Laura Benua: Maryland Mayfest

[Martha McGinnis]

Maryland Mayfest on Morphology
May 19-21, 1999

Hosted by the Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland, College Park

For more information, visit our website at
http://www.inform.umd.edu/Linguistics/

Every year, the Linguistics Department at the University of
Maryland, College Park organizes MAYFEST, a colloquium
where speakers are invited to report on a variety of issues
related to one theme.

This year's Mayfest will focus on morphology.  Regularities
of word form have been studied from a variety of perspectives.
Syntacticians have proposed that word form reflects phrasal
structure and, in feature-checking theories, that morphological
features drive syntactic movement.  Phonologists have long
been concerned with the mutual influence of the morphological
and phonological components. Investigations of how word
structure is manipulated also shed light on language acquisition
and linguistic processing.

Mayfest will bring together linguists with a range of interests
in morphological issues to stimulate dialog across the various
sub-disciplines.


PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
for updated information, visit our website at
http://www.inform.umd.edu/Linguistics/

Wednesday, May 19

9:00		coffee, breakfast

9:45		Opening remarks

10:00 - 11:00	Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
		TBA

11:00 - 12:00	Stephen Anderson (Yale University)
		TBA

12:00 - 1:30	lunch break

1:30 - 2:30	Ellen Woolford (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
		"Ergative Agreement Systems"

2:30 - 3:30	Michael Ullman (Georgetown University)
		TBA

3:30 - 4:00	coffee break

4:00 - 5:00	Mark Aronoff (SUNY Stonybrook)
		"Universal and Particular Aspects of Sign Language Morphology"

6:00		dinner party


Thursday, May 20

9:30		Coffee, breakfast

10:00 -11:00	Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)
		TBA

11:00 - 12:00	Rolf Noyer (University of Pennsylvania)
		TBA

1:00 - 4:00	Poster Session
		Marie Mount Hall, Rm. 1108B


Friday, May 21

9:30	coffee, breakfast

10:00 - 11:00	Alec Marantz (MIT)
		TBA

11:00 - 12:00	Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University)
		TBA

12:00 - 2:00	lunch break

2:00 - 3:00	Jonathan Bobaljik (McGill University)
		TBA

3:00 - 4:00	Alana Johns (University of Toronto)
		"Movement and Languages with Complex Morphology"

4:00 - 4:15	Closing remarks