Program
You can download the program as a pdf here. A PDF of the conference booklet with the program and all the abstracts in one file can be downloaded here.
Thursday, May 7: FASL Workshop on Approaches to Slavic Morphology
All FASL Morphology workshop talks will be held on the 1st floor of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at 53 Washington Square South.
| 9:00–9:30 | Registration and Breakfast |
Session chair: Stephanie Harves
| 9:30-10:00 | Pavel Caha (Masaryk U) Czech Numerals in a Phrasal Spell Out Model |
| 10:00-10:30 | Ivona Kučerová (McMaster) and Jitka Bartošová (McMaster) Instrumental Situations: On Case Marking of Copular Clauses in Czech |
| 10:30-11:00 | Guillaume Enguehard (Paris VII) ɔ/a alternation in Russian -ɨva type verbs |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee break |
Plenary talks
| 11:15-12:15 | Ora Matushansky (CNRS Paris VIII) n is for "Not There" |
| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch on your own |
| 1:45-2:45 | Katya Pertsova (UNC Chapel Hill) When You Cannot Win: Defective Verbs in Russian |
| 2:45-3:00 | Coffee break |
Session chair: Maria Gouskova
| 3:00-3:30 | Anya Stetsenko (St. Petersburg State U), Natalia Slioussar (St. Petersburg State U), Tatiana Matushkina (St. Petersburg State U) Attraction Errors in Case Agreement: Evidence from Russian |
| 3:30-4:00 | Varvara Magomedova (Stony Brook) and Natalia Slioussar (St. Petersburg State U) Paradigm Leveling in Non-standard Russian: Consonant Alternations in Comparatives and Nouns |
| 4:00-4:15 | Coffee break |
Plenary talk
| 4:15-5:15 | Vera Gribanova (Stanford) On constraining inter-modular reference: Nonconcatenative exponence in the Russian derived imperfective |
| 6:00 | Reception, 10 Washington Place, Dept. of Linguistics, 2nd Floor |
Friday, May 8: FASL Main Sessions, Silver Center
| 8:30-9:30 | Registration and Breakfast (Silverstein Lounge, 101 Silver Center) |
| 9:45-10:00 | Opening Remarks (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center) |
Syntax (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Stephanie Harves
| 10:00-10:30 | Snejana Iovtcheva (MIT) and Despina Oikonomou (MIT) Island Obviation in Answer Fragments: Evidence from Bulgarian li-questions |
| 10:30-11:00 | Julie Goncharov (U Toronto) ‘Samyj’ in Fragment Answers |
| 11:00-11:30 | Adrian Stegovec (UConn) Personality Disorders: Insights from the Slovenian Person-Case Constraint Pattern |
| 11:30-1:00 | Lunch on your own |
Morphology (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Maria Gouskova
| 1:00-1:30 | Katya Pertsova (UNC Chapel Hill) and Julia Kuznetsova (CLEAR group, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) Experimental Evidence for Intraparadigmatic Effects in Russian Verbs |
| 1:30-2:00 | Mary Ann Walter (METU NCC) Frequency Distributions as Faithfulness Targets: Or, Why Bulgarians Feminized Turkish Nouns |
| 2:00-2:30 | Pavel Caha (Masaryk U) and Markéta Ziková (Masaryk U) Vocalic length as evidence for the incorporated-free particle distinction in Czech |
| 2:30-2:45 | Coffee Break |
Syntax: Extraction (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Ivona Kučerová
| 2:45-3:15 | Aida Talić (UConn) Adverbial Left-Branch Extraction and the Structure of AP in Slavic |
| 3:15-3:45 | Irina Sekerina (CUNY CSI) and Luca Campanelli (CUNY GC) Interference in Children’s Online Processing of simple Wh-Questions: Evidence from Russian |
| 3:45-4:00 | Coffee break |
Syntax: Silence (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Richard Kayne
| 4:00-4:30 | Vĕra Dvořák (Rutgers) On Two Types of Silent Objects |
| 4:30-5:00 | Barbara Citko (U Washington) To Gap or to Right Node Raise |
Plenary talk
| 5:00-6:00 | John Frederick Bailyn (Stony Brook) Self-motivation and getting to the top: A new view of Superiority and what it means for the theory of movement |
Saturday, May 9: FASL Main Sessions (Silver Center)
Phonology (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Gillian Gallagher
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast (Silverstein Lounge, 101 Silver Center) |
| 9:00-9:30 | Draga Zec (Cornell) Patterning of Tone and Stress in Loanword Phonology: The Case of Serbian |
| 9:30-10:00 | Amanda Rysling (UMass Amherst) Polish yers are Epenthetic: An Argument from Lexical Statistics |
| 10:00-10:30 | Lena Borise (Harvard) Intensity Peak Shift as a Precursor of Stress Shift? |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break |
Plenary talk
| 10:45-11:45 | Christina Bethin (Stony Brook) The Belarusian Genitive Plural: A Case for Reanalysis |
| 11:45-1:30 | Lunch on your own |
Language Change, Syntax, and Semantics (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Pavel Caha
| 1:30-2:00 | Łukasz Jędrzejowski (U Potsdam) ‘Don’t Regret Anymore!’ On the Semantic Change of the Clause-embedding Predicate ‘żałować’ in Polish |
| 2:00-2:30 | Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford) On the Slavic-Influenced Syntactic Changes in Yiddish |
| 2:30-3:00 | Adam Szczegielniak (Rutgers) Phase-by-phase computation of prominence in ellipsis and PP stranding island alleviations |
| 3:00-3:15 | Coffee Break |
Syntax-Semantics: Scope (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Barbara Citko
| 3:15-3:45 | Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (Stony Brook) Against the QR-Parameter: New Evidence from Russian Scope Freezing |
| 3:45-4:15 | Tania Ionin (UIUC) and Tatiana Luchkina (UIUC) Focus on Scope: Information Structure and Quantifier Scope in Russian |
| 4:15-4:30 | Coffee Break |
Syntax (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Asya Pereltsvaig
| 4:30-5:00 | Andreas Pankau (Goethe U, Frankfurt) The Matching Analysis of Relative Clauses: Evidence from Upper Sorbian |
| 5:00-5:30 | Marta Ruda (Jagiellonian U) Rich Agreement and Dropping Patterns: pro-Drop, AGR-Drop, No Drop |
| 5:30-6:00 | FASL Business Meeting (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center) |
| 7:00 | FASL Conference Dinner (10 Washington Place, Dept. of Linguistics, 1st Floor) |
Sunday, May 10: FASL Main Sessions, Silver Center
Semantics (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Lucas Champollion
| 9:00-9:30 | Breakfast (Silverstein Lounge, 101 Silver Center) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Radek Šimík (U Potsdam) The Semantics of the Czech Demonstrative ‘ten’ |
| 10:00-10:30 | Todor Koev (U Dusseldorf) Quotational Indefinites: Bulgarian and Beyond |
| 10:30-11:00 | Sergei Tatevosov (Lomonosov MSU/МГУ) Constraining the Distribution of the Delimitative |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break |
Information Structure (Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A Silver Center)
Session chair: Tania Ionin
| 11:15-11:45 | Lena Gröben (U Potsdam), Radek Šimík (U Potsdam), and Frank Kügler (U Potsdam) Stress Shift and NSR in Czech |
| 11:45-12:15 | Jiri Kaspar (UCL) Topicalisation in Coordination under Subordination |
Plenary talk
| 12:15-1:15 | Maria Polinsky (Harvard) Molchanie zoloto: Some remarks on silent categories in Russian |
| 1:15 | Closing Remarks |
Alternates
| Iryna Osadcha (Toronto) Deriving the Nominal Stress in Ukrainian |
If you have questions about the conference, please write to fasl.24@nyu.edu.