12.732, Confs: Acme Balkanica

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Subject: 12.732, Confs: Acme Balkanica

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Date:  Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:01:45 -0500
From:  Charles <reiss at alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject:  Acme Balkanica Conference

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Date:  Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:01:45 -0500
From:  Charles <reiss at alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject:  Acme Balkanica Conference

The Acme Balkanica Conference will be held at Concordia University in
Montreal from April 27-29, 2001. For accommodations information and
program updates check the webpage at
http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/abc/index.html

Program

                                                  Friday, April 27

10:00-10:40       Alex Grosu (Tel Aviv): Intentional modifiers and
transparent free relatives in Balkan and other languages
10:40-11:20       Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse): On Free and Headed
Relative Clauses in Turkish and their Constraints

Break

11:30-12:10      Antonia Androustopoulou (Laval): On the sentential
character of Greek genitive arguments
12:10-12:50      Penka Stateva (UConn): Possessive clitics and the
structure of nominal expressions
12:50-1:30        Manuel Espanol-Echevarria (Laval): Adverb
Incorporation in Balkan languages

Lunch

3:00-3:40          Olga Arnaudova (Ottawa): Prosody, Focus and Bulgarian
Clause Structure
3:40-4:20         Mariana Lambova (UConn): A note on the representation
of focus and topic in Bulgarian

Break

4:30-5:10          Virginia Hill (New Brunswick): Oare, li, discourse
features and syntax
5:10-6:00         Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford): Moved and In Situ Focus in
Greek

                                                 Saturday, April 28

9:00-9:40        Anna Szabolcsi (NYU): Positive polarity from a
cross-linguistic perspective
9:40-10:20      Bert Vaux (Harvard): There was and there wasn't a Balkan
Sprachbund

Break

10:30-11:10      Brian Joseph (OSU): On defining `word' in Greek and
other Balkan languages
11:10-11:50      Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)  & Angela Ralli (Patras):
On Morphological Proper Form: Evidence from Greek Compounds
11:50-12:30      Mihaela Pirvulescu & Yves Roberge (Toronto): On the
verbal morphology of Romanian

Lunch

2:00-2:40          Donka Farkas (Santa Cruz): Types of indefinites in
Romanian
2:40-3:20          Nick Bibis (Toronto): Clitics in idiomatic
expressions and some Subject-Object Asymmetries in Modern Greek
3:20-4:00         Klaus Abels (UConn): Clitics as complements of
prepositions - What Serbo-Croatian tells us about preposition stranding

Break

4:10-5:10           Invited speaker: Alexandra Cornilescu (Bucharest):
Phases and Information Structure in Romanian

Dinner Party: Time and Place to be announced.


                                                  Sunday, April 29

9:30-10:10        Gabriela Alboiu (Manitoba/Bucharest): The Features of
Movement in Romanian
10:10-10:50       Alexandra Cornilescu (Bucharest) & Iliyana Krapova
(Plovdiv/Venice): Moving into the Left Periphery in Bulgarian and
Romanian

Break

11:00-11:40         Daniela Isac (Concordia/UQAM) & Edit Jakab
(Concordia/Princeton/UQAM): Balkan Moods
11:40-12:20        Marisa Rivero (Ottawa): On Dative Existential
Disclosure in Balkan Languages

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Charles Reiss
Associate Professor
Linguistics Program
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve W.
Montreal H3G 1M8
Canada
514 848-2310 (office)
514 848-8679 (fax)
514 842-5669 (home)
reiss at alcor.concordia.ca


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