MMM 2 – Lija
Date: September 10-12, 1999
Location: University Residence, Lija, Malta
Topics:
- The role of lexical categories versus non-lexical categories in morphology
- The interface of morphology and phonology
Program
General Issues – Geert Booij, Chair
- Ferenc Kiefer (guest speaker), Academy of Sciences, Budapest:
On the interaction of syntactic and lexical categories: the case of Aktionsart-formation (a cross-linguistic study) - Stephen Anderson (guest speaker), Yale University:
Theoretical issues in Algonquian morphology - Anke Luedeling, University of Stuttgart:
Particle verbs, listedness and word formation
Arabic Morphology – Ray Fabri, Chair
- Mark Aronoff & Robert Hoberman, Suny at Stonybrook:
The fixedness of nominal and verbal morphology in Maltese - Albert Borg & Manwel Mifsud, University of Malta:
‘Il-forom’ (Binyanim) in Maltese: inflection or derivation? - Ray Fabri, University of Malta:
Radicals, stems and the lexicon
The Phonology-Morphology Interface – Geert Booij, Chair
- Paul Kiparsky (guest speaker), Stanford University:
OT-based LPM, the phonology-morphology interface - Albert Ortmann & Alexandra Popescu, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf:
Haplology involving morphologically bound and free elements: evidence from Rumanian - Arto Anttila, Boston University & Anthi Revithiadou, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
Variation as indeterminacy between ‘ideal’ outputs: Finnish and Greek allomorphy - Aditi Lahiri, University of Konstanz:
Curbs on allomorphy
Major and Non-Major Lexical Categories in Word Formation – Sergio Scalise, Chair
- Marianne Mithun (guest speaker), University of California, Santa Barbara:
Lexical categories and the delimitation of morphological processes - Francoise Kerleroux, University of Paris X, Nanterre:
To what extent are minor categories involved in word formation? - Dieter Wunderlich, Heinrich Heine Uiversity, Duesseldorf
Gaps and substitutions in morphological paradigms - Teresa Cabré & Janet DeCesaris, Pompeu Fabra University:
Prepositions and adverbs in word-formation processes - Melita Stavrou, University of Thessaloniki, & Geoffrey Horrocks, University of Cambridge:
Lexeme-based ‘separationist’ morphology: evidence from Greek deverbal abstracts
Inflectional Structure – Angeliki Ralli, Chair
- Greville Corbett (guest speaker), University of Surrey:
Defectiveness, syncretism, suppletion, ‘deponency’: four dimensions for a typology of inflectional systems - Benjamin Bruening, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Paradigms and opacity - Bernard Fradin, University of Paris:
Encoding and transmitting idiosyncratic features - Vito Pirelli & Marco Battista, University of Pisa:
Syntagmatic and paradigmatic constraints on morphological output - Andrew Spencer & Louise Sadler, University of Essex:
Syntax as an exponent of morphological features
Alternative Papers:
- Curt Rice, University of Tromso:
Optimizing Gender
Proceedings
Unfortunately, no proceedings were produced for MMM2.