Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 35

University of California, Santa Cruz

May 1st–3rd, 2026

Program

All times are listed in Pacific Daylight Time/PDT (GMT-7).

9:00–9:30
Breakfast
9:30–10:00
Against length-determined tone assignment in Serbo-Croatian Zoom
Marijana Marelj, Ora Matushansky
10:00–10:30
(Non-)veridicality and PPI-hood: The case of the Russian attitude verb polagat' Zoom
Ekaterina Vostrikova, Hedde Zeijlstra
10:30–10:45
Break
10:45–11:15
Word order-based determinacy inferences: Experimental evidence from Czech Zoom
Veronika Jeřábková, Radek Šimík
11:15–11:45
Real-time processing of LBE dependencies under coordination Zoom
Marija Brašić
11:45–12:00
Break
12:00–12:30
Scope of focus determines size of movement: on two derivations for Russian split nominals
Daniel Shevchenko
12:30–1:00
Topic pronouns in Czech: Argument drop in disguise
Ivona Kučerová, Edgar Onea
1:00–2:15
Lunch
2:15–2:45
NP ellipsis with predicative long form adjectives in Russian: a response to Borik (2014)
Daniar Kasenov
2:45–3:15
Interrogative islands in Russian: for an intervention account
Anastasiia Voznesenskaia
3:15–3:30
Break
3:30–4:00
The status of Slavic lexical prefixes in mental grammar: Evidence from priming in BCS
Maša Bešlin, Predrag Kovačević, Stefan Ivanović, Utku Turk
4:00–4:30
Russian yers: Child language data as a window on regularity and irregularity
Natalia Tyulina
4:30–4:45
Break
4:45–5:45
Invited Talk
Productivity and Lexical Specificity in Morphophonological Learning
Gaja Jarosz
10:00–10:30
Breakfast
10:30–11:00
Temporality in the nominal domain: Evidence from Czech adjectives Zoom
Kristýna Švehlíková, Marcin Wągiel
11:00–11:15
Break
11:15–11:45
Two types of unaccusatives: evidence from Slavic Degree Achievements Zoom
Marijana Marelj, Ora Matushansky
11:45–12:15
Theme vowels in Ukrainian inchoative deadjectival verbs Zoom
Anastasiia Vyshnevska
12:15–2:30
Lunch
2:30–3:00
Degrees of Verbal Structure in Slavic Participles
Alberto Frasson, Krzysztof Migdalski
3:00–3:30
The Features of a Bishop: A New Approach to Gender in BCS
Maša Bešlin, Ruth Kramer
3:30–3:45
Break
3:45–4:15
A Unified Modal-Temporal Analysis of Bulgarian Perfect(s)
Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, Alberto Frasson
4:15–4:45
Existential wh-words are still a question in Russian
Vlad Orlov
4:45–5:00
Break
5:00–6:00
Invited Talk
Ellipsis in the extended projection: the view from Russian
Vera Gribanova
7:00–10:00
Conference Dinner
at 313 Front St, Santa Cruz
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