MMM4 – Catania
Date: September 20-23, 2003
Location: Catania, Sicily
The conference was organized jointly by the MMM-committee and the hosting institution, the University of Catania. Prof. Salvatore Sgroi was the local organizer.
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
Topics:
- Which of the Greenbergian universals on morphology have stood the test of time, and in which ways do they have to be corrected?
- Which new typological universals might be proposed for the domain of morphology?
- How can we explain morphological universals and typological patterns?
- What is the relation between syntactic and morphological typological generalizations?
- Which role should morphology play in language typology in general? Does the traditional morphological classification of languages still make sense?
- 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?
- Is there a prefix-suffix asymmetry from a typological point of view, and if so, what is he explanation for that?
- 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?
Program
- Wolfgang Dressler, University of Vienna (invited speaker):
Morphological Typology and First Language Acquisition: Some Mutual Challenges - Vladimir A. Plungian & Mikhail A. Daniel, University of Moscow:
Aspects of Agglutination. Parameter of Affix Mobility - Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne & Louisa Sadler, University of Esse:
A Realizational Approach to Multiple Case - Geoffrey Horrocks, University of Cambridge & Melita Stavrou, University of Thessaloniki:
Morphological Aspect and Aktionsart; Consequences for the Lexicalization of Semantic Properties - Ali Idrissi & Eva Kehayia, McGill University:
On the Necessity of the Distinction between Morpheme-and Word based Morphology: Internal and External Evidence - Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University (invited speaker):
Competition, Blocking, and Neutralization in Inflectional Morphology - Andrew Spencer, University of Essex:
On the Order of ‘Meaningful Elements’ - Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Science:
On Diminutive Plurals and Plural Diminutives - Jan Don, University of Amsterdam:
Categories in the Lexicon - Berthold Crysmann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI):
Hausa Final Vowel Shortening – Phrasal Allomorphy or Inflectional Category? - Nicola Grandi, Università di Milano – Bicocca, & Fabio Montermini, CNRS and Université Toulouse Le Mirail:
Prefix-suffix Neutrality in Evaluative Morphology - Annamaria Disciullo, Universite du Quebec a Montreal:
Heads and Affixal Asymmetry - Grev Corbett, University of Surrey (invited speaker):
Typology of the morphological extreme - Livio Gaeta, Università di Torino:
Word Formation and Typology: Which Language Universals? - Mark Aronoff, SUNY Stony Brook, Irit Meir, University of Haifa, Carol Padden, University of California, San Diego, Wendy Sandler, University of Haif:
Morphological Universals and the Sign Language Type - Matthew Baerman, University of Surrey:
Typology and the Formal Modelling of Syncretism - Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University:
Diachrony, Acquisition and Morphological Universals - Antonio Fábregas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Istituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset:
Universals and Grammatical Categories: a Distributed Morphology Analysis of Spanish color Nouns - David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig:
Can there be a Language without Words? - Alice C. Harris, State University of New York, Stony Brook:
On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures - Marian Klamer, University of Leiden:
Explaining Structural and Semantic Asymmetries in Morphological Typology - Martin Maiden, University of Oxford:
‘Diseased’ vs. ‘Normal’ Morphology? Is the Typological Distinction Healthy? - Franz Rainer, Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (invited speaker):
Typology, Diachrony, and Universals of Semantic Change: a Romanist’s Look at the Agent-instrument-place Polysemy - Alternative papers:
- Andrew Koontz-Garboden & Beth Levin, Stanford University:
The Morphological Typology of Change of State Event Encoding - François Nemo, University of Orleans:
Morphemes and Lexemes versus Morphemes or Lexemes? - Tore Nesset, University of Tromso:
Rule Counting vs. Rule Ordering: Universal Principles of Rule Interaction in Gender Assignment
- Andrew Koontz-Garboden & Beth Levin, Stanford University:
- 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
- Eulalia Bonet, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Maria-Rosa Lloret, Universitat de Barcelona Joan Mascaró, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona: Atypical Gender Allomorphy
- Darya Kavitskaya, Yale University: The Resolution of Noun Class Assignment to Loan Words in Czech
- Jaume Matheu, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona: The Nominal in the Progressive Revisited: Evidence from Language Typology’
- Gaurav Mathur, Haskins Laboratories & Christian Rathmann, 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-Universitat Deutsches Institut – Mainz: Pluralization in German Sign Language: Constraints and Strategies
- Pavol Stekauer, Presov 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
MMM4 On-line Proceedings:
Università degli Studi di Bologna, 2005.
Edited by G. Booij, E. Guevara, A. Ralli, S. Sgroi & S. Scalise