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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