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Confs: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

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  • Irina Sekerina, FASL8 Program

    Message 1: FASL8 Program

     Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:29:42 -0500
    From: Irina Sekerina <sekerinalinc.cis.upenn.edu>
    Subject: 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