Sören E. Tebay

Publications

• To appear. Igbo phrasal overwriting as tonal circumclitics. In Linguistische Arbeits Berichte (PDF)
• To appear. Morpheme Structure Constraints. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Second Edition (PDF)
• 2025. A Prosodic-Cyclic Theory of Circumfix Linearization: Evidence from Abstract Nominalizations in Indonesian. Linguistic Variation. (PDF, Open Access)
• 2025. Syntactic height impacts prosodic size: An argument for cyclic prosodification (with Paula Fenger, Nadja Fiebig and Philipp Weisser). NELS 55: Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. (prefinal version)
• 2023. Parallel interaction between infixation and root domain constraints. NELS 53: Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.
• 2022. Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology (with Daniel Gleim, Gereon Müller and Mariia Privizentseva). Natural language & Linguistic theory 41. (Open Access)
• 2022. Determiner Removal in Balinese non-pivot agents (with Imke Driemel). Syntax 25(2). (Open Access, lingbuzz)
• 2022. Velar lateral allophony in Mee (Ekari) (with Peter Staroverov). Journal of the IPA 52(2). (PDF)
• 2021. Non-local phonology by morphological movement (with Daniel Gleim, Gereon Müller, and Mariia Privizentseva). NELS 51: Proceedings of the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. (prefinal).
• 2020. Exceptionality in Assamese vowel harmony: A phonological account (with Eva Zimmermann). Glossa 5(1). (Glossa)
• 2019. Posterior affricate in Mee and consonant-vowel place interactions (with Peter Staroverov). Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology 6. (PDF)
• 2019. Neutralization in Balinese subjects by Structure Removal (with Imke Driemel). Linguistische Arbeits Berichte 94 . (LAB)
• 2019. No possessor inversion in German PPs (with Marie-Luise Popp). Glossa 4(1). (Glossa, lingbuzz)
• 2019. The perfect in Mee: New evidence for a result state approach (with Christine Marquardt and Marie-Luise Schwarzer). Proceedings of TripleA5. (PDF)

Talks and Posters

• 2025. Counterbleeding as Shared Activity: Overapplication in Gua vowel harmony. mfm 2025. (Manchester). (slides).
• 2025. The lexical-postlexical watershed, *ABA, and the weak domain hypothesis. DGfS 47. (Mainz). (slides).
• 2024. Syntactic height impacts prosodic size: An argument for cyclic prosodification (with Paula Fenger, Nadja Fiebig and Philipp Weisser). NELS 55. (Yale). (slides)
• 2024. The Size-Height Correlation: An argument for cyclic prosodification (with Paula Fenger, Nadja Fiebig and Philipp Weisser). Workshop on Myopia in Grammar. (Leipzig). (slides).
• 2024. Opaque Interactions as Gradience in Phonology. Phonologie-Kolloquium. (Frankfurt) (slides)
• 2024. Prosodic domains and (re-)linearization in Indonesian nominalizing circumfixes. DGfS 2024. (Bochum). (slides)
• 2024. Igbo phrasal overwriting as tonal circumclitics. Workshop Traces in Phonology and Morphology. (Leipzig). (slides)
• 2024. Phrase-level tone opacity as shared activity in Kere. OCP21. (Leipzig). (slides)
• 2023. Kinande tone as layered and gradient. mfm 30. (Manchester). (slides)
• 2023. Parallel Interaction between Infixation and Root Domain Constraints. OCP 20. (Tours). (slides)
• 2023. Parallel Interaction between Infixation and Root Domain Constraints. NELS 53. (Göttingen). (poster)
• 2022. Headed Spans and Asymmetric Non-Triggers in Vowel Harmony. mfm 29. (University of Manchester). (slides)
• 2021. Edge-Biases in Mutation (with (with Daniel Gleim). 43. DGfS. (Freiburg im Breisgau).
• 2020. Extracting neighborhood density for lexical access using phonologically-weighted Levenshtein Distance (pwLD) (with Emiliano Zaccarella, Ute Gradmann, and Anna Carthaus). AMLaP 2020 (Potsdam).
• 2020. Linearizing Inflectional Exponents by Movement: Phonological Reflexes (with Daniel Gleim, Gereon Müller, and Masha Privizentseva). LCAD2020 (Bled Institute). (slides)
• 2019. Fuse unless tense: Rhotic-vowel interaction in Elbe-Weser German (with Daniel Gleim). 'r-atics6. (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3). (slides)
• 2019. Downstep Blocking by Register Circumfixes. 7th AMP. (Stony Brook University). (poster)
• 2019. Allophony and history of Mee velar lateral (with Peter Staroverov). 3rd PaPe. (Lecce, Italy).
• 2019. Multiple Feature Mutation in Papuanesia: A typological survey. APLL 11. (Leiden University). (slides)
• 2019. Outward mutation in Nimboran. mfm 27. (University of Manchester). (poster)
• 2019. Nominal Concord needs Harmonic Serialism: Evidence from Archi. GLOW 42. (University of Oslo). (poster)
• 2019. What's in an R? Dissimilation and R-fusion in Elbe-Weser German (with Daniel Gleim). FiNo 2019. (University of Edinburgh).
• 2019. Register Circumfixes Overwrite Downstep in Hausa and Chimiini. Workshop on Accent. (Leipzig University). (slides)
• 2018. Phonologically conditioned multiple feature mutation in Maskelynes. 6th Annual Meeting on Phonology. (University of California San Diego). (poster)
• 2018. Posterior affricate in Mee and consonant-vowel place interactions (with Peter Staroverov). 6th Annual Meeting on Phonology. (University of California San Diego). (poster)
• 2018. A Fringe Case of Perfect from Mee (with Christine Marquardt and Marie-Luise Schwarzer). TripleA5. (University of Konstanz)
• 2017. Gradient tones obviate floating features in Oku tone sandhi (with Jude Nformi). Workshop on Strength in Grammar. (Leipzig University). (Slides)
• 2017. Von der Possession die Inversion (with Marie-Luise Popp). Generative Grammatik des Südens. (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). (Slides)
• 2016. Exceptional and derived environments in Assamese vowel harmony (with Eva Zimmermann). 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting. (University of Manchester) (Slides, printer-friendly version)

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