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

Defective Paradigms: Missing forms and what they tell us

10.00	Arrival (refreshments)
10.30	Introduction
11.00	Defectiveness: typology and diachrony Matthew Baerman (University of Surrey)
11:45	Interactions between syncretism and defectiveness Gregory Stump (University of Kentucky)
12.45	Lunch
1.45	Cautious generalization of inflectional morphology, and its role in defectivity Adam Albright (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2:30	Defectiveness: challenges for bottom-up lexical description Roger Evans (University of Brighton)
3.30	Coffee break
4.00	Missing adjective forms in Swedish John Löwenadler (Göteborg University)
4.45	Defectivity as stem suppletion in French and Spanish verbs Gilles Boyé (Université de Bordeaux & CLE-ERSS) and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (Université Paris 8 and Surrey Morphology Group)

9.00	The search for regularity in irregularity: Defectiveness and its implications for our knowledge of words Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
10.00	Paradigmatic structure and defectiveness in Hungarian Ágnes Lukács (Budapest University of Technology), Péter Rebrus and Miklós Törkenczy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
10.45	Coffee break
11:15	Morphological versus syntactic gaps in Romance clitic clusters Milan Rezac (University of Nantes)
12:00	Failing one's obligations: Defectiveness in Rumantsch reflexes of DEBERE Stephen Anderson (Yale University)
1.00	Lunch
2.00	Defective paradigms of reflexive nouns and participles in Latvian Ilze Lokmane and Andra Kalna?a (University of Latvia)
2.45	On defective morphomes Martin Maiden and Paul O'Neill (University of Oxford)
3.30	Coffee break
4.00	Modeling inflectional defectiveness as usage-based probability: Lessons from Modern Greek Andrea Sims (Northwestern University)
4.45	Closing remarks