The 10th Annual Workshop on


[Formal] Approaches
to [Slavic] Linguistics

FASL 10 Program of Events, May 6-7, 2001

 

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

 

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For information on the Workshop, please contact:

Professor Jindrich Toman or Kimberly Davis
Modern Languages Building 3040
812 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1275
Tel: (734) 764-5355
Fax: (734) 647-2127
E-mail FASL10@umich.edu