14.1236, Confs: Morphology/Catania, Sicily
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Subject: 14.1236, Confs: Morphology/Catania, Sicily
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:04:10 +0000
From: ge.booij at let.vu.nl
Subject: 4th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:04:10 +0000
From: ge.booij at let.vu.nl
Subject: 4th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting
4th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting
Short Title: MMM 4
Date: 20-Sep-2003 - 23-Sep-2003
Location: Catania, Sicily, Macau
Contact: Salvatore Sgroi
Contact Email: salvatoreclaudio.sgroi at tin.it
Meeting URL: http://www2.facli.unibo.it/scalise/M4programma.htm
Linguistic Sub-field: Morphology
Meeting Description:
Biannual meeting on morphology, with focus on theoretical and
typological issues.
MMM4 Catania, Sicily, 21-23 September 2003
Organized by Geert Booij (Free University Amsterdam), Angeliki Ralli
(University of Patras), Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna) and
Salvatore Sgroi (University of Catania)
Morphology and linguistic typology
Sunday 21 September
9.00-9.30 Opening session
9.30-10.20 Wolfgang Dressler, University of Vienna (invited speaker)
Morphological Typology and First Language Acquisition: Some Mutual
Challenges
10.20-11.00 Vladimir A. Plungian & Mikhail A. Daniel, University of
Moscow, Aspects of Agglutination. Parameter of Affix Mobility
11.00-11.40 Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne & Louisa
Sadler, University of Essex, A Realizational Approach to Multiple Case
11.40-12.00 break
12.00-12.40 Geoffrey Horrocks, University of Cambridge & Melita
Stavrou, University of Thessaloniki
Morphological Aspect and Aktionsart; Consequences for the
Lexicalization of Semantic Properties.
12.40-13.20 Ali Idrissi & Eva Kehayia, McGill University
On the Necessity of the Distinction between Morpheme-
and Word based Morphology: Internal and External Evidence
Lunch
14.30-15.20 Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University (invited speaker)
Competition, Blocking, and Neutralization in Inflectional Morphology
15.20-16.00 Andrew Spencer, University of Essex
On the Order of 'Meaningful Elements'
16.00-16.40 Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Science
On Diminutive Plurals and Plural Diminutives
16.40-17.00 break
17.00-17-40 Jan Don, University of Amsterdam
Categories in the Lexicon
17.40-18.20 Berthold Crysmann, German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI), Hausa Final Vowel Shortening - Phrasal Allomorphy
or Inflectional Category?
18.20-19.00 Nicola Grandi (Università di Milano - Bicocca) and Fabio
Montermini (CNRS and Université Toulouse Le Mirail)
Prefix-suffix Neutrality in Evaluative Morphology
19.00-19.40 Annamaria Disciullo, Université du Québec à Montréal
Heads and Affixal Asymmetry
Monday 22 September
9.00-9.30 Opening: (authorities)
9.30-10.20 Grev Corbett, University of Surrey (invited speaker)
Typology of the morphological extreme
10.20-11.00 Livio Gaeta, Università di Torino
Word Formation and Typology: Which Language Universals?
11.00-11.40 Mark Aronoff, SUNY Stony Brook, Irit Meir, University of
Haifa, Carol Padden, University of California, San Diego, Wendy
Sandler, University of Haifa Morphological Universals and the Sign
Language Type
11.40-12.00 break
12.00-12.40 Matthew Baerman, University of Surrey,
Typology and the Formal Modelling of Syncretism
12.40-13.20 Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University
Diachrony, Acquisition and Morphological Universals
Lunch
14.30-15.20 poster session
15.20-16.00 Antonio Fábregas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and
Istituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset)
Universals and Grammatical Categories: a Distributed
Morphology Analysis of Spanish color Nouns
16.00-16.40 David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology Leipzig, Can there be a Language without Words?
16.40-17.00 break
17.00-17-40 Alice C. Harris, State University of New York, Stony Brook
On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures
17.40-18.20 Marian Klamer, University of Leiden
Explaining Structural and Semantic Asymmetries in
Morphological Typology
18.20-19.00 Martin Maiden, University of Oxford
'Diseased' vs. 'Normal' Morphology? Is the Typological
Distinction Healthy?
19.00-19.50 Franz Rainer, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (invited
speaker) Typology, Diachrony, and Universals of Semantic Change: a
Romanist's Look at the Agent-instrument-place Polysemy.
Alternate Papers:
Andrew Koontz-Garboden & Beth Levin, Stanford University The
Morphological Typology of Change of State Event Encoding
François Nemo, University of Orléans Morphemes and Lexemes versus
Morphemes or Lexemes?
Tore Nesset, University of Tromsö Rule Counting vs. Rule Ordering:
Universal Principles of Rule Interaction in Gender Assignment
Tuesday 23 September
Outing with informal discussions of morphological typology and other
things.
Poster session
Paolo Acquaviva, University College Dublin
The Morphosemantics of ''Transnumeral'''Nouns'
Lev Blumenfeld, Stanford University
Middle, Passive, and the structure of the Ancient Greek Verb
Eulàlia Bonet, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Maria-Rosa Lloret,
Universitat de Barcelona Joan Mascaró, Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, Atypical Gender Allomorphy
Darya Kavitskaya, Yale University
The Resolution of Noun Class Assignment to Loan Words in Czech
Jaume Matheu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The Nominal in the Progressive Revisited: Evidence from Language
Typology'
Gaurav Mathur, Haskins Laboratories & Christian Rathmann The
University of Texas at Austin Cross-Linguistic Variation in Verb
Agreement Across Signed Languages
Jaap van Marle, Open University Heerlen
Some Remarks on Stem-based versus Word-based Morphological Systems
Irit Meir, University of Haifa, Typology and Boundaries: The
Acquisition of a New Morphological Boundary by Modern Hebrew
Irina Nikolaeva, University of Konstanz, A Challenge to the Typology
of Agreement: NP-internal Person Agreement
Roland Pfau, University of Amsterdam and Markus Steinbach, Johannes
Gutenberg-Universität Deutsches Institut - Mainz, Pluralization in
German Sign Language: Constraints and Strategies
Pavol tekauer, Preov University, On the Predictability of Novel
Context-free Coinages
Sergei Tatevosov, Moscow State University, Derivational Attenuatives
Cross-linguistically: Surveying Semantic Ingredients
Jochen Trommer, University of Osnabrueck, The Typology of
Hierarchy-based Competition
Sponsors of the Meeting:
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Catania
Dipartimento di Filologia Moderna, Università di Catania
Assessorato alla Cultura di Catania
Provincia di Catania
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne - Università
di Bologna
Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit - Amsterdam.
The meeting will take place in The Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
(also known as ''Il Monastero'', Piazza Dante 32, 95124 Catania)
Saturday 20 afternoon: reception
Sunday 21 and Monday 22: meeting
Tuesday 23: social outing
Congress fees: 60 Euros
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