MOSS
Moscow Syntax and Semantics

Syntactic Structures 2008
Conference of Young Researchers

April 3-4, 2008, Moscow


April 3

10:00 – 10:15
Maksim Krongauz. Opening talk

Chair:
Anton Zimmerling

10:15  10:45 Peter Arkadiev (Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian
Academy of Sciences)
Very Expetional Case Marking in Lithuanian

Program

10:45 – 11:15 Mikhail Knjazev (Saint Petersburg State University)
Some Problems in the Distribution of Sentential Complements in Russian:
Developing Pesetsky and Torrego's approach

11:15 – 11:45 Masaaki Takashima (Michigan State University Department of
Linguistics)
Derivation of Same Verb Coordination and Its Implication on Linearization

11:45 – 12:15 Coffee break

Chair: David Pesetsky

12:15 – 13:15 Lecture: Anton Zimmerling (Russian State University for the
Humanities)
Topic-Focus Articulation and Word Order Calculus: Minimalist vs
Non-Minimalist approaches

13:15 – 13:20 Coffee break

13:20 – 13:50 Andre Meinunger (ZAS Berlin)
Complex Numerals as Grafts

13:50 – 14:20 Monica Basic (University of Tromsø) & Eugenia Romanova,
(International Relations Institute)
Motion Verbs with Inceptive Prefixes in Serbian and Russian

14:20 – 15:50 Lunch

Chair: Peter Svenonius

15:50 – 16:50 Lecture: David Pesetsky (MIT)
Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories

16:50 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 17:30 Angel J. Gallego (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Phase-level Minimality

17:30 – 18:00 Natalia Slioussar (University College London, Saint Petersburg
State University)
Russian Corpus Study Leads to a New EPP Model

April 4

Chair: Ekaterina Lyutikova

10:00 – 10:30 David Erschler (Independent University of Moscow)
On Role of Syntax in Placement of 2P Clitics: A Case Study of Iron Ossetic

10:30 – 11:00 Philip Minlos (Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian
Academy of Science, ABBYY Production)
Towards the Modelling of the NP Structure in Old and Middle Russian

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15 Lecture: Peter Svenonius (University of Troms
ø)
The Decomposition of P

12:15 – 12:30 Coffee break

Chair: Maria Polinsky

12:30 – 13:00 Anna Graschenkova (Russian State University for the
Humanities)
Argument Structure of Russian Adjectives

13:00 – 13:30 Joost Kremers (University of Frankfurt) & Volker Struckmeier
(University of Cologne)
Attributive Structures Compared: Towards a Typology of Phase Heads

13:45 – 13:50 Coffee break

13.50 – 14.50 Lecture: Ekaterina Lyutikova (Moscow State University)
To Whom It May Concern: Some Puzzles of Russian Relative Clauses

14:50 – 16:20 Lunch

Chair: Yakov Testelets

16:20 – 16: 50 Sofia Mikhina (Russian State University for the Humanities)
Towards a Typology of Languages with Little Distinction among Parts of
Speech

16:50 – 17:50 Lecture: Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)
What's in a Question: Typology of Wh-questions

17:50 Closure of the conference