Workshop on Semitic morphology

Semitic morphology has been a highly debated topic within morphological theory. The main focus of the debate concerns the type of the basic morphological units (e.g. roots/stems/words) and the nature of word formation (e.g. item-and-arrangement/process/paradigm). From a typological point of view, the question arises as to whether Semitic morphology falls into a separate category that is based on the combination of consonantal roots and vocalic patterns or whether it should be viewed as a stem/word-based system similar to the ones of other synthetic languages.

For this workshop, we invite contributions from any theoretical background that aim at deepening our understanding of the architecture of Semitic morphology and address (but are not necessarily limited to) the above theoretical and typological issues.

We invite abstracts of max. 500 words (excluding references) for oral presentations. Presenters can submit up to two abstracts, one as single/main author and one as co-author.