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The meals are not included in the registration fee. Lunch tickets can be purchased at the registration desk (2500.- HUF/day) - for 26, 27, 28 May.

12^th International Morphology Meeting

Budapest, May 25-28, 2006

Program

25 May, Thursday

14⁰⁰-14²⁰ Opening

14²⁰-15⁰⁰ Juliette Blevins: Paradigmatic contrast and category maintenance: morphological factors inhibiting sound change

15⁰⁰-15³⁰ Judith Meinschaefer: The interface of morphology and phonology in the light of accentual patterns in Spanish and Italian verb forms

15³⁰-16⁰⁰ Elena Soare: Morphosyntactic mismatches revisited: the case of Romanian supine

16⁰⁰-16³⁰ Pavol Štekauer, Julius Zimmermann & Renáta Gregová: N+N constructions revisited: expectations vs. perception vs. measurements

16³⁰-16⁵⁰ Coffee break

16⁵⁰-17²⁰ Greville Corbett & Matthew Baerman: Prolegomena to a typology of morphological features

17²⁰-17⁵⁰ Anna M. Thornton: Is there a partition in the present indicative of Italian regular verbs?

17⁵⁰-18²⁰ Irene Vogel: The morphology-phonology interface: isolating to polysynthetic languages

18²⁰-18⁵⁰ Markéta Ziková & Pavel Caha: Czech declension without paradigms

15⁰⁰-19⁰⁰ Workshop Word and paradigms. Perspectives on Uralic morphology

Organizer: Farrell Ackerman

Program: 15⁰⁰–15³⁰ Introduction and Overview

15³⁰–16⁰⁰ Farrell Ackerman (UCSD) & Rob Malouf (SDSU): Paradigm organization in the nominal declension system of Tundra Nenets

16⁰⁰–16³⁰ Jim Blevins (Cambridge): Implicational structure of Estonian inflectional paradigms

 16³⁰–17⁰⁰ Erika Körtvély (Szeged): Epistemicity and evidentiality in the modal affixes of Tundra Nenets

 17⁰⁰–17³⁰ Florian Siegl (Tartu): Defective paradigms in Forest Enets, or what counts as suppletion?

 17³⁰–18⁰⁰ Beáta Wagner-Nagy (Szeged): Funktioniert der Stufenwechsel im Nganasanischen nicht? (Doesn't gradation work in Nganasan?)

26 May, Friday

9⁰⁰- 9⁵⁰ Gregory Stump: Principal parts and morphological typology

10⁰⁰-10³⁰ Gary Libben, Mira Goral, Loraine Obler, Gonia Jarema:  The role of headedness in the processing of English and Hebrew compounds: evidence from morphological priming in bilinguals

10³⁰-11⁰⁰ Marina V. Rusakova: Morphophonological errors of adult speakers of Russian in comparison with those of children and second language learners

11⁰⁰-11³⁰ Elma Blom & Jan Don: Rules of impoverishment: the perspective of a language learner

11³⁰-12⁰⁰ Tvrtko Prčić: Suffixes vs final combining forms as heads in English word formation

12⁰⁰-12³⁰ Dimitra Melissaropoulou & Angela Ralli: Headedness in diminutive formation: evidence from modern Greek and its dialectal variation

12³⁰-13⁰⁰ Maria Rosenberg: Heads and plural markers in French compounds

13⁰⁰-14⁰⁰ Lunch

14⁰⁰-16⁰⁰ Poster session:

§ Giorgio Arcodia & Nicola Grandi: Coordinative and hierarchic compounds between morphology and syntax. Towards a new classification of compounding

§ Jenny Audring: Agreement morphology and the acquirability of gender

§ Réka Benczés: Seeing through “nontransparent” compounds: analysing metaphorical and metonymical composite structures in English

§ Tilman Berger & Josef Šimandl: Pluralia tantum as the acid test for shaping the noun paradigm system in Czech

§ Mario Brdar: Blending between compounding and truncation

§ Camiel Hamans: The popularity of Offglish

§ Gorazd Kert: Inflection and Derivation in Models of Morphological Processing

§ Youngjun Jang: Morphological universals: with reference to measure expressions

§ Annekatrin Kaivapalu: Contribution of L1 to the acquisition of morphology of a closely related target language

§ Chiara Melloni: On heads and selection in suffixal derivation: complex event vs. result forming suffixes

§ Szabolcs Kiss, István Csertő, Anita Deák: Inflectional morphology of Hungarian interpersonal verbs and causal attribution

§ András Komlósy: On the grammar of adverbial case endings in Hungarian

§ Zsuzsanna Schnell: Metaphor processing and the acquisition of idioms

§ Natalia Kuznetsova: The synchronic morphonological terminology problems in fennistics

§ Henrietta Yang: The syntax of de-less modification in Mandarin and its ordering restrictions

16⁰⁰-16³⁰ Anna Maria DiSciullo: Head_F and scope

16³⁰-17⁰⁰ Antonietta Bisetto & Sergio Scalise: Selectional properties are head properties

17⁰⁰-17³⁰ Radmila Đurić: Headedness phenomena in Serbian diminutive nominal suffixations

17³⁰-18⁰⁰ Sanja Krimer-Gaborovic: Dealing with the productivity and headedness of morphologically complex lexemes comprising basic colour terms

18⁰⁰-18³⁰ Gordana Lalić-Krstin, Sabina Halupka-Rešetar: Headedness phenomena in new blends in Serbian

Workshop: The polysemy of agent nouns

10⁰⁰-13⁰⁰ Organizers: Franz Rainer & Hans Christian Luschützky:

16⁰⁰-19⁰⁰

Participants:   Árpád Berta (Szeged; Turkic languages)

Raymond Boyd (CNRS Villejuif; Niger-Congo)

Johan De Caluwe (Ghent; Dutch)

Matthias Huening (Berlin; Germanic languages)

H. Ch. Luschützky (Vienna; organizer; contribution on Slavic)

Peter Otto Müller (Erlangen; Middle High German)

Franz Rainer (Vienna; organizer; contribution on Romance)

Ulla Remmer (Zurich; Celtic)

Carmen Scherer (Mainz; German)

Theda Schumann (Hamburg; Chadic and Niger-Congo)

Rosenberg, Maria (Stockholm; French and Swedish)

19⁰⁰- Banquet (Hotel Normafa, 1121 Budapest, Eötvös út/street, 52-54)

27 May, Saturday

9⁰⁰- 9⁵⁰ Pléh Csaba: Developmental impairments of morphology: observations on Hungarian children with Williams syndrome, Down syndrome and SLI

10⁰⁰-10³⁰ Yvonne Treis: Morphophonology of the Kambaata verbal paradigms

10³⁰-11⁰⁰ Claudia Pons Moll: «The true mistery of the world is the visible, not the invisible»: some reflections on the verbal morphophonology of Balearic Catalan

11⁰⁰-11³⁰ Fabio Montermini: Inflectional and derivational stem allomorphy in the nominal paradigms of Roman languages

11³⁰-12⁰⁰ Ben Braitwhaite: Spell-out by phase and nuuchahnulth morpho-phonology

12⁰⁰-12³⁰ Jurgen Klausenburger: The final consonant paradigm in theories of French morphophonology: Has Chatton’s Anti-Razor been preferred over Ockham’s Razor?

12³⁰-13⁰⁰ Péter Rebrus & Miklós Törkenczy: Phonologically motivated gaps in the Hungarian verbal paradigm

13⁰⁰-14⁰⁰ Lunch

14⁰⁰-15³⁰ Poster session

§ Robert Mailhammer: Loss of morphological categories due to language contact: The aorist in Proto-Germanic

§ Martha Mendoza: Derivational resources in p’urhepecha: morphological complexity and verb formation

§ Akiko Nagano: Marchand’s analysis of back-formation revisited

§ Mine Nakipoglu and Nihan Ketrez: Children’s overregularizations and irregularizations of the Turkish aorist

§ Florence Villoing & Fiammetta Namer: Assigning category to non-autonomous bases in neoclassical compounding

§ Paulo Chagas de Souza: Athematic participles in Brazilian Portuguese: A syncretism in the making

§ Masahiko Nose: Functional study on adverbial case and adpositions in Finno-Ugric and Indo-European

§ Biljana Radić-Bojanić: Communicative dynamism in complex lexemes in Serbian

§ Sergey Say: Source- and product-oriented schemas in the semantics of the Russian sja-verbs

§ Andreas Bittner: Morphological Acquisition, Markedness and Frequency: On the Symbolisation of Verb-Grammatical Categories in Elementary-School Age

§ Carmen Scherer: Historical dimensions of productivity

§ Eva Smolka: When semantics means less than morphology: the processing of German prefixed verbs

§ Minna Suni: Awareness of second language inflectional morphology

§ Marjana Vaneva: Conversion in English and Macedonian

§ Tsui-ping Wu & Liu Sho-ying: Hit verbs in Taiwan Southern Min and in Mandarin: a lexical semantic exploration

15³⁰-16⁰⁰ Andrea D. Sims: On the importance of “missing” forms: periphrasis and paradigmatic gaps in modern Greek as problems for morphological blocking

16⁰⁰-16³⁰ Matthew Baerman & Greville Corbett: Morphological inferences in deponent paradigms

16³⁰-17⁰⁰ Lynn Drapeau: A word-and-paradigm approach to verb stem derivation in Cree-Montagnais

17⁰⁰-17³⁰ James Kirby: Morphology as pattern-matching

17³⁰-18⁰⁰ Bhavani Saravanan: Morphological mismatches in Tamil verbal paradigms

18⁰⁰-18³⁰ Luiz Carlos Schwindt: Paradigmatic correspondences in the Brazilian Portuguese verbal vowel system

 18³⁰-19⁰⁰ Seiki Ayano: Two Subclasses of adjectives and verbs in Japanese

Workshop: Acquisition and impairments of inflectional morphology

Organizers: Wolfgang U. Dressler & Dagmar Bittner:

10.00 Wolfgang U. Dressler (Vienna), Marianne Kilani-Schoch (Lausanne), Ingrida Balciuniene (Kaunas), Katharina Korecky-Kröll & Sabine Laaha (Vienna): The learnability of morphology is due to positive and negative evidence. Adult reactions to children’s development of French, Lithuanian and German inflection.

10.30 Natalia Gagarina (Berlin): Adults’ reformulations of errors in child Russian.

11.00 Bálint Gábor & Ágnes Lukács (Budapest): Young children´s morphological productivity with new words and inflections.

11.30 Wolfgang U. Dressler (Vienna), Steven Gillis (Antwerp), Johannes Bertl, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabine Laaha (Vienna), Hans Basbøll & Katja Rehfeldt Kofod (Odense): Core morphology and its acquisition: Plural formation in Dutch, German and Danish.

12.00 Bracha Nir-Sagiv & Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv): Noun plurals in Hebrew child-directed speech: Frequency of stem and suffix categories.

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Dagmar Bittner (Berlin): Acquisition of verb inflection and finiteness in German under SLI.

14.30 Evelien M. Krikhaar & Charlotte Koster (Groningen): Verbal morphology in Dutch toddlers at risk for dyslexia.

15.00 Jan de Jong, Antje Orgassa, Fred Weerman & Anne Baker (Amsterdam): The acquisition of morphosyntax in bilingual Turkish-Dutch children with Specific Language Impairment: searching for markers of SLI and bilingualism.

15.30 Break

16.00 Ágnes Lukács, Bence Kas, Csaba Pléh (Budapest) & Laurence B. Leonard (West Lafayette): Agreement in Hungarian children with SLI: a comparison of spontaneous speech, sentence completion, offline grammaticality judgements and online picture-sentence verification tasks.

16.30 Christina Kauschke (Potsdam): Acquisition of German noun plurals in unimpaired children and children with SLI.

17.00 Jussi Niemi (Joensuu): Competing inflectional paradigms and specific/familial language impairment.

17.30 Leonor Scliar-Cabral (UFSC/CNPq) & Brian MacWhinney (CMU): Cues in early verbal morphology acquisition

Poster Session 18.00 – 19.00

· Grzegorz Krajewski¹, Elena Lieven², Anna Theakston¹, Michael Tomasello² (¹Manchester, ²Leipzig): Productivity of a Polish child´s inflectional morphology

· Milena Kühnast (Berlin) & Velka Popova (Shumen): Secondary imperfectivisation in Bulgarian – Typological implications for First Language Acquisition

· Johannes Bertl, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabine Laaha (Vienna): The plurality of plurals: a comparison of plural elicitation techniques in first language acquisition

· Teodor Petrič (Maribor): Case study on the acquisition of Slovenian verb inflection

· Elam Blom & Daniela Polisenska (Amsterdam): The acquisition of inflectional morphology: Child L1 and child L2 Dutch

· Sinikka Niemi & Jussi Niemi (Joensuu): Acquisitional paths of inflectional morphology in two typologically different languages

· Ranya Ahmed AbdelAziz Morsi, Vesna Stojanovik & Susan Edwards (Reading): A Pilot Study on Egyptian Arabic Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment

· Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St. Petersburg), Kira Gor (Maryland) & Tatiana Svistunova (St. Petersburg): Preschool children: Acquisition of Russian verbal morphology (experimental study)

28 May, Sunday

9⁰⁰- 9⁵⁰ Andrew Spencer: Heads’ in generalized paradigm function morphology

10⁰⁰-10³⁰ Bernard Fradin: Three puzzles about denominal adjectives in -eux

10³⁰-11⁰⁰ Olivier Bonami & Gilles Boyé: Subregular defaults in French conjugation

11⁰⁰-11³⁰ Casper de Groot: Morphological complexity versus inflectional morphology in Hungarian by language contact

11³⁰-12⁰⁰ István Kenesei: From word to affix: slide or step-ladder?

12⁰⁰-12³⁰ Alain Kihm: Romanian declension and the toggle exponent hypothesis

12³⁰-13⁰⁰ Babbe van Ginkel & Janet Grijzenhout: The lack of a default Dutch plural

13⁰⁰ - Lunch

9⁰⁰- 9⁵⁰ Andrew Spencer: Heads’ in generalized paradigm function morphology

10⁰⁰-10³⁰ Bernard Fradin: Three puzzles about denominal adjectives in -eux

10³⁰-11⁰⁰ Olivier Bonami & Gilles Boyé: Subregular defaults in French conjugation

11⁰⁰-11³⁰ Casper de Groot: Morphological complexity versus inflectional morphology in Hungarian by language contact

11³⁰-12⁰⁰ István Kenesei: From word to affix: slide or step-ladder?

12⁰⁰-12³⁰ Alain Kihm: Romanian declension and the toggle exponent hypothesis

12³⁰-13⁰⁰ Babbe van Ginkel & Janet Grijzenhout: The lack of a default Dutch plural

13⁰⁰ – Lunch

12 ^th International Morphology Meeting

Research Institute for Linguistics

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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12^th International Morphology Meeting

Budapest, May 25-28, 2006

MAIN TOPICS:

(a) The acquisition of morphology,

(b) The morphophonology of paradigms,

(c) Headedness in morphology.

Invited speakers:

Juliette Blevins (The morphophonolgy of paradigms),

Csaba Pléh (Language ascquisition and morphology),

Andrew Spencer (Heads in morphology),

Greg Stump (Paradigms)

Workshops

1. Word and paradigms. Perspectives on Uralic morphology (contact: Farrell Ackerman, fackerman@ucsd.edu)
2. The polysemy of agent nouns (contact: Franz Rainer, franz.rainer@wu-wien.ac.at, and Christian Luschützky, hans.christian.luschuetzky@univie.at.ac
3. Acquisition and impairments of inflectional morphology (contact: Wolfgang U.Dressler, wolfgang.dressler@univie.ac.at )

The conference is organized jointly by the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna

Contact person: Rozalia Demeter, E-mail: morphbp@nytud.hu.

Site of the conference: the conference will be held at the Hotel Agro, address: H-1121 Budapest, Normafa út 54., telephone: +36 1-458-3900, +361-458-3985, +3630-410-9629, e-mail: agroert@wla.hu

Accommodation will be arranged on the conference site (single room: 40€, double room 60€). Please fill in and return the attached hotel reservation form.

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To be paid in cash on the spot will be150 €, for students 80 €.

Abstracts

2-page abstracts for a poster session or a 20 minutes presentation (plus 10 minutes discussion) should be sent to the above address as e-mail attachment in a camera-ready format with the author’s name, affiliation and title (one line each).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 15, 2005

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