Semiproductivity in Grammar

3-4 May, 2008, Cabot Intercultural Center, Tufts University


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Programme

Saturday May 3
9:15Coffee
9:30Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Welcome and Introduction
10:00Harald Baayen, University of Alberta
An Exemplar-based Approach to Semi-productivity
11:00Rochelle Lieber, University of New Hampshire
Semi-productivity and the Semantics of Derivation
12:00LUNCH
13:15Donca Steriade, MIT
Gradations of Productivity: Evidence from Romanian Phonology
14:15Kie Zuraw, UCLA
Mapping Patterns vs. Surface Patterns for Semi-productive Rules
15:15Coffee
15:30William Croft, University of New Mexico
Type Frequency and Category Structure in Productivity
16:30Adele Goldberg, Princeton University
Argument Structure Constructions: Generalizations and Constraints
Sunday May 4
9:00Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania
The Price of Productivity
10:00Laura Gonnerman, McGill University
A Connectionist Approach to Semiproductivity in Morphology
11:00Coffee
11:15Adam Albright, MIT
When Morphology Fails: What Paradigm Gaps Can Tell Us about Gradient Productivity
12:15Discussion
Peter Culicover was due to take part in the workshop, but had to pull out. This paper contains the material he would have presented.