Slavic Workshop announcement

[E. Wayles Browne]

4th Annual Workshop on
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
May 12-14, 1995

PROGRAM

Friday, May 12
4-6 registration
6 pm opening
6-6:40 Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan
Can Wackernagel Effects Be Derived?
6:40-7:20 Natasha Kondrashova, U. of Wisconsin-
Madison/Cornell U.
WH-movement in Russian: Raising or Scrambling?
break
7:35-8:15 Ewa Dornisch, Cornell U.
Auxiliaries and Functional Projections in Polish
8:15-8:55 Sergey Avrutin & Bernhard Rohrbacher,
U. of Pennsylvania
Null Subjects in Russian Inverted Constructions

Saturday, May 13
9 am-9:40 Galina Alexandrova, U. of Ottawa
The Case for Familiarity in Modern Bulgarian
9:40-10:20 David Embick & Roumyana Izvorski,
U. of Pennsylvania
Participle-Auxiliary Word-Orders in Slavic
10:20-11 Iliyana Krapova, U.of Mass/U. of Plovdiv
Auxiliaries and Complex Tenses in Bulgarian
break
11:15-11:55 Marija Golden, U. of Ljubljana
Multiple WH-Questions in Slovene
11:55-12:35 Roumyana Izvorski, U. of Pennsylvania
Free Relatives and pro-Drop
lunch break

2 pm-2:40 Greville G. Corbett & Norman M. Fraser,
U. of Surrey
A Formal Approach to Slavic Morphology: The
Problem of Syncretism
2:40-3:20 George Fowler, Indiana U.
Prepositions, Prefixes, and Other Mixed
Categories in Russian
break
3:40-4:40 business meeting, followed by:
Invited Speaker.
Bernard Comrie, U. of Southern Calif.
Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages
break
5-5:40 Uwe Junghanns, Forschungsschwerpunkt Allg.
Sprachw. Berlin & Gerhild Zybatow, U. Leipzig
Syntax and Information Structure of Russian
Clauses
5:40-6:20 Maria Polinsky, U. of Southern Calif.
First Language Loss in Relation to First Language
Acquisition
6:20-7 Irina Sekerina, City U. of New York
Scrambling and Ambiguity in Russian Syntactic
Processing
supper break
party

Sunday, May 14
9 am-9:40 Katya Zubritskaya, U. of Pennsylvania
Palatalizations as Coalescence and Correspondence
in OT
9:40-10:20 Michael Yadroff, Indiana U.
Moraic Interpretation of Yers in the Minimalist
Framework
10:20-11 Hong-Keun Park, U. of Southern Calif.
Epenthesis in Polish: Constraints and Their
Interaction
break
11:10-11:50 John Bailyn, State U. NY Stony Brook
Genitive of Negation is Obligatory
11:50-12:30 Sue Brown & Steven Franks, Indiana U.
The Syntax of Pleonastic Negation in Russian
12:30-1:10 Leonard Babby, Princeton U.
Derived Nominals in Russian: Nominalization,
Passivization, and Causativization
closing

Papers should be 30 minutes max. to allow 10 minutes
for discussion.

Information on travel, accommodations in Ithaca etc.
will follow within a few days.

Draga Zec zec at crux1.cit.cornell.edu
Wayles Browne ewb2 at cornell.edu
Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
tel. (Browne) 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)