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Friday

  9:00am Registration/Breakfast

10:00am Influence of the Attributive Position on the Nature of ni- and libo- NPIs in Russian
Tatiana Vert,   Georg-August-University of Göttingen

10:30am Licensing modality in infinitival structures
Natalia Kondrashova,   University of Michigan

11:00am Intensional genitive case and existential commitment
Olga Kagan,   University of California, Santa Cruz

11:30am Opening Remarks
Dean Peter Salovey,   Yale University

11:45am Lunch

  1:30pm Poster Session
Case and Agreement Feature Uniformity: The Multiple Probe Account
Christopher Becker,   University of Michigan
Question formation by Russian-speaking Children
Jodi Reich, Scott McClure, Maria Babyonyshev & Elena Grigorenko,   Yale University
To the Discussion of Quantifier Scope in Russian
Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina,   SUNY Stony Brook
V-initial tendencies of Bulgarian: An (EPP) V- Feature Account
Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva & Stanley Dubinsky,   University of South Carolina
Russian Echo Questions
Nina Radkevich,   University of Connecticut


  3:00pm On the structure of NP in Serbo-Croation - Evidence from binding
Miloje Despic,   University of Connecticut

  3:30pm Interpreting Contrastive Constituents in Russian by Monolingual and
Bilingual Speakers
Irina A. Sekerina,   City University of New York

  4:00pm Embedded Complementizers and the Russian Dative of Obligation
Hakyung Jung,   Harvard University

  4:30pm Coffee Break

  4:45pm Interface constraints and frequency in Russian compound stress
Maria Gouskova & Kevin Roon,   New York University

  5:15pm The Emergence of the unmarked and template mapping in Russian truncation
Julia Bordeaux,   University of Texas at Austin

  5:45pm Invited Talk: Tone and stress in prominence based prosodic systems
Draga Zec,   Cornell University

  8:00pm Informal gathering at the GPSCY lounge


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Saturday

  9:15am Registration/Breakfast

  9:45am Invited Talk: Latent consonant harmony in Russian: Experimental evidence
for agreement-by-correspondence
Alexei Kochetov,   University of Toronto

10:45am Coffee Break

11:00am Trills and palatalization: Consequences for sound change
Darya Kavitskaya, Khalil Iskarous, Aude Noiray & Michael Proctor,   Yale & Haskins Labs

11:30am The prosody of second position clitics and focus in Zagreb Croatian
Kristine Yu,   University of California, Los Angeles

12:00pm Prosodic boundaries and the behavior of monosyllabic Czech prepositions
Scott McClure,   Yale University

12:30pm Lunch

  2:15pm The morphological make-up of nominalizations in Serbian
Monika Basic,   University of Tromso

  2:45pm On two types of Wackernagel cliticization in Slavic
Krzysztof Migdalski,   University of Connecticut

  3:15pm Exposing the Russian verbal complex via evidence from prefixation & VP ellipsis
Vera Gribanova,   University of California, Santa Cruz

  3:45pm Coffee Break

  4:00pm Where Czech meets Chinese: The case of modal existential wh-constructions
Radek Šimík,   University of Groningen

  4:30pm On the selective wh-island effect
Zeljko Boskovic,   University of Connecticut

  5:00pm Phonologically null licensers of negative concord items in the syntax of Russian,
Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish
Natalia Fitzgibbons,   University of Connecticut

  6:00pm Reception at the  Kline Tower Cafe
(Including a performance by the Yale Slavic Chorus)


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Sunday

  9:15am Breakfast

  9:45am Backwards pronominalization in Russian: A syntactic account
Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina & John F. Bailyn,   Stony Brook University

10:15am Obviation in Russian and Polish subjunctive clauses
Luka Szucsich,   Humboldt-University

10:45am A case against 'defective' tense in Bulgarian
Anastasia Smirnova,   The Ohio State University

11:15am Coffee Break

11:30am Invited Talk: Evolving syntax: Small clauses, subjacency and some compounds
Ljiljana Progovac,   Wayne State University

12:30pm Business Meeting

  1:30pm Conference Close


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