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FASL 28 Program

All talks will be held at GLS-HDV Center. For the map of Stony Brook University campus, please click here.

Friday, May 3, 2019

9:00

Registration

9:30

Introduction

 

Historical Syntax (Chair E. Wayles Browne)

10:00

Krzysztof Migdalski (University of Wrocław)

Generalizing second position effects in Slavic

10:40

Marcin Dadan (UConn)

Loss of Specifiers in Slavic Reflexives: Acquisitional Structure Reanalysis and Diachronic Change

11:20

Coffee Break

 

Semantics (Chair: Richard K. Larson)

11:35

Halima Husić and Agata Renans (Ruhr-Universität)

The inferences of accusative and genitive in acc/gen alternation in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian

12:15

Maria Esipova (NYU)

Polar responses in Russian across modalities and across interfaces

12:55

Lunch

2:00

AIMM Invited Speaker: Richard Sproat (Google AI)

40 Years of Work in Computational Morphology

 

Russian Syntax (Chair: Lori Repetti)

3:00

Irine Burukina (Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE))

Licensing of DP/PRO embedded subjects in Russian

3:40

Tanya Bondarenko and Colin Davis (MIT)

Linearization asymmetries in Russian left branch extraction

4:20

Coffee Break

 

Acquisition (Chair: Dan Finer)

4:30

Lanko Marušič (University of Nova Gorica), Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica), Amanda Saksida (IRCCS Ospedale Infantile Burlo Garofolo), Jess Sullivan (Skidmore College), Dimitrios Skordos (University of Calgary), Yiqiao Wang (UCSD), and David Barner (UCSD)

On the acquisition of dual in Slovenian

5:10

Ekaterina Kistanova and Juliette Blevins (CUNY)

The Acquisition of Word-Initial Consonant Cluster Production in Russian: A Case Study

5:50

Coffee Break

6:00

FASL Invited Speaker:Draga Zec (Cornell University)

On the morphology of weight in South Slavic

(Chair: Christina Bethin)

7:00

Reception

 

 

 

 

Saturday, May 4, 2019

 

Syntax: OVS (Chair: Andrei Antonenko)

9:30

Svitlana Antonyuk (UConn)

OVS in Slavic: Novel Evidence for Overt Focus Movement Licensing vP Ellipsis

10:10

Asya Pereltsvaig (Independent Scholar)

OVS in Russian, Reconsidered

10:50

Coffee

 

Polish Syntax (Chair: Barbara Citko)

11:10

Ewa Willim (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) and Anna Bondaruk (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)

On Burzio's Generalization and unexpected accusatives: Evidence from Polish experiencer constructions

11:50

Ivona Kučerová (McMaster University) and Adam Szczegielniak (Rutgers)

Are Polish nominals phases? A case study of honorific markers

12:30

Lunch

1:30

AIMM Invited Speaker: Olivier Bonami (Université Paris Diderot)

Segmentation in morphology: wh-en, wh-ere, how?

(Chair: Sedigheh Moradi)

 

Syntax (Chair: Steven Franks)

2:30

Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz), Nadira Aljović (Unviersity of Zenica), Nermina Čordalija (University of Sarajevo), Marijana Kresić (University of Zadar), Nedžad Leko (University of Sarajevo), Frane Malenica (University of Zadar), Lanko Marušič (University of Nova Gorica), Tanja Milićev (University of Novi Sad), Nataša Milićević (FFNS), Petra Mišmaš (University of Nova Gorica), Ivana Mitić (University of Niš), Andrew Nevins (University College London), Anita Peti-Stantić (University of Zagreb), Branimir Stanković (University of Niš), Jelena Tušek (University of Zagreb), and Jana Willer-Gold (University College London)

Experimental evidence against clausal reduction as the only source of closest conjunct agreement

3:10

Petr Biskup (Humboldt University of Berlin)

The Non-Identity Reading in North Slavic Coordination Constructions

3:50

Sanja Srdanović (Goethe University)

The referential properties of Serbian possessive constructions: clitics vs. strong pronouns

4:30

Poster Session + Coffee + Business Meeting

 

Daniela Čulinović (UCLA)

The division of labor between remnant movement and left branch extraction in Serbo-Croatian

 

Paulina Łęska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)

The source of scope ambiguity in Polish ditransitives: QR or scope reconstruction

 

Pasha Koval (UConn)

On multiple sluicing and wh-coordination of unlikes in Russian

 

Jakob Lenardič (University of Ljubljana)

The Slovenian Accusative Middle Construction

 

Christiana McGrady (Georgetown University)

How is it raining? Motion-Verb Weather, unaccusativity, and the genitive of negation

 

Takuya Miyauchi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Modification of a syntactic structure of Russian event nominal phrases and some consequences

 

Andreas Pankau (Freie Universität Berlin)

Left Branch Extraction in Lower Sorbian

 

Svetlana Puzhaeva-Zhukova, Evgeny Glazunov, Natalia Zevakhina, Natalia Slioussar (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

Control violation in Russian converbs

 

Philip Shushurin (NYU)

An applicative account of Russian external possession

 

Natalia Slioussar (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) and Pavel Shilin (St. Petersburg State University)

Gender and declension in gender agreement processing: evidence from Russian

 

Elena Vaiksnoraite (Stuttgart University)

Russian is the new Czech? An experimental investigation of Genitive of Negation in Russian

6:00

Joint FASL/AIMM Invited Speaker: Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)

External splits: a typology for morphologists and Slavists

(Chair: Mark Aronoff)

7:00

Conference Banquet

 

 

 

 

Sunday, May 5, 2019

 

Slavic Morphology -- Combined FASL/AIMM Session (Chair: Andrija Petrovic)

9:00

Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan (University of New Mexico) and Irina Sekerina (CUNY)

Distributional regularity of suffixes facilitates acquisition of gender: Eye-tracking evidence from Russian and Bulgarian

9:40

Guy Tabachnick (NYU)

Paradigm Uniformity in Czech Prefix Vocalization

10:20

Coffee

 

Final Session (Chair: John F. Bailyn)

10:40

Alexander Piperski (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) and Anton Kukhto (MIT)

Inferring stress placement (in)stability from a poetic corpus

11:20

Barbara Citko (University of Washington)

WH NEG Ellipsis: Sluicing or Polarity Ellipsis?

12:00

FASL Invited Speaker: Steven Franks (Indiana University)

The Q Continuum

(Chair: John F. Bailyn)