LINGUIST List 10.455

Sat Mar 27 1999

Confs: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Irina Sekerina, FASL8 Program

Eighth Annual Workshop on Formal 
Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

at the Institute for Research of Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania


FASL8 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MAY 21
 
SPECIAL SESSION I: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
 
1:30 - 2:10 Svetlana Sheremetyeva and Sergey Nirenburg (University 
 of New Mexico) "Porting a Rapid Morphological Analyzer 
 Across Slavic Languages"

2:10 - 2:50 Peter Chew (Oxford University, England) "A Comparative 
 Computational Evaluation of 3 Theories of Russian 
 Stress"

2:50 - 3:30 Nedzad Leko (University of Oslo, Norway) "Syntactic vs. 
 Semantic Agreement in the Oslo Corpus of Bosnian Texts"

3:30 - 3:45 Coffee Break

SPECIAL SESSION II: RUSSIAN SENTENCE PROCESSING

3:45 - 4:25 Janet Nicol and Rachel Wilson (University of Arizona) 
 "Agreement and Case-Marking in Russian: A Psycho- 
 linguistic Investigation of Agreement Errors in 
 Production"

4:25 - 5:05 Gerhild Zybatow and Grit Mehlhorn (University of 
 Leipzig, Germany) "Topics and Focus Prosidy in Russian 
 -- An Experiment"

5:05 - 5:45 Irina Sekerina (IRCS, University of Pennsylvania)
 "Wh-Movement vs. Scrambling in Russian Processing"

5:45 - 6:00 Coffee Break

SESSION III
 
6:00 - 7:00 Invited Talk: Greville Corbett (University of Surrey, 
 England) "Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics"


SATURDAY, May 22

SESSION IV: RUSSIAN SYNTAX

8:45 - 9: 25 Leonard Babby (Princeton University) "Infinitival 
 Existential Constructions in Russian"

9:25 - 10:05 Konstantin Kazenin (Moscow State University, Russia) 
 "Complementation and Constraints on Pronominals in 
 Russian" 

10:05 - 10: 45 Elena Rudnitskaya (CUNY Graduate Center) "The Yes/No 
 Question LI Clitic Placement in Russian"

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

SESSION V: SERBIAN/CROATIAN SYNTAX

11:00 - 11:40 Mariana Lambova (University of Connecticut) "The 
 Typology of Multiple Wh-Fronting in Slavic Revisited"

11:40 - 12:20 Cedric Boeckx and Sandra Stjepanovic (University of 
 Connecticut) "The Clitic/Wh-Connection: Evidence for 
 Unselective Attraction"

12:20 - 1:00 Andrew Caink (University of Wolverhampton, England) 
 "Full Form Auxiliaries in Serbian/Croatian"

1:00 - 2:30 Lunch Break

SESSION VI: BULGARIAN SUNTAX

2:30 - 3:10 David Willis (University of Manchester, England) 
 "Verb-Raising in Slavic Conditionals"

3:10 - 3:50 Galina Alexandrova (University of Ottawa, Canada) "Where 
 Derivational Space and Time Meet, Clitics Have a Say"

3: 50 - 4: 05 Coffee Break

SESSION VII: PHONOLOGY

4:05 - 4:45 Katherine Crosswhite (UCLA)"Vowel Lengthening and Length 
 Neutralization in Orlec Serbo-Croatian"

4:45 - 5:25 Nila Friedberg (University of Toronto, Canada) "Russian 
 Metrics and Stochastic Constraints: Determining Metrical 
 Complexity" (to be confirmed)

5:25 - 5:40 Coffee Break

SESSION VIII 

5:40 - 6:40 Invited Talk: Draga Zec (Cornell University)
 "Multiple Sonority Thresholds"


SUNDAY, MAY 23

SESSION IX: SYNTAX/MORPHOLOGY

8:45 - 9: 25 Larisa Zlatic (University of Texas)"The Syntactic 
 Status of Slavic Possessives"

9:25 - 10: 05 Bozena Cetnarowska (University of 
 Massachussetts) "The Unaccusativity of Verbs and 
 Derivational Morphology in Polish"

10:05 - 10:45 Edit Jakab (Princeton University) "Nominative Object 
 Constructions in Old Russian and Finnish"

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

SESSION X: SEMANTICS

11:00 - 11:40 Masha Babyonyshev (Harvard University) "Missing Verb 
 Clauses in Russian"

11:40 - 12: 20 Asya Pereltsvaig (McGill University, Canada) "On the 
 Distribution of NPIs in Russian"

12:20 - 12:30 Coffee Break

SESSION XI

12:30 - 1:30 Invited Talk: Anthony Kroch (University of 
 Pennsylvania) and Carolyne Heycock (University of 
 Edinborough) "A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on 
 Word-Order Variation in Copular Sentences"


ALTERNATES:

SPECIAL SESSION: Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg 
 (University of New Mexico) "Slavic as Testing Grounds
 for a Linguistic Knowledge Elicitation System"

SYNTAX/SEMANTICS: Marija Brala (University of Cambridge, England) 
 "Location in Motion: A Tentative Analysis of the 
 Croatian Prefixed Verbs of Motion"

 Anna Kupsc (Polish Academy of Sciences and Universite 
 Paris 7) "A Lexical Analysis of Polish Multifunctional 
 Reflexive Marker"

PHONOLOGY: Irina Milnes and Caroline Wiltshire (University of 
 Florida) "Optimal Stress Patterns in Russian"


FASL8 Organizing Committee
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~fasl8