Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC)
18-20 June 2015
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Programme
Thursday, 18 June
9.00
Session 1: Brigitta Schvarcz - The range of -nyi Suffixation in Hungarian
Session 2: László Drienkó - Discontinuous coverage of English
mother-child speech
9.45
Session 1: Ludovico Franko & Mihaela Marchis Moreno - Intervention in
Agreement and Case Assignment and the role of Cliticization
Session 2: 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
Session 1: Júlia Bácskai-Atkári - Towards a Cross-Linguistic Typology of
Marking Polarity in Embedded Degree Clauses
Session 2: Yuen Chee Keong & Nur Husna Serip Mohamad - We're On a Date!:
A Comparison of Malay and Indian Interruption Patterns in Malaysia
14.45
Session 1: Blanca Croitor & Ion Giurgea - Relative superlatives and
Deg-raising
Session 2: Karolina Jaworska & Natalia Palich - Lexical Chaining in
Arabic, Czech and Polish - A Comparative Case Study
15.25 BREAK
16.00
Session 1: Peter Herbeck - Romance emphatic doubling as multiple
[pragmatic] chains
Session 2: Karolina Jaworska - Lexical dyads as a manifestation of
semantic parallelism in Arabic
16.45
Session 1: Éva Dékány & Orsolya Tánczos - Udmurt relatives with and
without a left periphery
Session 2: Péter Szu"cs - Demonstratives introducing subordinate clauses
in Hungarian
Friday, 19 June
9.00
Session 1: Jamal Ouhalla - Wh-clitic-doubling, Wh-Cliticisation and
Operator-variable links
Session 2: Mayowa Akinlotan - Nigerian genitive alternation
9.45
Session 1: Joe Emonds - Middle English: Theoretical Limits on Borrowing
through Language Contact
Session 2: 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
Session 1: Uli Sauerland & Moreno Mitrovic - Two conjunctions are better
than one
Session 2: Sonja Müller - A discourse structural view on the (combined)
use of the modal particles doch and auch
14.45
Session 1: Angel Luis Jimenez-Fernández & Bozena Rozwadowska - A
comparative discourse-based approach to Dative Experiencers and subject
properties
Session 2: Gustavo Freire & Matthew Degenhardt - Causative periphrastic
verbs: semantics, acquisition, and cognition
15.25 BREAK
16.00
Session 1: Kerstin Hoge - Yiddish Possessive Constructions
Session 2: Oystein Heggelund - Intertextual variation in Old and Middle
English
16.45
Session 1: Branimir Stankovic - DP and mandatory determiners in
article-less Serbo-Croatian
Session 2: Wojciech Guz - Spoken wh-clefts in the British National Corpus
Saturday, 20 June
9.00
Session 1: Marta Ruda - Theory of Null Objects and Verb Classes: Manner
Verbs, Result Verbs, and Manner/Result Verbs
Session 2: Gábor Alberti & Judit Farkas - HATNÉK-nominalization in Hungarian
9.45
Session 1: Anikó Csirmaz - Telicity alternations
Session 2: Laura Becker - The "Existential Construction" in Hungarian
10.25 BREAK
11.00
Session 1: Mojmir Docekal - Upper bounded and un-bounded 'no more'
Session 2: Jacek Witkos & Dominika Dziubala-Szrejbrowska - Numeral
phrases as subjects and agreement with participles and predicative
adjectives
11.45
Session 1: Anikó Csirmaz & Benjamin Slade - Result States and Repetitive
Adverbs
Session 2: Catherine Gkritziou - Towards a unified structure of
pu-clauses in Modern Greek: Evidence from factive islands
Venue: ELTE, Múzeum körút, Building R5
For more information and registration see the conference website:
http://seas3.elte.hu/blinc/