MMM1 – Mythilene

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Date: September 19-21, 1997
Location: Mytilene, island of Lesvos, Greece

Organized under the auspices of the Community of Mytilene by the University of Athens in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Ferrara.

Topics:

1. Allomorphy (Coordinator: Geert Booij)
2. Compounding (Coordinator: Sergio Scalise)
3. Inflection: (Coordinator: Angela Ralli)

Program

Invited speakers:

• Aronoff, M.:
  Agreement as Morphology
• Spencer A.:
  Who needs nouns and verbs (or adjectives and prepostions)?
• Anastasiadis-Simeonidis A.:
  Denominal Adjectives in Modern Greek

First Session: Compounding – Chair Sergio Scalise

• Di Sciullo A.-M.:
  Economy of X0/XP Derivations
• Billings, L.:
  Morphology and Syntax: Delimiting Stump Compounds in Russian
• Klamer M.:
  Incorporation in Eastern Indonesian Languages
• Iacobini, C.:
  Distinguishing Derivatiobal prefixes from Initial Combining Forms
• Tsujioka T. & Y. Shibuya:
  Inalienable object construction in Japanese
• Alternative papers:
  • Cabré, T., M.Lorente, M.R. Baya, E. Bernal & R.Estopa:
    The Boundaries between Composition and Syntax: The [N N] Lexical Structure
  • Kiefer, F.:
    Argument satisfaction in compounds and in syntax
  • Yukseker, H.:
    Turkish Possessive Compounds

Second Session: Allomorphy – Chair: Geert Booij

• Kiparsky, P.:
  Covert Generalization in Morphology
• Thornton, A.:
  Stem allomorphs, suffix allomorphs, interfixes or different suffixes?
• Cahill L. & G.Gazdar:
  The Lexical Representation of Allomorphy without Levels
• Burzio, L.:
  Italian Participial Allomorphy and Correspondence Theory
• Rainer, F.:
  Allomorphic Change: On the Fate of the Latin Stem Variant in -u in Italian
• Alternative papers:
  • Marlett, S.:
    Issues in Suppletive Allomorphy: Seri Evidence
  • Reighard, J.:
    Allomorphy as a Conjunction of Constraints: Portuguese Metaphony

Third Session – Chair: Angeliki Ralli

• Steele, S.:
  Inflection and Information
• Corbett, G.:
  Prototypical Inflection: Implications for Typology
• Borjars K. & N. Vincent:
  Stating your Case
• Philippaki Warburton I. & V. Spyropoulos:
  On the Boundaries of Inflection and Syntax
• Mithun, M.:
  The status of tense within inflection
• Alternative papers:
  • Cetnarowska B.:
    Inherent Inflection in Polish as Input to Morphological Derivation
  • Goksel A.:
    Morphological Length
  • Villalva A.:
    Inflection in Word Structure

Proceedings

The proceedings of MMM1 were published on paper by the University of Patras. The volume is now out of print. These proceedings are now online.