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About MOWL
Program
Conference fee
Registration
Abstract submission
Languages that will be discussed in the talks
Date and Venue: June 11-13 2009, University of Leipzig
The last years have seen substantial advances in the typological study and the formal modelling of natural language morphology. However, progress in the theoretical analysis of morphological systems highlights a basic empirical problem: We know too little about the morphology of too few languages and language families.
This conference in the tradition of Syntax of the World's Languages seeks to bring together researchers working on the documentation or analysis of morphological data from less widely studied languages to broaden the empirical scope of morphological theory. Contributions are expected to be based either on new data, new generalizations, or new approaches to analysis. All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, as is work done in analytical frameworks developed in typology or field linguistics.
Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to:
- The Structure of Syncretism
- Productivity in Derivation and Compounding
- Nonconcatenative and Prosodic Morphology
- Systematic and Idiosyncratic Aspects of Allomorphy
- Affix Order
- Boundaries of Morphology to Phonology and Syntax
Papers that adopt a diachronic/historical-comparative perspective or that discuss language-contact effects are also welcome, as are papers which study the morphology of understudied languages from the psycholinguistic or neurolinguistic side.
The conference will be sponsored by the Research Group on Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments and the Network Core Mechanisms of Exponence. The fifth meeting of the network which takes place immediately after the conference (June 14) is also open to the public.
Program
Wednesday, June 10
Thursday, June 11
09:00 - 09:15 | Introduction (*HS 8) Balthasar Bickel, Gereon Müller, Jochen Trommer |
09:15 - 10:15 | Larry Hyman (University of Berkeley): Tonal morphology - Is it different? Handout (HS 8) |
10:15 - 11:15 | Andrew Nevins (Harvard University): Two Types of Morphological Displacement Slides (HS 8) |
11:15 - 12:00 | *Coffee break* |
| Session 1: Nonconcatenative Morphology (HS 8) | Session 2: Clitics and Clitic-like Elements (S 426) | Session 3: Allomorphy (S 414) |
12:00 - 12:45 | Mark Van de Velde (Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology, Antwerpen): Tonal affixes, clitics and pseudowords in Eton: the preservation of morphological structure after segmental attrition Slides | Karsten Koch (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin): Speech errors in nominalized clauses: A clitic to affix shift in Thompson River Salish morphology Handout | Eugen Hill (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): The Plural formation of nouns in Yukaghir in search of a historical explanation for a synchronic irregularity Handout |
12:45 - 14:15 | *Lunch break* |
14:15 - 15:00 | Bert Remijsen, Cynthia L. Miller, Leoma G. Gilley, Otto Gwado Ayoker (University of Edinburgh): Stem-internal morphology in Shilluk transitive verbs Slides | Enrique L. Palancar (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico): The TAM morphology in Tilapa Otomi verb conjugations | Diana Forker (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy, Leipzig): Variation in stem formation in Tsezic languages Article in Suvremena lingvistika |
15:00 - 15:45 | Sabrina Bendjaballah (Centre national de la recherche scientifique / Université Paris 7) & Philippe Ségéral (Université Paris 7) : Mehri verbal system: an inventive Semitic morphology | Elena Rudnitskaya (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow): Postposition constructions in Korean: morphology and syntax Handout | Sofia Oskolskaya (State Saint-Petersburg University): The markers of the verbal plurality in Kalmyk Handout |
15:45 - 16:15 | *Coffee break* |
16:15 - 17:00 | Bill Palmer (University of Newcastle): Non-morphological reduplication in Torau Slides | | Milan Řezáč (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris): The scope and limits of realizational morphology: Evidence from uninterpretable phi |
17:00 - 18:00 | Greville Corbett (University of Surrey): Morphosyntactic gambits Handout (HS 8) |
Friday, June 12
Saturday, June 13
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HS = rooms in the Hörsaalgebäude
S = rooms in the Seminargebäude
Conference fee
The conference fee is
- 15,00€ for undergraduates and PhD students,
- 25,00€ for others.
Registration
Where?
at the registration desk in front of HS 8 in the Hörsaalgebäude in which the plenary talks are given (follow the link Location - Conference sites)
When?
- during all coffee and lunch breaks
- on Thursday, June 11, 8.30 - 9.00
Abstract Submission
We invite abstracts for 40 minutes presentations (including discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous, at most one page long (with an optional second page for data and references), and should be sent as a pdf attachment to:
doreengeorgi[æt]gmx.de
Deadline for Abstracts:
February 8 2008
Notification of Acceptance: February 28 2008
Invited Speakers:
- Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)
- Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)
- Alice Harris (Stony Brook University)
- Larry Hyman (University of Berkeley)
- Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
- Andrew Nevins (Harvard University)
- Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
Organization:
- Balthasar Bickel
- Doreen Georgi
- Gereon Müller
- Jochen Trommer
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