InFoDerFlex
The interaction between phonology and derivation and inflection processes in Romance languages
September 2024 – August 2028
InFoDerFlex
Members
Publications
Talks
The aim of this project is to study the interaction between phonology and morphology using constraint-based models such as Stratal Optimality Theory, Transderivational Correspondence Theory in parallel Optimality Theory, and Distributed Morphology.
Empirically, we examine phenomena found in Romance languages and beyond.
We study
phonological cyclic effects and their interaction with derivation and inflection processes
the relationship between morphosyntactic structure and phonological realization in derivational and inflectional contexts
the relationship between prosodic (and metrical) structure and segmental phonology
Members
Francesc Torres-Tamarit (UAB)
PI
Phonological theory
Metrical and prosodic phonology
Phonology and its interfaces
Descriptive phonology of Romance languages
Eulàlia Bonet (UAB)
Research Team
Phonology
Morphology
Phonology-Morphology Interface
Catalan and other Romance Languages
Cristina Real Puigdollers (UAB)
Research Team
cristina.real.puigdollers@uab.cat
Linguistic Theory
Syntax and lexicon
Semilexicality
Prepositions
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)
Work Team
ricardo.bermudez-otero@manchester.ac.uk
Phonological and morphologycal theory
Language change
Germanic and Romance
Teresa Cabré (UAB)
Work Team
Phonology and morphology
Catalan and romance languages
Prosodic structure
Word adaptation
Phonology-morphology interface
David Ginebra (UAB)
Work Team
Language documentation
Linguistic typology
Languages of South America
Joachim Kokkelmans (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Work Team
joachimhenri.kokkelmans@unibz.it
Phonological theory
Constraint-based phonology
Linguistic Typology
Joan Mascaró (UAB)
Work Team
Linguistic theory
Phonological theory
Descriptive phonology and morphology
Publications
Journal papers
Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2025. Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 43(2): 867-905.
Alber, Birgit, Sabine Arndt-Lappe & Joachim Kokkelmans. 2025. The Predictability of Name Truncation: Factoring in Language Change. In Bonet, Eulàlia & Clàudia Pons-Moll (eds), The phonology-morphology interface in word-formation. Special issue of Catalan Journal of Linguistics 24(1): 7–39.
Bardají, Maria, David Ginebra, Albert Ventayol-Boada, Alexandro Garcia-Laguia, Carla Ferrerós Pagès, Víctor Bargiela & Albert Badosa Roldós. Under review. Una perspectiva tipològica de les causes de la substitució lingüística. Llengua, societat i comunicació 23.
Cabré, Teresa. Acceptat. Sobre l’origen del sistema vocàlic dels manlleus en català central. Zeitschrift für Katalanistik / Revista Alemanya d’Estudis Catalans.
Faust, Noam & Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2024. Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 42(4): 1371–1389.
Ferrerós Pagès, Carla, Maria Bardají, Albert Badosa Roldós, Víctor Bargiela, Alexandro Garcia-Laguia, David Ginebra & Albert Ventayol-Boada. Under review. Una perspectiva tipològica dels símptomes de la substitució lingüística. Llengua, societat i comunicació 23.
Kitching, Christopher R., Henri Kauhanen, Jordan Abbott, Deepthi Gopal, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero & Tobias Galla. Accepted manuscript online. Estimating transmission noise on networks from stationary local order. EPL (A letters journal exploring the frontiers of Physics).Kitching, Christopher R., Henri Kauhanen, Jordan Abbott, Deepthi Gopal, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero & Tobias Galla. Accepted manuscript online. Estimating transmission noise on networks from stationary local order. EPL (A letters journal exploring the frontiers of Physics).
Real-Puigdollers, Cristina. Under review. Possessing dimensions: an analysis of measure verbs.
Book chapters
Burkard, Monja, Francesc Torres-Tamarit & Maria del Mar Vanrell. Under review. Spanish in contact with Catalan in the Balearic Islands. In Cerno, Leonardo, Hans-Jörg Döhla, Miguel Gutiérrez Maté, Robert Hesselbach & Joachim Steffen (eds), Contact varieties of Spanish and Spanish-lexified contact varieties. Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter.
Ginebra, David. Under review. Les llengües de l’Amèrica del Sud. In Junyent, Carme, Pere Comellas & Montserrat Cortés-Colomé (eds), Manual de les llengües del món. Vic: Eumo Editorial.
Jouitteau, Mélanie & Francesc Torres-Tamarit. Accepted. The syntax of Modern Breton. In Eska, Joseph F., Silva Nurmio, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh & Paul Russell (eds), Palgrave Handbook of Celtic languages and linguistics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kokkelmans, Joachim & Birgit Alber. In press. The life cycle of fricative dissimilation in Hutterisch and Bavarian varieties. In Lindenfelser, Siegwalt, Angélica Prediger & Renata Szczepaniak (eds), Deutsche Sprachminderheiten in der Welt: Empirische Studien zur Sprachvariation und Sprachideologie. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
Kokkelmans, Joachim & Barbara Vogt. In press. Das Sibilantensystem in den deutschen Siedlungen Kočevje/Gottschee und Sorica/Zarz in der Krain: Kontaktinduzierte, typologische und sprachstrukturelle Aspekte beim Lautwandel. In Murelli, Adriano, Noah Bubenhofer & Britt-Marie Schuster (eds), Tagungsband ‘Das heutige gesprochene Deutsch zwischen Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel’. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
Kokkelmans, Joachim & Eirini Apostolopoulou. In press. 66. Assimilation and Dissimilation. In Aldridge, Edith, Katalin É. Kiss, Adam Ledgeway, Joseph Salmons, Alexandra Simonenko & Anne Breitbarth (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics (Vol. 2). London: Wiley‐Blackwell.
Mascaró, Joan. 2024. Stress-dependent vowel harmony. In van der Hulst, Harry & Nancy A. Ritter (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony, 84-93. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Siviero, Emily, Birgit Alber & Joachim Kokkelmans. In press. Dialektforschung und Schule: Das Projekt VinKiamo Südtirol. In Hochstadt, Christiane & Anny Schweigkofler Kuhn (eds), Dialekt in der Lehre. Sprachdidaktische und varietätenlinguistische Perspektiven. Tübingen: Narr.
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. Accepted. Optimality Theory. In Nesi, Hilary & Petar Milin (eds), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier.
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. Accepted. Hypocoristics. In Nasukawa, Kuniya, Bridget Samuels, Geoff Schwartz & Miklós Törkenczy (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc & Maria del Mar Vanrell. Under review. Prosodic variation II: stress and intonation. In Sánchez López, Cristina (ed.), A guide to Spanish dialects: Descriptive and theoretical aspects of linguistic variation in the Hispanic world (chapter 21). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Conference proceedings
Elfner, Emily, Mélanie Jouitteau & Francesc Torres-Tamarit. Accepted. Word order and prosodic phrasing in Breton. In Jardine, Adam (ed.), Proceedings of AMP 2023/2024. Linguistic Society of America.
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. 2024. Contrastive vowel length in Romance: how layered feet and uneven trochees interact. In Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith and Heidi Harley (eds), 243-252. Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Talks
Invited talks
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. La ausencia de vocal temática en español: evidencias basadas en pseudopalabras. Seminario, Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Salamanca, 6 February 2025.
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. Stress opacity in Stratal OT: a preliminary typological exploration. Linguistic Typologies in Optimality Theory. University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 6-7 December 2024.
Cabré, Teresa. Els sistema clític català i el conflicte datiu/acusatiu en l’evolució de les llengües romàniques. 5 EDELC (Escola d’Estiu de Lingüística Catalana). Berlín, 2-5 setembre 2025.
Oral talks at conferences
Cabré, Teresa & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2025. Diachronic change in dative clitics in non-Valencian Catalan. 26th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference (DiGS26) University of Oxford. June 23-26 2025.
Ginebra, David. 2025. The polyfunctionality of directional elements of Yamalero. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Online. January 24-26 2025.
Ginebra, David. 2024. The subject and object associated posture suffixes of Yamalero. Paper presented at the workshop ‘From associated motion to associated posture in cross-linguistic perspective’. Universidad de Sonora. Hermosillo (Mexico) & online. November 19-20 2024.
Ginebra, David. 2024. Training native speakers in a community with low degree of contact. Paper presented at the Language Documentation and Archiving conference. ELAR and Paradisec. Berlin (Germany) & online. September 4-6 2024.
Ninyerola, Duna, Eulàlia Bonet & Anna Gavarró. Relative and non-relative sonority in cluster reduction patterns. 46th International Child Phonology Conference. ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. 28-30 May 2025.
Ohannesian, Maria. 2025. Evidence in favour of internally layered feet in Latin. ICLL 2025. 23rd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. University of Udine. June 9-13 2025.
Torres-Tamarit & Violeta Martínez-Paricio. Themelessness in Spanish: a wug test. Paper presented at the Manchester Phonology Meeting 31. University of Manchester. UK. May 29-31 2025.
Torres-Tamarit & Nick Kalivoda. The grammar of phonological phrasing in Catalan. Paper presented at the Colloquium on Generative Grammar 34. UNED. Madrid. May 7-9 2025.
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc & Nick Kalivoda. Stress opacity in Stratal OT: A typological perspective. Workshop: Exploring boundaries: phonological domains in the languages of the world. The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 13-14 March 2025.
Poster presentations at conferences
Cabré, Teresa. 2025. On the origin of the vowel system of loanwords in Central Catalan. Poster presented at the Colloquium on Generative Grammar 34. UNED. Madrid. May 7-9 2025.
PID2023-150846NB-C32 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Spain)
The interaction between phonology and derivation and inflection processes in Romance languages (InFoDerFlex)
Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+I (Proyectos de “Generación de Conocimiento”, tipo B).
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN).
