Workshop: Morphological Complexity and Linguistic Theory

The workshop 'Morphological Complexity and Linguistic Theory' was held on January 22nd, 2010, at Harvard University, and was co-hosted by the Linguistics Department. Organizers were Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett and Dunstan Brown (Surrey), and Maria Polinsky (Harvard). 

Programme

Welcome
Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)

Introduction to the Surrey Morphology Group project
Greville Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown & Scott Collier (Surrey)

Principal parts and morphological analysis
Gregory Stump & Raphael Finkel (Kentucky)

Compression and morphological complexity:an evaluation
Dunstan Brown (Surrey)

Paradigm entropy as a measure of morphological simplicity
Rob Malouf & Farrell Ackerman (San Diego State & U.C. San Diego)

Relational-realizational modeling for complex morphology in parsing
Reut Tsarfaty (Amsterdam)

Discontinuous exponence in inflectional morphology
Amy Campbell (U.C. Berkeley)

New discoveries from an old friend: extreme, autonomous morphological complexity in Kayardild
Erich Round (Yale)

Morphological complexity in historical change
Claire Bowern (Yale)