LINGUIST List 34.223
Tue Jan 24 2023
Calls: Greek, Modern; Phonology/Greece
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-Jan-2023
From: Nina Topintzi <topintzi
enl.auth.gr>
Subject: 30 years on, what’s next for Greek Phonology?
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Date: 14-Dec-2023 - 17-Dec-2023
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Contact Person: Nina Topintzi
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
Subject Language(s): Greek, Modern
Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2023
Meeting Description:
Topic description and research questions:
At about the same time that the first ICGL was organised, Malikouti-Drachman authored her 1994 and, later, her 2001 State-of-the-Art articles, where she reviewed some important problems of Greek Phonology related to the lexical and postlexical components of the grammar. From the lexical component she focused on: (a) the so-called ‘three dreams of Householder’, that is, the representation and phonological behavior of voiced stops, the semi-vocalization, and the affrication problem that pertain to the question of whether the palatal glide [j] and the affricates [ʦ ʣ] are underlying or not, (b) issues of syllabification in Greek and several of its dialectal varieties, (c) aspects of the acquisition of Greek syllables with emphasis on the acquisition of onsets, (d) the prosodic principles that underline the formation of hypocoristics, and (e) the representation and assignment of word stress. From the post-lexical component, Malikouti discussed: (a) sandhi rules that take place within and across smaller and larger prosodic constituents (b) the type of prosodic constituents that exist above the phonological word, with particular emphasis on the necessity for the clitic group, (c) the properties of secondary/rhythmic stress postlexically (e.g., in clitic constructions and in phonological phrases).
Today, after almost three decades of scholarly research, many of the above-mentioned issues are still under investigation. Taking stock of the past, it is time to consider how we move forward. This workshop, thus, aims at bringing together scholars working on the phonology of Greek, its interfaces, and its dialectal varieties. We invite contributions that address and offer analyses and solutions to important problems of Greek phonology and its interfaces, including but not limited to the ones listed above, as well as contributions, that identify possible directions for future research which may help us understand the phonology of Greek more fully. Work from any generative theoretical framework (e.g., Autosegmental Phonology, Government Phonology, Optimality Theory, Harmonic Grammar, Property Theory, Stratal-OT, etc.) is welcome, as well as experimentally-oriented work, with strong theoretical background and implications for phonological theory.
References
Householder, Fred W. 1964. Three dreams of Modern Greek phonology. (Ed.) Robert Austerlitz. Word 20 (Papers in memory of George C. Papageotes): 17–27. doi:10.1080/00437956.1964.11659847.
Malikouti-Drachman, Angeliki. 1994. New approaches to some problems of Greek Phonology. Themes in Greek Linguistics ed. by Irene Philippaki–Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis & Maria Sifianou, 33–44. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Malikouti-Drachman, Angeliki. 2001. State-of-the-Art Review Article. Greek Phonology: A contemporary perspective. Journal of Greek Linguistics 2(1): 187–243. doi:10.1075/jgl.2.08mal.
Call for Papers:
We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations in English (plus 10-minute discussion). Submissions should conform to the following format specifications:
Length: One A4 page (excluding references)
Font: Times New Roman 12pt
Space: Single
Margins: 1 inch (2.54 cm) all sides
Title: Centered
Abstracts must be anonymous and should be sent as .pdf attachment to the following email addresses: topintzi
enl.auth.gr and revith
lit.auth.gr by February 20, 2023.
Workshop Convenors: Nina Topintzi & Anthi Revithiadou
Page Updated: 24-Jan-2023