25.3687, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Historical Ling, Language Acquisition/Austria

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Subject: 25.3687, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Historical Ling, Language Acquisition/Austria

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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:58:21
From: Remus Gergel [remus.gergel at uni-graz.at]
Subject: SinFonIJA 7

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SinFonIJA 7 

Date: 25-Sep-2014 - 27-Sep-2014 
Location: Graz, Austria 
Contact: Andreas Blümel 
Contact Email: andreas.bluemel at uni-graz.at 
Meeting URL: https://anglistik.uni-graz.at/index.php?id=27231 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

General Description:

SinFonIJA is a formal linguistics conference organized each year by a different institution in southeastern Europe, including the area of former Yugoslavia, Austria and Hungary, covering all major areas of theoretical linguistics. Previous successful editions took place in Sarajevo (2009), Novi Sad (2010), Budapest (2011), Vienna (2012) and Niš (2013). The section of theoretical linguistics at the Department of English is pleased to announce that the 7th instantiation will take place at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria, on September 25-27 2014. 

Thursday, September 25 

9:00-10:00
Anthony Kroch & Beatrice Santorini
On the Word Order of Early Old  French

10:00-10:35
Martin Salzmann
213 verb clusters exist. Evidence from new diagnostics to distinguish V(P)R and the 3rd construction: Misplaced z(u) and short relative clause extraposition in (Swiss) German

10:50-11:25
Boban Arsenijevic
Two DPs in a language without articles

11:25-12:00
Andreas Trotzke & Yvonne Viesel
DP-internal discourse particles, illocutionary force, and specificity

14:00-15:00
Katalin É. Kiss & Tamás Zétényi
Children's scope interpretation of doubly quantified sentences and the problem of isomorphism

15:00-15:35
Aritz Irurtzun
Split Wh-questions in Basque: Sluicing vs. Multidominance

15:50-16:25
Lanko Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Vesna Plesnicar, Tina Razborsek & Tina Šuligoj
On a potential counter-example to Merchant's Sluicing-COMP generalization

16:25-17:00
Anna Gazdik & Veronika Hegedűs
Agreeing Invariable Adjectives in French

18:00
Poster Reception:

Leah S Bauke: New insights from small clause (sub)extraction in Russian
Muamera Begovic: Coordination and subject-verb agreement in Serbo Croatian: New insights
Doreen Georgi & Martin Salzmann: A locality argument for top-down derivation: Resumptive drop and case attraction
Sabina Halupka-Rešetar & Neda Todorović: Serbian verbs and nouns front to be expressive
Ivan Kapitonov: Two strategies for one threat: Underspecification in expressive content
Tatjana Marvin: External Argument Nominalization with Complement Structure in Slovenian
Marcin Wągiel: Plural markers and classifiers. Semantic analysis of the Polish measure word  ''para''
Mihaela Zamfirescu: How different types of PPIs are licensed in Romanian

Friday, September 26

9:00-10:00
Daniel Büring
Control in Nominal Complements

10:00-10:35
Sarah Zobel
Voldemort Phrases in generics -- on seemingly impersonal uses of 3rd sg.  pronouns

10:50-11:25
Franci Vaupotic, Artur Stepanov & Rok Zaucer
Full and reduced relative clauses and  relative clause attachment preferences

11:25-12:00
Balázs Surányi, Veronika Hegedűs & Jutta M. Hartmann: Agree in copula-support:  Evidence from Hungarian

12:00-14:00
Poster Session:

Lior Laks (alternate): The Cost of Change: Plural Formation of Loan Words in Arabic
Ales Bican: The distribution of vocalic quantity in Czech
Man-Ni Chu: An ongoing coda change of Taiwan Southern Min
Pavel Koval & Alёna Aksёnova: Tolerance of underspecification in Karachai-Balkar
Ineke Mennen, Robert Mayr & Jonathan Morris: Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: the case of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English
Branimir Stankovic: Serbo-Croatian short adjectives in definite contexts - Focus inside NP/DP
Ildikó Emese Szabó: Low Vowel ''Lengthening'' in Hungarian

14:00-15:00
Hubert Truckenbrodt & Beste Kamali
On identifying the wh-feature with the F-Feature

15:20-15:55
Berit Gehrke & Cristina Marco
Passive psych predicates

15:55-16:30
Olga Borik
Argument realization of long form adjectives and participles in Russian

Saturday, September 27

9:00-9:35
Lior Laks, Evan-Gary Cohen & Stav Azulay: What are we faithful to? On vowel  epenthesis and variation (or lack thereof) in Hebrew verbs 

9:35-10:10
Matic Pavlic
The parameters that set word order in Slovenian Sign Language

10:25-11:00
Mingya Liu
Interpreting ''chadian mei'' 

11:00-12:00
Regine Eckardt
The parameters of indirect speech

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