Important Dates

Deadline for abstracts: Feb 14, 2010
Notification of acceptance: Mar 1
Conference: Apr 3-4

News & Updates

Apr 5
Pictures from the conference by Barbara Partee and Peter Arkadyev.
Mar 17
Travel & Housing and Registration pages updated.
Mar 16
The conference program is now published.
Jan 11
MSCL 5 will take place at the Independent University of Moscow on April 3-4, 2010. Read the full call for papers.

Saturday, April 3

10:00 Registration
10:50 Opening
11:00 Invited Lecture:
Phases and Left-Branch Extraction (handout)
Zeljko Boskovic (University of Connecticut)
12:00 Coffee break
12:15 On the syntax of Spanish echo-questions
Ekaterina Chernova Tupikina (University of Girona)
12:45 Verb-movement vs. remnant-movement and different word orders: two possibilities in European Portuguese Wh-questions
Diana Travado Amaral (Universidade de Lisboa)
13:15 Recalcitrant nature of Object Experiencers in Polish
Sylwiusz Zychlinski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
13:45 Lunch
14:45 That-clauses in non-standard contexts
Misha Knjazev (Saint Petersburg State University)
15:15 Collective Readings on Subject Arguments
Jon Ander Mendia (University of the Basque Country & HiTT)
15:45 A DRT-based account of two Russian expressive pronouns
Ekaterina Garmash (Moscow State University)
16:15 Coffee break
16:30 Invited Lecture:
Moving Strongly to the Left (handout)
John Frederick Bailyn (Stony Brook University)
18:00 Welcome Party

Sunday, April 4

11:00 Invited Lecture:
Affix Support and the EPP (handout)
Norvin Richards (MIT)
12:00 Coffee break
12:15 Split Scrambling in Polish: A Compositional View
Ewelina Frackowiak (University of Girona)
12:45 Verb and Adverb in the Initial Position in Serbian
Marija Ratancic (University of Novi Sad)
13:15 Word Order and Agreement Asymmetry
Feras Saeed (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad)
13:45 Lunch
14:45 Syntactic features of exceptive constructions with krome in Russian
Sofia Oskolskaya (Saint Petersburg State University)
15:15 Semantics and Syntax of Turkish kendisi
Pavel Rudnev (Russian State University for the Humanities)