Highlights
The call for papers for the 13th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting is now open!
MMM13 will take place (on site) in Rhodes (Greece), on May 19-21, 2022.
The topic of the conference is:
Comparing morphologies: Typological generalizations at work
MMM13 Website
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mediterranean morphology meetings
The MMMs have been jointly organized since 1997 by Geert Booij (emeritus, Universiteit Leiden – the Netherlands), Angela Ralli (University of Patras – Greece) and Sergio Scalise (emeritus, University of Bologna – Italy). Since 2013, the Permanent Scientific Committee has been expanded with three new members: Jenny Audring (University of Leiden), Nikos Koutsoukos (University of Patras) and Francesca Masini (University of Bologna).
The aim of these meetings is to bring together linguists who work on the morphology of (mainly, but not exclusively) European languages in an informal setting which guarantees maximal interaction between researchers, and gives young linguists an opportunity to present their work at a conference of moderate size where fruitful contacts with senior linguists can be established.
Thus, a European network of morphologists is being developed and maintained. The first nine meetings – 1997 in Mytilene (Lesvos, Greece), 1999 in Lija (Malta), 2001 in Barcelona (Spain), 2003 in Catania (Sicily, Italy), 2005 in Fréjus (France), 2007 in Ithaca (Greece), 2009 in Nicosia (Cyprus), 2011 in Cagliari (Sardegna, Italy), 2013 in Dubrovnik (Croatia), 2015 in Haifa (Israel), 2017 again in Cyprus, 2019 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) – have proven the success of this formula: the interest in attending these meetings was high, many abstracts were submitted, and the abstracts were selected anonymously, which gave young linguists the chance to present their work on the basis of quality, not primarily reputation. In addition, each meeting had a number of invited speakers, the leading morphologists of the world.
The papers presented at MMM have been published in various ways: as conference proceedings, in the international Yearbook of Morphology and its successor, the journal Morphology, edited by Olivier Bonami, Ana R. Luís and Ingo Plag (published by Springer), and in Lingue e Linguaggio, an international journal edited by Vito Pirrelli and Sergio Scalise (published by il Mulino, Bologna). Three of the first five meetings (Mytilene, Barcelona and Catania) were published as books. Starting from MMM5 (Fréjus) MMM proceedings have been published online and they are hosted on this website and the MMM Online Proceedings Platform.
Each meeting is organized in collaboration with a linguistic department of a university in the Mediterranean area. The biannual Mediterranean Morphology Meetings take usually place in September. For more information on the organisational details of the MMM conferences, please read the MMM Constitution.
Contact: mediterraneanmorphologymeeting AT gmail.com