| SUNDAY, MAY 6 Michigan
Room
Michigan League, 2nd Floor
Session I
Chair: Eva Hajicova (Charles U, Prague)
9:00-9:30 / talk 1
Masha Vassilieva (SUNY at Stony Brook), mvassili@yahoo.com
Coordination of Prenominal Modifiers in Russian
9:30-10:00 / talk 2
Alona Soschen (University of Ottawa), career2002@yahoo.com
Expletives and Two Subject Positions in Russian
10:00-10:30 / talk 3
Mariana Lambova (U of Connecticut), mdl97002@uconnvm.uconn.edu
On the representation of topic and focus
10:30-10:45 BREAK
Session II
Chair: Gerhild Zybatow (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
10:45-11:15 / talk 4
Stephanie Harves (Princeton University/MIT), saharves@princeton.edu
Where Have All the Phases Gone? (Non-) Defective Categories and Case Alternations
in Russian
11:15-11:45 / talk 5
Luka Szucsich (Universität Leipzig), szucsich@rz.uni-leipzig.de
Case Licensing and Nominal Adverbials in Russian
11:45-12:15 / talk 6
Hana Filip (Northwestern U), filip@babel.ling.nwu.edu
Russian Secondary Predicates and the Individual-Level vs. Stage-Level Distinction
12:15-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00-2:30 Business Meeting
Session III
Chair: Wayles Browne (Cornell University)
2:30-3:00 / talk 7
Eva G. Bar-Shalom and William Snyder (U of Connecticut), barshalo@uconnvm.edu, wsnyder@uconnvm.edu
Against the Aspect-First Hypothesis: Evidence from Child Russian
3:00-3:30 / talk 8
Maria Babyonyshev (Yale U) and Dina Brun (Yale U), maria.babyonshev@yale.edu, dina.brun@yale.edu
Specificity Matters: A New Look at the New Genitive of Negation in Russian
3:30-3:45 BREAK
Session IV
Chair: John Bailyn (SUNY at Stony Brook)
3:45-4:15 / talk 9
Klaus Abels (U of Connecticut), klaus.abels@uconn.edu
Expletive (?) Negation
4:15-4:45 / talk 10
Nobuhiro Miyoshi (University of Connecticut), nobumiyoshi@email.msn.com
The Genitive of Negation in Slavic: A Minimalist Approach
4:45-5:15 / talk 11
Barbara Partee (U of Massachusetts) and Vladimir Borschev
(VINITI, Moscow), partee@linguist.umass.edu
Genitive of Negation and Scope of Negation in Russian Existential Sentences
6:30-10:00 Dinner for the Participants
MONDAY, MAY 7
Koessler Room
Michigan League, 3rd Floor
Session V
Chair: San Duanmu (University of Michigan)
9:00-9:30 / talk 12
Ben Hermans (Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands), b.j.h.hermans@kub.nl
The Problem of Yers in Russian Prefixes
9:30-10:00 / talk 13
Zsuzsanna Nagy (Rutgers University), nzsuzsa@rci.rutgers.edu
NoLapse and Jer-Lowering in Old Church Slavonic
10:00-10:30 / talk 14
Draga Zec (Cornell University), d217@cornell.edu
OCP Effects in Bulgarian
10:30-10:45 BREAK
Session VI
Chair: Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College)
10:45-11:15 / talk 15
Barbara Citko (New York University), barbaracitko@hotmail.com
On Headed, Headless, and Light-Headed Relatives
11:15-11:45 / talk 16
Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University), l.provac@wayne.edu
Perfective Prefixes and Congruent Prepositional Phrases in Serbian
11:45-12:15 / talk 17
Jacek Witkos (University of Maryland), wjacek37@hotmail.com
WH-Movement and (Anti)Reconstruction Effects in Polish
12:15-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
Session VII
Chair: Uwe Junghanns (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
2:00-2:30 / talk 18
Ora Matushansky (MIT), matushan@mit.edu
More of a Good Thing: The Russian Synthetic and Analytic Comparatives
2:30-3:00 / talk 19
Abigail Wildman Konopasky (Princeton University), awildman@Princeton.edu
Multiple wh-Focus Fronting
3:00-3:30 / talk 20
John F. Bailyn (SUNY at Stony Brook), jbailyn@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Generalized Edge Positions and the EPP
3:30-3:45 BREAK
Session VIII
Chair: Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University)
3:45-4:15 / talk 21
Olga Arnaudova (U of Ottawa), oarnaou@aix1.uottawa.ca
Clitic Left Dislocation, Topicality and Argument Structure in Bulgarian
4:15-4:45 / talk 22
Loren Billings (Khon Kaen University, Thailand), billings@kmutt.ac.th
Why Clitics Cluster Together in Balkan Slavic: Non-templatic Morphology
4:45-5:15 / talk 23
Roumyana Pancheva (USC), pancheva@rcf-fs.usc.edu
Possessor Dative Clitics in Slavic
5:30-6:15 Invited
lecture
Samuel Epstein (University of Michigan), sepstein@umich.edu
Derivation, Explanation, and the Proper Binding Condition
|