Workshop on Word Domains: Theory and Typology

University of Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Villa Tillmans
Wächerstrasse 30

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

9:00-10:00 Invited speaker:
Larry M. Hyman
(UC Berkeley)
Prefixes, suffixes, stem, and word in Bantu
10:00-10:45 Antony D. Green
(University of Potsdam)
Lenition, coronal blocking, and compounding in Irish
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11.45 Renate Raffelsiefen
(Free University of Berlin)
Word-internal morphological structure: the evidence from prosody
11:45-12.30 Jochen Trommer
(University of Osnabrück)
"Case suffixes", postpositions and the phonological word in Hungarian
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Diana Passino
(University of Padua)
Observations on monoconsonantal prefixes
14:45-15.30 Sharon Inkelas
(UC Berkeley)
 and Cheryl Zoll (MIT)
Prosodic words, affixes and the typology of reduplication
15.30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45 Guanjun Feng
(USC)
Phonological restriction on morpheme in shaping reduplicated words
16:45-17:30 Bhavani Saravanan
(Stony Brook University)
Constraints on stem length
Dinner (venue and time to be announced)

   


Thursday, April 8, 2004

9:00-9:45 Siri Tuttle
(University of Alaska Fairbanks)
 Phonetics and the word definition in Ahtna Athabascan
9:45-10:30 H. Ekkehard Wolff (University of Leipzig) Word-level "prosodies" in Chadic languages in synchronic and
diachronic Perspective
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11.45 David Gil
(MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
On the notion of the word in isolating languages: the case of Riau
Indonesian
11:45-12.30 Annette Hohenberger
(MPI for Psychological Research, Munich)
The word in sign language
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Astrid Kraehenmann and Frans Plank
(University of Constance)
Words without vowels in Upper German: Clitics wanting to be affixes
14:45-15.30 Baris Kabak and Rene Schiering
(University of Constance)
The fate of clitics at the phonology-morphology interface
15.30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45 Paola Monachesi
(Utrecht University)
Romanian between Balkan and Romance: The case of tense auxiliaries
16:45-17:45 Invited speaker:
Daniel L. Everett
(University of Manchester)
Semantic and syntactic sources of word liminality