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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Conference Program

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Thursday, May 24 @ NYU, Silver Building, Room 806 (see the map here)

Time
Schedule
9:00am
 breakfast & registration
9:20am
 opening remarks
9:30am
 Anna Szabolcsi (NYU) Overt infinitival subjects in Hungarian and cross-linguistically
10:10am
 Huba Bartos (HAS) Eppur si muove? Backward control in Hungarian
10:50am
 break
11:10am
 Ágnes Lukács, Péter Rebrus & Miklós Törkenczy (HAS) Paradigmatic space and defectiveness in Hungarian — An empirical study
11:50am
 Zsuzsanna Bárkányi & Zoltán Kiss (HAS) Hungarian [v]: Is it voiced?
12:30pm
 lunch
2:00pm
 Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Brussels) & Anikó Lipták (Leiden) Ellipsis bleeding sluicing: The interrogative suffix in Hungarian
2:40pm
 Hans-Martin Gärtner (ZAS Berlin) & Beáta Gyuris (HAS) Interpreting ‘vajon’
3:20pm
 break
3:40pm
 Bence Kas (Budapest University of Technology/ELTE) & Ágnes Lukács (BUT/HAS) Acquisition of relative clauses in Hungarian children with and without language disorder: A comparison of comprehension and production
4:20pm
 invited talk
Csaba Pléh (Budapest University of Technology) & Ágnes Lukács (BUT/HAS) The relevance of Hungarian in studying language impairments: Experience and data from developmental disorders
6:30pm
 Conference dinner

Friday, May 25 @ CUNY, Skylight Room 9100 (see the map here)

Time
Schedule
9:00am
 breakfast & registration
9:30am
 Christopher Piñón (HAS) Two kinds of durative adverbials in Hungarian
10:10am
 Márta Abrusán (MIT) Akár and akárki: The role of focus particles in free choice indefinites
10:50am
 break
11:10am
 Robert Vago (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY)On the analysis of lowering in the inflectional system of Hungarian
11:50am
 Krisztina Polgárdi (Szeged) Trochaic proper government, loose CV, and vowel zero alternation in Hungarian
12:30pm
 lunch
2:00pm
 György Rákosi (Debrecen) Ablative causes in Hungarian
2:40pm
 Edit Kádár (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) The structure of Hungarian predicational and identification sentences
3:20pm
 break
3:40pm
 László Hunyadi (Debrecen) Recursion in prosody
4:20pm
 invited talk
Péter Siptár (HAS) Morphology or phonology? The case of Hungarian -ni
5:20pm
 Poster session & reception in room 7400

Saturday, May 26 @ NYU, Silver Building, Room 806 (see the map here)

Time
Schedule
9:00am
 breakfast & registration
10:00am
 invited talk
Donka Farkas (UCSC) Polarity Particles in Hungarian
11:00am
 break
11:20am
 Anikó Lipták (Leiden) De! A counter-expectational analysis
12:00pm
 Balázs Surányi (HAS) PP-split and chain reduction
12:40pm
 Katalin É. Kiss (HAS) A new look at quantifier movement in Hungarian
1:20pm
 closing remarks
1:30pm
 end of conference

posters/alternate papers

Viktor Trón (Saarbrücken/Edinburgh) Vowels and consonants in harmony (PhALT1)
Veronika Hegedűs (Tilburg) The structure of Hungarian PPs (SyALT1)
Andrea Márkus (HAS) In which case there is no agreement (SyALT2)
Anikó Csirmaz (Carleton College) Parallels in spatial and temporal modification
Barbara Ürögdi (HAS) & Carlos de Cuba (Stony Brook) Assertion as functional structure in Hungarian