Dr. Newell & Dr. Ulfsbjorninn
Fri, Feb 09
|University of Calgary | CHE 212
Time & Location
Feb 09, 2024, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
University of Calgary | CHE 212, 2940 University Way NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4H5, Canada
About the event
Sometimes infixation is just a lang-diddly-anguage gamefrom another &%@*! plane-ma-net
Infixes have the following properties:
(1) They expone morphemes.
(2) They are prefixes or suffixes that have phonological pivots.
(3) They are only computed phonologically after they have undergone infixation. (Kalin 2022)
Given the above, we will argue in this talk that neither fucking-infixation, diddly-infixation, nor Homeric-infixation are instances of grammatical infixation. However, while fucking-infixation is governed by grammatical behaviour (it is pied-piped by a focus morpheme (Newell & Ulfsbjorninn2023a,b), the other two purported infixes mentioned above cannot be part of natural grammar and therefore must fall into the category of extra-linguistic language games.
Kalin, L., 2022. Infixes really are (underlyingly) prefixes/suffixes: Evidence from allomorphy on the fine timing of infixation. Language, 98(4), pp.641-682.
Newell, Heather & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn. 2023a. Pied-fucking-Piping: English Expletives aren’t Infixes, but Stress is. Rencontre annuelle de la Canadian Linguistics Association / Association canadienne de linguistique (CLA/ACL). York University. Canada.
Newell, Heather & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn. 2023b. A Specific Fucking Pattern: The precise nature of stress-pivot infixation. North American Phonology Conference (NAPhCxii). Concordia University. Canada.