Program
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All talks to be held in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Friday, May 13th
| 8:30 - 8:50 Registration and breakfast |
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| 8:50 - 9:00 Opening remarks |
Session 1: Syntax
Chair: Simone Harmath de Lemos
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Why Russian counts and binds: on D, PERSON, and the role of labeling for φ-Agree Ivona Kučerová (McMaster University) |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Polish numeral NP agreement as a function of surface morphology Ora Matushansky (CNRS) and Tania Ionin (UIUC) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | The Kase Phrase does it all: a nanosyntax-based analysis of the internal and external syntax of the Polish Genitive of Quantification Jacek Witkoś and Dominika Dziubała-Szrejbrowska (Poznań) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 Break |
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Session 2: Historical
Chair: Robin Karlin
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Old Church Slavonic was head-initial Krzysztof Migdalski (University of Wrocław) |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | Coordination in Croatian Church Slavonic Milan Mihaljević (Staroslavenski Institut) |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Lechitic Vowel Developments of Posen Low German Roslyn Burns (UC-Berkeley) |
| 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch on your own |
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Session 3: Syntax
Chair: Miloje Despić
| 1:45 - 2:15 | What we aren't given: The influence of selection on ditransitive passives in Slovenian Adrian Stegovec (UConn) |
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| 2:15 - 2:45 | Are dative-infinitive constructions in Russian really biclausal? Egor Tsedryk (Saint Mary's University) |
| 2:45 - 3:15 | When near Snakes, Move Sideward! Marijana Marelj (Utrecht) |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | Visible and invisible null copies: Enclitics in the syntax and in prosody Aida Talić (UConn) |
| 3:45 - 4:00 Break |
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Session 4: Syntax and Semantics
Chair: Mats Rooth
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Structural differences between epistemic and root modality: Evidence from BCS Dunja Veselinović (NYU) |
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| 4:30 - 5:00 | If if and wh,why not that and that and wh? Barbara Citko (University of Washington) and Martina Gračanin-Yüksek (Middle East Technical University) |
| 5:00 - 6:00 Plenary Talk:
Sonority sequencing in Polish: Defying the stimulus? Gaja Jarosz (UMass) |
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Saturday, May 14th
| 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast |
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Session 1: Semantics
Chair: Naomi Enzinna
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Russian negative fragments revisited Alexander Podobryaev (Higher School of Economics) |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | A strong NPI disjunction: between coordination and focus particles Jovana Gajić (Göttingen) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Dissociating the scalarity and additivity of EVEN - the case of "čak" and "čak i" in BCS Katja Jasinskaja and Barbara Tomaszewicz (University of Cologne) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 Break |
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Session 2: Morphosyntax
Chair: John Bailyn
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Case Syncretism in Russian, Polish and Czech ATB Constructions Petr Biskup (University of Leipzig) |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | Similarity avoidance and its impact on the lexicon Bartłomiej Czaplicki (University of Warsaw) |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Embracing the Differences: The Three Classes of Russian Ditransitives Svitlana Antonyuk (Stony Brook University) |
| 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch on your own |
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Session 3: Syntax
Chair: John Bowers
| 1:45 - 2:15 | The ban on movement out of moved elements and inherent case Željko Bošković (UConn) |
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| 2:15 - 2:45 | Specificity Movement and Scope in Ukrainian: New Arguments Against Bruening (2001) Svitlana Antonyuk (Stony Brook University) and Roksolana Mykhaylyk (CUNY) |
| 2:45 - 3:15 | AGREE-dependent A-movement and low copy pronunciation in Russian Bonnie Krejci, Vera Gribanova and Boris Harizanov (Stanford) |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | “Oh, Very Strange!” - the “right” analysis of the Russian OVS construction John Frederick Bailyn (Stony Brook University) |
| 3:45 - 4:00 Break |
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Session 4: Experimental
Chair: Draga Zec
| 4:00 - 4:30 | The role of markedness in aspectual mismatch detection in Polish. Evidence from ERP experiments Dorota Klimek-Jankowska and Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) |
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| 4:30 - 5:00 | Case Marking in Russian Eventive Nominalizations: Inherent vs. Dependent Case Theory Asya Pereltsvaig; Ekaterina Lyutikova and Anastasia Gerasimova (Moscow State University) |
| 5:00 - 6:00 Plenary Talk:
Inconspicuous unfaithfulness in Slovenian Michael Becker (Stony Brook University) |
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| 6:15 - 7:00 FASL Business Meeting |
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| 7:00 - 10:00 Conference dinner: A.D. White House |
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Sunday, May 15th
| 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast |
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Session 1: Syntax and semantics
Chair: John Whitman
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Deriving Multiple Left Branch Extraction Sandra Stjepanović (West Virginia University) |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Focus Trigger and Sluicing in Embedded Yes/No Questions: Evidence from Russian Anna Shlomina (ABBYY) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Re-entering a state: case for obratno Sergei Tatevosov (Lomonosov Moscow State University) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | The Real(is) Distinction in Before and After Clauses: A Crosslinguistic Study Marcin Dadan, Kadir Gokogoz, Jayeon Park, Sabine Laszakovits and Yongsuk Yoo (UConn) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 Break |
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Session 2: Experimental
Chair: Wayles Browne
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Gender agreement attraction in Russian: different profiles in production and comprehension Natalia Slioussar (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) and Anton Malko (UMD) |
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| 11:45 - 12:15 | Singulars looking like plurals cause more agreement attraction than genuine plurals Natalia Slioussar (St. Petersburg State University) |
| 12:15 - 1:15 Plenary Talk
Balkan Slavic Comparatives Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College) |
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If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at fasl25@cornell.edu.