Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax:
"The State of the Art"

Preliminary Program

Friday, 5 June 1998

Session 1: Wh-Phrases and Wh-Movement in Slavic

1:00 p.m.	Zeljko Boskovic, U. of Connecticut (Position Paper)
1:30	Discussion
Responses:
1:45	Norvin Richards, U. of Massachusetts Focusing on Serbo-Croatian and Not on Bulgarian
2:10	Jeong-Seok Kim, University of Connecticut Superiority Effects in Multiple WH-fronting
2:35	Michael Yadroff, Indiana University Wh-movement and Superiority in Russian
2:50	Sandra Stjepanovic, University of Connecticut Movement of Wh-Phrases in Serbo-Croatian Matrix Clauses
3:15	General Discussion
3:45	Arthur Stepanov, University of Connecticut Scope-Marking Interrogatives in Slavic
4:10	Sue Brown, Harvard University Attract-All and Its Relevance for Negative Concord
4:35	Piotr Banski, Indiana University and Warsaw University Wh-Movement in Polish
5:00	Loren Billings, Carnegie-Mellon University Catherine Rudin, Wayne State College Animacy and Focus in Bulgarian Wh-Questions
5:25	General Discussion
6:15	Picnic Dinner

Saturday, 6 June 1998

Session 2: Agreement in Slavic

8:30	Greville G. Corbett, U. of Sussex (Position Paper)
9:00	Discussion
Responses:
9:15	Wayles Browne, Cornell University Agreement with Infinitive Subjects in Slavic
9:40	Jens Norgard-Sorensen, University of Copenhagen Animacy as an Agreement Category
10:05	Stephen Wechsler, University of Texas Larisa Zlatic, University of Texas Sentential and Discourse Agreement in Serbo-Croatian
10:30	Natasha Borovikova, DePauw University and Indiana University First-Conjunct Agreement with Unaccusative Verbs in Russian
10:55	Kim Gareiss, University of Chicago Linguistic Ideology and the Loss of Slavic Agreement: The Case of the Macedonian Relativizer
11:20	Discussion
12:00	Lunch

Session 3: Voice and Diathesis in Slavic

1:15	Leonard H. Babby, Princeton University (Position Paper)
1:45	Discussion
Responses:
2:00	James Lavine, Princeton University Stephanie Harves, Princeton University Loren Billings, Carnegie Mellon University Syntax and Diathesis: A Response to L.H. Babby's "Voice and Diathesis in Slavic"
2:25	George Fowler, Indiana University -Sja, -En, and the Vagaries of Diathesis: Why Should ASPECT Have Anything to Do with it Anyway?
2:40	Marina Yu. Chertkova, Lomonosov Moscow University The Passive Voice, and Bi-Aspectual Verbs
3:05	Milena Slavcheva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Some Reflections on Voice and Diathesis
3:20	General Discussion

Session 4: The Slavic Noun Phrase

4:00	Gilbert C. Rappaport, University of Texas, Austin (Position Paper)
4:30	Discussion
Responses:
4:45	Larisa Zlatic, University of Texas Slavic Noun Phrases Are NPs, not DPs
5:10	Michael Yadroff, Indiana University The Structure of NP in Slavic and UG
5:25	Miriam Engelhardt, Jerusalem Helen Trugman, CTEH, Holon Double Genitive Constructions in Russian
5:50	George Fowler, Indiana University What's at the Top of NP: KP, PP, and the Nature of Transitional Categories
6:05	Sandra Stjepanovic, University of Connecticut Extraction of Adjuncts out of NPs
6:20	General Discussion

Sunday, 7 June 1998

Session 5: Clitics in Slavic

8:30	Steven Franks, Indiana University (Position Paper)
9:00	Discussion
Responses:
9:15	Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University Clitic-Second and Verb-Second
9:40	Olga Tomic, University of Novi Sad Against Clitic Lowering
10:05	Peter Kosta, Universitaet Potsdam On the Syntax of Negation and Clitics in Slavic
10:30	Iva Schick, Universitaet Potsdam Clitic Doubling Constructions in Balkan-Slavic Languages
11:05	Geraldine Legendre, Johns Hopkins University Generalized Optimality-Theoretic Alignment: The Case of Macedonian Clitics
11:30	General Discussion
12:00	Karel Oliva, University of Saarland Just Czech Clitics Data, or a Closer Look at the "Position Paper: Clitics in Slavic"
12:15	Matthew Richardson, Yale University Czech Clitics as Phrasal Inflection
12:40	Piotr Banski, Indiana University and Warsaw University Verbal Clitics in Polish
1:05	General Discussion

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