Workshop: Growth and decline of morphological complexity
The Surrey Morphology Group held a one-day workshop on the diachrony of morphological complexity, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig (Germany) on Saturday, April 28, 2012. The workshop immediately followed the Anna Siewierska Memorial workshop on April 27, in the same location.
Programme
| 9.30-10:00 | Introduction |
| 10:00-11.00 | Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and U.C. Santa Barbara) ‘On the origins of morphological complexity’ |
| 11.00-11:30 | Break |
| 11.30-12:15 | Andrej Kibrik (Russian Academy of Sciences) ‘Qualitative morphological complexity: The case of Athabaskan’ |
| 12.15-1.30 | Lunch |
| 1.30-2.30 | Martin Maiden (Oxford) ‘Romanian feminine nouns and other diachronic delinquents. Reflections on why morphomes persist in diachrony’ |
| 2:30-2:50 | Break |
| 2.50-3.35 | Enrique Palancar (Surrey) ‘The history and evolution of the conjugation classes of Otomi: From the colonial to the modern times’ |
| 3.35-4.20 | David Gil (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) & Tim McKinnon (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jakarta) ‘New Morphology in Malayic Languages’ |
| 4.20-4.30 | Conclusion |
