FASL 11 Program

 

The contributed talks are 40 minutes each (30-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion). A one-hour poster session is scheduled on the second day.
Presenters: Please let us know of any special equipment needs, e.g. overhead projectors, data projectors, etc.

Jump to: [Day 2: Saturday] [Day 3: Sunday]

Jump to: [Abels] [Babby] [Bailyn] [Bethin] [Billings & Konopasky] [Blaho] [Blaszczak] [Blumenfeld]
                [Goledzinowska] [Hagstrom & McCoy] [Hajicova, Sgall, & Vesela] [Harves] [Ionin & Matushansky]
                [Jakab] [Kim, M.-J.] [Lambova] [Lander] [Lavine] [Marusic, Marvin & Zaucer] [Meyer]
                [Pereltsvaig] [Petrova] [Rakhilina] [Richardson][Rivero] [Sturgeon] [Testelets] [Woolford
  


DAY 1: FRIDAY, MAY 3
GREEN ROOM, MULLINS CENTER
(click here for directions)

12:30   Onsite registration. Nametags and book of abstracts pick-ups for registered participants.

1:15   Opening remarks 

1:30-2:50    Phonology.     Chair: Robert Rothstein.
    Christina Bethin
(SUNY at Stony Brook)
            Metrical Quantity in Czech: Evidence from Hypocoristics
    Lev Blumenfeld (Stanford University)
            Russian palatalization in Stratal OT: morphology and [back]

2:50-3:05    Break

3:05-5:05  Syntax.     Chair: John Bailyn.
   Paul Hagstrom (Boston University) and Svetlana McCoy (Rutgers University)
            Presupposition, wh-questions, and discourse particles: The Russian zhe
   Roland Meyer (Universität Tübingen)
            Multiple wh-movement in Czech
    Mariana Lambova (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
            When Is Splitting the wh-Cluster in Bulgarian Possible?

5:05-5:20    Break

5:20-6:20   Invited talk.    Chair: Barbara H. Partee.
    Ellen Woolford (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
            Locality Restrictions on Case, Agreement, and Clitics.

DAY 2: SATURDAY, MAY 4
MATH LOUNGE, LEDERLE GRADUATE RESEARCH TOWER (16th floor)
(click here for directions)

8:30   Coffee, bagels, juice, etc.

9:00-10:20    Semantics.     Chair: Eva Hajicova.   
   Joanna Blaszczak (University of Potsdam)
            Explaining the "Bagel Problem": The case of Polish -kolwiek-NPIs
    Ekaterina Rakhilina (VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences)
            The case for Russian Genitive case reopened

10:20-10:35   break

10:35-12:35   Syntax.    Chair: Maria-Luisa Rivero.
    Leonard Babby
(Princeton University)
            The Predicate Instrumental of Adjectives in Russian
    Kylie Richardson (Harvard University)
            Against Pure Uninterpretable Features
    Franc Marusic (SUNY at Stony Brook), Tatjana Marvin (MIT), and Rok Zaucer (University of Ottawa)
            Secondary predicates in Slovenian

12:35-2:00  Lunch: On your own in Amherst.

2:00 - 3:20    Syntax.    Chair: Stephanie Harves.
   James Lavine (Bucknell University)
            Resumption in Slavic: Phases, Cyclicity, and Case
   Yury Lander (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
            Group nouns in Russian as heads and as modifiers

3:20-4:20    Poster Session  [with coffee, no separate break]
   Klaus Abels (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
            A note on Clitics and P-stranding
    Loren Billings (Providence University, Taiwan) and Abigail Wildman Konopasky (Duke University)
            Further arguments for morphology: clitics and the shift to affixhood
    Sylvia Blaho (Pázmány Péter Catholic Univeristy and Eötvös Loránd University)
            Derived environment effects in Optimality Theory: The case of pre-sonorant voicing in Slovak
   Eva Hajicova, Petr Sgall, and Katerina Vesela (Charles University)
            Information structure and contrastive topic
   Edit Jakab (Université du Québec ŕ Montréal)
            A Unified Analysis for Russian Contrastive Imperatives and Root Infinitives
   Asya Pereltsvaig (University of Tromso)
            Aspect Lost, Aspect Regained: Restructuring of aspect in American Russian
   Olga Petrova (University of Iowa)
            Sonorants and the labiodental continuant /v/ in Russian voice assimilation: an OT analysis

4:20 - 5:40    Syntax.     Chair: Kyle Johnson.
   Stephanie Harves
(Princeton University/MIT)
            On the derivation of distributive po-phrases in Russian
    Tania Ionin (MIT) and Ora Matushansky (CNRS/MIT)
            DPs with a twist: A unified analysis of Russian comitatives

5:40-5:50   Break

5:50 - 6:50  Invited talk.    Chair: Leonard Babby.
       Yakov Testelets
(RGGU [Russian State Humanities University])
            Strong and Weak Pronouns in Russian.

6:50 - 7:10   Business Meeting

7:30    Dinner and Party (also in Math Lounge)

 

DAY 3: SUNDAY, MAY 5
MATH LOUNGE, LEDERLE GRADUATE RESEARCH TOWER (16th floor)
(click here for directions)

8:30    Coffee, bagels, juice, etc.

9:00-10:20   Syntax.     Chair: Ellen Woolford.
   John Bailyn
(SUNY at Stony Brook)
            A (purely) derivational approach to Russian scrambling
   Anne Marie Sturgeon (University of California, Santa Cruz)
            Two-tiered approach to binding domain formation: Evidence from Czech

10:20-10:35 break 

10:35-11:55   Syntax.    Chair: Irina Sekerina.
    Minjoo Kim
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
            Genitive of negation in Russian: A Relativized Minimality account
    Magdalena Goledzinowska (University of Ottawa)
            Maturation of argument structure: A lexical account of reflexive constructions with clitics in child Polish

11:55-12:15    Break

12:15-1:15    Invited talk.    Chair: Wayles Browne.
    Maria-Luisa Rivero
(University of Ottawa)
            Reflexive Clitic Constructions with Datives: Syntax and Semantics.

1:15    Close.

 


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