MMM10, Haifa 7-10 September 2015
More info at: http://mmm10.haifa.ac.il
CONFERENCE PROGRAM (download)
MONDAY, 07 September
MORPHOLOGY OF LOCAL LANGUAGES (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, and Israeli Sign Language)
10.00 – Guided tour of Haifa
13.00-14.30 – Registration
14.30-14.45 – Opening
Session 1 – Chair: Wendy Sandler
14.45-15.45
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
Guest Lecture: Three chapters in Language history of Canaan
15.45-16.20
Irit Meir (University of Haifa)
Grammaticalization is not the full story: A non-grammaticalization account
16.20-16.40 – Coffee Break
16.40-17.15
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Semitic templates from the perspective of reciprocal predicates
17.15-17.50
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad (Bar-Ilan University) & Lior Laks (Bar-Ilan University)
Morphological interference of Colloquial Arabic in the Standard Arabic writing of school children
17.50-18.25
Edit Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The morphosyntax of definiteness agreement in Neo-Aramaic and Central Semitic
RECEPTION / A Toast to the 10th Anniversary of MMM
TUESDAY, 08 September
Thematic session “QUO VADIS MORPHOLOGY?”
Session 2 – Chair: Geert Booij
9.00-10.00
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University)
Guest Lecture: Morphology in the Mental Lexicon: New Directions
10.00-10.35
Gal Belsitzman (University of Haifa) & Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa)
Motivated morphological templates
10.35-11.10
Stela Manova (University of Vienna) & Bartosz Brzoza (University of Poznań)
Suffix combinability and the organization of the mental lexicon
11.10-11.30 – Coffee Break
Session 3 – Chair: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
11.30-12.05
Geri Popova (University of London)
Inflected and periphrastic features: issues of comparison and modelling
12.05-12.40
Aysun Kunduraci (Boğaziçi University) & Aslı Göksel (Boğaziçi University)
Morphology: The Base Processor
12.40-13.15
Faruk Akkus (Yale University)
Suspended affixation with derivational suffixes and lexical integrity
13.15-14.35 – Lunch
14.35-15.25
POSTER SESSION – Group A
Session 4 – Chair: Anna Maria Thornton
15.25 -16.00
Lívia Körtvélyessy (Rzeszow University) & Pavol Štekauer (Rzeszow University)
The saturation value: On the methodology of cross-linguistic research into word-formation
16.00-16.35
Benjamin Saade (Universität Bremen)
Adverbial derivation in Maltese and Italian: a framework for studying cross-linguistic productivity
16.35-17.10
Matteo Pascoli (University of Bologna) & Fabio Montermini (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS & Université de Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès)
A paradigmatic analysis of Italian verbal derivation
17.10-17.45 – Coffee Break
Session 5 – Chair: Nikos Koutsoukos
17.45-18.20
Svetlana Dachkovsky (University of Haifa)
Where do grammatical morphemes come from? On the development of a relative clause marker from a deictic gesture in Israeli Sign Language
18.20-18.55
Anna Maria Di Sciullo (University of Québec at Montréal)
Morphology and the human language faculty
WEDNESDAY, 09 September – FREE TOPIC SESSION
Session 6 – Chair: Jenny Audring
9.30-10.30
Stephen R. Anderson (Yale University)
Guest Lecture: D’où Venons Nous/Que Sommes Nous/Où Allons Nous. Reflections on the History of Morphology
10.30-11.05
Matthew J. Carroll (Australian National University)
The Exception That Proves the Rule: Markedness, defaults and the case of a typological outlier
11.05-11.40
Ryan Lepic (UC San Diego)
Lexical blends and lexical patterns in English and ASL
11.40-12.00 – Coffee Break
Session 7 – Chair: Aslı Göksel
12.00–12.35
Oksana Tkachman (University of British Columbia) & Irit Meir (University of Haifa)
Compounding and the emergence of structure in young sign languages
12.35-13.10
Marcel Schlechtweg (Universität Kassel)
Compound versus phrase: Evidence from a learning study
13.10-13.45
Barbara Schlücker (Freie Universität Berlin)
Proper name compounding in a contrastive perspective
13.45-15.05 – Lunch
15.05-15.55
POSTER SESSION – Group B
Session 8 – Chair: Outi Bat El
15.55-16.30
Henry Brice (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The root and word distinction: An experimental study of Hebrew denominal verbs
16.30-17.05
Itamar Kastner (New York University)
Arabic Consonants as Bootstrapping for Segmentation and Acquisition
17.05-17.45 – Coffee Break
Session 9 – Chair: Francesca Masini
17.45-18.20
Ignacio Montoya (City University of New York)
A Comparison of Roots as Units of Analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish
18.20-18.55
Claudio Iacobini (University of Salerno) & Luisa Corona (University of Salerno)
“Romanes eunt domus”. Where you can go with Latin morphology: Variation in motion expression between system and usage
18.55-19.15 – Business meeting
SOCIAL DINNER
THURSDAY, 10 September – EXCURSION
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 10th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM10) will take place at the University of Haifa (Israel) on September 7-10, 2015.
The aim of MMM is to bring together linguists who work on morphology in an informal setting which guarantees maximal interaction between researchers, and gives young linguists an opportunity to present their work at a conference of moderate size, with no parallel sessions, where fruitful contacts with senior linguists can be established.
The theme of the conference will be:
“Quo vadis morphology? Grammar, cognition and computation”
MMM celebrates its 10th meeting with a look at the present and future of morphology. How has the field evolved over the last years? Where do we stand now? And, most importantly, where do we go from here? We welcome contributions that explore new empirical and methodological directions in morphology, especially in the following domains:
– Morphology and grammar: what is (or should be) the place of morphology in linguistic theory? How do we face well-known challenges to foundational issues such as the notion of word, the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis, or the universality of lexical/grammatical categories?
– Morphology and cognition: what can morphology tell us about the mind and language acquisition? How can we reconcile morphological theory and experimental research? What can morphology learn from the other cognitive sciences?
– Morphology and computation: what are the new frontiers for computational approaches to morphology? How is the “big-data effect” affecting morphological research / theory?
Following the MMM tradition, beside the Thematic session (“Quo vadis”), there will be a Free topic session that welcomes all kinds of contributions on morphology and related disciplines.
We explicitly welcome contributions on sign languages, which show how morphology in an alternative natural language modality may shed light on morphology in general.
Invited speakers
- Stephen R. Anderson (Yale University)
- Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
- Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University)
Program outline
- Sept 7: Free guided tour of Haifa (morning) and Workshop on languages in Israel (Hebrew, Arabic, and local sign languages) (afternoon)
- Sept 8: Thematic session “Quo vadis morphology?”
- Sept 9: Free topic session
- Sept 10: Excursion (details to be posted on the MMM10 website)
Abstract submission
We invite abstracts (500 words maximum, excluding bibliography) for oral presentations or posters. Each abstract will be reviewed anonymously by the MMM Permanent Committee and the MMM Local Organizing Committee.
Abstracts should be sent to mmm10haifa@gmail.com.
Please attach two versions of the abstract: one with authors’s names and one anonymous (both should be in .pdf format). In the body of the mail, please specify:
- authors’ names and contact details;
- title of abstract;
- intended session (Thematic session, Free topic session, Workshop on local languages of Israel);
- format preference (oral presentation or poster).
Important dates
- Deadline for abstract submission:
March 1, 2015March 31, 2015. - Notification of decision:
May 15, 2015May 24, 2015. - Program available: May 31, 2015.
- Early bird registration: July 1, 2015
Fees
| Early bird registration(until July 1) | Regular registration(after July 1) | |
| Student fee | 20 Euros | 35 Euros |
| Regular fee | 55 Euros | 75 Euros |
MMM Local Organizing Committee
- Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa), Chair
- Edit Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Elizabeth Ritter (Ben Gurion University)
- Elinor Saiegh-Haddad (Bar Ilan University)
- Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa)
- Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv University)
MMM Permanent Committee
- Jenny Audring (University of Amsterdam)
- Geert Booij (Leiden University)
- Nikos Koutsoukos (University of Patras)
- Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)
- Angela Ralli (University of Patras)
- Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna)
Contact
MMM10 website
MMM permanent website