The (preliminary) conference PROGRAM

(Začasni) program konference

The conference will take place in the "gledališka dvorana" (=theater hall) of the new gym next to the Nova Gorica High school. It is marked on the map.

Friday, December 1, 2006

08:30	Registration
09:15	Opening Remarks: TBA
09:30	Session I Syntax chair: TBA Pavel Caha (Tromsø) Case Shifting as Peeling and Some of the Consequences Natalia Ivlieva & Alexander Podobryaev (Moscow State U) Bound to be bound (on certain similarities between pronominal and anaphor binding in Russian)
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	Session II Syntax chair: TBA Alexis Dimitriadis (Utrecht) & Tanja Milićev (Novi Sad) Symmetric and non-symmetric reciprocals in Serbo-Croatian Jonathan MacDonald (Cyprus) Russian aspect without AspP
11:45	Coffee Break
12:00	Invited Speaker: Ora Matushansky (CNRS/Université Paris VIII) Predication: A Case Study
13:00	Lunch
14:30	Session III Semantics, Syntax/Semantics chair: Tatjana Marvin Sašo Živanović (Ljubljana) The stowaway of the: on different readings of superlative determiners Elizaveta Bylinina (Russian Academy of Science) The scalar side of specific indefinites: Russian -to series Vesselina Laskova (Venice) The co-occurrence of the demonstrative and the definite article in colloquial Bulgarian
16:00	Coffee Break
16:00	Poster Session Details
17:30	Session IV Syntax chair: Lucie Medova (Princeton) Reflexive clitics, Movement and Layered Case Vera Prochazkova (Tromsø) Argument structure of Czech event nominals Knut Tarald Taraldsen (Tromsø) Case and resumptive clitics in Czech
19:00	End of the First day activities

Saturday, December 2, 2006

09:00	Coffee
09:30	Session V Syntax chair: Marija Golden Steven Franks (Indiana) & Anita Peti-Stantić (Zagreb) Splitting Puzzles in South Slavic Carlos de Cuba (Stony Brook) & Ivana Mitrović (Novi Sad) WH-adjuncts and long distance multiple WH-movement in Serbian
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	Session VI Phonology chair: Draga Zec Boštjan Dvořak (ZAS Berlin) Stress and Strength by Clitics in Slovenian Markéta Ziková (Brno) Case markers in Czech: floating melodies, self-licensing vowels and final empty nuclei
11:45	Coffee Break
12:00	Invited Speaker: Draga Zec (Cornell University) Phonology within morphology in South Slavic: The case of OV augmentation
13:00	Lunch
15:00	Session VII Acquisition etc chair: Maria-Louisa Rivero Lidiya Tornyova (CUNY) Acquisition of auxiliary inversion in wh-questions: evidence from Bulgarian Marketa Lopatkova, Martin Platek & Petr Sgall (Prague) Functional Generative Description, Restarting Automata and Analysis by Reduction
16:00	Coffee Break
16:15	Session VIII Semantics chair: Ora Matushansky Barbara Sonnenhauser (LMU Muenchen) On the reference of verbal predicates Igor Yanovich (Moscow State U) Ordinary property and identifying property wh-words: two kakoj-s in Russian Atle Grønn (Oslo) Aspectual competition in Russian as bidirectional optimization
17:45	Coffee Break
18.00	Invited Speaker: Tatjana Marvin (University of Ljubljana) The Interaction between Stress, Syntax and Meaning in Slovenian Priscianic Formations
19:00	Reception/Party in the evening

Sunday, December 3, 2006

09:00	Coffee
09:30	Session IX Syntax chair: TBA María Luisa Rivero (Ottawa) & Milena M. Sheppard (Ljubljana) Revisiting Involuntary State Constructions in Slovenian Marijana Marelj (Utrecht) Left Branch Condition, Movement and Pronoun Insertion Strategy
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	Session X Syntax chair: Steven Franks Nadira Aljović (CNRS/Paris 8) Are there optional rules in syntax? Evidence from clitic climbing in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Anna Kupsc (Loria Nancy/Polish Academy) Polish Present Tense Copula 11:45 Business meeting
12:00	Invited Speaker: Željko Bošković (University of Connecticut) On two types of negative constituents and negative concord
after lunch and later	Soccer/Football ... a trip ... whatever we'll feel like doing