15.3120, Confs: General Ling/Slavic/Columbus, OH, USA

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Date: 03-Nov-2004
From: Andrea Sims < sims.120 at osu.edu >
Subject: 2nd Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics


	
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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 22:03:04
From: Andrea Sims < sims.120 at osu.edu >
Subject: 2nd Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics


2nd Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics

Date: 06-Nov-2004 - 07-Nov-2004
Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Contact: Andrea Sims
Contact Email: sims.120 at osu.edu

Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup

Meeting Description:

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures and
the Dobro Slovo Chapter at Ohio State University are pleased to host the
Second Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics.  The goals of the
conference are to establish connections between graduate students, share
research, and to encourage the study of Slavic linguistics.  Submissions
from any graduate student working in Slavic linguistics are welcomed.

2nd Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics

November 6-7, 2004

George Wells Knight House
The Ohio State University
104 E. 15th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210

Saturday November 6, 2004

9:00-9:45	Continental breakfast and registration
9:45-10:00	Welcoming remarks, Dr. Daniel Collins, OSU Slavic Dept. Chair
10:00-12:00	Panel 1: Semantics and Pragmatics

''Phatic speech in Chekhov's plays'' (Miriam Whiting, Ohio State University)

''Inherent quantification of Russian indefinite pronouns'' (Elizabeth Krawczyk)

''Salience of semantic features in the Russian verbs of motion'' (Larissa
Bondarchuk, Ohio State University)

''Linguistic realization of politeness in Russian requests'' (Xinran Dong,
Ohio State University)
		
12:00-1:00	Lunch (a catered lunch will be provided)
1:00-3:00	Panel 2: Syntax

''Infinitive is difficult to lose'' (Bojan Belic, Ohio State University)

'''To move or not to move': On the interaction between multiple wh-movement
and left-branch extraction in Serbo-Croatian'' (Gerardo Fernandez-Salgiero,
University of Michigan)

''Multiple sluicing in Russian'' (Lydia Grebenyova, University of Maryland)

''Czech and Russian contradictions of the 'Transitivity Hypothesis''' (Mark
Nuckols, Ohio State University)

3:00-3:15	Coffee break
3:15-4:45	Panel 3: Phonology and Sociology of Language

''Productivity in Polish o-raising'' (Maciej Baranowski and Gene Buckley,
University of Pennsylvania)

''The origins of the Glagolitic alphabet'' (Andrew Kier, Ohio State University)

''Current macrosociolinguistic issues in the education of the Turkish
minority in Bulgaria'' (Diana Marinova, Georgetown University)

6:00-9:30	Dinner party

Sunday November 7, 2004

8:30-9:00	Continental breakfast
9:00-10:30	Panel 4: Morphology

''Assignment of genitive in constructions of Russian container nouns''
(Christopher Becker, University of Michigan)

''When prefixes become adverbs'' (Vyara Istratkova, University of Tromso)

''Bolstering loss of the Cakavian genitive plural'' (Andrea Sims, Ohio State
University)

10:30-10:45	Coffee break
10:45-12:45	Panel 5: Second Language Acquisition

''Lost in between: The case of Russian heritage speakers'' (Ludmila Isurin
and Tanya Ivanova, Ohio State University)

''Form and meaning in the interlanguage development of Russian case''
(Jennifer Sanders, Indiana University)

''Cognates in First Language Loss'' (Maria Alley, Ohio State University)

''Description in Russian at the intermediate-high level: Comparison of
syntactic complexity in students' oral descriptions delivered in the Oral
Proficiency Interview and Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview'' (Julia
Mikhailova, Ohio State University)

12:45-1:00	Closing remarks


This conference has been made possible through the generous support of the
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at Ohio
State University.

Additional details are available from
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~asims/colloquium.html

or by emailing the organizers:

Tanya Ivanova (ivanova.1 at osu.edu)
Natalie Mykysey (mykysey.1 at osu.edu)
Andrea Sims (asims at ling.ohio-state.edu)
Miriam Whiting (whiting.33 at osu.edu)




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