Agenda
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 MorphologyAanalysis 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 Štekauer, Prešov 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