonović, Marko and Petra Mišmaš. 2020. √ov is in the air: The extreme multifunctionality of the Slovenian affix ov. Linguistica 60(1): 83–102.
- Simonović, Marko and Petra Mišmaš. 2022. Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7.
Dr. Madeleine Butschety
Dr. Guy Tabachnick
Prof. Dr. Franc Lanko Marušič
Dr. Petra Mišmaš
Prof. Dr. Rok Žaucer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multifunctionality
- syntax
- semantics
- phonology
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