BLINC

Budapest Linguistics Conference

Budapest, 18–20 June 2015

Preliminary Programme

Thursday 18 June

 

Session 1

Session 2

9.00

Brigitta Schvarcz

The range of –nyi Suffixation in Hungarian

László Drienkó

Discontinuous coverage of English mother-child speech

9.45

Ludovico Franko & Mihaela Marchis Moreno

Intervention in Agreement and Case Assignment and the role of Cliticization

Tamás Biró

Can you learn hidden information?

10.25

BREAK

11.00

Plenary: Katalin É Kiss - Quantifier scope interpretation by English and Hungarian children

12.30

LUNCH

14.00

Julia Bacskai-Atkari

Towards a Cross-Linguistic Typology of Marking Polarity in Embedded Degree Clauses

Yuen Chee Keong & Nur Husna Serip Mohamad

We’re On a Date!: A Comparison of Malay and Indian Interruption Patterns in Malaysia

14.45

Blanca Croitor & Ion Giurgea

Relative superlatives and Deg-raising

Karolina Jaworska & Natalia Palich

Lexical Chaining in Arabic, Czech and Polish - A Comparative Case Study

15.25

BREAK

16.00

Peter Herbeck

Romance emphatic doubling as multiple [pragmatic] chains

Karolina Jaworska

Lexical dyads as a manifestation of semantic parallelism in Arabic

16.45

Éva Dékány & Orsolya Tánczos

Udmurt relatives with and without a left periphery

Peter Szűcs

Demonstratives introducing subordinate clauses in Hungarian


Friday 19 June

 

Session 1

Session 2

9.00

Jamal Ouhalla

Wh-clitic-doubling, Wh-Cliticisation and Operator-variable links

9.45

Joe Emonds

Middle English: Theoretical Limits on Borrowing through Language Contact

Krisztina Andrási

Control into Hungarian -vA Adverbial Participles

10.25

BREAK

11.00

Plenary: Marcel den Dikken – Contrastive Left Dislocation: why one size does not fit all

12.30

LUNCH

14.00

Uli Sauerland & Moreno Mitrovic

Two conjunctions are better than one

Sonja Müller

A discourse structural view on the (combined) use of the modal particles "doch" and "auch"

14.45

Angel Luis Jimènez-Fernández & Bozena Rozwadowska

A comparative discourse-based approach to Dative Experiencers and subject properties

Gábor Alberti, Judit Kleiber, and Veronika Szabó

The Intensional Profiles of Hungarian (Proto-) Imperative Sentence Types

15.25

BREAK

16.00

Marta Ruda

Theory of Null Objects and Verb Classes: Manner Verbs, Result Verbs, and Manner/Result Verbs

Øystein Heggelund

Intertextual variation in Old and Middle English

16.45

Branimir Stankovic

DP and mandatory determiners in article-less Serbo-Croatian

Wojciech Guz

Spoken wh-clefts in the British National Corpus


Saturday 20 June

 

Session 1

Session 2

9.00

Kerstin Hoge

Yiddish Possessive Constructions

Alberti Gábor & Farkas Judit

HATNÉK-nominalization in Hungarian

9.45

Anikó Csirmaz

Telicity alternations

Laura Becker

The "Existential Construction" in Hungarian

10.25

BREAK

11.00

Mojmir Docekal

Upper bounded and un-bounded 'no more'

Jacek Witkos & Dziubala-Szrejbrowska

Numeral phrases as subjects and agreement with participles and predicative adjectives

11.45

Anikó Csirmaz & Benjamin Slade

Result States and Repetitive Adverbs

Catherine Gkritziou

Towards a unified structure of pu-clauses in Modern Greek: Evidence from factive islands



Programme Committee

Bas Aarts
David Adger
Gábor Alberti
Boban Arsenijević
Katalin Balogné Bérces
Huba Bartos
Theresa Biberauer
Károly Bibok
Petr Biskup
Anna Bondaruk
Anna Cermakova
Marcel Den Dikken
Jakub Dotlačil
Joseph Emonds
Antonio Fábregas
Anamaria Fălăuş
Karel Fiala
Eva Hajičová
Marianna Hordós
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Ángel Luis Jiménez-Fernández
István Kenesei
Péter Lázár
Eva Lehečková
Denisa Lenertová
Michaela Martinková
Ádám Nádasdy
Mark Newson
György Rákosi
Susan Rothstein
Bożena Rozwadowska
Paweł Rutkowski
Emilio Servidio
Šárka Šimáčková
Radek Simik
Filip Smolik
Branimir Stanković
Attila Starčević
Balázs Surányi
Tibor Szécsényi
Kriszta Szécsényi
Péter Szigetvári
Ianthi Tsimpli
Richard Xiao
Markéta Ziková

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