2 June 5 – 7 2014 Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic http://olinco.upol.cz Book of Abstracts Contents: Invited speakers (p. 17-21) Bas Aarts Investigating spoken English syntax and usage David Adger Constraints on Phrase Structure Ocke-Schwen Bohn L2 speech learning: Do cross-language phonetic relationships provide a full account? Noam Chomsky Problems of Projection: Extensions Linda Polka The development of phonetic perception: a journey guided by speech input and intake. 3 Oral presentations (p. 22-200) Víctor Acedo-Matellán and Cristina Real-Puigdollers Locative prepositions and quantifier scope: evidence from Catalan Sascha Alexeyenko Adverbs as PPs and the Semantics of –ly Manuela Âmbar and Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández Subjunctives: How much left periphery do you need? Maria Andreou and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Character Reference: A Study of Greek-German and Greek-English Bilingual Children Amir Anvari Remarks on Bridging Pilar P. Barbosa Pseudoclefts: (echo) questions and answers Jitka Bartošová and Ivona Kučerová Against a unified NP-deletion analysis of pronouns: Evidence from demonstratives in Czech Lucie Benešová, Michal Křen, and Martina Waclawičová ORAL2013: representative corpus of informal spoken Czech Štefan Beňuš, Uwe D. Reichel, and Katalin Mády Modelling accentual phrase intonation in Slovak and Hungarian Lolita Bérard and José Deulofeu On the limit between relative and “consecutive clauses”: the case of [NP Det [- def] N que X] construct in spoken French: a corpus based analysis. Theresa Biberauer Towards a theory of syntactic categories: an emergentist generative perspektive 4 Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts Conditional Inversion and Types of Parametric Change Veronika Bláhová and Filip Smolík Early comprehension of verb number morphemes in Czech: evidence for a pragmatic account Anna Bondaruk Three types of predicational clauses in Polish and constrains on their use Karolina Broś Polish voicing assimilation at the phonetics-phonology interface Elena Castroviejo and Berit Gehrke Manner–in–disguise vs. degree WELL Bożena Cetnarowska On the (lack of) referentiality of Polish relational adjectives Julia An-Lun Cheng and Lu Lu Reference Tracking Function of Chinese Nominal Classifiers Kateřina Chládková and Paul Boersma Distinctive features are emergent phonological representations: evidence from neural network models of L1 speech acquisition Natalia Cichosz Polish affectedness and experiencer datives as adjuncts Kristin Davidse Specificational and presentational there-clefts Mojmír Dočekal Intervention effects: negation, universal quantifiers and Czech Mojmír Dočekal, Scott Grimm, and Markéta Ziková How do you count a leaf?: On the rigidity of Czech noun semantics 5 Tomáš Duběda When One Phonology Meets Another: The Case of Gallicisms in Czech Laurent Dumercy, Frédéric Lavigne, Tobias Scheer, and Markéta Ziková Anything goes: Czech initial clusters in a dichotic experiment Věra Dvořák A typology of null direct objects in Czech Jan Terje Faarlund Preposition stranding as a global isogloss Bruno Fernandes and Stephanie Vaz Acquisition of Attachment Preferences in European Portuguese Joanna Filipczak and Piotr Mostowski Doubling construction in Polish Sign Language. Corpus-based analysis Eva Flanderková, Andrea Hudousková, and Barbara Mertins Does the Trace Deletion Hypothesis hold for Czech? Marcin Fortuna The interrelationship of the headedness of vowels and consonantal phonotactics Ludovico Franco, M. Rita Manzini, and Leonardo M. Savoia Linkers are not ‘possession markers’ Gustavo Andrade Nunes Freire Sentential Complements of Perception and Causative verbs: The interface between Language Acquisition and Theory of Mind Paula Roberta Gabbai Armelin Classifying nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: a syntactically unified account for Gender and Inflectional Vlase Jovana Gajic The n-words paradox: universals or existentials? 6 Carmen Gallar Sánchez Labels and locality: a reverse PF consequence Ljudmila Geist Reduced Referentiality and Event Dependency Mátyás Gerőcs and Lilla Pintér The role of Information Structure in children’s interpretation of numerically modified expressions Ion Giurgea Romanian adnominal locative PPs and Argument Structure Giuliana Giusti and Rossella Iovino A Split-DP hypothesis for Latin and Italo-Romance Alexander Grosu A novel analysis of Transparent Free Relation Bill Haddican and Anders Holmberg Three ways to invert object order in the double object construction Jocelyn B. Hardman and Elizabeth A. McCullough Variation in phonetic-acoustic cues in Mandarin-accented English and its differential effects on intelligibility for American and Korean listeners Georg Höhn Unifying the semantics of unagreement and adnominal pronoun constructions Anders Holmberg The meaning of self-talk Dorota Jaworska and Tomasz Pasterski “You won’t get it unless you’re bilingual, kid!”: On irony comprehension in Polish mono- and Polish-English bilingual children. 7 Elżbieta Kaczmarska In Search of the Meaning of Verbs Expressing Mental States. Analysis of Czech Verbs and Their Polish Equivalents Based on Different Theories (Valency, Case Grammar, Pattern Grammar, Cognitive Linguistics) Ditte Kimps, Kristin Davidse, and Bert Cornillie A usage-based analysis of the modal and discourse marker uses of English tag questions Paul Kiparsky The two plurals: A case for allosemy Alenka Kocbek Translating Non-Literary Texts as Culturemes Marie Kopřivová, Hana Goláňová, Petra Klimešová, Zuzana Komrsková, and David Lukeš Multi-tier transcription of informal spoken Czech: the ORTOFON corpus approach Ivona Kučerová Gender–number interactions in defective φ-feature chains Nikolaos Lavidas V1 and VSO in the Greek Septuagint: Contact Effects of Translation and Their Role in Language Change Eva Lehečková and Martina Vokáčová Two aspects of metonymy alternations of Czech verbs Lo Chin-cheng The Utterance-final Glottalization in Taiwanese Mandarin: Interaction between Tone and Intonation Maciej Machnicki and Joanna Zaleska Syllable-driven conspiracy effects in European Portuguese Marta Marecka, Donata Janiszewska, and Anna Jelec Not in the same team: phonological short-term memory and phonological sensitivity do not interact to produce vocabulary learning effects 8 Christina Märzhäuser Bare nominals as referring expressions in Spanish and French bare noun constructions Thomas McFadden Nominative stem-allomorphy and the structure of case Dimitra Melissaropoulou Word formation in the light of the language contact factor: the case of Cappadocian Greek Karolina Mieszkowska and Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic Mental state language in the narratives of Polish monolingual and Polish-English immigrant children living in the UK Mark Newson English Modal Auxiliaries and Late Insertion Ruth Osimk-Teasdale, Nora Dorn, and Claudio Schekulin POS-tagging the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English: strategies and rewards Jamal Ouhalla Syntactic change in perspective: the development of genitive NPs and of differential direct object marking in Spanish Arabic. Fryni Panayidou Colour Adjectives in Cypriot Maronite Arabic Andrea Pešková The Use of Subject Pronouns in a Consistent Pro-drop Language Petr Pořízka Olomouc Corpus of Spoken Czech – Pilot Version Joseph Potashnik The Locus of the Causative-Unaccusative Alternation: Syntax or Lexicon? 9 Anabela Rato Perception and Production of English vowels by Portuguese Learners: The Effects of Perceptual Training Edina Robin Explicitation and Implicitation in Revised Translations Patrícia Rodrigues and Maria José Fortran Small Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese Copular Constructions Alexandr Rosen A 3D taxonomy of word classes at work Pawel Rutkowski, Małgorzata Czajkowska-Kisil, Joanna Łacheta, and Anna Kuder The Syntax of Adjectival Modification in Polish Sign Language (PJM) Anja Šarić P-stranding in a non-P-stranding language: The Structure of Sluices in Serbo-Croatian Uli Sauerland Non-Conservative Quantifiers in German Uli Sauerland and Kazuko Yatsushiro On the Typology of Reported Speech: Partial Quotation vs. Transparent Shifters Louise Shepperd Influence of Orthographic Input on Phonological Representations of Nonnative Nonassimilable Contrasts: Adult Native English Speakers’ Acquisition of Zulu Clicks Filip Smolík and Adam Kříž The power of imageability: effects of semantic factors on the acquisition of inflections Betsy Sneller Using corpus data as evidence for phonotactic constraints on /th/-fronting Helena Spilková Reduction of repeated mentions of content words in native and non-native English 10 Branimir Stanković A third type of adjective modification? An evidence for DP in Serbo-Croatian? Hana Strachoňová Watch out for the universal quantifier! Laurel Smith Stvan Truth is, sentence-initial bare shell nouns are increasing Sandhya Sundaresan and Thomas McFadden In support of an articulated event-layer Magdalena Szczyrbak Of course, indeed or clearly? The interactional potential of modal adverbs in legal genres Enikő Tóth, Péter Csatár, and Arina Banga Factors influencing the use of demonstratives in Dutch and Hungarian Gabriella Tóth Achievement Verbs and Event Quantification M. Voghera, F. Cutugno, C. Iacobini, R. Savy, I. Alfano, and A. De Rosa VoLIP: a searchable Italian spoken corpus Marcin Wągiel From kinds to objects. Prenominal and postnominal adjectives in Polish Sean Wallis What might a corpus of spoken data tell us about language? Susi Wurmbrand Restructuring across the world Hedde Zeijlstra Upward Agree is superior 11 Posters (p. 201-297) Petra Adámková Czech saturative