FASL 18

Philip E. Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University

Day 1 – Friday, May 15, 2009

8:00 AM Registration and Breakfast

8:45 AM Welcoming Remarks

9:00 AM	Session A: Syntax and Semantics I
9:00 – 9:30	More students attended FASL than CONSOLE
9:00 – 9:30	Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California)
9:30 – 10:00	Focus placement affects the interpretation of multiple interrogatives
9:30 – 10:00	Radek Šimík (University of Groningen)
10:00 – 10:30	Aspects of Deficient v in Russian
10:00 – 10:30	Philip Dudchuk, Ekaterina Pshehotskaya and Serge Minor (Moscow State University)
10:30 – 11:00	Bound Ability Readings of Imperfective Verbs
10:30 – 11:00	Mojmír Dočekal and Ivona Kučerová (Masaryk University and University College London)

11:00 AM Lunch

1:00 PM	Session B: Syntax I
1:00 – 1:30	Left Branch Extraction in Multiple Wh-Questions: A Surprise for Question Interpretation
1:00 – 1:30	Sandra Stjepanović (West Virginia University)
1:30 – 2:00	On a Matching Effect in Headed Relative Clauses
1:30 – 2:00	Martina Gračanin-Yüksek (Middle East Technical University)
2:00 – 2:30	Case and Events in Ukrainian Experiencer Predicates
2:00 – 2:30	James Lavine (Bucknell University)
2:30 – 3:00	Ditransitive verbs in Czech (and elsewhere)
2:30 – 3:00	Věra Dvořák (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:15 PM	Session C: Semantics
3:15 – 3:45	Building Intensive Resultatives
3:15 – 3:45	Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow State University)
3:45 – 4:15	A Parameterized Choice Function Approach to "Narrow-Scope" -TO indefinites in Russian
3:45 – 4:15	Olga Eremina (Michigan State University)
4:15 – 4:45	The Compositionality of Motion Verbs in Russian
4:15 – 4:45	Octav Eugen DeLazero (Cornell University)
4:45 – 5:15	Anatomy of a Polish Circumstantial Modal
4:45 – 5:15	María Luisa Rivero, Ewelina Frąckowiak and Ana Arregui (University of Ottawa)

5:15 PM Coffee Break

5:30 PM

Invited Speaker: Barbara Citko (University of Washington)

6:30 PM End of Day 1

Day 2 – Saturday, May 16, 2009

8:30 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM	Session D: Syntax and Semantics II
9:00 – 9:30	A unified account for conjunctive, negative and disjunctive coordination in Serbo-Croatian
9:00 – 9:30	Boban Arsenijević (University of Amsterdam)
9:30 – 10:00	Singular and plural reciprocal phrases in Serbo-Croatian
9:30 – 10:00	Chris LaTerza and Ivana Mitrović (University of Maryland, College Park and Stony Brook University)
10:00 – 10:30	Wh-extraction, BE, and Argument Structure of Russian Existentials / Possessives
10:00 – 10:30	Hakyung Jung (Seoul National University)
10:30 – 11:00	The aspectual function of Slavic inceptive morphemes
10:30 – 11:00	Larissa Nossalik (McGill University)

11:00 AM Lunch and Poster Session (see below)

1:00 PM	Session E: Phonology
1:00 – 1:30	Contrast neutralization results from weak perceptibility: Evidence from a dialect of Polish
1:00 – 1:30	Bartłomiej Czaplicki (University of Warsaw)
1:30 – 2:00	Paradigm Uniformity and Contrast in Russian Vowel Reduction
1:30 – 2:00	Christina Bethin (Stony Brook University)
2:00 – 2:30	Interactions of tone and stress in Standard Serbian: phonological and phonetic evidence
2:00 – 2:30	Draga Zec and Elizabeth Zsiga (Cornell University and Georgetown University)
2:30 – 3:00	On the misbehaviour of pre-liquid yers in Old Czech
2:30 – 3:00	Markéta Ziková (Masaryk University)

3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:15 PM	Session F: Interfaces
3:15 – 3:45	PCC effects in Czech
3:15 – 3:45	Lucie Medová (University of South Bohemia / Princeton University)
3:45 – 4:15	Prosodic Description of Scopally Ambiguous Sentences in Russian
3:45 – 4:15	Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (Stony Brook University)
4:15 – 4:45	Babby’s puzzle: syntax or morphology?
4:15 – 4:45	Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford University)
4:45 – 5:15	Piece-driven phase: Slavic vowel-zero alternations and a unified phase theory
4:45 – 5:15	Tobias Scheer and Markéta Ziková (Nice University and Masaryk University)

5:15 PM Coffee Break

5:30 PM

Invited Speaker: Jaye Padgett (University of California, Santa Cruz)

6:30 PM End of Day 2

7:00 PM Banquet dinner at the Statler Hotel

Day 3 –Sunday, May 17, 2009

8:30 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM	Session G: Syntax II
9:00 – 9:30	Two types of neuter: Second-conjunct agreement in the presence of ‘5 and ups’
9:00 – 9:30	Franc Marušič and Andrew Nevins (University of Nova Gorica and Harvard University)
9:30 – 10:00	On Markedness and Marked Features in Serbian
9:30 – 10:00	Miloje Despić (University of Connecticut)
10:00 – 10:30	Adversity impersonal construction in diachrony
10:00 – 10:30	Kyongjoon Kwon (Harvard University)

11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:15 AM

Invited Speaker: Molly Diesing (Cornell University)

12:15 PM Coffee Break

12:30 PM	Session H: Syntax / Semantics
12:00 – 12:30	What's Inside VP? New Evidence o n VP Internal Structure in Russian
12:00 – 12:30	John Frederick Bailyn (Stony Brook University)
12:30 – 1:00	Semantics of Hybrid Coordination in Russian: New Evidence
12:30 – 1:00	Denis Paperno (University of California, Los Angeles)