Arrival, Registration, Breakfast

10:00-10:15

Opening Remarks: Daniel Finer (Chair, Dept. of Linguistics)

Session I  Syntax A.  Chair: Daniel Finer (Stony Brook University)

10:15-10:55

“Universal Diminutive Syntax?”
 Olga Steriopolo (University of British Columbia)

10:55-11:35

“Referential deficiency and feature sharing: Restricting reflexive accusative impersonals in Burgenland-Croatian and varieties of Serbo-Croatian”
 Luka Szucsich (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)

11:35-12:15

“ATB and Clitic Omission in Czech”
 Jakub Dotlačil (Utrecht University)

12:15-1:30

LUNCH

Session II  Semantics.   Chair:  Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University)

1:30-2:10

“Verbal Suffixes as Quantization-Changing Devices in Russian”
 Marina Sherkina-Lieber (University of Toronto) & Solveiga Armoskaite (University of British Columbia)

2:10-2:50

“Correlatives, Conditionals And Contrast”
 Luka Crnić (MIT)

2:50-3:30

“The Subcategorization and Quantification Properties of Superlatives in Slovene”
 Vrinda Subhalaxmi Chidambaram (Princeton University)

3:30- 3:45

Coffee Break

Session III  Phonology and its Interfaces.  Chair:  Ellen Broselow (Stony Brook University)

3:45-4:25

“Resumption in Czech Left Dislocation: The syntax-phonology interface”
Anne Sturgeon (University of California at Santa Cruz)

4:25-5:05

“Phonological evidence for asymmetric scope of thematic vowels in Czech”
Tobias Scheer (University of Nice) & Pavel Caha (University of Tromsø)

5:05-5:45

“Soft labials in Polish”
 Artur Kijak (University of Silesia)

5:45-6:00

Coffee Break

6:00-7:00

INVITED TALK:  Jerzy Rubach (University of Warsaw)
"A Slavic Perspective on Segment Decomposition in Optimality Theory"
Introduction by Christina Bethin, Stony Brook University

7:00  WELCOMING RECEPTION:  UNIVERSITY CAFÉ

Breakfast

Session IV.  Syntax B.  Chair: John F. Bailyn (Stony Brook University)

9:00-9:40

“Slovenian clitics have no unique position”
 Franc Marušič (University of Nova Gorica)

9:40-10:20

“The Headedness of TP in Old Church Slavonic: Evidence from the Interaction of Periphrastic Tenses with Negation”
 Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California)

10:20-11:00

“Intermediate prefixes in Russian”
 Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow State University)

11:00-11:15

Coffee Break

Session V. Special Session A. Chair: Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)

11:15-11:55

“The Use of the Symmetrical Response by Russian-Speaking Children”
 Jodi Reich, Julia Kuznetsova, Maria Babyonyshev, Lesley Hart & Elena Grigorenko (Yale University)

11:55-12:35

“Spoken-Word Recognition in Russian Children”
 Irina Sekerina (College of Staten Island; City University of New York)

12:35-1:35

INVITED TALK:  Maria Polinsky (Harvard University/UCSD) 
"A GlassHalf-full: Finding Empirical and Theoretical Value in an Incompletely Acquired Language"
Introduction: Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)

1:35-3:00

Lunch

Session VI.  Special Session B.  Chair: Sarah Jourdain (Stony Brook University)

3:00-3:40

“The acquisition of the left periphery of DP: evidence from Polish”
Anna Gavarró & Wojciech Lewandowski (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

3:40-4:20

“Prosody and Ambiguity Resolution in Bulgarian”
 Iglika Stoyneshka (City University of New York)

4:20-5:00

“Does the verb move in Russian?”
 Elena Kallestinova & Roumyana Slabakova (University of Iowa)

5:00-5:15

Coffee Break

Session VII  Syntax C Chair: Francisco Ordoñez (Stony Brook University)

5:15-5:55

“Root Small Clauses with Unaccusative Verbs”
 Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University)

5:55-6:35

“Nominal versus Non-Nominal Appositives”
 Barbara Citko (University of Washington)

6:35-7:00

 Go to dinner

7:00-9:00

DINNER

9:00-the end:  PARTY

Poster Session Breakfast (Posters listed below)

Session VIII.  Syntax D1.  Chair:  Alice Harris (Stony Brook University)

10:00-10:40

“Pronominal copula constructions are what? reduced specificational pseudo-clefts (sort of)”Vita G. Markman (Pomona College)

10:40-11:20

“What HAS to BE used? Existential, locative, and possessive sentences in Polish (Slavic)” Joanna Blaszczak (University of Potsdam)

11:20-11:45

Coffee Break / Business Meeting

Session IX.  Syntax D2.  Chair: Bob Hoberman (Stony Brook University)

11:45-12:25

“The Syntax of Existential Sentences in Serbian”
 Jutta M. Hartmann & Nataša Miličević (Tilburg University)

12:25-1:05

“Russian Genitives, Non-Referentiality, and the Property-Type Hypothesis”
 Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts), Vladimir Borschev (VINTI RAN), Elena V. Paducheva (VINITI RAN), Yakov G. Testelets (Russian State Humanities University) & Igor Yanovich (Moscow State)

1:15-2:15

INVITED TALK:  David Pesetsky (MIT)
"Undermerge -- and the Secret Genitive Inside Every Russian Noun"
Introduction by Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University)

2:15

CLOSING REMARKS

(Special Session Alternate) “Object Scrambling and Specificity in Bilingual Ukrainian/English Acquisition”
(Roksolana Mykhaylyk & Heejeong Ko, Stony Brook University)

“On the Semantics of Aspect and Number”
(Olga Kagan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

“On Accusative First”
(James Lavine, Bucknell University & Steven Franks, Indiana University)

“The Economy of syntactic change: reanalysis as a Last Resort operation”
(Nerea Madariaga, University of the Basque Country)

“Decomposing Particles in Combination:  Colloquial Russian –to, že, and ved’”
(Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova, Rutgers University)

“Inter-Learner Variability in the Acquisition of English Articles by Serbian L1 Speakers”
(Milica Radišić & Peter Avery, University of Toronto)