Call For Papers
Call for papers
We invite abstracts from all areas of theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition for the main session. This year, SinFonIJA will feature a special workshop on Multifunctionality in Morphology (see below); please indicate if your submission is intended for the workshop. As always, the official language of the conference is English.
Abstracts will be considered for a 20-minute talk, followed by 10 minutes of discussion, or a poster presentation. Please indicate the preferred presentation type in the course of the submission. SinFonIJA 17 is planned as an in-person event.
Abstract and submission guidelines
Abstracts should be in PDF format.
Abstracts must not exceed two A4 pages (2.5 cm margins on all sides, Times New Roman, font size no smaller than 12 pt), including references, examples, and figures.
Examples should be incorporated into the text rather than included separately at the end.
Abstracts must be anonymous and must not reveal the identity of the author(s) in any way.
Authors may submit two abstracts maximum, only one abstract may be single-authored.
Please indicate your preferred mode of presentation (talk or poster) in the submission form.
Please indicate if your submission is intended for the Multifunctionality in Morphology workshop.
Please submit abstracts via: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/30959/submitter Submission are now closed.
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: March 18 March 24, 2024
Notification of acceptance: Mid-May 2024
Conference: September 26-28 2024
Multifunctionality in Morphology
The workshop Multifunctionality in Morphology seeks to offer an opportunity to discuss multifunctional (sometimes called polyfunctional or multipurpose) affixes, i.e., affixes that can appear in different, seemingly unrelated contexts and that have little meaning of their own. In general, we take these affixes to fall into one of the three categories: those affixes that appear to have more than one function within a category, those that can be used in different categories, and those that can be used both in derivation and inflection. However, it is as yet unknown whether we can clearly distinguish between a single multifunctional affix (including at least some instances of apparent multifunctionality) and two or more affixes that are accidentally homonymous.
While there has has been an increasing interest in these elements in recent years—see, for example, De Belder (2011), Lowenstamm (2014), Creemers et al. (2018), Gouskova & Bobaljik (2022), Salvadori & Huyghe (2023) and the works of the Multifunctionality in Morphology project (that is also the initiator of this workshop), a.o.—there are still many questions that need to be answered. We therefore hope that this workshop will explore some of such questions, e.g.:
Which affixes are multifunctional affixes and what are their properties?
What type of elements are multifunctional affixes (e.g., categorizing derivational affixes, roots, spell-out of several functional features)?
Can we tease apart and compare the success of the competing proposals that have emerged for multipurpose affixes within different approaches to morphology?
What phonological form do multifunctional affixes tend to have?
And while we hope these topics will be addressed, the submissions are by no means restricted to just these.