Archive for October, 2013

TYPOLOGY OF MORPHOSYNTACTIC PARAMETERS 2013

October 16, 2013

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We are happy to announce the third international conference in the thematic series ‘Typology of morphosyntactic parameters’, TMP 2013 (16-18 October, 2013, Moscow). The picture above shows Peter Arkadiev (left) and me opening the conference on October, 16.

The conference website is http://ossetic-studies.org/msp2013/en.

For the First time the TMP conference hosts a section for undergraduate and doctoral students. It is called GeNSLing 2013 – ‘The 1st conference in General, Slavic and Nordic linguistics for undergraduate and doctoral students’.

The programme of both conferences is listed below.

If you happen to be in Moscow these days, you can find us using this link http://ossetic-studies.org/msp2013/en/directions/.

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Wednesday, October 16. Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, conference room

09:30–10:00 Registration

10:00–10:30 Conference opening. Address by Professor Vladimir M. Alpatov, director of the Institute of Linguistics.

YouTube link: http://youtu.be/b04O_bs4pyA

Morning session. Chair: Valentin Vydrin

10:30–11:00 Jens Nørgård-Sørensen (University of Copenhagen).

The accusative and the genitive as argument 2 in the history of Russian.

YouTube link: http://youtu.be/Icl97PZVhuI

11:00–11:30 Peter Arkadiev (Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Russian State University for the Humanities / Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities).

The genitive of negation with objects of infinitives in Lithuanian. [In Russian]

11:30–11:50 Coffee break

Afternoon session. Chair: Peter Arkadiev

11:50–12:20 Valentin Vydrin (Saint Petersburg State University / INALCO)

The progressive verb construction in Goo: from nonsubject pronouns to subject pronouns. [In Russian]

12:20–12:50 Ilya Itkin (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences / “Mumi-Troll’” school / High School of Economics)

The “imperfect vs. preterite” problem in Tocharian A: syntax and morphology. [In Russian]

12:50–13:20 Aleksey Kozlov, Nikita Muravyev, Sofia Nikiforova (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Imperfective suffixation in Moksha Mordvin. [In Russian]

13:20–14:30 Lunch

Evening session. Chair: Andrey Sideltsev

14:30–15:30 Keynote lecture: Vera Podlesskaya (Russian State University for the Humanities)

The actions of speakers when recognizing their own mistakes (“Should I repair the old structure or construct a new one?”). [In Russian]

15:30–16:00 Alexander Letuchiy (High School of Economics / Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

The retention of a complement clause under nominalization: a preliminary typology. [In Russian]

16:00–16:20 Coffee break

First Conference on General, Scandinavian and Slavic Linguistics
for Undergraduate and Doctoral Students (GeNSLing 2013)

Chair: Vera Podlesskaya

16:20–16:45 Elizaveta Kushnir (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities)

Negation in Yaure (South Mande). [In Russian]

YouTube link: http://youtu.be/vnnfKjS-DKI

16:45–17:10 Maksim Fedotov (Saint Petersburg State University / Institute of Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Sentence-level grammatical markers and the interaction of morphosyntax and phonology in Gban (South Mande). [In Russian]

17:10–17:35 Мaria Konoshenko (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Russian State University for the Humanities / Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities)

Person-number agreement in Mande: disentangling the knot of morphosyntactic parameters. [In Russian]

YouTube link: http://youtu.be/OPpQ3QME08w

17:35–18:00 Martin Schou Madsen (University of Copenhagen)

ЈЕДАН and НЕКИ: surrogates for indefinite articles in the linguistic system of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian.

18:00–18:25 Daniel Aeberli (University of Copenhagen)

Variation in the category of animacy. [In Russian]

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Thursday, October 17. Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, room 200

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Morning session. Chair: Oleg Belyaev

10:00–10:30 Timur Maisak (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Person clitics and the parameters of clause classification in Udi. [In Russian]

10:30–11:00 Sofia Yaroshevich (Institute for Bible Translation, Moscow)

Tabasaran gender markers as categorial heads. [In Russian]

11:00–11:30 Dmitry Ganenkov (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities)

The typology of syntactic control constructions in Daghestanian languages. [In Russian]

11:30–11:50 Coffee break

Afternoon session. Chair: Dmitry Ganenkov

11:50–12:20 Andrey Sideltsev (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities)

The structure of the Hittite verbal complex. [In Russian]

12:20–12:50 Oleg Belyaev (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities)

Superiority effects in Ossetic: structural vs. linear constraints.

YouTube link: http://youtu.be/KOI_4USp3ew

12:50–13:20 Lyudmila Khokhlova (Institute for Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

The constructions of necessity in the history of West Indo-Aryan. [In Russian]

13:20–14:30 Lunch

Evening session. Chair: Anton Zimmerling

14:30–15:30 Keynote lecture: Ora Matushansky (CNRS/Université Paris VIII/UiL OTS/Utrecht University)

Engendering phi-features.

YouTube link: http://youtu.be/W1W24dLmas0

15:30–16:00 Natalia Serdobolskaya, Julia Zubova (Russian State University for the Humanities / Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities)

The scope of particles as a diagnostic for constituent structure. [In Russian]

16:00–16:20 Coffee break

First Conference on General, Scandinavian and Slavic Linguistics
for Undergraduate and Doctoral Students (GeNSLing 2013)

Chair: Maria Konoshenko

16:20–16:45 Maria Shkapa (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Animacy, finiteness and the order of arguments: the case of Manange. [In Russian]

16:45–17:10 Maria Shmatova (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Constructions of quantity in Mordvin languages: number marking of nouns. [In Russian]

17:10–17:35 Alena Aksenova (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Nominal partitive and pseudopartitive constructions. A comparison of Danish and Russian. [In Russian]

17:35–18:00 Caroline Bilde Krogh-Jensen (University of Copenhagen)

То-то вот оно и есть. The Danish affirmative marker jo and its pragmatic equivalents in Russian. [In Russian]

YouTube link: http://youtu.be/SAcP1PYH0z4

18:00–18:25 Andrew McKishnie (University of Ottawa)

Depictives in East Slavic: Two Cases, How Many Structures?

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Friday, October 18. Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, room 200

Morning session. Chair: Ora Matushansky

10:00–10:30 Mads Büchert Eskildsen (University of Copenhagen)

Ways of expressing definiteness in Danish. [In Russian]

10:30–11:00 Elena Rudnitskaya (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of
Sciences)

Morphosyntactic status of phrasal affixes in light of the material on verbal suspended affixation in Korean and other Altaic languages. [In Russian]

11:00–11:30 Anastasiya Evstigneeva (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

DOM and NP structure in Karachay-Balkar. [In Russian]

11:30–11:50 Coffee break.

Afternoon session. Chair: Maksim Fedotov

11:50–12:20 Ivan Stenin (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Imperfectivizing derivations and the antipassive in Nenets. [In Russian]

12:20–12:50 Maria Usacheva (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

The syntactic properties of deverbal locative nouns in Beserman Udmurt. [In Russian]

12:50–13:20 Maria Privizentseva (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Relative clauses in Moksha Mordvin: attractio inversa. [In Russian]

13:20–14:30 Lunch

Evening session. Chair: Jens Nørgård-Sørensen

14:30–15:30 Keynote lecture: Natalia Slioussar (Utrecht University/Saint Petersburg State University)

Number, gender and case: an experimental investigation.

15:30–16:00 Benedikte Nielsen Whitehead (University of Copenhagen)

Towards a meaningful classification of nominal compounds.

16:00–16:20 Coffee break

First Conference on General, Scandinavian and Slavic Linguistics
for Undergraduate and Doctoral Students (GeNSLing 2013)

Chair: Maria Koroleva

16:20–16:45 Oksana Chuykova (Saint Petersburg State University / Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

The expression of intension and prediction in future reference in Russian. [In Russian]

16:45–17:10 Roman Ronko (Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities)

A comparison of case polysemy in the Old Russian 12th century manuscript “The Questions of Kirik” (1130–1156) and Novgorod birchbark letters of the corresponding period (ca. 1125–ca. 1160). [In Russian]

17:10–17:35 Lydia Kirpo (Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities / University of Geneva)

Reason in Russian.

17:35–18:00 Elena Luchina (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

A classification of Russian verbs with lexical negation. [In Russian]

18:00– Conference closure