Fwd: April 23-25: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 19

[Ewan Dunbar]

We are pleased to invite you to the 19th annual Formal Approaches to  
Slavic Linguistics (FASL) meeting, to be held at the University of  
Maryland, College Park. Details and program follow.

Begin forwarded message:

> Date: April 14, 2010 4:45:51 PM EDT
> To: Ewan Dunbar <emd at umd.edu>
> Subject: April 23-25: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 19
>
> FASL 19: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
>
> http://ling.umd.edu/fasl19/
> Contact: faslnineteen at gmail.com
>
> Pre-registration still open (see website for details)
>
>
> April 23-25, 2010
> University of Maryland, College Park
>
> Invited Speakers:
> Hana Filip - University of Florida
> James Lavine - Bucknell University
> Juan Uriagereka - University of Maryland, College Park
>
> Special Session: A Slavic perspective on islands
> This year we are also hosting a special session that focuses on how  
> the study of formal Slavic linguistics bears on current theories of  
> syntactic islands.
>
>
>
>
> Friday, April 23
>
> 9:00–9:45 Registration
>
> 9:45–10:00 Opening Remarks
>
> 10:00–10:40 Sandra Stjepanović (West Virginia University)
>
> Differential Object Marking in Serbo-Croatian: Evidence from Left  
> Branch Extraction in Negative Concord Constructions
>
> 10:40–11:20 Natasha Ivlieva and Alexander Podobryaev (MIT)
>
> How Many Splits in Russian: A View From LF
> 11:20–11:40 Coffee Break
>
> 11:40–12:20 Liudmila Nikolaeva (MIT)
>
> On the Nature of Preverbal Internal Arguments in Russian
> 12:20–1:00 Erin Zaroukian (Johns Hopkins University)
>
> Approximative Inversion Revisited
> 1:00–3:30 Lunch Break
>
> 3:30–4:10 Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (Universytet Wrocławski)
>
> Descriptive and Epistemic Habituality in Polish Syntax and Semantics
> 4:10–4:50 Irina Sekerina (College of Staten Island and CUNY  
> Graduate Center) and Antje Sauermann (University of Potsdam)
>
> Processing of the Quantifier kazhdyj “every” in Russian
> 4:50–5:30 Natalia Fitzgibbons (University of Connecticut)
>
> What -nibud' Items Reveal About Russian
> 5:30–6:00 Coffee Break
>
> 6:00–7:00 Invited Speaker: Hana Filip (University of Florida)
>
> 7:30 Dinner
>
>
>
> Saturday, April 24
>
> 9:00–9:30 Registration and Coffee
> 9:30–10:10 Miloje Despić (University of Connecticut)
>
> Serbo-Croatian Long Form Adjectives: An Alternative Perpective
> 10:10–10:50 Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook University)
>
> Inflectional Base(s) of Russian Imperatives
> 10:50–11:10 Break
>
> 11:10–11:50 Inna Livitz (New York University)
>
> Distinguishing Existentials: Modal Possessive Constructions in Russian
> 11:50–12:30 Barbara Tomaszewicz (University of Southern California)
>
> Wh & Wh: Syntactic and Semantic Arguments for Clausal Coordination
> 12:30–2:00 Lunch Break
>
> 2:00–2:40 Bistra Andreeva (University of the Saarland)
>
> Focus and Prominence in Bulgarian and Russian
> 2:40–3:20 Ivana Mitrović (Stony Brook University)
>
> Is There a Bias Towards a Phonetically Natural Pattern of Velar  
> Palatalization
> 3:20–3:45 Break
>
> 3:45–4:25 Martina Gračanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical  
> University)
>
> What can “teach” teach us about T
> 4:25–5:05 Anne Sturgeon (Harvard University), Boris Harizanov  
> (University of California, Santa Cruz), Ekaterina Kravtchenko, Maria  
> Polinsky, and Carlos Gomez Gallo (Harvard University)
>
> Revisiting the PCC in Czech
> 5:05–5:45 Rebecca Shields (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
>
> Scrambling and the feature-based approach to Minimality
> 5:45–6:00 Break
>
> 6:00–7:00 Invited Speaker: James Lavine (Bucknell University)
>
>
> Sunday, April 25
>
> Special Session on Islands
> 9:30–10:10 Roumyana Pancheva and Barbara Tomaszewicz (University of  
> Southern California)
>
> Variability in vP-Subject Island Violations
> 10:10–10:50 T. Wood Grinsell (University of Chicago)
>
> Lithuanian Modal Comparatives: Implications for the Syntax and  
> Semantics of Comparison in Slavic
> 10:50-11:30 Anne Sturgeon, Ekaterina Kravtchenko, Maria Polinksy,  
> and Carlos Gomez Gallo (Harvard University)
>
> Subject Islands in Slavic: The Syntactic Position Matters!
> 11:30–11:45 Break
>
> 11:45–12:00 Business Meeting
>
> 12:00–1:00 Invited Speaker: Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland)
>
>
>
>

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