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Quo vadis morphology? MMM10 On-line Proceedings Edited by: Jenny Audring Francesca Masini Wendy Sandler UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN | UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA | UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA Quo vadis morphology? MMM10 On-line Proceedings Edited by: Jenny Audring Francesca Masini Wendy Sandler On-line Proceedings of the Tenth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM10) Haifa, Israel, 7-10 September 2015 UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN | UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA | UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA The MMM Permanent Committee Jenny Audring (Leiden University) Geert Booij (Leiden University) Nikos Koutsoukos (Université catholique de Louvain) Francesca Masini (University of Bologna) Angela Ralli (University of Patras) Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna) on-line proceedings of the mediterranean morphology meetings ISSN: 1826-7491 MMM10 Online Proceedings iii Table of contents Foreword ......................................................................................................................................... v Abstracts ......................................................................................................................................... vi Suspended affixation with derivational suffixes and lexical integrity Faruk Akkuş .................................................................................................................................... 1 The Semitic templates from the perspective of reciprocal predicates Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal .......................................................................................................... 16 Motivated phonological templates in Sign Language Gal Belsitzman, Wendy Sandler ................................................................................................... 31 The morphosyntax of definiteness agreement in Neo-Aramaic and Central Semitic Edit Doron, Geoffrey Khan ........................................................................................................... 45 Telicity makes or breaks verb serialization Kazuhiko Fukushima .................................................................................................................... 55 The role of stem frequency in morphological processing Hélène Giraudo, Serena Dal Maso, Sabrina Piccinin ................................................................... 64 “Romanes eunt domus”: where you can go with Latin morphology Variation in motion expression between system and usage Claudio Iacobini, Luisa Corona .................................................................................................... 73 Morphology: the base processor Aysun Kunduracı, Aslı Göksel ..................................................................................................... 88 Lexical blends and lexical patterns in English and in American Sign Language Ryan Lepic .................................................................................................................................... 98 Grammaticalization is not the full story: a non-grammaticalization account of the emergence of sign language agreement morphemes Irit Meir ....................................................................................................................................... 112 A paradigmatic analysis of the Italian verbal derivation Fabio Montermini, Matteo Pascoli ............................................................................................. 125 iv MMM10 Online Proceedings A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots Ignacio L. Montoya ..................................................................................................................... 136 Inflected and periphrastic features: issues of comparison and modelling Gergana Popova .......................................................................................................................... 146 The lexicalization of complex constructions: an analysis of adjective-noun combinations Marcel Schlechtweg, Holden Härtl ............................................................................................. 159 Spatial reduplication in Sicilian: lexicon or grammar? Giuseppina Todaro, Fabio Montermini ...................................................................................... 169 MMM10 Online Proceedings v Foreword Since 1997, the Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) have been jointly organized by Geert Booij (Leiden University), Angela Ralli (University of Patras), and Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna). As of 2013, organization is in the hands of Jenny Audring (University of Leiden), Nikos Koutsoukos (Université catholique de Louvain / University of Patras) and Francesca Masini (University of Bologna). MMM10 was made possible thanks to the excellent local organizing committee chaired by Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa). The aim of MMM is to provide an informal setting for morphologists to present and discuss their work. The single-session setup guarantees maximal interaction between researchers, and gives young linguists the chance to present their work at a conference of moderate size, where fruitful contacts with senior linguists can be established. The first ten meetings – in 1997 (Mytilene, Greece), 1999 (Lija, Malta), 2001 (Barcelona, Spain), 2003 (Catania, Sicily), 2005 (Fréjus, France), 2007 (Ithaca, Greece), 2009 (Nicosia, Cyprus), 2011 (Cagliari, Sardinia), 2013 (Dubrovnik, Croatia) and 2015 (Haifa, Israel) – have proven the success of this formula. In good tradition, this volume continues the MMM Online Proceedings series with a selection of papers presented at MMM10, which took place on September 7-10, 2015 in Haifa (Israel). Many good abstracts were submitted, the attendance was high, and a number of leading researchers participated, including invited speakers Stephen R. Anderson (Yale University), Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University) and Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University). The editors of this volume wish to thank the many authors who submitted their papers to the MMM Online Proceedings and Nikos Koutsoukos for his constant support throughout the process. vi MMM10 Online Proceedings Abstracts Faruk Akkuş: Suspended affixation with derivational suffixes and lexical integrity In this paper, I investigate suspended affixation, particularly suspended affixation formed with derivational suffixes with a focus on Turkish. Showing that this phenomenon is attested in both the nominal and verbal domain, I defend the argument that such constructions cannot be reduced to an account of natural coordination or be explained as being part of the lexical word formation. Accordingly, I discuss the relevance of the suspended affixation for the morphology-syntax interface. I conclude that it might have significant implications for the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis (LIH). Keywords: suspended affixation, Lexical Integrity Hypothesis, derivational suffixes, coordination. Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal: The Semitic templates from the perspective of reciprocal predicates One of the main questions that theories about Semitic verbal morphology aim to answer concerns the relationship between verbs with different but related meanings that share the same phonological root but appear in different templates. The goal of this paper is to shed some light on this broader question by considering the so-called “reciprocal verbs” (rec- predicates), i.e., verbs with certain morphology that allegedly encodes reciprocal relations. Such verbs often appear in the T-templates, across the Semitic languages, thus this paper would like to examine their relation to other verbs with the same root. All previous analyses of verbal reciprocals assume that rec-predicates are at some level of analysis derivatives of more basic-predicates. Furthermore, most of the reciprocals in Hebrew are in the T-template, and the assumption in various theories about verbs in this template is that they are derivative of functions, that have as their input either the root or verbs in other templates. This paper argues that there is no grammatical relation between rec-predicates and other transitive verbs in the same root, by pointing out problems with previous derivational analyses, by analyzing the argument structure of these predicates and by providing a semantic account for the various readings the rec-constructions have. The differences between the current proposal and the previous ones stem from the fact that the current analysis does not consider the rec-predicate to be an encoding of reciprocal/symmetric relations and offer, therefore, an alternative portrayal of the relationship between them and the symmetric events they denote. Since previous studies on the morphology of the templates pay only little attention to the verbal expressions of reciprocity, the goal of this paper is to see what theories concerning the morphology of the templates in Modern Hebrew would have to account for with respect to these verbs. Keywords: reciprocals, reflexives, templates, Hebrew, collective and distributive, root. MMM10 Online Proceedings vii Gal Belsitzman, Wendy Sandler: Motivated phonological templates in Sign Language A basic design feature of language is duality of patterning, the existence of a meaningless level of elements that combine to create meaningful morphemes and words (Hockett 1960). Although the signs of sign languages have iconic origins, Stokoe (1960) showed that sign languages do have a meaningless level, akin to phonology, setting the stage for much subsequent linguistic research on sign