MOSS
Moscow Syntax and Semantics

Syntactic Structures 2007
Conference of Young Researchers

April 5-6, 2007, Moscow


April 5

10:00 – 10:15 Opening talk

Chair: Vera Podlesskaya


10:15 – 10:45 Andrey Shluinsky (Moscow, Institute of Linguistics of Russian Academy of Sciences)
Reflexive in Serial Construction: Evidence from Ewe and Akan)
Program

10:45 – 11:15 Aleksandra Latysheva (Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities)
Use of Causal Postpositions iz, za, iz-za in Modern Russian


11:15 – 11:20
Coffee break

11:20 – 12:20 Lecture: Leonid Iomdin (Moscow, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Russian Syntactic Phrasemes formed of Interrogative Pronouns: Their Syntax and Semantics

12:20 – 12:50 Coffee break

Chair: Leonid Iomdin


12:50 – 13:20 David Erschler (Moscow, Independent University of Moscow)
Dywwæ s
æræj dælæmæ: On Conflicts in Case Marking

13:20 – 13:50 Maria Konoshenko (Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg State University)
Differential Object Marking in Kalmyk


13:50 – 14:20 Peter Arkadiev (Moscow, Insititute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Optimality Paradoxes: Towards a Functional Explanation of "Non-functional" Case Marking Patterns


14:20 – 15:20
Lunch

Chair: Alexander Letuchiy

15:20 – 16:20 Lecture: Yakov Testelets (Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities)
Polysynthetic Language: Grammar and Semantics


16:20 – 16:30
Cofee break

16:30 – 17:00 Vadim Kimmelman (Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities)
Syntactic Features of Negation in Russian Sign language


17:00 – 17:30 Anna Borisova (Saint-Petersburg, Saint Petersburg State University)
Preposition and Postposition of Pronoun Clitic in Medieval Greek


17:30 – 18:00 Sergey Say (Saint Petersburg, Institute for Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Antipassive Construction: Limits of Grammaticalization


April 6


Chair: Barbara H. Partee

10:00 – 10:30 Elena Gruntova (
Moscow, ABBYY Software House) , Igor Yanovich (Moscow, Moscow State University, ABBYY Software House)
Relative Uses of Intrerrogative Pronouns In Russian


10:30 – 11:00 Alexander Letuchiy (Moscow, Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Russian Construction Ja emu spoju and Its Theoretical Impact


11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15 Lecture: Ekaterina Rakhilina (Moscow, All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academity of Sciences)
Construction Grammar: Syntax and Semantics

12:15 – 12:45 Coffee break

Chair: Yakov Testelets

12:45 – 13:15 Ivan Zakharyaschev (Moscow)
Type Logic served by Co-Merge, Merge and Move: on the example of Sluicing and Questions of “Common European” and Japanese Types


13:15 – 14:15 Lecture: Konstantin Kazenin (Moscow, Moscow State University)
Null Anaphora and Subordinate Clause Coordination in Russian

14:15 – 15:30 Lunch

Chair: Konstantin Kazenin

15.30 – 16.00 Alexander Podobryaev (Moscow, Moscow State University)
Constraints on Extraction from PP in Russian


16:00 – 16:30 Pavel Iosad (Moscow, Moscow State University)
“Lexicalized Heads” in Welsh Syntax


16:30 – 16:45
Coffee break

16:45 – 17:45 Lecture: Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, University of Massachusetts)
A Brief History of the Syntax-Semantics Interface in Western Formal Linguistics
Handout

17:45
Closure of the conference