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Welcome to MAYFEST! Schedule Registration Directions Organizers
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Every year, the Linguistics Department organizes MAYFEST, a colloquium where speakers are invited to report on a variety of issues related to one theme.
This year's Mayfest will focus on morphology. Regularities of word form have been studied from a variety of perspectives. Syntacticians have proposed that word form reflects phrasal structure and, in feature-checking theories, that morphological features drive syntactic movement. Phonologists have long been concerned with the apparent mutual influence of the morphological and phonological components. Investigations of how word structure is manipulated also shed light on language acquisition and linguistic processing.
Mayfest 1999 will bring together linguists with a range of interests in morphological issues to stimulate dialog across the various sub-disciplines.
All talks will be held in the Maryland Room in Marie Mount Hall.
Wednesday, May 19
| 9:00 | registration coffee, breakfast |
| 9:45 | Opening remarks |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Mark Baker (Rutgers University) "New Reflections of Syntax in Morphology: Varieties of Applicatives" |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Stephen Anderson (Yale University) "On the Need to Bring a Little Order to Morphology-Phonology Interactions" |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | lunch break |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Ellen Woolford (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "Ergative Agreement Systems" |
| 2:30 - 3:30 | Michael Ullman (Georgetown University) "Psychological and Neural Bases of Morphology" |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | coffee break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins) "Surface-to-Surface Morphology: When Your Representations Turn into Constraints" |
Thursday, May 20
| 9:30 | Coffee, breakfast |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Mark Aronoff (SUNY Stonybrook) "Universal and Particular Aspects of Sign Language Morphology" |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Rolf Noyer (University of Pennsylvania) "Species of Gaps" |
| Noon - 3:00 | Poster Session Marie Mount Hall, Rm. 1108B |
Friday, May 21
| 9:30 | coffee, breakfast |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Alec Marantz (MIT) "Derivational Morphology in an Anti-Lexicalist Grammar" |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins
University) "On the Status and Positioning of Clausal Clitics: Evidence from Romanian and Other Balkan Languages" |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | lunch break |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Jonathan Bobaljik (McGill University) "The Ins and Outs of Contextual Allomorphy" |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Alana Johns (University of Toronto) "Movement and Languages with Complex Morphology" |
Registration fees are $10, to be paid at the conference site.
Pre-registration is highly encouraged. Please email to Caro Struijke (cstruyke@wam.umd.edu), stating
your name and affiliation.
- Direction to Campus, Parking, Lodging, etc...
- Direction to Marie Mount Hall
Caro Struijke (cstruyke@wam.umd.edu)
Laura Benua (lbenua@deans.umd.edu)
voicemail: 301-405-4930
snailmail: Mayfest '99
Department of Linguistics
1401 Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742