10.455, Confs: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

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Subject: 10.455, Confs: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

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Date:  Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:29:42 -0500
From:  Irina Sekerina <sekerina at linc.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject:  FASL8 Program

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Date:  Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:29:42 -0500
From:  Irina Sekerina <sekerina at linc.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject:  FASL8 Program


Eighth Annual Workshop on Formal
Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

at the Institute for Research of Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania


FASL8 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MAY 21

SPECIAL SESSION I: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

1:30 - 2:10     Svetlana Sheremetyeva and Sergey Nirenburg (University
                of New Mexico) "Porting a Rapid Morphological Analyzer
                Across Slavic Languages"

2:10 - 2:50     Peter Chew (Oxford University, England) "A Comparative
                Computational Evaluation of 3 Theories of Russian
                Stress"

2:50 - 3:30     Nedzad Leko (University of Oslo, Norway) "Syntactic vs.
                Semantic Agreement in the Oslo Corpus of Bosnian Texts"

3:30 - 3:45    Coffee Break

SPECIAL SESSION II: RUSSIAN SENTENCE PROCESSING

3:45 - 4:25     Janet Nicol and Rachel Wilson (University of Arizona)
                "Agreement and Case-Marking in Russian: A Psycho-
                linguistic Investigation of Agreement Errors in
                Production"

4:25 - 5:05     Gerhild Zybatow and Grit Mehlhorn (University of
                Leipzig, Germany) "Topics and Focus Prosidy in Russian
                -- An Experiment"

5:05 - 5:45     Irina Sekerina (IRCS, University of Pennsylvania)
                "Wh-Movement vs. Scrambling in Russian Processing"

5:45 - 6:00    Coffee Break

SESSION III

6:00 - 7:00     Invited Talk: Greville Corbett (University of Surrey,
                England) "Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics"


SATURDAY, May 22

SESSION IV: RUSSIAN SYNTAX

8:45 - 9: 25    Leonard Babby (Princeton University) "Infinitival
                Existential Constructions in Russian"

9:25 - 10:05    Konstantin Kazenin (Moscow State University, Russia)
                "Complementation and Constraints on Pronominals in
                Russian"

10:05 - 10: 45  Elena Rudnitskaya (CUNY Graduate Center) "The Yes/No
                Question LI Clitic Placement in Russian"

10:45 - 11:00    Coffee Break

SESSION V: SERBIAN/CROATIAN SYNTAX

11:00 - 11:40   Mariana Lambova (University of Connecticut) "The
                Typology of Multiple Wh-Fronting in Slavic Revisited"

11:40 - 12:20   Cedric Boeckx and Sandra Stjepanovic (University of
                Connecticut) "The Clitic/Wh-Connection: Evidence for
                Unselective Attraction"

12:20 - 1:00    Andrew Caink (University of Wolverhampton, England)
                "Full Form Auxiliaries in Serbian/Croatian"

1:00 - 2:30    Lunch Break

SESSION VI: BULGARIAN SUNTAX

2:30 - 3:10     David Willis (University of Manchester, England)
                "Verb-Raising in Slavic Conditionals"

3:10 - 3:50     Galina Alexandrova (University of Ottawa, Canada) "Where
                Derivational Space and Time Meet, Clitics Have a Say"

3: 50 - 4: 05  Coffee Break

SESSION VII:    PHONOLOGY

4:05 - 4:45     Katherine Crosswhite (UCLA)"Vowel Lengthening and Length
                Neutralization in Orlec Serbo-Croatian"

4:45 - 5:25     Nila Friedberg (University of Toronto, Canada) "Russian
                Metrics and Stochastic Constraints: Determining Metrical
                Complexity" (to be confirmed)

5:25 - 5:40     Coffee Break

SESSION VIII

5:40 - 6:40     Invited Talk: Draga Zec (Cornell University)
                "Multiple Sonority Thresholds"


SUNDAY, MAY 23

SESSION IX: SYNTAX/MORPHOLOGY

8:45 - 9: 25    Larisa Zlatic (University of Texas)"The Syntactic
                Status  of Slavic  Possessives"

9:25 - 10: 05   Bozena Cetnarowska (University of
                Massachussetts) "The Unaccusativity of Verbs and
                Derivational Morphology in Polish"

10:05 - 10:45   Edit Jakab (Princeton University) "Nominative Object
                Constructions in Old Russian and Finnish"

10:45 - 11:00   Coffee Break

SESSION X: SEMANTICS

11:00 - 11:40   Masha Babyonyshev (Harvard University) "Missing Verb
                Clauses in Russian"

11:40 - 12: 20  Asya Pereltsvaig (McGill University, Canada) "On the
                Distribution of NPIs in Russian"

12:20 - 12:30   Coffee Break

SESSION XI

12:30 - 1:30    Invited Talk: Anthony Kroch (University of
                Pennsylvania) and Carolyne Heycock (University of
                Edinborough) "A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on
                Word-Order Variation in Copular Sentences"


ALTERNATES:

SPECIAL SESSION: Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg
                (University of New Mexico) "Slavic as Testing Grounds
                for a Linguistic Knowledge Elicitation System"

SYNTAX/SEMANTICS: Marija Brala (University of Cambridge, England)
                "Location in Motion: A Tentative Analysis of the
                Croatian Prefixed Verbs of Motion"

                Anna Kupsc (Polish Academy of Sciences and Universite
                Paris 7) "A Lexical Analysis of Polish Multifunctional
                Reflexive Marker"

PHONOLOGY:      Irina Milnes and Caroline Wiltshire (University of
                Florida) "Optimal Stress Patterns in Russian"


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