[PLing] Workshop on Afroasiatic prefixes vs. suffixes

[Iris Kamil]

//ENGLISH BELOW//

 

Liebe PLing-Liste,

 

ich darf Sie auf einen hybriden Workshop aufmerksam machen, der kommenden
Freitag-Samstag 11.03.-12.3.2022 in Paris stattfinden wird und zum Thema die
Debatte um die Präfix/Suffix-Paradigmata im Afroasiatischen, mit besonderer
Berücksichtigung des Semitischen hat. Workshopbeschreibung finden Sie unten
in englischer Sprache.

 

Die Registrierung ist hier möglich: https://forms.gle/1ss5Jso4m11oEMC8A.

 

Weitere Infos: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/itamar/afroasiatic-workshop/.

 

Das Teilen dieser Veranstaltung mit Studierenden und anderen Interessenten
ist durchaus erwünscht. Ich würde mich sehr freuen einige von Ihnen dort in
hybrider oder anderer Form zu sehen. Bei jeglichen Fragen, können Sie mich
oder die Workshoporganisatoren (siehe Link) anschreiben.

 

Mit vielen freundlichen Grüßen

Iris Kamil

 

// ENGLISH //

 

Dear PLing-list,

 

May I call your attention to a workshop taking place this Friday-Saturday,
the 11th-12th of March, in hybrid form in Paris. At its centre stands the
debate on suffixes vs. prefixes in various paradigms across Afroasiatic,
with special consideration of Semitic. The workshop description may be found
below.

 

Registration is free under the following link:
<https://forms.gle/1ss5Jso4m11oEMC8A> https://forms.gle/1ss5Jso4m11oEMC8A.

 

For more information: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/itamar/afroasiatic-workshop/.

 

Feel free to share this event with your students or any other interested
parties. I will be looking forward to seeing some of you there in hybrid or
any other form. Any questions may be directed to me or the workshop’s
organisers (see link). 

 

All the best,

Iris Kamil 

 

 

// WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION //

 

It is common to divide verbal forms in Semitic and much of Afroasiatic into
two paradigms, depending on whether agreement affixes are prefixes or
suffixes. In one paradigm, the exponents of person, number and gender are
suffixal while the other paradigm has both prefixes and suffixes. For
example, Hebrew past tense is typically suffixal (e.g. axal-tem ‘you.PL
ate’) while non-past is prefixal as well as suffixal (to-xl-u ‘you.PL will
eat’). Crucially, no language in this family has a purely prefixal verbal
paradigm.

 

Halle (1997) assumed that the position of the affixes is an idiosyncratic
property of a given item, encoded in its Vocabulary entry. Much of the
subsequent research in this domain has found this assumption unsatisfactory;
in many cases, for example, the distinction is based on the tense (or
aspect) of the verb. Yet this generalization does not apply across all
forms, much less all languages. Recent work has attempted to explain or
derive the properties and the position(s) of phi features in the Semitic
verb from the interplay of morphological, syntactic and phonological rules
or constraints, including verb movement or linearizaton-related constraints.

 

This mini-workshop focuses on the prefix-suffix issue in Afroasiatic and
hopes to engage a discussion among researchers concerned with different
facets of this issue.

 

 

 

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Iris Kamil, MA BA

 

Iris.Kamil at univie.ac.at

Iris.Kamil at gmx.de

 

 

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