Typology of Defectiveness: Conference

Typology of Defectiveness: Conference
Surrey Morphology Group, Department of English, University of Surrey

Typology of Defectiveness Project
Greville Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown
AHRC grant number AH/D001579/1

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The conference Defective paradigms: missing forms and what they tell us was held on April 10-11, 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. A volume of selected papers is currently being edited.

Programme

Greville Corbett
Introduction

Matthew Baerman
Defectiveness: typology and diachrony

Gregory Stump
Interactions between syncretism and defectiveness

Adam Albright
Cautious generalization of inflectional morphology, and its role in defectivity

Roger Evans
Defectiveness: challenges for bottom-up lexical description

John Löwenadler
Missing adjective forms in Swedish

Gilles Boyé and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Defectivity as stem suppletion in French and Spanish verbs

Marianne Mithun
The search for regularity in irregularity: Defectiveness and its implications for our knowledge of words

Ágnes Lukács, Péter Rebrus and Miklós Törkenczy
Paradigmatic space and defectiveness in Hungarian

Milan Rezac
Morphological versus syntactic gaps in Romance clitic clusters

Stephen Anderson
Failing one's obligations: Defectiveness in Rumantsch reflexes of DEBERE