5th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics
September 29th, 2007

The Ohio State University
George Wells Knight House
104 East 15th Avenue
Columbus OH 43201

Program

Coffee and social mingling 9:00 – 9:30

Opening Remarks: 9:35 – 9:45 a.m.

Panel 1: Socio and contact linguistics – Borrowings into Russian (9:45 – 11:15 a.m.)
Chair: Spencer Robinson

9:45 – 10:15 Miriam Whiting, The Ohio State University. Business names in Tomsk

10:15 – 10:45 Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina, SUNY at Stony Brook. Russian Loanword Phonology: A Phonetic Account

10:45 – 11:15 Susan Vdovichenko, The Ohio State University. English loanwords in Contemporary Standard Russian and their place in the study of historical linguistics

Break: 11: 15 – 11:30 a.m.

Panel 2: Syntax and Semantics (11:30 – 1:30 p.m.)

Chair: Oxana Skorniakova

11:30 – 12:00 Irina Agafonova, Michigan State University. "(A)symmetric Conjunctions as (Non-)Anaphoric Pro-forms"

12:00 – 12:30 Andrei Antonenko, SUNY at Stony Brook. Indicative-Subjunctive Distinction in Russian and its Consequences for Long-Distance Scrambling.

12:30 – 1:00 Vedrana Mihalicek, The Ohio State University. The ordering of wh words in multiple wh extractions in Serbo-Croatian

Lunch: 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Panel 3: Slavic in the context of Balkan Linguistics (2:15 – 3:45 p.m.)
Chair: Anastasia Smirnova

2:15 – 2:45 Monica-Alexandrina Irimia, University of Toronto. Asking questions in Romanian

2:45 – 3:15 Angelo Costanzo, The Ohio State University. The role of language contact in the expansion of a Romanian conjugational (sub-)class

3:15 – 3:45 Matthew Curtis, The Ohio State University. Evidence for Albanian imposition on Macedonian and Montenegrin dialects

Break: 3:45 – 4:00 p.m.

Panel 4: Historical Linguistics (4:00 – 6:00 p.m.)
Chair: Matthew Curtis

4:00 – 4:30 Andrew Dombrowski, University of Chicago. Ancient Dialect Continua and the Old North Russian Dialect

4:30 – 5:00 Andrew J. Kier, The Ohio State University. Four Non-Canonical Prayers in a South Slavic Trebnik (Hilandar HM.SMS 378)"

5:00 – 5:30 Josh Pennington, The Ohio State University. Chewing on the BCS future

Closing Remarks: Prof. D. Collins, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, OSU

Reception: 6:00 p. m.

Organizers: Anastasia Smirnova (smirnova@ling.ohio-state.edu);
                    Matthew Curtis (curtis.199@osu.edu)