===== Hyperspacing the Verb: The interplay between prosody, morphology and semantics in the Western South Slavic verbal domain =====

This is the Wiki page for the project Hyperspacing the Verb: The interplay between prosody, morphology and semantics in the Western South Slavic verbal domain, 
a joint project of [[https://www.uni-graz.at/en/|University of Graz]] and [[http://www.ung.si/en/ | University of Nova Gorica]]. \\

==== Central questions ====


- How are verbs represented? Where does the information on prosody, [[theme vowels]] and different bases reside?\\
- Are the observed interdependencies (prosody-semantics-morphology) better analysed in a lexicalist (e.g. Optimal Paradigms, McCarthy 2005) or in a non-lexicalist approach (e.g. Distributed Morphology, Halle & Marantz 1993)? \\
- Is prosodic prominence of derivational affixes specified in the lexicon or structurally assigned?\\
- What is an adequate representation for verbal aspect? \\
- How do category-mixing morphological operations (forming participles, nominalisations) map on the continuum between prototypical inflection and derivation?\\
- How are loan verbs morphologically incorporated?\\
- Are homonymous affixes (WSS: -je, -en, -n, -l) better analysed as the same suffix and what are the theoretical consequences of this move?\\