MMM3 – Barcelona

Date: September 20-23, 2001
Location: Barcelona, Spain

The conference was organized jointly by the MMM-committee and the hosting institution, the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada – Pompeu Fabra University. The local coordinator for the meeting was Janet DeCesaris.

The third MMM included a tribute to Danielle Corbin

Topics:

The borderline between syntax and morphology
Prosodic constraints in morphology

Program

Soledad Varela (invited speaker), Autonomous University of Madrid:
Lexical morphology revisited: structure/meaning correspondences in the word
J. Trommer, University of Osnabrück:
The Role of Syntax and Morphology in Affix Order
G. Dal, University of Lille 3, & F. Namer, University of Nancy 2:
Complex words vs. phrases: the case of causative verbs in French
Geert Booij (invited speaker), Free University of Amsterdam:
Periphrastic Word Formation
Marc Plénat & M. Roché, University of Toulouse le Mirail:
Prosodic Constraints on Suffixation in French
Anke Lüdeling & Tanja Schmid, IMS – University of Stuttgart:
Does Origin Determine Combinatory Properties of Affixes and Stems in German?
J. D. Bobaljik, McGill University:
What’s in a paradigm?
Stuart Davis, Indiana University:
The Status of the Consonantal Root in Arabic
Mark Aronoff, SUNY-Stony Brook, & N. Fuhrhop, ZAS-Berlin:
Restricting suffix combinations in German and English
Rochelle Lieber, University of New Hampshire:
Compound interpretation is not a matter of syntax
S. Barbiers & M. van Oostendorp, Meertens Institute:
Deriving speaker-oriented evaluative adverbs in Dutch: -erwijs, -weg, -genoeg
Round table: Research on morphology in Spain (moderator: Janet DeCesaris, IULA – UPF)
Miren Azcarate (University of the Basque Country),
Lluïsa Gràcia (University of Girona),
Maria Rosa Lloret (University of Barcelona)
Daniel Harbour, MIT:
The Kiowa Case for Feature Insertion
Anne-Marie DiSciullo (invited speaker), UQAM:Spatial Relations in Morphological Objects
Andrew Spencer & Ana Luis, University of Essex: A Paradigm Function account of ‘mesoclisis’ in European Portuguese
Laura Kornfeld, CONICET – University of Buenos Aires: N+N Compounds as formally lexicalized appositions in Spanish
Greville Corbett, University of Surrey: Agreement: Canonical instances and the contribution of inflectional morphology
Elena Felíu & Antonio Fábregas, Autonomous University of Madrid: Phrasal scope and argument constraints of Spanish inter- prefixation
S. Lappe, University of Siegen: English prosodic morphology: short names and y-diminutives
J. Mateu, Autonomous University of Barcelona: Complex Denominal Verbs and Parametric Variation: A Lexical-Syntactic Approach
Peter Ackema, University of Utrecht & A. Neeleman, University College London: Context-sensitive spell-out and adjacency
Stephen Anderson (invited speaker), Yale University: Conference Summary

Alternative papers:
- A. Spencer: Does English have productive compounding?
- G. Drachman: Concord in Morphology
- A. Marantz & L. Pylkkänen: Morphological Decomposition in Derivation: MEG Evidence and Some Theoretical Context
Poster session:
- L. Kornfeld & A. Saab: Morphology and syntax: the case of prepositional preffixes in Spanish
- I. Roca & E. Felíu: Morphology and Prosody in Spanish Word Truncation
- P. Acquaviva: Agreement in autonomous morphology: Evidence form Irish Prepositions
- C. Kelling: The role of Agentivity for suffix selection
- B. Fradin & F. Kerleroux: How abstract are lexemes?
- E. Benmanoun: Reciprocals as Plurals in Arabic: Implications for the debate between Word vs. Root Based Analyses of Semitic Morphology
- S. Tatevosov: Verbal Reduplication in Bagwalal and Fixed Segmentism

Proceedings

The proceedings of MMM3 were published in 2003 by the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada – Pompeu Fabra University:

Topics in Morphology: Selected Papers from the Third Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Barcelona september 20-22, 2001. Edited by Geert Booij, Janet DeCesaris, Angela Ralli and Sergio Scalise. Barcelona: IULA.
ISBN: 84-477-0857-8

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