{"id":184,"date":"2012-09-25T15:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilec.it\/mmm\/wp\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2013-03-13T15:32:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:32:29","slug":"mmm-4-catania","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lilec.it\/mmm\/?page_id=184","title":{"rendered":"[PastMeetings] MMM4 &#8211; Catania"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> MMM4 &#8211; Catania<\/h1>\n<hr>\n<p>Date: September 20-23, 2003<br \/>\nLocation: Catania, Sicily<\/p>\n<p>The conference was organized jointly by the MMM-committee and the hosting institution, the University of Catania. Prof. Salvatore Sgroi was the local organizer.<\/p>\n<h3>Sponsors of the meeting:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Facolt\u00e0 di Lettere e Filosofia, Universit\u00e0 di Catania<\/li>\n<li>Dipartimento di Filologia Moderna, Universit\u00e0 di Catania<\/li>\n<li>Assessorato alla Cultura di Catania<\/li>\n<li>Provincia di Catania<\/li>\n<li>Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne &#8211; Universit\u00e0 di Bologna<\/li>\n<li>Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit &#8211; Amsterdam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Topics:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Which of the Greenbergian universals on morphology have stood the test of time, and in which ways do they have to be corrected?<\/li>\n<li>Which new typological universals might be proposed for the domain of morphology?<\/li>\n<li>How can we explain morphological universals and typological patterns?<\/li>\n<li>What is the relation between syntactic and morphological typological generalizations?<\/li>\n<li>Which role should morphology play in language typology in general? Does the traditional morphological classification of languages still make sense?<\/li>\n<li>Does the distinction between languages with word-based morphology versus those with stem-based morphology, and that of word-based versus morpheme-based morphology makes sense?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a prefix-suffix asymmetry from a typological point of view, and if so, what is he explanation for that?<\/li>\n<li>To which extent are the implicational hierarchies of morphological typology reflected by patterns of first and second language acquisition, by patterns of language contact and codeswitching, and by patterns of language change?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Program<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Wolfgang Dressler, University of Vienna (invited speaker):<br \/>\nMorphological Typology and First Language Acquisition: Some Mutual Challenges<\/li>\n<li>Vladimir A. Plungian &amp; Mikhail A. Daniel, University of Moscow:<br \/>\nAspects of Agglutination. Parameter of Affix Mobility<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne &amp; Louisa Sadler, University of Esse:<br \/>\nA Realizational Approach to Multiple Case<\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey Horrocks, University of Cambridge &amp; Melita Stavrou, University of Thessaloniki:<br \/>\nMorphological Aspect and Aktionsart; Consequences for the Lexicalization of Semantic Properties<\/li>\n<li>Ali Idrissi &amp; Eva Kehayia, McGill University:<br \/>\nOn the Necessity of the Distinction between Morpheme-and Word based Morphology: Internal and External Evidence<\/li>\n<li>Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University (invited speaker):<br \/>\nCompetition, Blocking, and Neutralization in Inflectional Morphology<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Spencer, University of Essex:<br \/>\nOn the Order of &#8216;Meaningful Elements&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Science:<br \/>\nOn Diminutive Plurals and Plural Diminutives<\/li>\n<li>Jan Don, University of Amsterdam:<br \/>\nCategories in the Lexicon<\/li>\n<li>Berthold Crysmann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI):<br \/>\nHausa Final Vowel Shortening &#8211; Phrasal Allomorphy or Inflectional Category?<\/li>\n<li>Nicola Grandi, Universit\u00e0 di Milano &#8211; Bicocca, &amp; Fabio Montermini, CNRS and Universit\u00e9 Toulouse Le Mirail:<br \/>\nPrefix-suffix Neutrality in Evaluative Morphology<\/li>\n<li>Annamaria Disciullo, Universite du Quebec a Montreal:<br \/>\nHeads and Affixal Asymmetry<\/li>\n<li>Grev Corbett, University of Surrey (invited speaker):<br \/>\nTypology of the morphological extreme<\/li>\n<li>Livio Gaeta, Universit\u00e0 di Torino:<br \/>\nWord Formation and Typology: Which Language Universals?<\/li>\n<li>Mark Aronoff, SUNY Stony Brook, Irit Meir, University of Haifa, Carol Padden, University of California, San Diego, Wendy Sandler, University of Haif:<br \/>\nMorphological Universals and the Sign Language Type<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Baerman, University of Surrey:<br \/>\nTypology and the Formal Modelling of Syncretism<\/li>\n<li>Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University:<br \/>\nDiachrony, Acquisition and Morphological Universals<\/li>\n<li>Antonio F\u00e1bregas (Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid and Istituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset:<br \/>\nUniversals and Grammatical Categories: a Distributed Morphology Analysis of Spanish color Nouns<\/li>\n<li>David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig:<br \/>\nCan there be a Language without Words?<\/li>\n<li>Alice C. Harris, State University of New York, Stony Brook:<br \/>\nOn the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures<\/li>\n<li>Marian Klamer, University of Leiden:<br \/>\nExplaining Structural and Semantic Asymmetries in Morphological Typology<\/li>\n<li>Martin Maiden, University of Oxford:<br \/>\n&#8216;Diseased&#8217; vs. &#8216;Normal&#8217; Morphology? Is the Typological Distinction Healthy?<\/li>\n<li>Franz Rainer, Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (invited speaker):<br \/>\nTypology, Diachrony, and Universals of Semantic Change: a Romanist&#8217;s Look at the Agent-instrument-place Polysemy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alternative papers:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Koontz-Garboden &amp; Beth Levin, Stanford University:<br \/>\nThe Morphological Typology of Change of State Event Encoding<\/li>\n<li>Fran\u00e7ois Nemo, University of Orleans:<br \/>\nMorphemes and Lexemes versus Morphemes or Lexemes?<\/li>\n<li>Tore Nesset, University of Tromso:<br \/>\nRule Counting vs. Rule Ordering: Universal Principles of Rule Interaction in Gender Assignment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poster session:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Paolo Acquaviva, University College Dublin: The Morphosemantics of &#8221;Transnumeral&#8221;&#8217;Nouns&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Lev Blumenfeld, Stanford University: Middle, Passive, and the structure of the Ancient Greek Verb<\/li>\n<li>Eulalia Bonet, Universitat Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona, Maria-Rosa Lloret, Universitat de Barcelona Joan Mascar\u00f3, Universitat Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona: Atypical Gender Allomorphy<\/li>\n<li>Darya Kavitskaya, Yale University: The Resolution of Noun Class Assignment to Loan Words in Czech<\/li>\n<li>Jaume Matheu, Universitat Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona: The Nominal in the Progressive Revisited: Evidence from Language Typology&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Gaurav Mathur, Haskins Laboratories &amp; Christian Rathmann, University of Texas at Austin: Cross-Linguistic Variation in Verb Agreement Across Signed Languages<\/li>\n<li>Jaap van Marle, Open University Heerlen: Some Remarks on Stem-based versus Word-based Morphological Systems<\/li>\n<li>Irit Meir, University of Haifa: Typology and Boundaries: The Acquisition of a New Morphological Boundary by Modern Hebrew<\/li>\n<li>Irina Nikolaeva, University of Konstanz, A Challenge to the Typology of Agreement: NP-internal Person Agreement<\/li>\n<li>Roland Pfau, University of Amsterdam and Markus Steinbach, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Deutsches Institut &#8211; Mainz: Pluralization in German Sign Language: Constraints and Strategies<\/li>\n<li>Pavol Stekauer, Presov University, On the Predictability of Novel Context-free Coinages<\/li>\n<li>Sergei Tatevosov, Moscow State University: Derivational Attenuatives Cross-linguistically: Surveying Semantic Ingredients<\/li>\n<li>Jochen Trommer, University of Osnabrueck, The Typology of Hierarchy-based Competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>MMM4 On-line Proceedings:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/mmm\/proc-mmm4.php\"><em>Morphology and Linguistic Typology<\/em>, On-line Proceedings of the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM4) Catania, 21-23 September 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Bologna, 2005.<br \/>\nEdited by G. 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