21.1736, Confs: Slavic, Syntax/USA

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Subject: 21.1736, Confs: Slavic, Syntax/USA

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Date: 09-Apr-2010
From: Ewan Dunbar < emd at umd.edu >
Subject: A Slavic Perspective on Islands
 

	
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From: Ewan Dunbar [emd at umd.edu]
Subject: A Slavic Perspective on Islands

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A Slavic Perspective on Islands 

Date: 25-Apr-2010 - 25-Apr-2010 
Location: College Park, MD, USA 
Contact: Chris LaTerza 
Contact Email: faslnineteen at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 
Meeting Description: 

This year, as part of the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)
conference, we are hosting a special session that focuses on how the study of
formal Slavic linguistics bears on current theories of syntactic islands.

Invited Speaker:

Hana Filip (University of Florida) 

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!





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