Friday, Feb. 27^th

8:30-9:00

start registration/breakfast

9:00-9:30

opening remarks

9:30-10:30          

session I

Syntax of Ā-movement

Chair: Hyeson Park

Steven  Franks, Indiana University, and Catherine Rudin, Wayne State College

Bulgarian clitics as K⁰ heads

Denis Liakin, University of Western Ontario/Nstein Technologies Inc.

On the cross-linguistic typology of wh-movement

10:30-10:45:

Break

10:45-12:15   

session II

Prosodic Phonology

Chair: Eric Holt

Darya Kavitskaya, Yale University

Prosodic conditions on vowel lengthening in Slavic

Tobias Scheer, Université de Nice

The life of yers in Slavic and elsewhere: an argument for empty Nuclei

Adam Werle, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Enclisis and proclisis in Serbian/Croatian

12:15 – 2:00

Lunch break

2:00-3:30:          

session III

Language Acquisition

Chair: Amit Almor

Dina Brun, Yale University

What children definitely know about definiteness: Evidence from Russian

Eva G. Bar-Shalom, University of Connecticut

Clause structure in early child Russian

Alexandra Perovic, MIT

Acquisition of binding in Serbian: More on the (lack of) delay of principle B effect

3:30-3:45:

Break

3:45-4:45           

session IV

Syntax of Tense and Aspect

Chair: Kurt Goblirsch

Magdalena Goledzinowska, University of Toronto

Deriving se in Polish: A Distributed Morphology Approach

Krzysztof Migdalski, Tilburg University

To be or to have? On the syntax of perfect tenses in South Slavic

4:45-5:00

Break

5:00-6:00        

plenary talk

Roumyana Slabakova, University of Iowa

Perfective prefixes: What they are, what flavors they come in, and how they are acquired

Saturday, Feb. 28^th

8:30-8:45

Breakfast

8:45-10:15     

session V

Syntax and Semantics of Noun Phrases

Chair: Anne Bezuidenhout

E. Bylinina and Yakov Testelets, Moscow State University

Sluicing-based indefinites in Russian

Pawel  Rutkowski and Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University

Classification projection in Polish and Serbian

Asya Pereltsvaig, University of Sheffield

All arguments are created equal (but DP arguments are created more equal than others)

10:15-10:45

Break

10:45-12:45

session VI

Syntax of Case and Constructions

Chair: Lawrence Feinberg

James E. Lavine, Bucknell University, and Steven Franks, Indiana University

On nominative objects

Laura Elaine Davies, Princeton University

Redefining the Russian adversity impersonal: A construction-based account

Julia Kuznetsova, RGGU

Against the Russian Distributive Construction with Preposition po as a diagnostic for unaccusativity

Jelena Krivokapic, University of Southern California

Putting things into perspective - the function of the dative

12:45-2:30

Lunch break

2:30-4:00          

session VII

Morphology

Chair: Stan Dubinsky

Curt Rice, University of Tromsø

Optimizing Russian gender

Donald Steinmetz, Augsburg College

Semantic motivation for neuter gender in Slavic?

Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University

Synthetic agent compounds in Serbian: An incorporation analysis

4:00-5:00     

poster session

Vsevolod Kapatsinski, University of New Mexico

Productivity of Russian stem-forming affixes: A nonce-word probe

[Alternate paper for Psycholinguistics]

Mariana Lambova, University of Connecticut

On adjunction and excorporation

[Alternate paper for Syntax]

Dominika Oliver and Bistra Andreeva, University of the Saarland

Information structure in Polish and Bulgarian: Accent types and peak alignment in broad and narrow focus. A cross-language study

[Alternate paper for Phonology]

Ariann Stern, UCLA

A morphosyntactic examination of simplex verbs of motion in Old Russian texts

Olga Arnaudova, University of Ottawa

Contrastive features and the left periphery in colloquial Bulgarian

Angelina Chtareva, University of Arizona

How do subject idioms in Russian make YOU feel?

Frank Gladney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Proto-Slavic velar palatalization as chain shifts

Olga V. Kukushkina and Anatoly A.Polikarpov, Moscow State University

Computer corpus of Russian newspapers texts of the end of the 20-th century: compiling, annotating, linguistic analysis

Su Hyoun Lee, RGGU

The nominal quantitative construction in Russian

Ulyana Savchenko and Maria-Louisa Rivero, University of Ottawa

Russian anticausatives with oblique subjects

Olga Tomic, University of Leiden

The syntax of negative imperatives in Balkan Slavic

Nursing 125

5:00-6:00        

plenary talk

Leonard Babby, Princeton University

Case, argument structure, and double-object structures

7:00

Banquet

Sunday, Feb. 29^th

8:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-10:00        

session VIII

Segmental Phonology

Chair: Caroline Wiltshire

Julia Yarmolinskaya, Johns Hopkins University

Russian palatalization and opacity in Optimality Theory

Jaye Padgett, University of California, Santa Cruz

Formal and functional aspects of Russian vowel reduction

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:15         

session IX

Parsing and Code-Switching

Chair: Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva

Maria Babyonishev, Yale University

An analysis of Russian-English intrasentential code switching

Irina A. Sekerina and Yana Pugach, CUNY

Cross-linguistic variation in gender use as a parsing constraint: Dutch vs. Russian

11:30-12:30    

plenary talk

Christina Bethin, SUNY, Stony Brook

Stress and length in Belarusian and Ukrainian dialects

12:30-12:45

Closing remarks

12:45-1:00

business meeting