MMM 2 – Lija

Date: September 10-12, 1999
Location: University Residence, Lija, Malta

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:

Unfortunately, no proceedings were produced for MMM2.