Program: NW Conference on Slavic Linguistics

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             FIRST NORTHWEST CONFERENCE ON SLAVIC LINGUISTICS

                        Saturday, May 17, 1997
             109 Friendly Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR


Co-sponsors: University of Oregon Department of Russian, University of
Washington Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Oregon Humanities
Center

Keynote speaker: Horace G. Lunt, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic
Linguistics (Emer.), Harvard University



                          Preliminary Program


8:00-8:30  Refreshments and Introduction


Panel I:   Syntax and Stress (chair: George Fowler, Indiana University)


8:30-9:00     "Restrictions on Focus Assignment and Discontinuous NPs in
Russian: Evidence from Sentence Processing"
                   Irina Sekerina, CUNY Graduate Center

9:00-9:30     "Vowel Harmony and Syllable Structure in the Bulgarian
Definite
Article"
                   Loren Billings, Institute f=FCr Slavistik, Universit=E4t =
Leipzig

9:30-10:00    "'Syntactic Homonyms' and Quantification in Russian"
                   Dick House, Marlboro College

10:00-10:30   "Minor Syllables in Polish and Kashubian"
                   Paul Hopkins, University of Victoria (Canada)



10:30-11:00   BREAK



Panel II:  Aspect, Tense and Mood (chair: David Andrews, Georgetown Universi=
ty)


11:00-11:30    "Moch' and Smoch': Their Semantics and 'Aspectual' Relationsh=
ip"
                    Sung-ho Choi, Chungbuk National University (Korea)

11:30-12:00    "Assymetry in Czech and Russian Conditionals"
                    Masako Ueda, Brown University

12:00-12:30    "Aspect and Tense in Czech Determinate Motion Verbs"
                    Jason Pontius, University of Chicago



12:30-2:00    LUNCH (with optional visit to Russian icon collection,
University of Oregon Art Museum)



Panel III:    Morphology and Lexicon  (chair: David J. Birnbaum, University
of Pittsburgh)


2:00-2:30     "The Lexicon of Russian Old Believers"
                   Tamara L=F6nngren, University of Troms=F8 (Norway)

2:30-3:00     "Slavic *u-stems and Their Geographical Distribution"
                   Tim Beasley, University of California/Los Angeles

3:00-3:30     "Russian Prefixal Semantics and Types of Grammar"
                   Charles Greer, University of California/Berkeley

3:30-4:00     "Syntactic vs. Semantic Prepositions in Russian"
                   Lennart L=F6nngren, University of Troms=F8 (Norway)



4:00-4:15    BREAK


Panel IV:    Case and Animacy  (chair: Olga T. Yokoyama, Univ. of
California/ Los Angeles)


4:15-4:45    "Reference Conditions on the Czech Dative of Interest"
                   Katerina Krivinkova, Harvard University/Cornell Universit=
y

4:45-5:15    "Conventionalized Linking Patterns: From Meaning to Form to
(New)
Meaning"
                   Mirjam Fried, University of California/Berkeley

5:15-5:45    "Grammatical Animacy in West Slavic"
                   Timothy G. Riley, University of Washington



5:45-7:00    BREAK


7:00-8:00    Dinner, The Gazebo Restaurant, 19th Ave. and University St.

8:00-9:00    Concluding Address:  Horace G. Lunt, Samuel Hazzard Cross
Professor of Slavic Linguistics (Emer.), Harvard University



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Conference fee: $25. For information on registration, hotel/travel, dinner,
and optional Crater Lake excursion (Sunday, May 18), see
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~russian/conference.html, or contact
vakarel at oregon.uoregon.edu.