28.2276, Confs: General Linguistics/Hungary

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Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 08:24:44
From: Krisztina Szécsényi [kszecsenyi at gmail.com]
Subject: 2nd Budapest Linguistics Conference

 
2nd Budapest Linguistics Conference 
Short Title: BLINC2 

Date: 01-Jun-2017 - 03-Jun-2017 
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact: Mark Newson 
Contact Email: mnewson1 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://seas3.elte.hu/blinc/blinc17/about.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Following the success of the first Budapest Linguistics Conference in 2015, we
are pleased to announce BLINC 2, which will take place at Eötvös Loránd
University, Budapest  from 1 to 3 June 2017. The conference will be hosted by
the Department of English Linguistics in the School of English and American
Studies of ELTE. 

Invited Speakers:

Michal Starke: More on the fine structure of case
Anikó Lipták: Identifying identity conditions in and outside ellipsis: a case
study of Hungarian

Registration (Now Open):

There will be a conference fee of 60 euros which will be paid at the
conference. However, there will be an early-bird reduction (to 50 euros) for
those who register on line by the registration deadline (29 May).
Unfortunately we are unable to take payment by card or bank transfer. To
register, please go to the registration page
(http://seas3.elte.hu/blinc/blinc17/Registration.html) and fill out the form. 
 

Program: 

Thursday 1  June:

Session 1 (356)

9:00: 
Natalia Jardon
Non-standard configurations in Eonavian Spanish: how to be perfect without a
perfect tense

9:45:
Víctor Lara Bermejo
Split intransitivity or split ergativity? Tendencies of western Peninsular
Spanish

Session 2 (315a):

9:00:
Judit Farkas
Topic change in Hungarian

9:45:
Keresztes Júlia
Pied-piping by pre-nominal adjuncts in Hungarian

10:25: Break

Session 1 (356):

11:00:
Ekaterina Georgieva
Converbs in Udmurt - a unified class?

11:45:
Éva Dékány and Orsolya Tánczos
The structure of the Udmurt past participle

Session 2 (315a):

11:00:
Mojmír Dočekal and Marcin Wągiel
Various strategies of multiplication: Differentials in equatives and
comparatives

11:45:
Elena Rudnitskaya and Seokyoung Hwang
The syntactic analysis of Korean serial verb constructions compared to Turkic
languages

12:30: Lunch

13:50:
János Kenyeres, director of the school of English and American Studies
Welcoming speech

14:00:
Plenary:  Michal Starke
More on the fine structure of case

Session 1 (356):

15:15:
Balázs Surányi and Gergő Turi
On the role of prosody in scope disambiguation

Session 2 (315a):

15:15:
Tamás Eitler
Towards analyticity or syntheticity? A corpus-based typological investigation
of Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle English varieties

15:55: Break

Session 1 (356):

16:30:
Ludmila Veselovská
Two kinds of Morphosyntacatic Merge

Session 2 (315a):

16:30:
Ania Snarska
Let's make one thing clear - we still do not know if partial control exists

Friday 2 June:

Session 1 (356):

9:00:
Katalin Balogné Bérces  and Bálint Huszthy
The “real” and “relative” typology of binary laryngeal systems

9:45:
Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári and Miklós Törkenczy
Asymmetric variation

Session 2 (315a):

9.00:
László Drienkó
Agreement groups processing of context-free utterances: coverage, structural
precision, and category information

9:45:
Zhao-Ming Gao and Hong-Min Zhu
A Corpus-based Computational Approach to Sense Clustering in Chinese

10:25: Break

Session 1 (356):

11:00:
Joseph Emonds
Strict vs. Permissive Merging in NorthGermanic PPs

11.45:
Veronika Hegedűs
P heads in Hungarian complex events

Session 2 (315a):

11:00:
Anna Szeteli and Gábor Alberti
The pragmasemantic contribution of the ''noise word'' hát in Hungarian, which
can mean everything and its opposite

11:45:
Olga Kagan
On the Semantics of Translative Case in Finnish

12:30: Lunch

14:00:
Plenary: Anikó Lipták
Identifying identity conditions in and outside ellipsis: a case study of
Hungarian

Session 1 (356):

15:15:
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
Gender distribution and numeral micro-macro variation

Session 2 (315a):

15:15:
Tamás Biró
Harmonic Grammar growing into Optimality Theory: Maturation as the strict
domination limit (or vice-versa)

15:55: Break

Session 1 (356):

16:30:
Manuela Ambar
How much discourse is there in the licensing of subjunctive? A cross
linguistic puzzle.

Session 2 (315a):

16:30:
Gábor Alberti
The Hungarian Contrastive VP-focus and Mirror-Focus Constructions

Saturday 3 June:

Session 1 (356):

9:00: Tamás Halm - Free-Choice Items and Imperatives in Hungarian and Beyond
9:45: György Rákosi - A curious Hungarian imposter in camouflage

Session 2 (315a):

9:00:
Ágnes Tóth
The role of the Funtional Heads in Hungarian PP Recursion Free

9:45:
Michaela Čakányová
Embedded Infinitivals & Factivity Entailment

10:25: Break

Session 1 (356)

11:00:
Anja Šarić
DP hypothesis in Russian and Serbo-Croatian: evidence from arguments of nouns

11:45:
Symkovych Oksana
On the Imperfective Future in Ukrainian

Session 2 (315a):

11:00:
Nedzad Leko, Nermina Cordalija and Ivana Jovovic
Phrasal or clausal conjunction? – postverbal conjoined subjects in Bosnian/
Croatian/ Serbian: an experimental study

11:45:
Mojmír Dočekal and Jakub Dotlacil
Strong NPIs vs. n-words: acceptability experiment in Czech





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