*Note, this program is preliminary and subject to change.

Friday, November 18

 

2:00 – 3:00p       Registration and Coffee!

Session 1                                             Chair:    Beth MacLeod

3:00p	Maria Luisa Rivero & Ana Arregui (uOttawa)	“Aspectual morphology and epistemic futures: a cross-linguistic perspective”
3:30p	Michele Burkholder (uOttawa)	“A Distributed Morphology approach to mixed-language DPs: The role of gender”
4:00p	Heather Swanson (Carleton)	"Problems in replicating studies that rely on lexical frequencies."

4:30 – 5:00p        Break

Session 2                                             Chair:    Ida Toivonen

5:00p	Michael Barrie (Sogang University)	“Two issues in the morphology of Iroquoian verbal prefixes”
5:30p	Thomas Leu (UQAM)	“Dividing the definite article up between verbal inflection and  personal pronoun”

6:00 – 7:00p         Reception!  With Pizza!

Saturday, November 19

9:00 – 10:00a      Registration

9:30 – 10:00a      Coffee!

Session 3                                             Chair:    Michael Barrie

10:00a	Ilia Nicoll (Toronto)	“The Provacative Feature Deletion Model:  Morphological consequences of a syntactic model of agreement alternations”
10:30a	Ross Godfrey (Toronto)	“Process morphology and nonconcatenative allomorphy”
11:00a	Elizabeth Cowper & Lex Konnelly (Toronto)	“The feature geometry of non-binary gender: Implications of singular definite specific they.”

11:30 – 1:00p      Lunch (Provided)

Session 4                                             Chair:    Heather Newell

1:00p	Bronwyn Bjorkman (Queen’s)	“The inherent puzzle of modal subjects”
1:30p	Andrew Peters (York)	"An agnostic syntax: Bilingual speech and Distributed Morphology"
2:00p	Gavin Bembridge (York)	“On variation in Spanish: the imperfect subjunctive/conditional alternation”

2:30p – 3:00        Coffee!

Session 5                                             Chair:    Kumiko Murasugi

3:00p	Laura Grestenberger (Concordia)	“A voice allomorphy puzzle in Classical Greek passive”
3:30p	Chris Mauro (UQAM)	“Personnes et non-personne en Inuktitut”

4:00 – 4:30           Break

4:30 – 6:00p    Invited Speaker:  Alana Johns, University of Toronto

6:00 – 8:00p        Conference dinner and party!

Sunday, November 20

9:30 – 10:00a      Coffee!

Session 6                                             Chair:    Dan Siddiqi

10:00a	Heather Newell (UQAM) & Markus Pöchtrager (Boğaziçi University)	"The case of the missing possessive morpheme"
10:30a	Ievgeniia Kybalchych (UQAM)	“The trimorphemic structure of Japanese deictic expressions within a two-dimensional reference system”

11:30 – 1:00p      Lunch (Provided)

Session 7                                             Chair:    Lev Blumenfeld

1:00p	Jurij Bozic (McGill)	“Two Loci of Morphological Neutralization”
1:30p	Maire Noonan (McGill)	“The irksome nature of left members of German compounds”
2:00p	Lydia Felice & Lisa Travis (McGill)	“The realization of gender morphemes in Kabyle and the Syntax/PF interface”