5th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics - Program

[Anastasia Smirnova]

Dear colleagues,
Please forward this information to whoever may be interested in attending
this event.

Thank you!

Anastasia Smirnova
The Ohio State University
Department of Linguistics
1712 Neil Ave, Oxley Hall 200
Columbus, OH 43210-1298 

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5th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics
September 29th, 2007

The Ohio State University
George Wells Knight House 
104 East 15th Avenue 
Columbus OH 43201

Program 

Coffee and social mingling 9:00 – 9:30 

Opening Remarks: 9:35 – 9:45 a.m. 

Panel 1: Socio and contact linguistics – Borrowings into Russian (9:45 –
11:15 a.m.)
Chair: Spencer Robinson

9:45 – 10:15   	Miriam Whiting, The Ohio State University. Business names in
Tomsk 
      10:15 – 10:45 	Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina, SUNY at Stony Brook.  Russian
Loanword Phonology: A Phonetic Account	
      10:45 – 11:15	 	Susan Vdovichenko, The Ohio State University. Спикаешь
Инглиш? English loanwords in 					Contemporary Standard Russian and their
place in the study of historical linguistics

Break: 11: 15 – 11:30 a.m.

Panel 2: Syntax and Semantics (11:30 – 1:30 p.m.)
Chair: Oxana Skorniakova

11:30 – 12:00 	Irina Agafonova, Michigan State University.  "(A)symmetric
Conjunctions as (Non-)Anaphoric Pro-forms"
 12:00 – 12:30 	 Andrei Antonenko, SUNY at Stony Brook.
Indicative-Subjunctive Distinction in Russian and its Consequences for
Long-Distance Scrambling
12:30 – 1:00 	Vedrana Mihalicek, The Ohio State University.   The ordering
of wh words in multiple wh extractions in Serbo-Croatian
  

Lunch: 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Panel 3: Slavic in the context of Balkan Linguistics (2:15 – 3:45 p.m.)
Chair: Anastasia Smirnova

2:15 – 2:45 	 Monica-Alexandrina Irimia, University of Toronto.  Asking
questions in Romanian
2:45 – 3:15 	Angelo Costanzo, The Ohio State University.  The role of
language contact in the expansion of a  Romanian  conjugational (sub-)class
3:15 – 3:45 	Matthew Curtis, The Ohio State University. Evidence for
Albanian imposition on Macedonian and Montenegrin dialects 

Break: 3:45 – 4:00 p.m.

Panel 4: Historical Linguistics (4:00 – 6:00 p.m.)
Chair:  Matthew Curtis

4:00 – 4:30 	Andrew Dombrowski, University of Chicago.  Ancient Dialect
Continua and the Old North Russian Dialect
4:30 – 5:00                  Andrew J. Kier, The Ohio State University. Four
Non-Canonical Prayers in a South Slavic Trebnik (Hilandar HM.SMS 378)”
5:00 – 5:30                  Josh Pennington, The Ohio State University.
Chewing on the BCS future

Closing Remarks: Prof. D. Collins, Department of Slavic and East European
Languages and Literatures, OSU  
 
Reception: 6:00 p. m. 

Organizers: Anastasia Smirnova (smirnova at ling.ohio-state.edu); Matthew
Curtis (curtis.199 at osu.edu)

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