6th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics- Program

[Anastasia Smirnova]

6th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics
October 18th, 2008

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

Program 
Coffee and social mingling: 9:30 – 9:50a.m.

Opening Remarks (9:50 – 10:00a.m.): Brian Joseph, Distinguished University
Professor of Linguistics, and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South
Slavic Linguistics

Panel 1: Historical Linguistics (10:00 – 11:00a.m.)
Chair: Matthew Curtis
10:00 – 10:30  Patricia Gonzalez Almarcha, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
and The Ohio State University. Translation of tyche in Slavic Menandrean
Proverbal Anthology 
10:30 – 11:00  Josh Pennington. The Ohio State University. O tomu, o tom, or
o tome? Enigmatic Variability in the BCS Dative/Locative Masculine/Neuter
Adjectival Ending		
			
Break: 11: 00 – 11:15 a.m.

Panel 2: Russian Morpho-syntax (11:15 a.m. – 12:15a.m.)
Chair: Maggie Gruszczynska
11:15 – 11:45  Oxana Laleko, University of Minnesota.  Ellipsis and polarity
in Russian: A special case of    topicalization 
11:45 – 12:15 Spencer Robinson, The Ohio State University. Before or After:
 Does the Location of the Direct Object Before or After a Negated Verb
Influence the Choice Between Genitive and Accusative?

Lunch: 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.

Panel 3: Socio-linguistics and Language Policy (1:30 – 3:00p.m.)
Chair: Josh Pennington
1:30 – 2:00 Miriam Whiting, The Ohio State University. Historical or
Global?: The Pragmatics of Business Naming in Tomsk, Russia
2:00 – 2:30   Yulia Walsh, The Ohio State University. Classification of New
Anglicisms in Russian 
2:30 – 3:00   Susan Vdovichenko, The Ohio State University. Durku
Vklyuchili! The attitude of Russian speakers in Ukraine towards the
Ukrainian language and its speakers

Break: 3:00– 3:15p.m.

Panel 4: Balkan linguistics (3:15 -4:45)
Chair: Lauren Ressue
3:15 – 3:45  Amanda Greber, University of Toronto. Bukvar: Education,
Socialization and Language Planning
3:45 – 4:15  Matthew  Curtis, The Ohio State University. Slavic-Albanian
Periphrastic Perfect Paradigms: Where Language Contact is been and has been
Perfect
4:15 – 4:45  Angelo Costanzo, The Ohio State University. On Variation in
Megleno-Romanian 1SG/2SG inflectional endings

Break: 4:45– 5:00p.m.

Panel 5:  Plenary Address
5:00 – 6:00	   Andrea Sims, The Ohio State University. When synchronic
motivation disappears: Explaining the persistence of inflectional defectiveness

Reception: 6:00 p. m. 

Organizers: Matthew Curtis (curtis.199 at osu.edu), Maggie Gruszczynska
(gruszczynska.1 at osu.edu), Lauren Ressue (ressue.1 at osu.edu), 
Anastasia Smirnova (smirnova at ling.ohio-state.edu)

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