COLLOQUIUM-Serialization and the syntax-prosody interface in Degema serial verb constructions

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## Online discussion sessions * **April 14 and 15** (Tuesday and Wednesday), * **3pm CET**. * Zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/92393418758. ## Abstract Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Degema (Benue-Congo) exhibit an interaction between morphology and prosody which appears to pose a challenge to existing models of the syntax-prosody interface. We argue that this pattern follows from the interaction of two independently-motivated syntax-prosody mapping principles: SERIALIZE, which forces adjacent verbs in SVCs to form a single prosodic word, and KINYALOLO's constraint, which militates against redundant inflectional morphology within the prosodic word. Our view is contrasted with that of Rolle (2019), who proposes an abandonment of serial morphological derivations, and that syntactic structures are morphologized and prosodified in parallel.

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