[PLing] Fwd: [Sprachgesellschaft] Reminder: 05.05., Peter Nyhuis, "The sound patterns of complex words: Towards a unified approach to phonology and morphology"

[Markus Poechtrager]

Liebe Kolleg:innen,

ich darf Sie alle auf den morgigen Vortrag im Rahmen der Wiener 
Sprachgesellschaft hinweisen.
Wir würden uns sehr freuen, Sie zahlreich begrüßen zu dürfen,
mit freundlichen Grüßen,
M. Pöchtrager


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Betreff: [Sprachgesellschaft] Reminder: 05.05., Peter Nyhuis, "The sound 
patterns of complex words: Towards a unified approach to phonology and 
morphology"
Datum: 04.05.2026 08:46
Von: Gabriel Zacharie Pantillon <gabriel.pantillon at univie.ac.at>
An: sprachgesellschaft at lists.univie.ac.at

Liebe Mitglieder der Wiener Sprachgesellschaft,

ich darf Sie hiermit an den morgigen Vortrag erinnern, den Peter Nyhuis 
zum Thema "The sound patterns of complex words: Towards a unified 
approach to phonology and morphology" halten wird.

Datum & Uhrzeit: 05.05., 18.00
Ort: Hörsaal 1, Sensengasse 3A, 1. OG

Den Abstract finden Sie im Anhang sowie weiter unten in diesem Mail.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme!

Beste Grüße
Gabriel Pantillon

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"The sound patterns of complex words: Towards a unified approach to 
phonology and morphology"

Abstract: Word parts such as stems and affixes often vary in form 
according to context. Just how speakers understand and use this 
variation is a central question both for morphology, focussed on 
structured variation across complex words, and for phonology, focussed 
on structured variation across sounds. Yet for decades, phonologists and 
morphologists have applied strikingly different approaches to this area 
of common overlap. Recent work (Nyhuis 2023) has proposed that these 
questions be addressed at the same time, arguing that phonological 
alternations have a paradigmatic character much like inflectional 
morphology: the phonological properties of a given word can predict the 
phonological properties of a morphologically related word. This work 
also demonstrates the feasibility of expressing such generalisations 
with constructional schemas, which absorb the functions of rules or 
constraints in more familiar mainstream phonological theory while also 
expressing words’ morphological and semantic generalisations. It remains 
to be seen, however, whether schemas can address the full range of 
alternation types that phonologists are typically interested in — e.g. 
assimilation, deletion, insertion, and their (potentially opaque) 
interactions. In this talk, I draw out the implications of this 
approach, testing it against data from the Australian language Wubuy, to 
clarify what schemas can and cannot do, and in what respects they 
function differently from rules.

https://wsg.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/peter-nyhuis-the-sound-patterns-of-complex-words-towards-a-unified-approach-to-phonology-and-morphology/

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Mag. Dr. Markus A. Pöchtrager
MediaLab der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät / MediaLab 
of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
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Institut für Sprachwissenschaft / Department of Linguistics
Universität Wien / University of Vienna
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