Programme

Sunday, October 4

Talks

9:00 Registration
9:30–10:00 Opening
10:00–11:00 Greville Corbett (Surrey Morphology Group) A Canonical Approach to Irregularity and Complexity
11:00–11:15 Coffee break
11:15–12:00 Francesco Rovai (Pisa/Italy) On some Latin morphological irregularities
12:00–12:45 M. Lucia Aliffi (Palermo/Italy) Irregularity in Latin: gender and inflexional class
12:45–14:15 Lunch break
14:15–15:15 Damaris Nübling (Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz) Principles of Irregularization – a diachronic approach
15:15–15:30 Coffee break
15:30–16:15 Phaedra Royle (Université de Montréal) Regularity and irregularity in French and Spanish acquisition
16:15–17:00 Anna M. Thornton (Università dell'Aquila) A non-canonical phenomenon in Italian verb morphology: double forms realizing the same cell
17:00–17:15 Coffee break
17:15–18:00 cancelled Fabio Montermini (University of Toulouse) Regularity and irregularity in verbal paradigms: A realizational analysis of Italian
18:00–18:45 Jelena Vujic (Belgrade University, Serbia) The problem of lexical inflections : on the relevance of the lexico-semantic component of the inflectional affixes in English in WF
18:45–19:00 Coffee break
19:00–19:45 Claudi Balaguer (Millas, France) Fighting irregularity: the reconstruction of verb morphology in Rossellonese Catalan
19:45–20:15 Karsten Koch (Zentrum für Allg. Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin) Morphological doubling and the syntax-semantics interface in Thompson Salish
 

 

Monday, October 5

Talks

10:00–11:00 Paolo Ramat (Università degli Studi, Pavia) Sturtevant's paradox
11:00–11:15 Coffee break
11:15–12:00 Anna Anastasiadh-Semeonidh (Thessaloniki) Elvira Masoura (Thessaloniki) Categorical marker and memory function in Modern Greek: a theoretical approach
12:00–12:45 cancelled Evangelia Thomadaki (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) Productive irregularities: a case in Modern Greek
12:45–14:15 Lunch break
14:15–15:15 Bernhard Hurch (Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Graz) Irregularity in phonology – an oxymoron?
15:15–15:30 Coffee break
15:30–16:15 Stephen Howe (Fukuoka University/Japan) Irregularity in pronouns
16:15–17:00 Leah S. Bauke (Wuppertal) (Ir)regularity in Nominal Root Compounds
17:00–17:15 Coffee break
17:15–18:00 Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado, Boulder) Amina Mettouchi (École Pratique des Haute Études, Paris) Inflectional morphemes with syntactic function only: what should constitute the norm of regularity?
18:00–18:45 Martina Penke (Ghent) Eva Wimmer (Bremen) Are irregular inflected forms located in temporo-parietal brain regions? – A critical review of Ullman’s Procedural/Declarative Model
18:45–19:00 Coffee break
19:00–19:45 Luc Baronian (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) Elena Kulinich (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) Defective Verbs in Whole Word Morphology

Social Event

20:30 Conference Dinner
 

 

Tuesday, October 6

Talks

10:00–11:00 Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara) Regularities behind Irregularities
11:00–11:15 Coffee break
11:15–12:00 Barend Beekhuizen (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) Folgert Karsdorp (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) Regularity in a rule-less system: the case of Dutch superlatives
12:00–12:45 Riita Välimaa-Blum (Université de Nice, France) Subject and Object Case in Finnish under Negation: Syntax or Pragmatics?
12:45–14:15 Lunch break
14:15–15:00 April J. Perez (University of the Philippines) Common Irregularities in Tagalog Verbal Affixes
15:00–15:45 Giancarlo Schirru (Università di Cassino / Italy) Morphomes alternation in Old Armenian nominal inflection
15:45–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–16:45 Volha Kharytonava (University of Western Ontario) Taming Affixes in Turkish : With or Without Residue?
16:45–17:30 Tatyana Slobodchikoff (University of Arizona) Hopi suppletion: a phase-theoretic account
17:30–17:45 Coffee break
17:45–18:30 Bhahavi Savaranan (Stony Brook University) Stem dependency and irregular verbs in Tamil
18:30–19:15 Thomas Menzel (Regensburg) (Ir-)regularity and morphological complexity in Polish noun inflections