Monday January 5
12:45 pm-1:10: Opening Remarks and General Introduction: A. Bachrach & A. Nevins
1:15-2:30: Session One: Seth Cable "Phonological Noun-Verb Dissimilarities in Optimal Paradigms" Discussant: J. Bobaljik.
Cable's Handout (pdf) / Bobaljik's Comments (pdf)
2:30-3:45: Session Two: Michael Kenstowicz: "Paradigmatic Contrast: An Example from Arabic" Discussant: A. Bachrach
3:45-4:15: Coffee Break
4:15-5:30 Session Three: Jim Harris: "Roving Plural Inflections in Spanish" Discussant: A. Nevins
5:30-6:00 General Discussion. Mediator: A. Marantz
Tuesday January 6
9:00am-10:15 Session Four: Arto Anttila: "Alternatives to Paradigm Constraints" Discussant: M. Wagner (powerpoint slides)
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00pm Session Five: Jochen Trommer: ""A Feature-Geometric Approach to Amharic Verb Classes" Discussant: M. Abrusan
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:30 Session Six: Adam Albright: ""Inflectional Paradigms have Bases Too: Arguments from Yiddish" Discussant: J. Trommer
2:30-3:45 Session Seven: Tamina Stephenson: Anti-homophony and Optimal Paradigms in the Spanish present subjunctive Discussant: J. Fitzpatrick
3:45-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15-5:30 Session Eight: Feng-Fan Hsieh: Feature-specific paradigmatic correspondence and anti-homophony in the Jingpo Inflectional Complex Discussant: A. Nevins
5:30-6:00 General Discussion. Mediator: D. Steriade
Wednesday January 7
9:00am-10:15 Session Nine: Iris Berent
:"Does a theory of language need a grammar? Evidence from the constraint on identical root consonants in Hebrew" Discussant: P. Anand
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00pm Session Ten: Peter Svenonius:"Derivation of root forms: What Saami morphology tells us about
paradigm generation" Discussant: D. Steriade
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:30 Session Eleven: John Bailyn and Andrew Nevins: "Russian Genitive Plurals are Impostors" Discussant: S. Cable
Bailyn & Nevins' handout (pdf) / Cable's Comments (doc)
2:30-3:45 Session Twelve: Andrea Calabrese: "Morphological Features, Markedness, and Exponents" Discussant: V. Manfredi
3:45-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15-5:30 Session Thirteen: Jonathan Bobaljik: "Paradigms, Optimal and Otherwise: A case for skepticism" Discussant: M. Kenstowicz
Bobaljik's handout (pdf)
5:30-6:00 General Discussion. Mediator: M. Halle
Note: If you can't make it, despair not! Many of the handouts and papers will be available on the nascent online Distributed Morphology Archive.