The 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian
The conference website can be reached from here: http://icsh11.nytud.hu. It is organized jointly by Pázmány Péter Catholic University and the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, August 29-31, 2013, Piliscsaba, Hungary. Registration is now open at http://icsh11.nytud.hu/registration.html Invited Speakers: Valéria Molnár (Lund University, Sweden) Anna Szabolcsi (New York University) Robert M. Vago (City University of New York)
Conference Program
Thursday, August 29
9.30 - 10.30
Anna Szabolcsi (New York University): Vajon kérdés-e, vagy nem? ‘Is it a question or not, I wonder’
10.30 - 11.10
Ágnes Bende-Farkas (RIL-HAS): The semantics of floating ‘Mind’ ‘All’ in Old Hungarian
11.10 - 11.25
Coffee break
11.25 - 12.05
Katalin Mády (RIL-HAS) - Andrea Deme (RIL-HAS) - Ádám Szalontai
(RIL-HAS) - Balázs Surányi (RIL-HAS & PPKE) On the interdependency of prosodic phasing and prosodic prominence in Hungarian
12.05 - 12.45
Irene Vogel - Angeliki Athanasopoulou - Nadya Pincus (University of
Delaware)
The acoustic properties of prominence in Hungarian and the Functional Load Hypothesis
12.45 - 14.15
Lunch break
14.15 - 14.55
Péter Rebrus (RIL-HAS) - Miklós Törkenczy (RIL-HAS & ELTE English Linguistics Department) Hungarian vowel harmony and the typology of front/back harmony
14.55 - 15.35
Brigitta Fodor (Stony Brook University)
Adaptation and suffixation of loanwords with a syllabic /l/ in Hungarian
15.35 - 16.15
Péter Siptár (ELTE & RIL-HAS) - Etelka Tekla Gráczi (RIL-HAS) Degemination?
16.15 - 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 - 17.10
Jutta Hartmann (University of Tübingen) - Vera Hegedu"s (RIL-HAS) - Balázs Surányi (RIL-HAS & PPKE) On copula-drop in Hungarian
17.10 - 17.50
György Rákosi (University of Debrecen): Psych predicates, anaphors and the configurationality issue in Hungarian
17.50 - 18.30
Anikó Lipták (Leiden University): Relative pronouns as sluiced remnants
18.45
Wine reception
Friday, August 30
9.30 - 10.30
Valéria Molnár (Lund University): Clausal asymmetries
10.30 - 11.10
Márta Abrusán (CNRS IRIT): On the focus-sensitivity of factive verbs in Hungarian
11.10 - 11.50
Hans-Martin Gaertner (RIL-HAS) - Beáta Gyuris (RIL-HAS) Objective agreement, quotative inversion and the transitivity of reporting clauses
11.50 - 12.00
Coffee break
12.00 - 12.40
Éva Dékány (RIL-HAS) - Vera Hegedu"s (RIL-HAS) Word order variation in Hungarian PPs
12.40 - 13.20
Gergely Kántor (RIL-HAS): Hungarian mint as conj
13.20 - 14.45
Lunch break
14.45 - 15.25
Mária Gósy (RIL-HAS) - Péter Siptár (ELTE & RIL-HAS) Abstractness or complexity? The case of Hungarian /a:/
15.25 - 16.05
Zsuzsanna Bárkányi (ELTE & RIL-HAS) - Zoltán Kiss (ELTE) Phonetics or phonology? Why do sonorants not voice in Hungarian?
16.05 - 16.15
Coffee break
16.15 - 17.15
Poster session
Éva Kardos (University of Debrecen): The aspectual structure of creation/consumption predicates
Mátyás Gergely (RIL-HAS & PPKE): Event quantification in Hungarian. A comparative analysis of ki-ki and mindenki
Barbara Egedi (RIL-HAS): Plural agreement within possessive constructions in three varieties in Hungarian
Lilla Pintér (PPKE): Suspended obviation and spelled out PRO are two sides of the same coin
László Drienkó (ELTE): Agreement groups coverage of Hungarian mother-child language
Judit Farkas - Gábor Alberti - Veronika Szabó (University of Pécs) DP-Internal operators and their scopal interaction with operators of the verb
Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen): Revisiting Hungarian sentence structure from an LFG perspective
Doris Gerland - Albert Ortmann (Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf) What counts as relational in Hungarian?
17.15 - 18.15
Robert Vago (CUNY)
The inflectional phonology and morphology of Hungarian in Stratal Optimality Theory
18.45
Conference dinner
Saturday, August 31
9.30 - 10.10
Marcel den Dikken (CUNY): The morphosyntax and morphophonology of (in)alienable possession: The Hungarian contribution
10.10 - 10.50
András Bárány (University of Cambridge): The Hungarian subjective paradigm and possessed DOs
10.50 - 11.10
Coffee break
11.10 - 11.50
Mátyás Gero"cs (RIL-HAS & PPKE) - Lilla Pintér (PPKE) Do Hungarian preschoolers always understand number words exactly?
11.50 - 12.30
Tamás Halm (PPKE): Telicity and free choice: FCIs and verbal modifiers in Hungarian
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch break
14.00 - 14.40
Gábor Alberti (University of Pécs) - Judit Farkas (RIL-HAS & University of Pécs) Arguments for arguments in the complement of the Hungarian nominal head
14.40 - 15.20
Genovéva Puskás (University of Geneva): Hungarian embedded subjunctive clauses: A family business
15.20 - 15.35
Coffee break
15.35 - 16.15
Éva Dékány (RIL-HAS): The structure of Old Hungarian -t gerunds
16.15 - 15.55
Huba Bartos (RIL-HAS): The morphosyntax of causatives and affix multifunctionality
