Program -- 2nd Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics

[Andrea Sims]

2nd Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics

November 6-7, 2004

George Wells Knight House
The Ohio State University
104 E. 15th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210

Saturday November 6, 2004

9:00-9:45 Continental breakfast and registration
9:45-10:00 Welcoming remarks, Dr. Daniel Collins, OSU Slavic Dept. Chair
10:00-12:00 Panel 1: Semantics and Pragmatics

“Phatic speech in Chekhov’s plays”
Miriam Whiting, Ohio State University

“Inherent quantification of Russian indefinite pronouns”
Elizabeth Krawczyk

“Salience of semantic features in the Russian verbs of motion”
Larissa Bondarchuk, Ohio State University

“Linguistic realization of politeness in Russian requests”
Xinran Dong, Ohio State University

12:00-1:00 Lunch (a catered lunch will be provided)
1:00-3:00 Panel 2: Syntax

“Infinitive is difficult to lose”
Bojan Belic, Ohio State University

“’To move or not to move’: On the interaction between multiple wh-movement
and left-branch extraction in Serbo-Croatian”
Gerardo Fernandez-Salgiero, University of Michigan

“Multiple sluicing in Russian”
Lydia Grebenyova, University of Maryland

“Czech and Russian contradictions of the ‘Transitivity Hypothesis’”
Mark Nuckols, Ohio State University

3:00-3:15 Coffee break
3:15-4:45 Panel 3: Phonology and Sociology of Language

“Productivity in Polish o-raising”
Maciej Baranowski and Gene Buckley, University of Pennsylvania

“The origins of the Glagolitic alphabet”
Andrew Kier, Ohio State University

“Current macrosociolinguistic issues in the education of the Turkish
minority in Bulgaria”
Diana Marinova, Georgetown University

6:30-9:30 Dinner party


Sunday November 7, 2004

8:30-9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00-10:30 Panel 4: Morphology

“Assignment of genitive in constructions of Russian container nouns”
Christopher Becker, University of Michigan

“When prefixes become adverbs”
Vyara Istratkova, University of Tromso

“Bolstering loss of the Čakavian genitive plural”
Andrea Sims, Ohio State University

10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:45 Panel 5: Second Language Acquisition

“Lost in between: The case of Russian heritage speakers”
Ludmila Isurin and Tanya Ivanova, Ohio State University

“Form and meaning in the interlanguage development of Russian case”
Jennifer Sanders, Indiana University

“Cognates in First Language Loss”
Maria Alley, Ohio State University

“Description in Russian at the intermediate-high level: Comparison of
syntactic complexity in students' oral descriptions delivered in the Oral
Proficiency Interview and Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview”
Julia Mikhailova, Ohio State University

12:45-1:00 Closing remarks


This conference has been made possible through the generous support of the
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at Ohio
State University.

Additional details are available from
www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~asims/colloquium.html or by emailing the organizers:

Tanya Ivanova (ivanova.1 at osu.edu)
Natalie Mykysey (mykysey.1 at osu.edu)
Andrea Sims (asims at ling.ohio-state.edu)
Miriam Whiting (whiting.33 at osu.edu)

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