AGREEMENT ACROSS BORDERS CONFERENCE

Agreement Across Borders Conference will be held on the 15th-16th of June 2015 in Zadar, Croatia, by the project Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic Languages (EMSS) in collaboration with the Linguistics Department at the University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia.

This conference is organized as part of the project Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic languages (www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/linguistics/research/leverhulme and Twitter: @emssproject), where agreement patterns are studied with a uniform methodology in six locations across the Western Balkans. This project has both a scientific and social agenda. On one side, it aims to investigate First and Last conjunct agreement in South Slavic languages and thus contribute to the currently debated topic (Bošković 2009, Marušič et al. in press) which revolves around the need for clearer descriptions of the data. On the other side the project aims to propagate psycholinguistic studies of South Slavic languages through cooperation between linguists across the borders of the Western Balkans.

Invited Speakers:

Boban Arsenijević (University of Niš): 

Logic of agreement: How agreement interacts with negation, disjunction and quantification.

Julie Franck (University of Geneva):

The structure-dependent nature of attraction effects in agreement.

Ad Neeleman (UCL):

Subset Controllers in agreement

Conference program: 16th of March, 2015

Early registration deadline: 30th of March 2015