8:10-8:40 | Room B308 | Breakfast

8:40-8:55 | Room B227 | Introductory remarks

Jasmina Milićević, Egor Tsedryk (conference organizers)

Alice Aiken, Vice-President, Research and Innovation (Dalhousie University)

Adam Sarty, Associate Vice-President, Research (Saint Mary's University)   

9:00-11:00 | Room B227 | Session 1

Chair: Stephanie Harves

09:00 | Anastasiia Voznesenskaia (Stony Brook University)

Backward negative concord in control structures [abstract]

09:40 | Miloje Despić (Cornell University)

Negation and finiteness in BCMS [abstract]

10:20 | Miloje Despić (Cornell University), Neda Todorović (Reed College)

On adjunction, complementation and the problem of present perfectives in BCMS [abstract]

11:00-11:15 | Room B308 | Coffee break

11:15-12:45 | Room B227 | Roundtable: Trends and synergies in the research on Slavic clitics

Chairs: Jasmina Milićević, Egor Tsedryk

(two invited presentations by emerging scholars + Q&A and an open discussion)

Đorđe Božović (University of Belgrade)

Nontrivial variations in clitic cluster-internal ordering in Slavic [abstract]

Adrian Stegovec (University of Connecticut)

Prosodic deficiency and person deficiency: What we can learn from cross-linguistic variation in Slavic clitic and weak pronouns [abstract] 

12:45-14:00 | Room B308 | Lunch  

14:00-16:00 | Room B227 | Session 2

Chair: Wayles Browne

14:00 | Krzysztof Migdalski (University of Wrocław), Hakyung Jung (Seoul National University)

Categorial mismatches of pronouns -- a diachronic perspective [abstract]

14:40 | Luca Molinari (University of Warsaw & Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

The status of одинъ in Middle Russian [abstract]

15:20 | Tomislav Sočanac (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

Diachrony of subjunctive-infinitive competition in Balkan Slavic: Typological vs sprachbund developments [abstract]

16:00-16:15 | Room B308 | Refreshments

16:15-17:35 | Room B227 | Session 3

Chair: Masha Esipova

16:15 | Kirill Chuprinko (University of Nova Gorica), Varvara Magomedova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Natalia Slioussar (Higher School of Economics, Moscow & St. Petersburg State University)

To inflect, or not to inflect, that is the question: An experiment with nonce nouns in Russian [abstract]

16:55 | Igor Mel'čuk (Université de Montréal), Jasmina Milićević (Dalhousie University)

Predicative-of-state constructions in Russian and Serbian (MariiDAT stydno / MarijuACC je sramota ‘Mary is ashamed’) [abstract]

17:35 | Jurij Apresjan's eulogy (written by Igor Mel'čuk) [text]

8:30-9:00 | Room B225 | Breakfast

9:00-11:00 | Room B227 | Session 4: Slavic heritage languages

Chair: Alexandra Tsedryk

09:00 | Jelena Simić, Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz)

A heritage innovation and its predicting factors: Exploring the integration of German verbs by heritage speakers of BCMS in Austria [abstract]

09:40 | Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Arthur Stepanov (University of Nova Gorica)

Processing syntactic dependencies in Slovenian heritage speakers [abstract] 

10:20 | Eugenia Kirsanova (Carleton University)

Case and copular sentences in heritage speakers of Russian [abstract]

(invited student presentation)

11:00-11:15 | Room B225 | Coffee break

11:15-12:15 | Room B227 | Plenary session 1

Chair: Egor Tsedryk

Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) 

Multiple grammars: Systemic variation across monolingual and bilingual systems [abstract]

12:15-13:00 | Room B225 | Lunch  

13:00-14:15 | Room B225 | Poster session

Karolina Zuchewicz (Leipzig University), André Meinunger (ZAS Berlin)

Factivity-assertiveness-alternation in German and Polish [abstract] 

Goranka Blagus Bartolec, Ivana Matas Ivanković (Institute for the Croatian Language) 

Path models of the manner-of-motion verbs in Croatian [abstract]

Tymon Wranik-Lohrenz, Darren Abramson, Vlado Keselj (Dalhousie University)

Cross-lingual tokenization of Slavic languages in Large Language Models [abstract] 

Małgorzata Ćavar (Indiana University), Bartłomiej Czaplicki (University of Warsaw)

The representation of back fricatives in Ukrainian and Markedness Theory: Implications of an instrumental articulatory study [abstract]

Maria Harchevnik (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Natalia Slioussar (Higher School of Economics, Moscow & St. Petersburg State University)

Word order and context in L1 and L2 sentence processing: A study on Russian and Chinese [abstract] 

Antonio Civardi (Università di Genova)

Prepositions and verbal prefixes in Russian: From case to aspect (and back) [abstract]

Krzysztof Migdalski (University of Wrocław)

UG determinism and phi-feature interpretability in the direction of language change [abstract]

Nikola Moore (University of Pennsylvania)

Negative concord (not) as a form of AGREE in West Slavic [abstract]

14:15-16:15 | Room B227 | Session 5

Chair: Miloje Despić

14:15 | Barbara Citko (University of Washington), Stephanie Harves (New York University)

No HAVEs to give? No problem! On the lack of asymmetries in Slavic double object constructions [abstract]

14:55 | Andreas Panakau (Freie Universität Berlin)

Agreeing how and the directionality of AGREE -- evidence from Sorbian [abstract]

15:35 | Jules Roscoe, Gary Thoms (New York University)

Anti-anti-homophony: Towards a syntactic account of “phonological” wh-cluster restrictions in Bulgarian [abstract]

16:15-16:30 | Room B225 | Refreshments

16:30-18:30 | Room B227 | Session 6

Chair: Krzysztof Migdalski

Guy Tabachnick (University of Nova Gorica)

The order of genitive and accusative clitics in Czech [abstract]

Martin Březina (Masaryk University)

Exploring phonological and prosodic factors shaping the positional variability of the Old Czech be-auxiliary [abstract] 

Guy Tabachnick, Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica)

Slovenian clitics attach by default to the right [abstract]

8:30-9:00 | Room B225 | Breakfast

9:00-11:00 | Room B227 | Session 7: Slavic heritage languages / Slavic languages and bilingualism

Chair: Catherine Rudin 

09:00 | Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan (UCLA), Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)

Clitics and clitic doubling in child Bulgarian: Monolingual and bilingual acquisition [abstract]

09:40 | Alberto Frasson (University of Wrocław)

The instability of uninterpretable features in Nadiža/Natisone Slovenian clitic clusters [abstract]

10:20 | Tatiana Luchkina (Stony Brook University), Tania Ionin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Maria Goldshtein (Arizona State University)

Acquisition of non-contrastive focus in Russian by adult English-dominant bilinguals [abstract] 

11:00-11:15 | Room B225 | Coffee break

11:15-12:15 | Room B227 | Plenary session 2

Chair: Jasmina Milićević

Wayles Browne (Cornell University)

Pseudo-relative clauses and “pseudo” pseudo-relative clauses [abstract]

12:15-13:00 | Room B225 | Lunch  

13:00-14:30 | Room B227 | Tutorial on Large Language Models

Vlado Keselj, Darren Abramson, Tymon Wranik-Lohrenz (Dalhousie University)

Slavic linguistics in the age of AI

14:30-14:40 | Break

14:40-16:00 | Room B227 | Session 8

Chair: Małgorzata Ćavar

14:40 | Markéta Ziková, Martin Březina, Radek Čech, Pavel Kosek (Masaryk University)

Born to repair: Emergence of syllabic consonants in Czech [abstract]

15:20 | Aljoša Milenković (Harvard University)

Stratification is not enough: Within-stratum countershifting in Gallipoli Serbian [abstract] 

16:00-16:15 | Room B225 | Refreshments

16:15-18:15 | Room B227 | Session 9

Chair: Steven Franks

16:15 | Masha Esipova (Bar-Ilan University)

To Q or not to Q? [abstract]

16:55 | John Frederick Bailyn (Stony Brook University)

Against a high cartography of verbal prefixation [abstract] 

17:35 | Vance Holthenrichs, Damir Ćavar, Zoran Tiganj, Billy Dickson (Indiana University)

On ellipsis in Slavic: The ellipsis corpus and natural language processing results [abstract]

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19:30 | Conference dinner (place)  

8:30-9:00 | Room B225 | Breakfast

9:00-11:00 | Room B227 | Session 10

Chair: Neda Todorović 

09:00 | Anastasiia Vyshnevska (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

The nanosyntax of Ukrainian comparative adjectives and adverbs [abstract]

(invited student presentation)

09:40 | Luca Molinari (University of Warsaw & Ca’ Foscari University of Venezia), Daria Seres (University of Graz)

(C)overt NP marking in Bulgarian, Russian, and Polish: An experimental investigation [abstract] 

10:20 | Petr Biskup (Leipzig University)

Theme vowels, iterativity and verb classes [abstract] 

11:00-11:15 | Room B225 | Coffee break

11:15-12:15 | Room B227 | Plenary session 3

Chair: Egor Tsedryk

Daniel Currie Hall (Saint Mary’s University)

Voicing assimilation and featural contrasts [abstract]

12:15-12:30 | Room B227 | Closing remarks, next FASL host, information about publication