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Third Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society


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Final Program


Talks will take place in Hagerty Hall and Mendenhall Laboratory (next door to Hagerty) on the Ohio State University campus. Registration is in Hagerty Hall.

Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210


Presenters (except plenary speakers) are allotted 20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion. Laptops (PC's) and LCD projectors will be available for presenters who would like to use powerpoint. Mac users are encouraged to test their presentations on a PC prior to the conference.

Book Exhibitors (186 Hagerty)
Beech Stave Press
John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Ohio Slavic Papers
Ohio State University Press
Oxford University Press
Slavica Publishers
University of Michigan Press
Plus books donated from Ohio State professors' libraries (proceeds to benefit the TALVI Fund for graduate student travel)

Tuesday June 10th


8:00-10:45

9:00






9:30 - 10:30
Parallel Sessions I


Ia Chair:

9:30-10:00


Ib
Chair:

9:30-10:00

10:00-10:30


10:30-10:45

10:45–11:45



11:45-1:15

1:15-2:45

Session IIa
Chair:

1:15-1:45

1:45-2:15


2:15-2:45


Session IIb
Chair:
1:15-1:45

1:45-2:15


2:15-2:45



2:45-3:00

3:00-4:30

Session IIIa
Chair:

3:00-3:30

3:30-4:00


4:00-4:30


Session IIIb
Chair:

3:00-3:30


3:30-4:00


4:00-4:30


4:30-4:45

4:45-6:15

Session IVa
Chair:

4:45-5:15



5:15-5:45



5:45-6:15


Session IVb
Chair:

4:45-5:15

5:15-5:45


5:45-6:15




7:00
Registration
Hagerty Lobby


Conference Opening Registration
180 Hagerty

Brian D. Joseph, Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics
John Roberts, Dean of the College of Humanities
Daniel E. Collins, Chair, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures

Parallel Sessions I

Language and Mentality
180 Hagerty

Vladimir Manakin (University of Illinois at Chicago/Zaporizhzhia National University)
Andrew J. KIER (Ohio State University): The Power of Words in Medieval Slavia Orthodoxa

Cognitive Linguistics
100 Mendenhall

Mark Nuckols (Ohio State University)
Eugenia ANTIC (University of California, Berkeley): Russian Verbal Prefixes and Bare Accusatives: A Cognitive Treatment
Masako U. FIDLER (Brown University): Associative Links between Suffixes and Onomatopoeia in Czech

Break
Hagerty Lobby


Plenary Session
180 Hagerty

Lenore GRENOBLE (University of Chicago): Syntax as a Collaborative Enterprise: Evidence from Russian Conversation

Lunch

Parallel Sessions II

Issues in Slavic Syntax 1
180 Hagerty

Anton Zimmerling (Moscow State University of Humanities/Russian State University of Humanities)
Oksana SKORNIAKOVA (Ohio State University): Dative "Subjects" in the Light of Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
Vasil MOSTROV (University of Lille 3): Syntactic features of Inalienable Possession in the French "have +SC" and the Bulgarian "be with" structures
E. Allyn SMITH (Ohio State University): Multiple Compared Correlations in Serbo-Croatian

Russian Morphosyntax
100 Mendenhall

Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)
Natalie D. MAUSER CARTER (Ohio State University): Synchronic Usage of the Partitive Genitive in Russian
Jens NØRGÅRD-SØRENSEN (University of Copenhagen): Animacy as the dominant grammatical category of the noun in modern Russian
S. Spencer ROBINSON (Ohio State University): Revisiting Timberlake: A Look at the Role of Word Order in Genitive of Negation in Russian

Break
Hagerty Lobby


Parallel Sessions III

Grammatical and Lexical Aspect
Hagerty Lobby

Larysa Stepanova (Ohio State University)
George RUBINSTEIN (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Aspectual Clusters of Russian Sound Verbs
Jadwiga STAWNICKA (University of Silesia): "Семантико-словообразовательная категория Aktionsarten в русском и польском языках"
Andrei A. GORBOV (St. Petersburg State University): Aktionsarten (Sposoby Dejstvija) and Lexical Aspect in Russian

Historical Syntax
100 Mendenhall

Brian Joseph (Ohio State University)
M. Arantxa MARTIN-LOZANO (Ohio State University): Presentational Sentences in Old Church Slavonic and New Testament Greek
Krzysztof MIGDALSKI (University of Connecticut): Diachronic motivation for the existence of two forms of perfective auxiliaries in Polish
Olga M. MLADENOVA (University of Calgary): Did the Loss of Case Lead to the Rise of the Definite Article in Bulgarian?

Break
Hagerty Lobby


Parallel Sessions IV

Clitics
180 Hagerty

Steven Franks (Indiana University)
Anton ZIMMERLING (Moscow State University of Humanities/Russian State University of Humanities): The Emergence of 2nd-Position Clitics in Slavic and the Order of Cliticization
Jirka HANA (Ohio State University): The Position of Czech Clitics
Bostjan DVORAK (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), Petr HOMOLA (Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University), and Krzysztof MIGDALSKI (University of Connecticut): Three Accounts of the 3rd Person Singular in Slavic
E. Wayles BROWNE (Cornell University): Clitic Ordering in Vojvodina Rusinski

Balkan Linguistics
100 Mendenhall

Iliana Krapova (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice)
Brian JOSEPH (Ohio State University): Scientific implications of Balkan glossonymy
Anastasia SMIRNOVA (Ohio State University): Semantics of Embedded Tense in the Balkan Subjunctive: A Comparative Analysis of Bulgarian and Albanian
Matthew C. CURTIS (Ohio State University): Four of a Kind? Periphrastic Perfect Formations in Southwestern Balkan Dialects
Elena PETROSKA (Indiana University): Evidentiality and Factivity in Macedonian

Reception
Faculty Club Grand Ballroom


Wednesday, June 11

8:30–10:45

9:00–10:30

Va
Chair:

9:00–9:30

9:30–10:00

10:00–10:30



Vb
Chair:

9:00–9:30

9:30–10:00

10:00–10:30



10:30–10:45

10:45–11:45

11:45–1:15

1:15–2:45

1:15–2:45

VIa
Chair:

1:15–1:45
1:45–2:15

2:15–2:45


VIb
Chair:

1:15–1:45

1:45–2:15


2:15–2:45

2:45–3:00

3:00–5:00

VIIa
Chair:


3:00–3:30

3:30–4:00


4:00–4:30

4:30–5:00


VIIb
Chair:

3:00–3:30

3:30–4:00

4:00–4:30

4:30–5:00


5:15

7:00
Registration
Hagerty Lobby


Parallel Sessions V
180 Hagerty


Phonology of Boundaries
Miriam Whiting (Ohio State University)
Robert DALAND (Northwestern University): Word Segmentation in Russian and English: A Computational Comparison
Paula ORZECHOWSKA (Adam Mickiewicz University): Polish Morphotactics: Aspects of Complexity
Paula ORZECHOWSKA and Marcin KILARSKI (Adam Mickiewicz University): Word-final Phonotactics and Gender Assignment in Polish and German

Historical Morphology
100 Mendenhall

Matthew Curtis (Ohio State University)
Kyongjoon KWON (Harvard University): “Verbal Pronouns” in Old North Russian
Bill DARDEN (University of Chicago): N-infixed/suffixed Inchoatives in Balto-Slavic
James PENNINGTON (Ohio State University): O tomu, o tom, or o tome? Enigmatic Variability in the BCS Dative/Locative Masculine/Neuter Adjectival Ending

Break
Hagerty Lobby


Plenary Session
180 Hagerty

Henning ANDERSEN (University of California, Los Angeles): Language Contacts in Early Slavic and Baltic

Lunch

Parallel Sessions VI

Russian Semantics
180 Hagerty

Jadwiga Stawnicka (University of Silesia)
Alina ISRAELI (American University): Tautologies in Russian
Alexei SHMELEV and Irina LEVONTINA (Russian Academy of Sciences): Semantics of Russian "Parasitical Words"
Asya PERELTSVAIG (Stanford University): Russian -nibud' Items as Dependent Indefinites

Language Acquisition
100 Mendenhall

Maria Alley (Ohio State University)
Gordana DOBROVAC (University of Zagreb): Case Acquisition in Croatian as a Second Language: An Electrophysiological Investigation
Ludmila ISURIN (Ohio State University): What Do Controls Control for? Methodological Implications for Studies on L1 Attrition/ L2 Acquisition
Lydia GREBENYOVA (Baylor University): Multiple Interrogatives and Learnability

Break
Hagerty Lobby


Parallel Sessions VII

Issues in Slavic Syntax 2
180 Hagerty

Jan Hajic (Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University)
Christian T. HILCHEY (University of Chicago): Realizations of the Predicate in Czech Distributive Verbs
Zdenka URESOVA (Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University): Diathesis and Transformations of Surface Expressions of Valency Arguments
Hakyung JUNG (Harvard University): Prepositional Complementizers as the Source of Dative of Obligation
James E. LAVINE (Bucknell University): On the Source of Accusative in Ukrainian Impersonals

Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
100 Mendenhall

Daniel E. Collins (Ohio State University)
Eva ECKERT (Connecticut College): Community “translation” in the immigrant press
Robert FOJTIK (Northwestern University): Semantics, Grammar and Homosexual Identity in Post-Soviet Russia
Larysa STEPANOVA (Ohio State University): Surzhyk: It's All About Perception
Miriam WHITING (Ohio State University): Hybrids, WYSIWYGs, and Other Types of Business Names in Tomsk, Russia

Slavic Linguistics Society Business Meeting
180 Hagerty


Conference Dinner
Hagerty Courtyard


Thursday, June 12

9:00–10:45

9:30–10:30

VIIIa
Chair:

9:30–10:00

10:00–10:30




VIIIb
Chair:

9:30–10:00

10:00–10:30


10:30–10:45

10:45–11:45



11:45–1:15

1:15-3:15

IXa
Chair:

1:15–1:45

1:45–2:15
2:15–2:45

2:45–3:15


IXb
Chair:

1:15–1:45

1:45–2:15


2:15–2:45

2:45–3:15


3:15–3:30

3:30–5:00

Xa
Chair:

3:30–4:00

4:00–4:30

4:30–5:00


Xb
Chair:

3:30–4:00

4:00–4:30

4:30–5:00


Registration
Hagerty Lobby


Parallel Sessions VIII

Issues in Slavic Syntax 3
180 Hagerty

E. Wayles Browne (Cornell University)
Miloje DESPIC (University of Connecticut): On the Structure of NP in Serbo-Croatian: Evidence from Binding
Bozena CETNAROWSKA (University of Silesia), Agnieszka PYSZ (Adam Mickiewicz University), and Helen TRUGMAN (Holon Institute of Technology): How Fixed is Postnominal Position of Classificatory Adjectives in Polish

Historical Phonology
100 Mendenhall

Christin Wilson (Ohio State University)
Christina Y. BETHIN (Stony Brook University): How Akan’e Spreads: Perceptual Salience and Language Change
Rachel KLIPPENSTEIN (Ohio State University): Word-initial Consonant Clusters in Albanian

Break
Hagerty Lobby


Plenary Session
180 Hagerty

Peter CULICOVER (Ohio State University): Syntactic Nuts, Core and Periphery, and Universal Grammar

Lunch

Parallel Sessions IX

Syntax of Subordinate Clauses
180 Hagerty

Bozena Cetnarowska (University of Silesia)
Iliana KRAPOVA (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice): Bulgarian Relative Clauses with the Invariant Complementizer deto 'that'
Catherine RUDIN (Wayne State College): On the "Relative Marker" -to
Bora KIM (Indiana University), Non-finite Complements in Russian and Serbian/Croatian
Joanna BLASZCZAK (University of Potsdam): The End of the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) ante portas?

Morphology
100 Mendenhall

Andrea Sims (Northwestern University/Ohio State University)
Gil RAPPAPORT (University of Texas): Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Slavic Morphology: Examining the Construct of an Inflectional Class
Elena BOUDOVSKAIA (Columbia University): I-stem Pluralia Tantum Nouns as a New Declension Class in the Transcarpathian Ukrainian Dialects
Frank Y. GLADNEY (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): On Syncretism in Czech Nominal Declension
Angelo COSTANZO (Ohio State University): Slavic Influence on Balkan-Romance Conjugational Class Systems

Break
Hagerty Lobby


Parallel Sessions X
Hagerty Lobby


WH-Questions
180 Hagerty

Peter Culicover (Ohio State University)
Steven FRANKS (Indiana University) and Nina ROJINA (University of Geneva): Idiosyncrasies of Russian kakogo certa 'Why the Hell'
Natalia KONDRASHOVA (University of Michigan): Negated WH-items in Russian: Semantic and Syntactic Puzzles
Vedrana MIHALICEK (Ohio State University): Processing Explanations of Superiority Effects and the Order of WH-phrases in Serbo-Croatian

Historical Semantics and Lexicography
100 Mendenhall

Lauren Ressue (Ohio State University)
Per AMBROSIANI (Umeå University): Multilingual toponyms in North-West Russia
Daniel COLLINS (Ohio State University): Living to Fight Another Day: On the Semantic History of Slavic vek?
Vladimir MANAKIN (University of Illinois at Chicago/Zaporizhzhia National University) and Natalya MANAKINA (Zaporizhzhia National University): Slavic Contrastive Lexicology as a Subject of Study

Conference Closing
180 Hagerty