11:25-12:05

12:05-12:45

“On the direction of cliticization in Macedonian”

“Uninflected VPs, deverbal nouns and aspectual architecture of Russian”

"Russian Stress in Compound Nouns: Head Dominance or Anti-Faithfulness"

2:40-3:20

3:20-4:00

Georgiy Bronnikov, Russian State Humanities University, Moscow

“The Russian vsyakiy”

Vladimir Borschev, VINITI RAN, Moscow and University of Massachusetts                                                                                     Elena V. Paducheva, VINITI RAN, Moscow Barbara Partee, University of Massachusetts                                                                                   Yakov G. Testelets, Russian State Humanities University, Moscow                                                                                                           Igor Yanovich, Moscow State University

“Sentential and Constituent Negation in Russian BE-sentences Revisited”

Hana Filip, SRI International                                                               Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan University

“Telicity as a semantic parameter”

4:55-5:35

5:35-6:15

Bostjan Dvorak, Zentrum für Allgemeine.   Sprachwissenschaft                                                                                 Uli Sauerland, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

“The Semantics of the Slovenian Dual”                               

Natalia Kondrashova, University of Michigan

“Is Russian a Split SOT-language?”

Anna Verbuk, University of Massachusetts

“Russian Predicate Clefts as S-Topics”

9:10-9:40

940-10:30

Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva, University of South Carolina           

“The categorical status of quantifiers in Bulgarian: Evidence for DP over QP”

Asya Pereltsvaig, Yale University

“Passing by Cardinals: In support of Head Movement in Nominals”

Franc Marusic, Stony Brook University                                                                                                                                                                       Rok Zaucer, University of Ottawa

“The definite article in colloquial Slovenian and an AP related DP position”

11:25- 12:05

12:05-12:45

Barbara Citko, Brandeis University

“Copular Sentences Reconsidered”

Ora Matushansky, CNRS/Université Paris 8                                                                                                              Maria Babyonyshev, Yale University

“Back to the Past: Russian past tense revisited”

John Bailyn, Stony Brook University

“On the Scrambling Anti-Movement Movement”

2:40-3:20

3:20-4:00

Olga Fedorova, Moscow State University                                                                                                                                                                        Igor Yanovich, Moscow State University

“Early preferences in RC-attachment in Russian: The effect of Working Memory differences”

Alexandra Perovic, MIT                                                                                                                                                   Heejong Ko, MIT                                                                                                                                                             Tania Ionin, University of Southern California                                                                                                                                                                        Ken Wexler, MIT

“The role of partitivity in L2-acquisition of the English indefinite article by speakers of Serbo-Croatian”

Dominik Rus, Georgetown University

“Early Root Nonfinites and the Acquisition of Finiteness in Child Grammar: Evidence from Early Child Slovenian”

4:55-5:35

5:35-6:15

Maria Babyonyshev, Yale University                                                                                                                     Lesley Hart, Yale Child Study Center                                                                                                                               Elena Grigorenko, Yale Child Study Center

"The Acquisition of Passive Constructions in Russian Children with SLI"

Andrea Stiasny, University of Michigan

“Can we reconcile syntactic theory and language acquisition? Testing theoretical approaches to cliticization against language acquisition."

Irina Sekerina, The College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY                                               Patricia Brooks,  The College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY                                                       Vera Kempe, University of Stirling

“Gender Transparency Facilitates Noun Selection in Russian”

9:20-10:00

10:00-10:40

10:40-11:20

Geraldo Fernandez-Salguero, University of Michigan

“’To move or not to move’: on the incompatibility of multiple wh movement with left-branch extraction in Serbo-Croatian”

Lydia Grebenyova, University of Maryland

“Sluicing Puzzles in Russian”

“Non-agreement, Unaccusativity, and the External Argument Constraint”

Lucie Medova, Princeton University

“Deconstructing index-sensitive Relativized Minimality”

Introduction: Leonard Babby, Princeton Univeristy    

     Gilbert Rappaport, University of Texas at Austin

     “The feature presentation: Toward a theory of the grammatical use of lexical information”