BLINC 2

2^nd Budapest Linguistics Conference

Budapest, 1–3 June 2017

Preliminary Programme

Pdf files of abstracts can be obtained by clicking on the titles in the programme (abstracts are still being added as we receive them).

Thursday 1 June

	Session 1 356		Session 2 315a
9.00	Natalia Jardon	Non-standard configurations in Eonavian Spanish: how to be perfect without a perfect tense	Judit Farkas	Topic change in Hungarian
9.45	Víctor Lara Bermejo	Split intransitivity or split ergativity? Tendencies of western Peninsular Spanish	Keresztes Júlia	Pied-piping by pre-nominal adjuncts in Hungarian
10.25	BREAK
11.00	Ekaterina Georgieva	Converbs in Udmurt - a unified class?	Mojmír Dočekal and Marcin Wągiel	Various strategies of multiplication: Differentials in equatives and comparatives
11.45	Éva Dékány and Orsolya Tánczos	The structure of the Udmurt past participle	Elena Rudnitskaya and Seokyoung Hwang	The syntactic analysis of Korean serial verb constructions compared to Turkic languages
12.30	LUNCH
13.50	János Kenyeres, director of the school of English and American Studies, welcoming speech
14.00	Plenary: Michal Starke - More on the fine structure of case
15.15	Balázs Surányi and Gergő Turi	On the role of prosody in scope disambiguation	Tamás Eitler	Towards analyticity or syntheticity? A corpus-based typological investigation of Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle English varieties
15.55	BREAK
16.30	Ludmila Veselovská	Two kinds of Morphosyntacatic Merge	Ania Snarska	Let's make one thing clear - we still do not know if partial control exists

Friday 2 June

	Session 1 356		Session 2 315a
9.00	Katalin Balogne Berces and Bálint Huszthy	The “real” and “relative” typology of binary laryngeal systems	László Drienkó	Agreement groups processing of context-free utterances: coverage, structural precision, and category information
9.45	Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári and Miklós Törkenczy	Asymmetric variation	Zhao-Ming Gao and Hong-Min Zhu	A Corpus-based Computational Approach to Sense Clustering in Chinese
10.25	BREAK
11.00	Joseph Emonds	Strict vs. Permissive Merging in NorthGermanic PPs	Anna Szeteli and Gabor Alberti	The pragmasemantic contribution of the "noise word" hát in Hungarian, which can mean everything and its opposite
11.45	Veronika Hegedus	P heads in Hungarian complex events	Olga Kagan	On the Semantics of Translative Case in Finnish
12.30	LUNCH
14.00	Plenary: Anikó Lipták - Identifying identity conditions in and outside ellipsis: a case study of Hungarian
15.15	Abdelkader Fassi Fehri	Gender distribution and numeral micro-macro variation	Tamas Biro	Harmonic Grammar growing into Optimality Theory: Maturation as the strict domination limit (or vice-versa)
15.55	BREAK
16.30	Manuela Ambar	How much discourse is there in the licensing of subjunctive? A cross linguistic puzzle.	Gabor Alberti	The Hungarian Contrastive VP-focus and Mirror-Focus Constructions

Saturday 3 June

	Session 1 356		Session 2 315a
9.00	Tamas Halm	Free-Choice Items and Imperatives in Hungarian and Beyond	Agnes Toth	The role of the Funtional Heads in Hungarian PP Recursion Free
9.45	György Rákosi	A curious Hungarian imposter in camouflage	Michaela Čakányová	Embedded Infinitivals & Factivity Entailment
10.25	BREAK
11.00	Anja Šarić	DP hypothesis in Russian and Serbo-Croatian: evidence from arguments of nouns	Nedzad Leko, Nermina Cordalija and Ivana Jovovic	Phrasal or clausal conjunction? – postverbal conjoined subjects in Bosnian/ Croatian/ Serbian: an experimental study
11.45	Symkovych Oksana	On the Imperfective Future in Ukrainian	Mojmír Dočekal and Jakub Dotlacil	Strong NPIs vs. n-words: acceptability experiment in Czech

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