MOSS
Moscow Syntax and Semantics

Presentations accepted for the main section

Ana Arregui, Maria Luisa Rivero & Andres Salanova (University of Ottawa)
Imperfectivity: Capturing variation across languages       
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Valentina Bianchi & Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena)
On corrective focus in Italian
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Anne Breitbarth (Ghent University)
The scope of modals and negation in the history of Low German
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Gergely Kántor (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
The ménage à trois of measure phrases, comparatives and much-support
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Abstracts
Gergely Kántor & Júlia Bácskai-Atkári (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Elliptical comparatives revisited
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Mikko Kupula (MIT)
Clitic left dislocation as an A-dependency
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Brian Leahy (University of Konstanz)
Antipresuppositions in counterfactuals
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Mingya Liu (University of Goettingen)
The undefinedness of conventional implicatures
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Bill Palmer (University of Newcastle, Australia)
The expression of objects in an apparently VSO language
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Eugenia Romanova (Independent researcher)
Prefix pere- and distributivity. Any relation?
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Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg)
Heavy reflexive middle markers
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Thuan Tran (International University, Vietnam National University, HCMC)
Lexical domain (vP) as sentence focus domain
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Natalia Zevakhina (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Diversity of scalar inferences
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Alternates

Sofja Yaroshevich (Institute of Bible Translation, Moscow)
Lexical categories in Adyghe and Malagasy            abstract

Elena Paducheva (VINITI RAS)

Factivity and indirect question: The case of Russian bespokoit’sia ‘worry’            abstract




Presentations accepted for the discourse particles section


Sandra Birzer (University of Regensburg)

From subject to subjectivity: Russian discourse markers basing on the adverbial participle govorja
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Anne Breitbarth & Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University)
En' en is níet wat we dachten: A Flemish discourse particle
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Daniel Gutzmann (University of Frankfurt)
Modal particles: Deriving syntax from semantics
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Daniel Gutzmann (University of Frankfurt) & Katharina Turgay (University of Landau)
Some (in)definiteness effects of expressive intensifiers
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Annika Deichsel & Elena Karagjosova (University of Stuttgart)
On the distributional constraints and discourse function of German discourse particles in postinitial position
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Natalia Stoynova (Moscow State University)
Discoursive uses of repetitive markers: Particle anj in Forest Enets
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