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ABOUT
ABOUT
I am Katie McCann [kej.ti mə .kan], a third year linguistics PhD student in the research program 'cyclic optimization' in the project 'semantic and phonological correlates of affix orders' at the University of Leipzig.
You can find my CV here (last updated March 2024).
My main focus lies within phonology and morphology and the architecture of the phonology-morphology interface.
Contact: katie.mc_cann [at] uni-leipzig.de
Photo: Universität Leipzig / Anke Steinberg
NEWS
I was awarded Best Student Talk at GLOW47 for my presentation An illusory violation of the affix ordering generalisation in Tigrinya.
INTERESTS
I focus on the topic of affixal nonuniformity and what this can tell us about morphological and phonological domains.
I am currently investigating cross-linguistic occurences of chameleon affixes (= affixes that are phonologically cohering and non-cohering depending on their morphosyntactic environment) and exploring the theoretical concequences these affixes have for Stratal OT.
Other research interests include but are not limited to: cyclicity, affix ordering, gradient symbolic representations in phonology and morphology, compound phonology, autosegmental phonology.
PAPERS
PAPERS
[submitted] 2025. An illusory violation of the Affix Ordering Generalisation in Tigrinya. To appear in: GLOW47 Proceedings. [article]
[to appear] 2025. No additional stratal, no loop! A re-analysis of Malayalam compound morphophonology. [with Jochen Trommer] To appear in: Linguistic Inquiry. [article]
[to appear] 2025. Encoding affix predictability in Harmonic Serialism in Morphology derives the order of affixes in Urarina. To appear in: Gereon Müller (ed.) Morphology by serial optimization. [article]
[submitted] 2025. Phonological underspecification gives rise to morphotactic and phonological exceptionalities in Mandan. Manuscript available in Radical: A Journal of Phonology. [article]
[draft] 2025. Unifying compound specific phonological effects in Malayalam - a case for moraic affixation. [with Jochen Trommer] [article]
TALKS
TALKS
2025 / 04 Chameleon affixes in Sekani produce strictly layered stratal domains. Talk at: WCCFL 43 at the University of Washington, Seattle. [slides]
2025 / 03 An illusory violation of the affix ordering generalisation in Tigrinya. Talk at: 47. GLOW Conference in Frankfurt am Main. [slides]
2025 / 03 Chameleon affixes require cyclic phonology yet parallel morphology. Talk at: 47. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaften in Mainz. [slides]
2024 / 10 Blending into your environment. Introducing chameleon affixes. Talk at: Workshop: Nonuniformity in morphophonology across frameworks at the University of Trier. [slides]
2024 / 02 Gemination in Malayalam compounds is morphological and bounded by prosodic structure. Talk at: OCP21 in Leipzig. [with Jochen Trommer] [slides]
2023 / 05 Phonological exceptions are morphotactic exceptions given phonological underspecification. Talk at: 30th mfm in Manchester. [slides]
2023 / 04. Phonological exceptions are morphotactic exceptions given phonological underspecification. Talk at: GLOW46 in Austria.
2022 / 09. Verbal number suppletion in nominalizations. Talk at: LAGB 2022 Annual Meeting in Belfast [with Leonie Barabas-Weil, Nadja Fiebig, Armel Jolin, Maria Kouneli, Robin Ortlepp and Helene Streffer] [PDF]
2022 / 05. Verbal number suppletion in nominalizations. Talk at: GGS 2022: 46th GGS Conference in Stuttgart. [with Leonie Barabas-Weil, Nadja Fiebig, Armel Jolin, Maria Kouneli, Robin Ortlepp and Helene Streffer]
MANUSCRIPTS AND MATERIAL FROM PREVIOUS WORK
MANUSCRIPTS AND MATERIAL FROM PREVIOUS WORK
2022. Database on exceptional hiatus resolution as part of my M.A. thesis. [database in google tables]
2022. A Typology of exceptional hiatus resolution. M.A. thesis. [PDF]
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