23.1013, Confs: Morphology, Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 23.1013, Confs: Morphology, Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:45:53
From: Matthew Baerman [m.baerman at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Growth, Maintenance and Decline of Morphological Complexity

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Growth, Maintenance and Decline of Morphological Complexity 

Date: 28-Apr-2012 - 28-Apr-2012 
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact: Matthew Baerman 
Contact Email: morphological.complexity at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/english/smg/researchprojects/morphologicalcomplexity/workshop_2012 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology 

Meeting Description: 

The Surrey Morphology Group will be holding a one-day workshop on the 
diachrony of morphological complexity, hosted by the Max Planck Institute 
for Evolutionary Anthropology, on Saturday, April 28, 2012. 

Theme of the Workshop:

Inflection often (or even typically) displays formal patterns which cannot be 
readily derived from the syntactic and semantic categories which it realizes. 
Phenomena such as inflectional classes, syncretism, defectiveness and 
deponency manifest what appear to be a purely morphological element in the 
composition of words and paradigms. While these are sometimes dismissed 
as mere products of diachrony, the historical development of such 
'autonomous' morphology may well be the best argument for its existence: 
the maintenance, extension and dismantling of morphological patterns all 
provide evidence for morphological structures, as well as their interaction with 
other grammatical components.

Invited Speakers:

Bernard Comrie
Martin Maiden 

9.00-9.30
Introduction

9.30-10.30
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 
and U.C. Santa Barbara)
'On the origins of morphological complexity'

10.30-11.00
Break

11.00-11.45
Patrick McConvell (Australian National University/University of Cologne)
'Pronominal Enclitics In Australia: Change Of Placement, And Conversion To 
Nominal Morphology'

11.45-12.30
Andrej Kibrik (Russian Academy of Sciences)
'Quantitative assessment of morphological complexity'

12.30-1.30
Lunch

1.30-2.30
Martin Maiden (Oxford)
'Romanian feminine nouns and other diachronic delinquents. Reflections on 
why morphomes persist in diachrony'

2:30-2:50
Break

2.50-3.35
Enrique Palancar (Surrey)
'The history and evolution of the conjugation classes of Otomi: From the 
colonial to the modern times'

3.35-4.20
David Gil (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) & Tim 
McKinnon (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jakarta)
'New Morphology in Malayic Languages'

4.20-4.30
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