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Date: 29-Nov-2009
From: Matthew Baerman < m.baerman at surrey.ac.uk >
Subject: Morphological Complexity
 

	
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:33:35
From: Matthew Baerman [m.baerman at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Morphological Complexity

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Morphological Complexity 

Date: 22-Jan-2010 - 22-Jan-2010 
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA 
Contact: Matthew Baerman 
Contact Email: morphological.complexity at googlemail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.morphology.surrey.ac.uk/Workshop.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology 

Meeting Description: 

The Surrey Morphology Group (University of Surrey, UK) and the Department of 
Linguistics at Harvard University are hosting a one-day workshop 
entitled 'Morphological Complexity: Implications for the Theory of Language', 
as part of a European Research Council project (grant number: ERC-2008-AdG-
230268 MORPHOLOGY). 

By the term 'morphological complexity', we understand the extra layer of 
structure that morphological systems may introduce in between meaning and its 
expression. This layer may operate at cross-purposes to functional 
distinctions, attaining in some languages an astonishing degree of complexity. 
Such apparently arbitrary distinctions in form (inflection classes, 
irregularity and similar phenomena) are the particular focus of the project. 

Attendance is free and open to all. For planning purposes, please send us a 
note (to the e-mail address provided in the conference announcement) by January 
15, 2010 if you're planning to attend.

Location: Harvard University, Barker Center 133, Plimpton Room
Date: January 22, 2010 

Program
10:00-10:15 Welcome
Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)

10:15-11:15 Introduction to the Surrey Morphology Group project
Greville Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown & Scott Collier (Surrey)

11:15-11:45 Break

11:45-12:45 Principal parts and morphological analysis
Gregory Stump & Raphael Finkel (Kentucky)

12:45-1:45 Lunch

1:45-2:15 Compression and morphological complexity:an evaluation 
Dunstan Brown (Surrey)

2:15-2:45 Paradigm entropy as a measure of morphological simplicity 
Rob Malouf & Farrell Ackerman (San Diego State & U.C. San Diego)

2:45-3:15 Relational-realizational modeling for complex morphology in parsing 
Reut Tsarfaty (Amsterdam)

3:15-3:45 Break

3:45-4:15 Discontinuous exponence in inflectional morphology
Amy Campbell (U.C. Berkeley)

4:15-4:45 New discoveries from an old friend: extreme, autonomous morphological 
complexity in Kayardild 
Erich Round (Yale)

4:45-5:15 Morphological complexity in historical change 
Claire Bowern (Yale)

5:15-5:30 Closing remarks





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