A typology of defectiveness
Conference on Defective Paradigms: Missing forms and what they tell us
The conference Defective paradigms: missing forms and what they tell us was held on 10-11 April 2008 at the British Academy, under the sponsorship of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. The conference programme is given below, with links to the presentation material.
Papers from the conference appear in an edited volume on defectiveness:
Baerman, Matthew, Greville G. Corbett & Dunstan Brown (eds). 2010. Defective paradigms: missing forms and what they tell us. (Proceedings of the British Academy 163). Oxford: British Academy & Oxford University Press.
Programme
10 April 2008
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Greville Corbett (University of Surrey) Introduction |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | Matthew Baerman (University of Surrey) Defectiveness: typology and diachrony |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Gregory Stump (University of Kentucky) Interactions between syncretism and defectiveness |
| 12.45 - 13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 - 14.30 | Adam Albright (MIT) Cautious generalization of inflectional morphology, and its role in defectivity |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Roger Evans (University of Brighton) Defectiveness: challenges for bottom-up lexical description |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Break |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | John Löwenadler (Göteborg University) Missing adjective forms in Swedish |
| 16.45 - 17.30 | Gilles Boyé (Göteborg University) and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (Université Paris 8 and Surrey Morphology Group) Defectivity as stem suppletion in French and Spanish verbs |
11 April 2008
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara) The search for regularity in irregularity: Defectiveness and its implications for our knowledge of words |
| 10.00 - 10.45 | Ágnes Lukács (Budapest University of Technology), Péter Rebrus and Miklós Törkenczy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Paradigmatic space and defectiveness in Hungarian |
| 10.45 - 11.15 | Break |
| 11.15 - 12.00 | Milan Rezac (University of Nantes) Morphological versus syntactic gaps in Romance clitic clusters |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Stephen Anderson (Yale University) Failing one's obligations: Defectiveness in Rumantsch reflexes of DEBERE |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | Ilze Lokmane and Andra Kalnača (University of Latvia) Defective paradigms of reflexive nouns and participles in Latvian |
| 14.45 - 15.30 | Martin Maiden and Paul O'Neill (University of Oxford) On defective morphomes |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Break |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Andrea Sims and Robert Daland (Northwestern University) Modeling inflectional defectiveness as usage-based probability: Lessons from Modern Greek |
| 16.45 - 17.00 | Closing remarks |
Project members
Prof Greville G. Corbett
Dr Dunstan Brown
Dr Matthew Baerman
Period of award:
September 2006 - February 2009
Funder
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
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