MMM6 – Ithaca
Date: 27-Sep-2007 – 30-Sep-2007
Location: Ithaca, Greece
Topics:
Program
Thursday, September 27
18.00 – 19.30
Registration
19.30 – 19.50
Opening Ceremony
19.50 – 20.30
Peter Trudgill (Fribourg University), Invited Speaker, ”English dialect
”default singulars” and Verner’s Law”.
20.30 – 21.30
Reception
Friday, September 28
09.00 – 09.40
Angela Ralli (University of Patras), Invited Speaker, ”Morphology meets
Dialectology: Evidence from Modern Greek Dialects”
09.40 – 10.10
Eulalia Bonet (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Maria-Rosa Lloret
(Universitat de Barcelona), Juan Mascaro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona),
”Prenominal/ postnominal asymmetries under split concord”.
10.10 – 10.40
Jan Don (University of Amsterdam) & Suzanne Aalberse (University of Amsterdam),
”Impoverishment in Dutch dialects”
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.30
Stephen R. Anderson (Yale University), ”Phonologically conditioned allomorphy
in the morphology of Surmiran (Rumantsch)”
11.30 – 12.00
Claudio Iacobini (Università di Salerno), ”Pace Rohlfs: Italian phrasal verbs
are a dialectal innovation, not a calque from the German language”
12.00 – 12.30
Dimitra Papangeli (Academy of Athens, University of Patras), ”Compounding
across the Greek Dialects”
12.30 – 13.00
Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam), ”Inflected possessive
pronouns. Evidence from Dutch dialects”
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch Break
15.00 – 15.30
Greville Corbett (University of Surrey), ”A canonical approach to
morphosyntactic features”
15.30 – 16.00
Vassilios Spyropoulos (University of Aegean) & Konstantinos Kakarikos
(University of Athens), ”Aspects of dialectic variation in the Greek declension
system: a feature-based approach”
16.00 – 16.30
Francesca Masini (Università Roma Tre) & Anna Thornton (Università dell’Aquila),
”Italian V-and-V lexical constructions”
16.30 – 17.00
Alice Harris (SUNY Stony Brook), ”Is case a feature of the verb?”
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30 – 18.00
Andrew Spencer (University of Essex) & Catherine Taylor (University of Essex),
”Maximising stems”
18.00 – 18.30
Olivier Bonami (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Gilles Boyé (Université Bordeaux 3),
Fabio Montermini (CNRS, Toulouse) & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS, Paris),
”Stem spaces in Romance conjugation”
18.30 – 19.00
Antje Lahne (University of Leipzig), ”On deriving polarity effects”
19.00 – 19.40
Vito Pirelli (CNR Pisa), Invited Speaker ”MMM: Morphology, Memory and the
Mental Lexicon”
Saturday, September 29
09.00 – 09.40
Ingo Plag (Universität Siegen), Invited Speaker, ”Deconstructing compound stress”
09.40 – 10.10
Livio Gaeta (Università di Napoli), ”On heads and compounds, a typological trip”
10.10 – 10.40
Chiara Melloni (University of Verona) & Antonietta Bisetto (University of
Bologna), ”Parasynthetic compounding”
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.30
Klaus von Heusinger (Universität Stuttgart) & Christoph Schwarze (Universität
Konstanz), ”Italian V+N compounds in a two-level semantics”
11.30 – 12.00
Anne-Marie Brousseau (University of Toronto), ”How to derive covert nominals:
agentive/instrumental compounds in French”
12.00 – 12.30
Ceccagno Antonella (University of Bologna) & Basciano Bianca (University of
Verona), ”Chinese compounds: classification and headedness”
12.30 – 13.00
Emanuele Banfi (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), ”The sh?ng complex
words in Chinese: between morphology and semantics”
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch Break
15.00 – 15.30
Bernard Fradin (CNRS & University Paris 7), ”On the semantics of denominal
adjectives”
15.30 – 16.00
Jenny Audring (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), ”Gender assignment and gender
agreement”
16.00 – 16.30
Zanned Lazhar (University of Manouba), ”Re-pluralization: The case of plurals
in Arabic”
16.30 – 17.00
John R. Perry (Chicago University), ”Exaptation from Arabic syntax to Persian
Lexical Morphology”
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30 – 18.00
Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester), ”The interaction of suppletion,
defectiveness and periphrasis”
18.00 – 18.30
Dany Amiot (Université d’Artois), ”Analogy vs. Rules: How can diachronic and
synchronic perspectives be made to work together?”
18.30 – 19.00
Carola Trips (Universität Stuttgart), ”New insights into the rivalry of suffixes”
19.00 – 19.40
Taro Kageyama (Kwansei Gakuin), Invited Speaker ”Agent Incorporation and Other
Peculiar Morphological Operations Inducing Individual-Level Predications”
19.40 – 20.30
Closing Remarks – Business meeting
21.00 Dinner
Sunday, September 30
Boat Cruise – The Tour of the Island
Posters
Marco Baroni (Università di Trento), Emiliano Guevara (Università di Bologna) &
Roberto Zamparelli (Università di Trento), ”On the Structure of Italian
deverbal compounds”
Nicola Grandi (Università di Milano – Bicocca) & Fabio Montermini (CNRS &
Université de Toulouse – le Mirail), ”Structural complexity and position of the
head in compounding: A hint for a new classification of compounds”
Fiammetta Namer (Université Nancy 2) & Florence Villoing (CNRS & Université
Paris 8), ”Interpreting French deverbal -oir nouns: evidence from dictionaries
and Web corpora”
Amanda Pounder (University of Calgary), ”Morphological fragments in parallel
constructions”
Maria Mastropavlou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) & Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), ”The role of suffixes in grammatical
gender determination of Modern Greek nouns: a psycholinguistic study”
Rita Manzini (University of Florence) & Anna Roussou (University of Patras),
”Non-active voice in Greek and Albanian dialects”