The Third Mediterranean Meeting on Morphology (MMM3) was held September 20-23, 2001 in Barcelona. As in the past, the conference was organized by the MMM-committee, Geert Booij (Free University of Amsterdam), Angela Ralli (University of Patras), and Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna) in conjunction with the hosting institution. MMM3 was hosted by the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and the local coordinator for the meeting was Janet DeCesaris. |
Topics for the conference
The organizing committee selected the following as the topics for this conference:
The following speakers presented invited papers:
Program
(By clicking on the title of an article, you'll be directed to its abstract, if available)
Thursday, Sep. 20 |
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15 h |
registration begins |
16 - 16.15 h |
welcoming remarks: M. Teresa Cabré and Janet DeCesaris (IULA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
16.15 - 17.10 h |
invited speaker: Soledad Varela (Autonomous University of Madrid), Lexical morphology revisited: structure/meaning correspondences in the word |
17.10 - 17.50 h |
J. Trommer (University of Osnabrück), The Role of Syntax and Morphology in Affix Order |
17.50 - 18.30 h | G. Dal (University of Lille 3) and F. Namer (University of Nancy 2), Complex words vs. phrases: the case of causative verbs in French |
18.30 h | tribute to the late Danielle Corbin |
19.30 h | welcoming reception |
Friday, Sep. 21 (Posters are set up in Room 104 and the room is open all day) | |
9.15 - 10.10 h |
invited speaker: Geert Booij (Free University of Amsterdam), Periphrastic Word Formation |
10.10 - 10.50 h |
Marc Plénat & M. Roché (University of Toulouse le Mirail), Prosodic Constraints on Suffixation in French |
10.50 - 11.30 h | Anke Lüdeling and Tanja Schmid (IMS - University of Stuttgart), Does Origin Determine Combinatory Properties of Affixes and Stems in German? |
11.30 - 11.50 h |
coffee break |
11.50 - 12.30 h | J. D. Bobaljik (McGill University), What's in a paradigm? |
12.30 - 13.10 h | Stuart Davis (Indiana University), The Status of the Consonantal Root in Arabic |
13.10 - 13.50 h | Mark Aronoff (SUNY-Stony Brook) and N. Fuhrhop (ZAS-Berlin), Restricting suffix combinations in German and English |
13.50 - 15.15 h | lunch |
15.20 - 16 h | Rochelle Lieber (University of New Hampshire), Compound interpretation is not a matter of syntax |
16 - 16.40 h | S. Barbiers and M. van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute), Deriving speaker-oriented evaluative adverbs in Dutch: -erwijs, -weg, -genoeg |
16.40 - 17 h | coffee break |
17 - 18 h | round table: Research on
morphology in Spain Miren Azcarate (University of the Basque Country), Lluïsa Gràcia (University of Girona), Maria Rosa Lloret (University of Barcelona); moderator: Janet DeCesaris (IULA - UPF) |
18 - 18.40 h | Daniel Harbour (MIT), The Kiowa Case for Feature Insertion |
18.40 - 19.40 h | invited speaker: Anne-Marie DiSciullo (UQAM), Spatial Relations in Morphological Objects |
Saturday, Sep. 22 | |
10 - 10. 40 h | Andrew Spencer and Ana Luis (University of Essex), A Paradigm Function account of 'mesoclisis' in European Portuguese |
10.40 - 11.20 h | Laura Kornfeld (CONICET - University of Buenos Aires), Compounds N+N as formally lexicalized appositions in Spanish |
11.20 - 11.40 h | coffee break |
11.40 - 12.30 h | poster session |
12.30 - 13.10 h | Greville Corbett (University of Surrey), Agreement: Canonical instances and the contribution of inflectional morphology |
13.10 - 13.50 h |
Elena Felíu and Antonio Fábregas (Autonomous University of Madrid), Phrasal scope and argument constraints of Spanish inter- prefixation |
13.50 - 15.30 h | lunch |
15.30 - 15.50 h | business meeting |
15.50 - 16.30 h | S. Lappe (University of Siegen), English prosodic morphology: short names and y-diminutives |
16.30 - 17.10 h | J. Mateu (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Complex Denominal Verbs and Parametric Variation: A Lexical-Syntactic Approach |
17.10 - 17.30 h | coffee break |
17.30 - 18.10 h | Peter Ackema (University of Utrecht) and A. Neeleman (University College London), Context-sensitive spell-out and adjacency |
18.10 - 19.10 h | invited speaker: Stephen Anderson (Yale University), Conference Summary |
19.15 h | concluding remarks |
Accepted as posters and as alternate paper presentations A. Spencer: Does
English have productive compounding? Accepted as posters L. Kornfeld & A. Saab: Morphology
and syntax: the case of prepositional preffixes in Spanish |
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Sunday, Sep. 23 (Day trip) | |
Visit Miguel Torres, lunch at typical farmhouse restaurant, afternoon in Sitges |
Abstract review committee: G. Booij, J. DeCesaris, A. Ralli and S. Scalise
Local organizing committee: Teresa Cabré, Janet DeCesaris, Mercè Lorente, Elisenda Bernal, Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Lluïsa Gràcia, University of Girona.
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