More Than Words: Morphology and the Universality of Language

More Than Words: Morphology and the Universality of Language
July 1, 2015

What goes "up" when you "eat up"? This panel brings together a number of leading morphologists to discuss how the diversity of morphological phenomena in the languages of the world can point us towards commonalities between languages, and ultimately towards a better understanding of language and cognition.

Artemis Alexiadou
Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart

Daniel Harbour
Associate Professor of Cognitive Science of Language, Queen Mary University of London

Beth Levin
William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University

Andrew Nevins
Professor of Linguistics, University College London

Gillian Ramchand
Professor, University of Tromso; Senior Researcher, Center for the Advanced Study of Theoretical Linguistics

Malka Rappaport Hovav
Henya Sharef Professor of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moderated by
Alec Marantz
Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, NYU; Principal Investigator of the Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, NYUAD

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