Winter 2016
This term our regular meeting time is Thursday 10:30 AM-12 PM, and we will meet in room DS-3470 in the Department of Linguistics at UQAM (320 St-Catherine East). The focus this term is on morpheme order.
Please email Máire Noonan to be added to the email list, or if you wish to present some work. All are welcome!
Please note, upcoming meetings below are subject to modification.
| Date | Presenter | Topic | Background readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Jan 14 | Richard Compton and Tom Leu | To LCA or not to LCA | Abels, K. and A. Neeleman. 2012. Linear Asymmetries and the LCA. Syntax 15.1:25-74. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2011.00163.x |
| Thursday, Jan 21 | Glyne Piggott | Prefixes vs. suffixes (Bantu) | Hyman, Larry M. 2008. Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu. Linguistics 46–2: 309–350. DOI 10.1515/LING.2008.012 |
| Thursday, Jan 28 | Glyne Piggott | Prefixes vs. suffixes (Bantu) cont. | Hyman, Larry M. 2008. Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu. Linguistics 46–2: 309–350. |
| Thursday, Feb 4 | NO MEETING | — | — |
| Thursday, Feb 11 | Máire Noonan and Lisa Travis | Morpheme Order: Generalized U20 vs. Local Dislocation vs. ‘tucking in’ | Koopman, H. 2015. A Note on Huave morpheme ordering: Local dislocation or (generalized) U20? Ms. UCLA, October 2015
Koopman, Hilda. 2015. Generalized U20 and Morpheme Order. Ms. UCLA, October 2015 |
| Thursday, Feb 18 | Heather Newell | Morpheme orders and phonological domains in Cupeño and Turkish. | Newell, H. 2008. Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Phases. PhD dissertation, McGill University. Chapter 2. http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/000807 |
| Thursday, Feb 25 | Lisa Travis | Comparing tools to account for morpheme order | —- |
| Thursday, March 3 | NO MEETING | — | —- |
| Thursday, March 10 | All | Morpheme orders & phonological domains in Cupeño and Turkish cont.
Organisational |
Newell, H. 2008. Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Phases. PhD dissertation, McGill University. Chapter 2. http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/000807 |
| Thursday, March 17 | All | Organisational: Bring specific research questions and language suggestions | — |
| Thursday, March 24 | Heather Newell | Phonology of possession | (Slides) |
| Thursday, April 7 | All | Head movement vs. head movement and XP movement vs. XP movement | — |
| Thursday, April 14 | All | Head movement vs. head movement and XP movement vs. XP movement continued | — |
| Wednesday, April 27, 2-4 p.m. | All | Agreement paradigm in Algonquian verbal paradigms compared to agreement in possessive constructions | Oxford, William R.. 2014. Microparameters of agreement: A diachronic persepctive on Algonquian verb inflection. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto. Chapter 2. |
| Wednesday, May 11, 2-4 p.m. (Location tba) | All | Algonquian agreement paradigms and morpheme order | Oxford, William R.. 2014. Microparameters of agreement: A diachronic persepctive on Algonquian verb inflection. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto. Chapters 3-4. |
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