Past presentations
Winter 2018
January 23rd: Maura O'Leary presents her original work on Han
January 30th: Morphology Journal Club - what happened in Salt Lake City (article selection from LSA and SSILA)
February 13th: Canaan Breiss presents a paper by Nicholas Rolle by the title "A hybrid OT-DM model: support from a morphological conspiracy in Degema"
February, 20th: Pam Munro presents her original work
February 27th: Compounds Fest!
Fall 2017
October 10th: Abstract Fest!
October 17th: Margit Bowler and John Gluckman
Original work: "Morphology of Ideophones"
October 31st: Ideophones fest!
November 14th: Iara Mantenuto
Original work: "Comparative other: a proposal"
December 12th: Iara Mantenuto and Brice Roberts
Original work: "The Morphophonology of Aspect in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec"
Spring 2017
April 11: Ksenia Bogomolets (UConn)
(Original work together with Paula Fenger and Adrian Stegovec)
“V-C Movement in Algonquian and Germanic: a View from Morphology”
April 18: Jacob Adams
(Original work)
"The Arabic Plural in Maximum Entropy"
April 25: Iara Mantenuto
Jonathan Bobaljik and Uli Sauerland (draft February 2017) “*ABA and The Combinatorics of Morphological Features”
May 2: Lindy Comstock
(Original work)
"Lexical access and suffix interference in Russian: Evidence for the inflectional/derivational distinction in morphologically complex languages"
May 9: *ABA Fest!
May 16: Travis Major
(Original work)
May 23: Canaan Breiss
(Original work)
"Reduplication in Dime"
May 30: Robert Daland
TBA
Winter 2017
Jan 24, Lindy Comstock
(a design for an experiment in Russian)
Feb 7, Nikos Angelopoulos & Travis Major
original work
Feb 14, Fest! Long Distance Morphology
Feb 21, Daniela Culinovic
Deadjectival predicates in Serbo-Croation
Feb 28, Iara Mantenuto
Nanosyntax of DPs
Fall 2016
October 4: Daniela Culinovic
Boban Arsenijević. 2016. "Gender as a grammaticalized classifier system: the case of the Serbo-Croatian neuter"
October 11: Travis Major
Heidi Harley & Hyun Kyoung Jung. 2015. "In Support of the PHAVE Analysis of the Double Object Construction" LI 46.4. 703-730
October 25: Contextual Allomorphy Fest!
November 1: Nikos Angelopoulos
Harley, Heidi. Feature-matching and case and number dissociation in Hiaki. Revista Linguística / Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Volume 9, número 1, Junho de 2013. ISSN 1808-835X 1. [http://www.letras.ufrj.br/poslinguistica/revistalinguistica]
November 8: John Gluckman
An overview of Paradigm Function Morphology. Greg Stump's theory of morphology.
November 15: Robert Daland
(original work)
November 22: Meg Gotowski
TBD
November 29: Travis Major
(original work)
Spring 2016
April 14: John Gluckman
Pavel Caha, Notes on Insertion in Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax
April 21: Niko Angelopoulos (original work)
Dimitris Michelioudakis & Nikos Angelopoulos, PP Licensing and Compounding: Evidence for Prepositions as Probes
April 28: Robert Daland (original work plus!)
Paradigm Gaps
May 6: Iara Mantenuto (original work)
(something on Teramano)
May 19: Daniela Culinovic
Boban Arsenijević, Gender as a grammatical classifier system: the case of the Serbo-Croatian neuter
May 26: Travis Major or Ryan Sandell: TBD
Fall 2015
Sept 30: Organizational stuff and John Gluckman (AIMM 3 practice talk)
Oct 7: Ryan Sandell
Booij, G., van der Veer, B. (2015) Allomorphy in OT: the Italian mobile diphthongs in Bonet, E., Lloret, M.-R., Mascaró, J. eds Understanding Allomorphy: Perspectives from Optimality Theory. London: Equinox 46-69
Oct 21: John Gluckman
Malouf R., Ackerman, F., and Seyfarth, S. (2015) Explaining the Number Hierarchy, In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting, pages 1500–1506.
Nov 4: Daniela Culinovic
Pesetsky, D. (2012, version 2) Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories manuscript
Nov 25: Iara Mantenudo and Deborah Wong
report on fieldwork
Dec 2: Nadège Rollet
TBA
Spring, 2015
April 15: John Gluckman
Nanosyntax
here's the handout we'll be discussing and the article that will frame the discussion.
Caha, P. (2013) Explaining the structure of case paradigms by the mechanisms of Nanosyntax: The Classical Armenian nominal declension NLLT 31
April 22: Iara Mantenuto and Deborah Wong
lit review of Kenyah, in prep for field work
May 6: Daniela Culinovic and Vrinda Chidambaram
case syncretism in Serbo-Croatian
May 13: Brian Smith
(practice talk)
Winter, 2015
January 21: Maayan Adar
Borer, Hagit (to appear). "The Syntactic Domain of Content" in M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B. D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins
January 28: Iara Mantenuto
An overview of Construction Morphology
Booij, Geert (2012) "Construction Morphology, a brief introduction" Morphology 22: 343-346
Booij, Geert (2010) "Construction Morphology" Language and Linguistics Compass 3(1): 1-13
February 4: Vrinda Chidambaram
February 11: Brian Smith
(possible late February: Iara Mantenuto and Deborah Wong)
March 4: Ryan Sandell
March 11: John Gluckman
Fall, 2014
Oct 22, Ryan Sandell
A New Approach to the Origin of Germanic Strong Preterites: Implications for Phonology-Morphology Interface and Learnability (preview of NELS talk)
(and here's the handout we discussed)
Oct 29, John Gluckman
Harley, Heidi, (2013). "On the Identity of Roots", http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001527
(and here's the handout we discussed)
Nov 12, Philippe Côté Boucher
Ladd, D. Robert, Bert Remijsen, Caguor Adong Manyang, (2009). On the Distinction between Regular and Irregular Inflectional Morphology: Evidence from Dinka, Language 85(3), pp 659-670
(and here's the handout we discussed)
Nov 19, Robert Daland
Kapatsinski, V. (2013). Conspiring to mean: Experimental and computational evidence for a usage-based harmonic approach to morphophonology. Language, 89(1), 110-148.
Dec 3, Ryan Sandell
Hay, J. (2007). The phonetics of 'un'. In Munat, J. (ed.), Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts. John Benjamins Publishing, pp. 39–57.
January 23rd: Maura O'Leary presents her original work on Han
January 30th: Morphology Journal Club - what happened in Salt Lake City (article selection from LSA and SSILA)
February 13th: Canaan Breiss presents a paper by Nicholas Rolle by the title "A hybrid OT-DM model: support from a morphological conspiracy in Degema"
February, 20th: Pam Munro presents her original work
February 27th: Compounds Fest!
Fall 2017
October 10th: Abstract Fest!
October 17th: Margit Bowler and John Gluckman
Original work: "Morphology of Ideophones"
October 31st: Ideophones fest!
November 14th: Iara Mantenuto
Original work: "Comparative other: a proposal"
December 12th: Iara Mantenuto and Brice Roberts
Original work: "The Morphophonology of Aspect in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec"
Spring 2017
April 11: Ksenia Bogomolets (UConn)
(Original work together with Paula Fenger and Adrian Stegovec)
“V-C Movement in Algonquian and Germanic: a View from Morphology”
April 18: Jacob Adams
(Original work)
"The Arabic Plural in Maximum Entropy"
April 25: Iara Mantenuto
Jonathan Bobaljik and Uli Sauerland (draft February 2017) “*ABA and The Combinatorics of Morphological Features”
May 2: Lindy Comstock
(Original work)
"Lexical access and suffix interference in Russian: Evidence for the inflectional/derivational distinction in morphologically complex languages"
May 9: *ABA Fest!
May 16: Travis Major
(Original work)
May 23: Canaan Breiss
(Original work)
"Reduplication in Dime"
May 30: Robert Daland
TBA
Winter 2017
Jan 24, Lindy Comstock
(a design for an experiment in Russian)
Feb 7, Nikos Angelopoulos & Travis Major
original work
Feb 14, Fest! Long Distance Morphology
Feb 21, Daniela Culinovic
Deadjectival predicates in Serbo-Croation
Feb 28, Iara Mantenuto
Nanosyntax of DPs
Fall 2016
October 4: Daniela Culinovic
Boban Arsenijević. 2016. "Gender as a grammaticalized classifier system: the case of the Serbo-Croatian neuter"
October 11: Travis Major
Heidi Harley & Hyun Kyoung Jung. 2015. "In Support of the PHAVE Analysis of the Double Object Construction" LI 46.4. 703-730
October 25: Contextual Allomorphy Fest!
November 1: Nikos Angelopoulos
Harley, Heidi. Feature-matching and case and number dissociation in Hiaki. Revista Linguística / Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Volume 9, número 1, Junho de 2013. ISSN 1808-835X 1. [http://www.letras.ufrj.br/poslinguistica/revistalinguistica]
November 8: John Gluckman
An overview of Paradigm Function Morphology. Greg Stump's theory of morphology.
November 15: Robert Daland
(original work)
November 22: Meg Gotowski
TBD
November 29: Travis Major
(original work)
Spring 2016
April 14: John Gluckman
Pavel Caha, Notes on Insertion in Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax
April 21: Niko Angelopoulos (original work)
Dimitris Michelioudakis & Nikos Angelopoulos, PP Licensing and Compounding: Evidence for Prepositions as Probes
April 28: Robert Daland (original work plus!)
Paradigm Gaps
May 6: Iara Mantenuto (original work)
(something on Teramano)
May 19: Daniela Culinovic
Boban Arsenijević, Gender as a grammatical classifier system: the case of the Serbo-Croatian neuter
May 26: Travis Major or Ryan Sandell: TBD
Fall 2015
Sept 30: Organizational stuff and John Gluckman (AIMM 3 practice talk)
Oct 7: Ryan Sandell
Booij, G., van der Veer, B. (2015) Allomorphy in OT: the Italian mobile diphthongs in Bonet, E., Lloret, M.-R., Mascaró, J. eds Understanding Allomorphy: Perspectives from Optimality Theory. London: Equinox 46-69
Oct 21: John Gluckman
Malouf R., Ackerman, F., and Seyfarth, S. (2015) Explaining the Number Hierarchy, In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting, pages 1500–1506.
Nov 4: Daniela Culinovic
Pesetsky, D. (2012, version 2) Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories manuscript
Nov 25: Iara Mantenudo and Deborah Wong
report on fieldwork
Dec 2: Nadège Rollet
TBA
Spring, 2015
April 15: John Gluckman
Nanosyntax
here's the handout we'll be discussing and the article that will frame the discussion.
Caha, P. (2013) Explaining the structure of case paradigms by the mechanisms of Nanosyntax: The Classical Armenian nominal declension NLLT 31
April 22: Iara Mantenuto and Deborah Wong
lit review of Kenyah, in prep for field work
May 6: Daniela Culinovic and Vrinda Chidambaram
case syncretism in Serbo-Croatian
May 13: Brian Smith
(practice talk)
Winter, 2015
January 21: Maayan Adar
Borer, Hagit (to appear). "The Syntactic Domain of Content" in M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman & B. D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: John Benjamins
January 28: Iara Mantenuto
An overview of Construction Morphology
Booij, Geert (2012) "Construction Morphology, a brief introduction" Morphology 22: 343-346
Booij, Geert (2010) "Construction Morphology" Language and Linguistics Compass 3(1): 1-13
February 4: Vrinda Chidambaram
February 11: Brian Smith
(possible late February: Iara Mantenuto and Deborah Wong)
March 4: Ryan Sandell
March 11: John Gluckman
Fall, 2014
Oct 22, Ryan Sandell
A New Approach to the Origin of Germanic Strong Preterites: Implications for Phonology-Morphology Interface and Learnability (preview of NELS talk)
(and here's the handout we discussed)
Oct 29, John Gluckman
Harley, Heidi, (2013). "On the Identity of Roots", http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001527
(and here's the handout we discussed)
Nov 12, Philippe Côté Boucher
Ladd, D. Robert, Bert Remijsen, Caguor Adong Manyang, (2009). On the Distinction between Regular and Irregular Inflectional Morphology: Evidence from Dinka, Language 85(3), pp 659-670
(and here's the handout we discussed)
Nov 19, Robert Daland
Kapatsinski, V. (2013). Conspiring to mean: Experimental and computational evidence for a usage-based harmonic approach to morphophonology. Language, 89(1), 110-148.
Dec 3, Ryan Sandell
Hay, J. (2007). The phonetics of 'un'. In Munat, J. (ed.), Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts. John Benjamins Publishing, pp. 39–57.