preliminary program


 

Finno-Ugric Syntax and Universal Grammar

Piliscsaba, Budapest, Hungary, CIFU11

09-Aug-2010 - 10-Aug-2010

Here is the link to the abstracts
Sunday, August 8: A pre-workshop dinner at 7 p.m. Menza, Liszt Ferenc tér 2.

 

Preliminary program

 

Time Speaker Title

Monday, August 9
The name of our building is Stephaneum, room "Dienes Valéria"

   
13.00

Opening of the symposium

 

 
  Contributions that are comparative with Hungarian or Finnish  
13.20-14.00

Invited talk

Ora Matushansky

Predicatives in Finnish and Hungarian
14.00-14.40 Gergely Kántor, Júlia Bácskai-Atkári

Elliptical comparatives in Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian

 
14.40-15.00 coffee and tea  
  Contributions on Hungarian  
15.00-15.40 Huba Bartos

Hungarian causatives, and their place in Pylkkaenen’s typology 

 
15.40-16.20 Barbara Ürögdi

Referentiality restrictions on the wh-expletive construction in Hungarian

16.20-17.00 Balázs Surányi

Identificational Focus Movement at the syntax/semantics/prosody interface

 
17.00 -... Poster session

Lena Dal Pozzo Evidence from experimental results and some questions about the syntax-discourse interface

Aet Lees Object Case in Balto-Finnic languages

Larisa Leisiö Is there a nominal tense in Nganasan?

Satu Manninen & Katrin Hiietam  On the Baltic-Finnic Zero Person Construction 

  ...  
Tuesday, August 10 Contributions on Finnish  
9.00-9.40

Invited talk

Diane Nelson

(Non)finiteness in Finnish and Saami
9.40-10.20 Pauli Brattico

Long-distance case assignment in Finnish

 
10.20-11.00

Saara Huhmarniemi, Anne Vainikka

Multiple wh-questions and syntactic islands in Finnish 

 
11.00-11.20 coffee and tea  
11.20-12.00 Elsi Kaiser

Not all exceptions are alike: investigating context-sensitivity in Finnish reciprocals 

 
12.00-12.40 Anikó Csirmaz

The case of divisible phase 

 
  poster presentations to view  
     
lunch
   
14.00-14.40

Invited talk

Ida Toivonen

Lexical-Functional Grammar as a tool for understanding Saami
  Contributions that are not Finnish or Hungarian  
14.40-15.20 Irina Nikolaeva

Possessive relative clauses in Tundra Nenets

 
15.20-16.00 Heete Sahkai

The syntax of the Estonian genitive agent phrase  

 
16.00-16.20 coffee and tea  
16.20-17.00
Éva Dékány, Anikó Csirmaz

Classifiers and the functional sequence in the DP 

 17.00.- 17.40
Anne Tamm
Cross-categorial case in the Finnic nonfinite verbs

17.40-...

Finnic round table