Program

                                                

DAY 1: November 29


08:45 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Conference opening

10:00 - 11:00 Plenary talk

Nadira Aljović

(University of Zenica)

Aspectually conditioned variability of unaccusatives (slides)

COFFEE BREAK

 11:00 - 11:30

SESSION A


11:30 - 12:00 

Jakob Lenardič 

(Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia)

Slavic Reflexive Impersonals: Passivisation and Unaccusativity

12:00 - 12:30 

Sławomir Zdziebko 

(The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)

Tense, Aspect, Agreement and Polish passive auxiliaries

12:30 - 13:00 

Stefan Milosavljević 

(University of Graz)

A computational network approach to Serbo-Croatian verbal prefixes

                                      

SESSION B


11:30 - 12:00 

Kristina Gregorčič 

(Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)

Slovene Indefinite Pronouns as Negative Polarity Items: Classification and the Bagel Problem

12:00 - 12:30 

Arthur Stepanov

(University of Nova Gorica)

Exploring feature assignment in real time: The case of Russian numeral phrases

LUNCH BREAK

13:00 - 15:00

SESSION A


15:00 - 15:3

Vesela Simeonova

(University of Graz)

The evidential status of the indicative mood in Bulgarian


15:30 - 16:0

Berit Gehrke

(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Aspect and finiteness

16:00 - 16:3

Petr Biskup

(University of Leipzig)

The imperfectivizing suffix in North Slavic 

SESSION B


15:00 - 15:3

Markéta Ziková & Martin Březina & Radek Čech & Pavel Kosek

(Masaryk University in Brno)

The syllable markedness and evolution of syllabic consonants in Czech

15:30 - 16:0

Aljoša Milenković

(Harvard University)

Metrical incoherence in Neoštokavian Serbian: synchrony and diachrony

16:00 - 16:3

Jelena Stojković 

(Leipzig University & University of Graz)

Hiatus resolution drives segmental fission in Slavic verbs

COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:00

SESSION A


17:00 - 17:30 

Johannes Rothert

(University of Potsdam)

An investigation of the case matching requirement in Polish ATB movement and RNR

17:30 - 18:00 

Max Bonke

(Universität zu Köln)

Coordinated embedded CPs in Russian: Contrast, Ellipsis, Complementizers

18:00 - 18:30 

Aleksandra Milosavljević & Stefan Milosavljević

(The SASA Institute for the Serbian language & University of Graz)

Concessives cannot be focused because they already are

SESSION B


17:00 - 17:30 

Petr Rossyaykin & Dmitrii Zelenskii

(Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Freestanding Russian NCIs without covert negation

17:30 - 18:00 

Dorota Klimek-Jankowska

(University of Wrocław)

Aspect and negation in Polish, Russian, Bulgarian (and other Slavic and Baltic languages)

18:00 - 18:30 

Petr Rossyaykin

(Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Weak and strong scalar NPIs in Russian

                                                

DAY 2: November 30


09:30 - 10:30 Plenary talk

Christina Manouilidou (University of Ljubljana)

Syntactic licensing vs. semantic wellfornedness in Slovenian and BCS complex word processing


                               SESSION A SESSION B

                              10:30 - 11:00                                                                                                                   10:30 - 11:00 

                      Krzysztof Migdalski   Maria Esipova & Natasha Korotkova

                  (University of Wrocław)         (Bar-Ilan University & University of Utrecht)

On the non-directionality of language change                           To li or not to li

– a case of functional elements in Slavic

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:30

SESSION A


11:30 - 12:00

Aleksandra Milosavljević

(The SASA Institute for the Serbian language)

Concessives are unified semantically but differ syntactically

12:00 - 12:30 

Maria Onoeva & Radek Šimík

(Charles University Prague)

Russian negative polar questions

12:30 - 13:00 

Daniar Kasenov & Daria Paramonova

(HSE University, Moscow; Lomonosov MSU & Lomonosov MSU)

Russian to-conditionals as hanging topic constructions 

SESSION B


11:30 - 12:00 

Ljudmila Geist & Olga Kagan

(University of Stuttgart & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Members of groups with -in- in Russian: why *graždaniny is excluded but gorošiny is not

12:00 - 12:3

Daria Seres

(University of Graz)

On the status of ONE+N in Slavic languages: a corpus-based study

12:30 - 13:0

Luca Molinari

(University of Warsaw & Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

An analysis of plural ONE in Bulgarian

LUNCH BREAK

13:00 - 15:00


15:00 - 16:00 Plenary talk 

Hagit Borer 

(Queen Mary University of London)

A Loose End: Some Thoughts on (so called) Telicity

COFFEE BREAK

16:00 - 16:30

SESSION A


16:30 - 17:00

Jakob Horsch

(Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt & Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Beyond information structure:

Experimental evidence for weight effects on Slovak word order

17:00 - 17:30 

Tamara Komprej & Matic Pavlič

(Public healthcare centre Ravne na Koroškem, University of Ljubljana)

Exploring acquisition of sentential negation with picture matching and truth-evaluation tasks in Slovene

17:30 - 18:00 

Iliyana Krapova & Guglielmo Cinque

(Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

Clitics and Verb movement in Bulgarian and Romance

SESSION B


16:30 - 17:00 

Iva Kovač

(University of Vienna)

When knowledge meets iterativity: The case of Croatian ‘know’

17:00 - 17:30 

Magdalena Kaufmann & Neda Todorović

(University of Connecticut & Reed College)

The remote and the impossible in Serbian

17:30 - 18:00 

Ksenia Zanon

(University of Cambridge)

Pseudo(?)-coordination with “narrative” imperatives

CONFERENCE DINNER

                                                

DAY 3: December 1


                                                                                                    

                                         WORKSHOP 1              WORKSHOP 2

Non-standard(ised) Slavic: Data acquisition and analysis                       Information Structure, Prosody and Phase Theory in Slavic

                            09:00 - 10:00  Plenary talk                                                                                                 09:00 - 10:00 Plenary talk

                                         Mirjana Mirić     Steven Franks 

                (Institute for Balkan Studies SASA)       (Indiana University Bloomington)

The complementizer "da" in the Prizren-Timok dialect zone                 On the PF-Side

COFFEE BREAK

10:00 - 10:30

WORKSHOP 1


10:30 - 11:15

Predrag Kovačević

(University of Novi Sad)

What governs the choice between infinitives and finite complements in Serbo-Croatian? Quantitative data from Northwestern Serbian 

11:15 - 12:00 

Sara Andreeta & Matic Pavlič & Penka Stateva & Artur Stepanov

(University of Nova Gorica; University of Ljubljana)

Sentence comprehension in minority languages: The Slovenian Community in Italy

LUNCH BREAK

12:00 - 14:00

WORKSHOP 1


14:00 - 14:45

Anna Marklová & Olga Buchmüller & Roland Meyer & Christoph Demian & Luka Szucsich

(Humboldt University Berlin)

Register-based acceptability of Left dislocation and Long topicalization in Czech

14:45 - 15:30 

Ema Štarkl & Matija Kristan 

(University of Ljubljana)

Observing linguistic variation in Slovenian: A case study of a verbal linguistic innovation in the urban dialect of Celje

WORKSHOP 2


14:00 - 14:45 

Daniela Kořánová & Radek Šimík 

(Charles University Prague)

What left branch extraction can tell us about the syntax of basic word order


14:45 - 15:30 

Svitlana Antonyuk

(University of Graz)

A quantification-based approach to the deduction of phases in (East) Slavic

COFFEE BREAK

15:30 - 16:00

WORKSHOP 1


16:00 - 16:45

Natalia Slioussar & Varvara Magomedova & Vera Smirnova

(HSE Moscow)

Neither dead nor alive: stem-final consonant mutations in Russian

16:45 - 17:30 

Marko Simonović & Predrag Kovačević & Tanja Milićev

(University of Graz; University of Novi Sad)

When -nie met -nje: Slavonic-Serbian loan deverbal nominals

17:30 - 18:00

Closing remarks 

WORKSHOP 2


16:00 - 17:00 Plenary talk

Željko Bošković

(University of Connecticut)

Spelling-out phases


17:00 - 18:00 

Closing remarks