Slavic Linguistics Society Conference, June 10-12

Daniel Collins collins.232 at OSU.EDU
Wed Jun 4 19:24:27 UTC 2008


Third Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-3)
Columbus, Ohio, June 10–12, 2008

Tuesday, June 10
9:00            Conference  
Opening                                                             
180 Hagerty
                         Brian D. Joseph, Distinguished University  
Professor of Linguistics  
and                                                 Kenneth E. Naylor  
Professor of South Slavic Linguistics

                         John Roberts, Dean of the College of Humanities

                         Daniel E. Collins, Chair, Department of  
Slavic and East  
European                                                              
Languages and Literatures


9:30–10:30            Parallel Sessions I
Ia            Language and  
Mentality                                                180 Hagerty
Chair:            Vladimir Manakin (University of Illinois at Chicago/ 
Zaporizhzhia National University)
9:30–10:00            Andrew J. Kier (Ohio State University), The  
Power of Words in Medieval Slavia Orthodoxa
10:00–10:30            Elena Koudinova (San Antonio, Texas), Heads  
or Tails:  Clarifying Cultural Choices

Ib            Cognitive  
Linguistics                                                100  
Mendenhall
Chair:            Mark Nuckols (Ohio State University)
9:30–10:00            Eugenia Antić (University of California,  
Berkeley), Russian Verbal Prefixes and Bare Accusatives: A Cognitive  
Treatment
10:00–10:30            Masako U. Fidler (Brown University),  
Associative Links between Suffixes and Onomatopoeia in Czech

10:30–10:45             
Break                                                                    
                  Hagerty Lobby

10:45–11:45             Plenary  
Session                                                             
180 Hagerty

                         Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago),  
Syntax as a Collaborative Enterprise: Evidence from Russian Conversation


11:45–1:15            Lunch

1:15–2:45            Parallel Sessions II
IIa            Issues in Slavic Syntax  
1                                                180 Hagerty
Chair:             Anton Zimmerling (Moscow State University of  
Humanities/Russian State University of Humanities)
1:15–1:45            Oksana Skorniakova (Ohio State University),  
Dative "Subjects" in the Light of Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument  
Selection
1:45–2:15            Vasil Mostrov (University of Lille 3),  
Syntactic features of Inalienable Possession in the French “have  
+SC” and the Bulgarian “be with” structures
2:15–2:45            E. Allyn Smith (Ohio State University),  
Multiple Compared Correlations in Serbo-Croatian

IIb            Russian  
Morphosyntax                                                100  
Mendenhall
Chair:            Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)
1:15–1:45            Natalie D. Mauser Carter (Ohio State  
University), Synchronic Usage of the Partitive Genitive in Russian
1:45–2:15            Jens Nørgård-Sørensen (University of  
Copenhagen), Animacy as the dominant grammatical category of the noun  
in modern Russian
2:15–2:45            S. Spencer Robinson (Ohio State University),  
Revisiting Timberlake: A Look at the Role of Word Order in Genitive  
of Negation in Russian

2:45–3:00             
Break                                                                    
                  Hagerty Lobby

3:00–4:30            Parallel Sessions III
IIIa            Grammatical and Lexical  
Aspect                                    180 Hagerty
Chair:             Larysa Stepanova (Ohio State University)
3:00–3:30            George Rubinstein (University of North Carolina  
at Chapel Hill), Aspectual Clusters of Russian Sound Verbs
3:30–4:00            Jadwiga Stawnicka (University of Silesia),  
"Семантико-словообразовательная  
категория Aktionsarten в русском и   
польском языках"
4:00–4:30            Andrei A. Gorbov (St. Petersburg State  
University), Aktionsarten (Sposoby Dejstvija) and Lexical Aspect in  
Russian

IIIb            Historical  
Syntax                                                            100  
Mendenhall
Chair:            Brian Joseph (Ohio State University)
3:00–3:30            M. Arantxa Martin-Lozano (Ohio State  
University), Presentational Sentences in Old Church Slavonic and New  
Testament Greek
3:30–4:00            Krzysztof Migdalski (University of  
Connecticut), Diachronic motivation for the existence of two forms of  
perfective auxiliaries in Polish
4:00–4:30            Olga M. Mladenova (University of Calgary), Did  
the Loss of Case Lead to the Rise of the Definite Article in Bulgarian?

4:30–4:45                
Break                                                                    
                  Hagerty Lobby

4:45–6:45            Parallel Sessions IV
IVa             
Clitics                                                                  
                    180 Hagerty
Chair:            Steven Franks (Indiana University)
4:45–5:15            Anton Zimmerling (Moscow State University of  
Humanities/Russian State University of Humanities), The Emergence of  
2nd-Position Clitics in Slavic and the Order of Cliticization
5:15–5:45            Jirka Hana (Ohio State University), The  
Position of Czech Clitics
5:45–6:15            Bostjan Dvorak (Zentrum für Allgemeine  
Sprachwissenschaft), Petr Homola (Institute of Formal and Applied  
Linguistics, Charles University), and Krzysztof Migdalski (University  
of Connecticut), Three Accounts of the 3rd Person Singular in Slavic
6:15–6:45            E. Wayles Browne (Cornell University), Clitic  
Ordering in Vojvodina Rusinski

IVb            Balkan  
Linguistics                                                            1 
00 Mendenhall
Chair:             Iliana Krapova (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice)
4:45–5:15            Brian Joseph (Ohio State University),  
Scientific implications of Balkan glossonymy
5:15–5:45            Anastasia Smirnova (Ohio State University),  
Semantics of Embedded Tense in the Balkan Subjunctive: A Comparative  
Analysis of Bulgarian and Albanian
5:45–6:15            Matthew C. Curtis (Ohio State University), Four  
of a Kind?  Periphrastic Perfect Formations in Southwestern Balkan  
Dialects
6:15–6:45            Elena Petroska (Indiana University),  
Evidentiality and Factivity in Macedonian

7:00             
Reception                                                                
          Faculty  
Club                                                                     
                                          Grand Ballroom
Wednesday, June 11
9:00–10:30            Parallel Sessions V
Va            Phonology of  
Boundaries                                                180 Hagerty
Chair:             Miriam Whiting (Ohio State University)
9:00–9:30            Robert Daland (Northwestern University), Word  
Segmentation in Russian and English: A Computational Comparison
9:30–10:00            Paula Orzechowska (Adam Mickiewicz  
University), Polish Morphotactics: Aspects of Complexity
10:00–10:30            Paula Orzechowska and Marcin Kilarski (Adam  
Mickiewicz University), Word-final Phonotactics and Gender Assignment  
in Polish and German

Vb            Historical  
Morphology                                                100 Mendenhall
Chair:            Matthew Curtis (Ohio State University)
9:00–9:30            Kyongjoon Kwon (Harvard University), “Verbal  
Pronouns” in Old North Russian
9:30–10:00            Bill Darden (University of Chicago), N-infixed/ 
suffixed Inchoatives in Balto-Slavic
10:00–10:30            James Pennington (Ohio State University), O  
tomu, o tom, or o tome? Enigmatic Variability in the BCS Dative/ 
Locative Masculine/Neuter Adjectival Ending

10:30–10:45             
Break                                                                    
                  Hagerty Lobby

10:45–11:45             Plenary  
Session                                                             
180 Hagerty

                         Henning Andersen (University of California,  
Los Angeles), Language Contacts in Early Slavic and Baltic


11:45–1:15            Lunch

1:15–2:45            Parallel Sessions VI
VIa            Russian  
Semantics                                                             
180 Hagerty
Chair:            Jadwiga Stawnicka (University of Silesia)
1:15–1:45            Alina Israeli (American University),  
Tautologies in Russian
1:45–2:15            Alexei Shmelev and Irina Levontina (Russian  
Academy of Sciences), Semantics of Russian “Parasitical Words”
2:15–2:45            Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford University), Russian  
-nibud’ Items as Dependent Indefinites

VIb            Language  
Acquisition                                                100  
Mendenhall
Chair:            Maria Alley (Ohio State University)
1:15–1:45            Gordana Dobrovac (University of Zagreb), Case  
Acquisition in Croatian as a Second Language: An Electrophysiological  
Investigation
1:45–2:15            Ludmila Isurin (Ohio State University), What Do  
Controls Control for? Methodological Implications for Studies on L1  
Attrition/ L2 Acquisition
2:15–2:45            Lydia Grebenyova (Baylor University), Multiple  
Interrogatives and Learnability

2:45–3:00            Break                        Hagerty Lobby

3:00–5:00            Parallel Sessions VII
VIIa            Issues in Slavic Syntax  
2                                                180 Hagerty
Chair:             Jan Hajic (Institute of Formal and Applied  
Linguistics, Charles University)
3:00–3:30            Christian T. Hilchey (University of Chicago),  
Realizations of the Predicate in Czech Distributive Verbs
3:30–4:00            Zdenka Uresova (Institute of Formal and Applied  
Linguistics, Charles University), Diathesis and Transformations of  
Surface Expressions of Valency Arguments
4:00–4:30            Hakyung Jung (Harvard University),  
Prepositional Complementizers as the Source of Dative of Obligation
4:30–5:00            James E. Lavine (Bucknell University), On the  
Source of Accusative in Ukrainian Impersonals

VIIb            Sociolinguistics and  
Pragmatics                                    100 Mendenhall
Chair:             Daniel E. Collins (Ohio State University)
3:00–3:30            Eva Eckert (Connecticut College), Community  
“translation” in the immigrant press
3:30–4:00            Robert Fojtik (Northwestern University),  
Semantics, Grammar and Homosexual Identity in Post-Soviet Russia
4:00–4:30            Larysa Stepanova (Ohio State University),  
Surzhyk: It's All About Perception
4:30–5:00            Miriam Whiting (Ohio State University),  
Hybrids, WYSIWYGs, and Other Types of Business Names in Tomsk, Russia

5:15              Slavic Linguistics Society Business  
Meeting            180 Hagerty

7:00            Conference  
Dinner                                                             
Hagerty Courtyard

Thursday, June 12

9:30–10:30            Parallel Sessions VIII
VIIIa            Issues in Slavic Syntax  
3                                                180 Hagerty
Chair:             E. Wayles Browne (Cornell University)
9:30–10:00            Miloje Despić (University of Connecticut), On  
the Structure of NP in Serbo-Croatian: Evidence from Binding
10:00–10:30            Bożena Cetnarowska (University of Silesia),  
Agnieszka Pysz (Adam Mickiewicz University), and Helen Trugman (Holon  
Institute of Technology), How Fixed is Postnominal Position of  
Classificatory Adjectives in Polish?

VIIIb            Historical  
Phonology                                                             
100 Mendenhall
Chair:             Christin Wilson (Ohio State University)
9:30–10:00            Christina Y. Bethin (Stony Brook University),  
How Akan’e Spreads: Perceptual Salience and Language Change
10:00–10:30            Rachel Klippenstein (Ohio State University),  
Word-initial Consonant Clusters in Albanian

10:30–10:45             
Break                                                                    
                  Hagerty Lobby

10:45–11:45             Plenary  
Session                                                             
180 Hagerty

                         Peter Culicover (Ohio State University),  
Syntactic Nuts, Core and Periphery, and Universal Grammar


11:45–1:15            Lunch

IXa            Syntax of Subordinate  
Clauses                                      180 Hagerty
Chair:             Bożena Cetnarowska (University of Silesia)
1:15–1:45            Iliana Krapova (University Ca’ Foscari of  
Venice), Bulgarian Relative Clauses with the Invariant Complementizer  
deto ‘that’
1:45–2:15            Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College), On the  
“Relative Marker” -to
2:15–2:45            Bora Kim (Indiana University), Non-finite  
Complements in Russian and Serbian/Croatian
2:45–3:15            Joanna Błaszczak (University of Potsdam), The  
End of the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) ante portas?

IXb             
Morphology                                                               
           100 Mendenhall
Chair:            Andrea Sims (Northwestern University/Ohio State  
University)
1:15–1:45            Gilbert Rappaport (University of Texas), Toward  
a Multi-Level Theory of Slavic Morphology: Examining the Construct of  
an Inflectional Class
1:45–2:15            Elena Boudovskaia (Columbia University), I-stem  
Pluralia Tantum Nouns as a New Declension Class in the  
Transcarpathian Ukrainian Dialects
2:15–2:45            Frank Y. Gladney (University of Illinois at  
Urbana-Champaign), On Syncretism in Czech Nominal Declension
2:45–3:15            Angelo Costanzo (Ohio State University), Slavic  
Influence on  Balkan-Romance Conjugational Class Systems

3:15–3:30             
Break                                                                    
                  Hagerty Lobby

3:30–5:00            Parallel Sessions X
Xa            WH- 
Questions                                                             
180 Hagerty
Chair:             Peter Culicover (Ohio State University)
3:30–4:00            Steven Franks (Indiana University) and Nina  
Rojina (University of Geneva), Idiosyncrasies of Russian kakogo  
čerta ‘Why the Hell’
4:00–4:30            Natalia Kondrashova (University of Michigan),  
Negated WH-items in Russian: Semantic and Syntactic Puzzles
4:30–5:00            Vedrana Mihalicek (Ohio State University),  
Processing Explanations of Superiority Effects and the Order of WH- 
phrases in Serbo-Croatian

Xb            Historical Semantics and  
Lexicography                        100 Mendenhall
Chair:             Lauren Ressue (Ohio State University)
3:30–4:00            Per Ambrosiani (Umeå University), Multilingual  
toponyms in North-West Russia
4:00–4:30            Daniel Collins (Ohio State University), Living  
to Fight Another Day: On the Semantic History of Slavic věkъ
4:30–5:00            Vladimir Manakin (University of Illinois at  
Chicago/Zaporizhzhia National University) and Natalya Manakina  
(Zaporizhzhia National University), Slavic  Contrastive Lexicology as  
a Subject of Study

Conference  
Closing                                                                  
                    180 Hagerty

Daniel Collins, Chair
Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
400 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1340



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