LINGUIST List 10.824

Fri Jun 4 1999

Confs: Morphology/Malta

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Joe Caruana, 2nd Mediterranean Meeting on Morphology

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	THE SECOND MEDITERRANEAN MEETING ON MORPHOLOGY
	 Friday 10 to Sunday 12 September 1999
	 University Residence, Lija, Malta
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The registration deadline has been extended to Monday 14 June 1999.
For further details and a registration form, go to:
	http://home.um.edu.mt/ling/mmm2.html


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			CONFERENCE PROGRAMME


Thursday, 9 September 1999
17:00 - 20:00	Registration

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Friday, 10 September 1999

A - GENERAL ISSUES - Geert BOOIJ, Chair

09:00 - 10:00			A 1
 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)

10:00 - 11:00			A 2
 Stephen ANDERSON (guest speaker)
		Yale University
	Theoretical issues in Algonquian morphology

11:00 - 11:20	C o f f e e B r e a k

11:20 - 12:00			A 3
 Anke LUEDELING
		University of Stuttgart
	Particle verbs, listedness and word formation


B - ARABIC MORPHOLOGY - Ray FABRI, Chair

12:00 - 12:40			B 4
 Mark ARONOFF & Robert HOBERMAN
		SUNY at Stonybrook
	The fixedness of nominal and verbal morphology in Maltese

12:40 - 13:20			B 5
 Albert BORG & Manwel MIFSUD
		University of Malta
	'Il-forom' (Binyanim) in Maltese: inflection or derivation?

13:20 - 14:20	L u n c h B r e a k

14:20 - 15:00			B 6
 Ray FABRI
		University of Malta
	Radicals, stems and the lexicon


C - THE PHONOLOGY-MORPHOLOGY INTERFACE - Geert BOOIJ, Chair

15:00 - 16:00			C 7
 Paul KIPARSKY (guest speaker)
		Stanford University
	OT-based LPM, the phonology-morphology interface

16:00 - 16:40 			C 8
 Albert ORTMANN & Alexandra POPESCU
		Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf
	Haplology involving morphologically bound and free elements:
	evidence from Rumanian

16:40 - 17:00	C o f f e e B r e a k

17:00 - 17:40 			C 9
 Arto ANTTILA
		Boston University
 & Anthi REVITHIADOU
		University of Massachusetts, Amherst
	Variation as indeterminacy between 'ideal' outputs:
	Finnish and Greek allomorphy

17:40 - 18:20			C 10
 Aditi LAHIRI
		University of Konstanz
	Curbs on allomorphy


Evening: 	Reception

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SATURDAY, 11 September 1999


D - MAJOR AND NON-MAJOR LEXICAL CATEGORIES IN WORD FORMATION -
	Sergio SCALISE, Chair

09:00 - 10:00 			D 11
 Marianne MITHUN (guest speaker)
		University of California, Santa Barbara
	Lexical categories and the delimitation of morphological
	processes

10:00 - 10:40			D 12
 Francoise KERLEROUX
		University of Paris X, Nanterre
	To what extent are minor categories involved in word
	formation?

10:40 - 11:20			D 13
 Dieter WUNDERLICH
		Heinrich Heine Uiversity, Duesseldorf
	Gaps and substitutions in morphological paradigms

11:20 - 11:40	C o f f e e B r e a k

11:40 - 12:20			D 14
 Teresa CABR\201 & Janet DECESARIS
		Pompeu Fabra University
	Prepositions and adverbs in word-formation processes

12:20 - 13:00			D 15
 Melita STAVROU
		University of Thessaloniki
 & Geoffrey HORROCKS
		University of Cambridge
	Lexeme-based 'separationist' morphology: evidence from
	Greek deverbal abstracts

13:00 - 14:00	L u n c h B r e a k


E - INFLECTIONAL STRUCTURE - Angeliki RALLI, Chair

14:00 - 15:00			E 16
 Greville CORBETT (guest speaker)
		University of Surrey, Guidford
	Defectiveness, syncretism, suppletion, 'deponency':
	four dimensions for a typology of inflectional systems

15:00 - 15:40			E 17
 Benjamin BRUENING
		MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Paradigms and opacity

15:40 - 16:20			E 18
 Bernard FRADIN
		University of Paris XIII
	Encoding and transmitting idiosyncratic features

16:20 - 16:40	C o f f e e B r e a k

16:40 - 17:20			E 19
 Vito PIRELLI & Marco BATTISTA
		University of Pisa
	Syntagmatic and paradigmatic constraints on
	morphological output

17:20 - 18:00			E 20
 Andrew SPENCER & Louise SADLER
		University of Essex, Colchester
	Syntax as an exponent of morphological features

Evening: 	Conference banquet
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Sunday 12 September 1999

		Daytrip to Gozo (optional)
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Alternative Paper/s
 Curt RICE
		University of Tromso
	Optimizing Gender
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