MOSS
Moscow Syntax and Semantics

October 9, Friday

10:00 – 10:30 registration and opening of the conference

Chair: Alexander Letuchiy

10:30 – 11:00 Cristina Bertoncin & Emanuela Sanfelici (Scuole Normale Superiore, Piza)
The Syntax of Non-finite Clause in Irish and Basque: A Diachronic Study   
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11:00 – 11:30 Maria Shkapa (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Expression of the Subject of Nominalization in Irish   
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Program
Abstracts
11:30 – 12:00 coffee break

12:00 – 13:00 Lecture:
Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart)
Unaccusativity Mismatches and the Syntax of Unaccusatives   abstract  handout

13:00 – 15:00 lunch

Chair: Sergey Say

15:00 – 15:30 Ingo Reich (Universität des Saarlandes)
Gapping as Coordinate Ellipsis?   
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15:30 – 16:00 Lucas Champollion (University of Pennsylvania) & Uli Sauerland (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenshaft, Berlin)
Move and Accommodate: A solution to Haddock's Puzzle   
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16:00 – 16:30 Karsten Koch (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenshaft, Berlin)
Focus structures in Thompson Salish: (Im)perfections in the Syntax-Semantics Interface   
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October 10, Saturday

Chair: Anna Pazelskaya

10:00 – 10:30 Pavel Braginsky (Israel)
Semantic Analysis of the Prefix ZA- in Russian   
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10:30 – 11:00 Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica)
Stacked Prefixes, Resultatives, and Null Verbs: The Case of Slovenian ‘na- se’   
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11:00 – 11:30 coffee break

Chair: Rajesh Bhatt

11:30 – 12:00 Pavel Graschenkov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
Decomposing Ossetian Complex Predicates: Act Naturally (Act II, Event Structure)   
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12:00 – 12:30 Sergey Say (Institute of Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg)
Grammaticalization vs. Reanalysis: Evidence from Russian Adverbial Structures   
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12:00 – 12:30 Yury Lander (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
The Adjective Paradox: From Non-prototypical Possessives to “Prototypical Adjectives”   
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13:00 – 15:00 lunch

Chair: Vadim Kimmelman

15:00 – 16:00 Lecture: Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Variable Binding and the Person Case Constraint
(joint work with Radek Šimík)   abstract

16:00 – 16:10 small break

16:10 – 16:40 Michael Barrie (University of Ottawa)
The Syntax and Semantics of Adverb Placement in Cantonese    abstract
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16:40 – 17:10 Yuan-Lu Chen (National Chung Cheng University)
On Mandarin Degree Adverbial Hen   
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17:10 – … coffee & posters

Peter Arkadiev (Insitute of Slavic Studies / Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
ONLY in Lithuanian: At the Morphology-Syntax-Semantics Interface   
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Júlia Bácskai-Atkári (Eötvös Loránd University)
On the Parametric Variation of Deletion in Comparatives   
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Ryuichiro Hirata (Bangor University)
Preposition Stranding: Current Change in Welsh 
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Ivan Kapitonov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Scope Reversal in Adyghe   
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Mikhail Knjazev (Saint Petersburg State University)
To,chtoby-clauses as False Free Relatives   
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Katy McKinney-Bock (University of Southern California)
Effects of Focus on Adjective Ordering Restrictions   
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Kirill Prokhorov (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of RAS, Saint Petersburg)
Adjectives in Mombo
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October 11, Sunday

Chair: Artemis Alexiadou

10:30 – 11:00 Edgar Onea (University of Stuttgart) & Anna Volodina (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim/Goethe-University, Frankfurt)
Questions and Explanations   
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11:00 – 11:30 Lisa Bylinina (Moscow)
It's so NP! The Case for Gradable Individuals   
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11:30 – 12:00 coffee break

Chair: Peter Arkadiev

12:00 – 12:30 Rui Marques (Universidade de Lisboa)
On the Semantics of Subjunctive Tenses in Romance Languages   
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12:30 – 13:00 David Hall & Ivano Caponigro (University of California, San Diego)
On the Syntax and Semantics of Temporal When-clauses   
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13:00 – 13:30 Elena Gorishneva (Humboldt University)
Genericity and Aspect   
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13:30 – 14:30 big coffee break

Chair: Natalia Korotkova

14:30-15:30 Lecture: Sergey Tatevosov (Moscow State University)
Perfectivity Dilemma: Verbless Aspect and Aspectless Verb
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Closure of the conference