British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Deponency and Morphological Mismatches

12.00	Lunch
1.00	Welcome and Introduction
1.40	Deponency, defectiveness and diachrony Nigel Vincent, University of Manchester
2.30	Tea and coffee
3.00	Deponency in the diachrony of Greek Nikos Lavidas and Dimitra Papangeli, University of Athens
3.40	Deponency in Latin Zheng Xu, Mark Aronoff, and Frank Anshen, State University of New York, Stony Brook
4.20	Tea and coffee
4.50	Pseudo-actant affixes as deponency: fake 'subject and 'object' agreement in Iwaidja and Ilgar Nicholas Evans, University of Melbourne

9.00	Different forms, same meaning, same syntax: (anti)deponency in Albanian Dalina Kallulli, University of Vienna
9.40	The limits of deponency: a Chukotko-centric perspective Jonathan Bobaljik, University of Connecticut
10.30	Tea and coffee
11.00	Spanish pseudoplurals: phonological cues in the acquisition of a syntax/morphology mismatch Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, University of Manchester
11.40	Characterizing deponency: implications for form-function mismatches Andrew Spencer, University of Essex
12.30	Lunch
1.30	Deponency as a symptom of a wider problem: the case of 'pseudo-' verb stems in Bantu Jeff Good, Maz Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2.10	Some non-canonical patterns of deponency and their implications Gregory Stump, University of Kentucky
3.00	Tea and Coffee
3.30	Agreement displacements in Basque dialects: syntactic causes, morphological filters Milan Rezac, University of the Basque Country
4.10	Deponency, syncretism, and what lies between Greville Corbett, University of Surrey
5.00	Close