25.1997, Confs: Morphology/USA

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Subject: 25.1997, Confs: Morphology/USA

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Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 14:47:01
From: Robert Botne [botner at indiana.edu]
Subject: MorphologyFest: Symposium on Morphological Complexity

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MorphologyFest: Symposium on Morphological Complexity 
Short Title: MorphologyFest 

Date: 16-Jun-2014 - 20-Jun-2014 
Location: Bloomington, IN, USA 
Contact: Robert Botne 
Contact Email: botner at indiana.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mrphfest/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology 

Meeting Description: 

As linguists are quite aware, language can exist without significant morphological structure. In fact, morphological structure typically contributes to the overall complexity of a language. This symposium will address issues of morphological complexity from four different perspectives: cognitive computation, lexical processing, diversity and evolution, and the theory of grammar.

Invited speakers will each provide a daily lecture over the course of four days (Monday-Thursday) in each of these areas. The fifth day (Friday) will be devoted to poster presentations in each of the four areas, followed by focus group discussion for each area. 

Program (Updated)

Please register now: www.indiana.edu/~mrphfest/.

Monday - Thursday, June 16-19

Daily lecture topics

9:00 - 10:30	
Complexity, non-concatenation, and the theory of grammar	
Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University

10:30 – 11:00
Break

11:00 - 12:30	
Complexity and lexical processing	
Robert Fiorentino, University of Kansas

12:30 – 2:00
Lunch (on one's own)

2:00 - 3:30	
Complexity and computation	
Anne-Marie di Sciullo, Université de Québec à Montréal

3:30 – 4:00
Break

4:00 - 5:30	
Complexity, diversity, and evolution	
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

5:30 	       
Dinner (on one's own)

Wednesday, June 18

Keynote address

5:45 - 6:45	
Morphological complexity as a typological variable 
Gregory Stump, University of Kentucky

6:45 – 8:00
Reception

Friday, June 20

Poster Sessions (See below for poster topics)

9:00 – 12:00
Poster Session I
Complexity and computation
Complexity and non-concatenative morphology

12:15 – 2:00
Lunch (on one's own)

2:00 – 5:00
Poster Sessions II
Complexity and lexical processing
Complexity, diversity, and evolution

5:30
Dinner (on one's own)

Poster Topics:

Poster Session I

Morphological grammars and computational analyzer/generators for the documentation of indigenous/endangered languages of the world 
Uliana Kazagashewa, Malgorzata Cavar, Damir Cavar, Andrew Lamont, and Sarah Fox (Linguist List), and Maike Mueller (Universität in Konstanz)

How much morphology de we need for POS tagging German?
Sandra Kübler, Wolfgang Meier, Daniel Dakota, and Daniel Whyatt (Indiana U.)

Measuring the morphological complexity of the Persian verb system 	
adigheh Moradi (University of Kentucky)

Designing finite-state morphological transducers for Kypchak languages
Jonathan Washington (Indiana University), Ilnar Salimzyanov (Kazan Federal University), and Francis Tyers (University of Tromso)

Complexity across morphological paradigms: A minimum description length approach to identifying inflectional stems
Jackson Lee and John Goldsmith (University of Chicago)

A predictive account of Arabic masdar formation 
Lisa Dawdy-Hesterberg and Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern University)

Getting rid of number features 
John Gluckman (UCLA)

Taiwanese reduplication and contraction: A multifaceted morphological problem 
Yuchau Hsiao (National Chengchi University)

Poster Session II

Processing the inflectional complexity of Russian: Varieties of definitions and levels of prediction
Jeff Parker (Ohio State University)

Spanish English contact and the Matrix Language Frame and 4-Morpheme models of language production 
Daniel Smith (Clemson University)

The effect of morphology on subject-verb agreement 
Aazam Feizmohammadpour (University of Illinois) and Wind Cowles (University of Florida)

Inflectional synthesis as a typological non-predictor
Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki)

Altaic weakening forms: Orientation and axis 
Paiyu Zhang (Tong Wah College, Hong Kong SAR)

Root items and derived adpositions: A distributed morphology account 
Robert Deacon (University of Florida)

Inka in yes/no and alternative questions: Two types of disjunction 
Arum Kang (University of Chicago)

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