The 27th Annual Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

Date
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Event Sponsor
Stanford Linguistics, CSLI, the Stanford Office of the Provost, the Stanford Humanities and Sciences Dean's Office, The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Stanford Humanities Center.
Location
FASL 27 will take place in the Levinthal Room of the Stanford Humanities Center on Friday, May 4 and in the Jon Barwise Room of the CSLI on Saturday and Sunday, May 5-6.

 

Friday, May 4

Jon Barwise Room, CSLI

8:30-9:00 Registration and refreshments, Welcome
Session 1
9:00-9:30 Jacek Witkoś (Adam Mickiewicz University), Paulina Łęska (Adam Mickiewicz University), Dominika Dziubała-Szrejbrowska (Adam Mickiewicz University), Aleksandra Gogłoza (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Roland Meyer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Datives and Accusatives as binders in a grammar of subject-oriented reflexives
9:30-10:00 Mikhail Knyazev (Saint Petersburg State University) Frequency of the V-N collocation as an explanatory factor in the selection for čto-clause complements of nouns in Russian: an experimental study
10:00-10:30 Christina Dschaak (Universität Leipzig) A Structure Removal Approach to Restructuring in Russian
10:30-11:00 Aleksandra Gogłoza (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Paulina Łęska (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Jacek Witkoś (Adam Mickiewicz University) Settling the unsettled - in search for the base-generated position of the Polish Experiencer Dative
11:00-11:15 Break
Session 2
11:15-12:30 Invited talk: Maria Gouskova (NYU) Where do phonological words come from?
12:30-2:00 Lunch
Session 3
2:00-2:30 Roslyn Burns (UCLA) Phonetic Gradience in Vowel Chain Shift Blocking
2:30-3:00 Hakyung Jung (Seoul National University) Different Heights of NegP in Old Slavic
3:00-3:30 Daniela Culinovic (UCLA) Syntax coming first in second position cliticization
3:30-3:45 Break
Session 4
3:45-4:15 Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook University) Predicate Doubling in Russian: One Process or Two?
4:15-4:45 Colin Davis and Tatiana Bondarenko (MIT) Parasitic gaps and covert pied-piping in Russian LBE
4:45-5:15 Petr Biskup (Universität Leipzig) and Radek Šimík (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Extraction from Clausal Adjuncts in Czech
5:15-6:15 FASL Business meeting

Saturday, May 5

Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

8:30-9:00 Registration and refreshments, Welcome
Session 1
9:00-9:30 Rafael Abramovitz (MIT) Verb-Stranding Verb Phrase Ellipsis in Russian: Evidence from Unpronounced Subjects
9:30-10:00 Barbara Citko (University of Washington) and Martina Gračanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical University) Coordination of wh-phrases in sluicing constructions
10:00-10:30 Agnieszka Patejuk (Polish Academy of Sciences) What is the best way to represent Polish comparisons with jak?
10:30-11:00 Željko Bošković (University of Connecticut) On the Coordinate Structure Constraint and Across-the-Board Movement
11:00-11:15 Break
Session 2
11:15-12:30 Invited talk: Ivona Kučerová (McMaster University) Toward Distributed Semantics: Evidence from associative constructions
12:30-2:00 Lunch OR LSA-sponsored mentoring event in the SHC's Watt Room
Session 3
2:00-2:30 Asya Pereltsvaig Word Order and the Structure of Eventive Nominalizations in Russian
2:30-3:00 Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College) On DP structure in Balkan Slavic: evidence from multiple determination
3:00-3:30 Zorica Puškar (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin) Deriving and constraining mixed predicate agreement
3:30-3:45 Break
Session 4
3:45-4:15 Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University) Gender as a mode of quantification: Evidence from Polish numerals
4:15-4:45 Maša Močnik (MIT) Where Force Matters: Embedding Epistemic Modals and Attitudes
4:45-5:15 Julie Goncharov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Intentionality effect in imperatives
7:00-10:00 Party @ CSLI

Sunday, May 6

Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

8:30-9:00 Light breakfast
Session 1
9:00-9:30 Ksenia Zanon (Bucknell University) Focus association with only in Russian and BCS
9:30-10:00 Miloje Despić and Mia Wiegand (Cornell University) Linking agreement and anticausality: Semantic effects of agreement on exclusives in Serbian
10:00-10:30 Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) Chyba a discourse particle and its licensing conditions in Polish adverbial clauses
10:30-11:00 Mojmir Dočekal (Masaryk University), Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), and Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University) Exceed comparison and A/B numeral modifiers in Czech
11:00-11:15 Break
Session 2
11:15-12:30 Invited talk: Roumyana Pancheva (USC) Title TBA
Alternate Talk Laura Kallmeyer and Yulia Zinova (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Russian za-headed time adverbials: A frame-based account of scopal behaviour