June 9–11, 2016 http://olinco.upol.cz Book of Abstracts Palacký University Olomouc Contents Invited Speakers Volker Gast Towards an Empirical Study of Sentence Semantics: Examples from the Domains of Scalar Operators and Concessives Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring Morphology in the Mental Lexicon David Pesetsky Exfoliation: Towards a Derivational Theory of Clause Size Presentations (in alphabetical order according to the last name of the first author) Gábor Alberti and Judit Farkas Operator Projections Moving as Remnants in Hungarian Jwahir Alzamil Examining the Fluctuation Hypothesis at Early Stages of English L2 Article Acquisition: The Role of Instruction and Metalinguistic Feedback András Bárány Global Case Splits and Cyclic Agree: Arguments for Dissociating Case and Agree Pilar Barbosa, Cristina Flores, and Ana Bastos-Gee Variable Use of Strong Preterites in European Portuguese: A Quantitative and Theoretical Approach Laura Becker and Matías Guzmán Naranjo Psych Predicates from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective Anne Beshears Licensing the Correlative Construction via the Semantics of the Demonstrative Anna Bondaruk, Bożena Rozwadowska and Wojciech Witkowski Constraints on Psych Verb Passivisation in Polish Pavel Caha Bobaljik’s Root Suppletion Generalization as an Instance of the Adjacency Condition Anna Čermáková, Zuzana Komrsková, Marie Kopřivová, and Petra Poukarová Causal Connective protože across Registers Bożena Cetnarowska Polish Derived Nominals with Thematic Adjectives as Argument-Supporting Nominals Lucie Chlumská The Myth of Comparability? Issues in the Design and Analysis of a Monolingual Comparable Corpus Anna Chromá and Filip Smolík Person Reference and Social Understanding: Laboratory Data from Czech Toddlers Jan Chromý, Štěpán Matějka, and Jakub Dotlačil Do Bi-Aspectual Verbs in Czech Express Grammatical Aspect? Alexandra Cornilescu On Dative Clitics and Nominalizations in Romanian José Deulofeu On the Border between Relative and “Consecutive Clauses” Constructions : The Case of [NP Det [-def] N que X] Construct in Spoken French: A Corpus Based Analysis Mojmír Dočekal Constituent Negation, Subjunctive and Alternatives Tomáš Duběda Living on the Edge: Integration vs. Modularity in the Phonology of Czech Anglicisms Bożena Duda Nocturnal and Vizard as Late Modern English Metonymy-Based Synonyms of Prostitute Katalin É. Kiss and Erika Asztalos Discourse-Motivated Word Order Variation in Udmurt Patrick Elliott Selection without Syntax: Explaining the Difference between Clauses and Nominal Phrases Patrick Elliott and Andrew Murphy Non-Intersective Readings in the Slavic Noun Phrase: Diagnosing Two Varieties of Left Branch Extraction Joseph E. Emonds How Formal Lexical Entries Produce Paradigms: The French Clitic System Lenka Fárová Reporting Verb Said and Its Czech Translations Abdelkader Fassi Fehri New Roles and Architecture for Gender: Evidence from Semitic, Berber, and Romance Ludovico Franco, Giulia Bellucci, Lena Dal Pozzo, and Rita Manzini Locatives, Part and Whole in Uralic Rafał L. Górski and Maciej Eder Piotrowski’s Law and Four Cases in the History of Polish Wojciech Guz Resumptive Pronouns in Polish co Relative Clauses Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Elena Pyatigorskaya Comparing Naive Discriminative Learning, Sublexicon Phonotactics, and Analogical Learning Kateřina Havranová A New Syntactic Analysis of Dutch Nominal Infinitives Anders Holmberg and On-Usa Phimsawat Minimal Pronouns Klára Jágrová, Irina Stenger, Roland Marti, and Tania Avgustinova Lexical and Orthographic Distances between Czech, Polish, Russian, and Bulgarian – a Comparative Analysis of the Most Frequent Nouns Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández Subextraction in Dative Clitic and Differential Object Marking Constructions Tamás Káldi, Anna Babarczy and Ágnes Bende-Farkas The Hungarian Focus: Presuppositional Content and Exhaustivity Revisited Jiri Kaspar Information Status: An Experimental Study at the Syntax-Semantics Interface Paul Kiparsky Counterscopal Morphology Miroslav Kubát and Radek Čech Quantitative Analysis of US Presidential Inaugural Addresses Ivona Kučerová φ-Feature Resolution in a DP Coordination: A Case Study at the Syntax-Semantics Interface Yuriy Kushnir The (Not So) Inverse Linking Pattern in Plains Cree Michał Kuźmicki Nasal Place Neutralization in Classical Nahuatl: A Derivational OT Account James E. Lavine The Structure of v-Heads and the Status of the Initiator Role Michal Láznička The Influence of Sequential Iconicity on the Ordering of Czech Adverbial Clauses Eva Lehečková and Jan Křivan Czech Habitual Morpheme -va- as an Expression for Coding Gaps in Time Reference Natalia Levshina A Pilot Study of T/V-Pronouns in European Languages Based on a Parallel Corpus of Online Film Subtitles Wei-lun Lu Use of Parallel Texts as a Methodology in Cultural-Cognitive Linguistics: A Case Study on English-Chinese and English-Czech Parallel Texts Dagmar Machová Polyfunctionality and German Modals M. Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia N Morphology and Its Interpretation: Romance Feminine/Plural –a Michaela Martinková Boundary Crossing Motion Events in Czech Source and Target Texts: Evidence from a Parallel Corpus Vladimir Matlach and Diego Gabriel Krivochen Measuring String ‘Randomness’: Applications of Quantitative Methods to Natural and Formal Languages Petra Mišmaš Multiple and Short Wh-Movement as Wh-Movement to the Peripheries Urszula Modrzyk A Corpus-Based Study of Gradience of a Complex Preposition Category: The Case of Polish na rzecz, do spraw and w celu Andrew Murphy Gang Effects with Left-Branch Extraction: Arguments for Weighted Constraints Elliot Murphy and Andrea Santi Processing and Acceptability Properties of Predicate Ordering Effects in Copredication Olga Nádvorníková Parallel Corpus in Translation Studies: Analysis of the Shifts in Segmentation in Phrases in the Czech-English-French Part of the Parallel Corpus InterCorp Mark Newson and Márton Kucsera Multiple Wh-Structures in Hungarian: A Late Insertion Analysis Marcin Orszulak Long-Distance Wh-Extraction in Polish. Problems of Structure and Derivation Jamal Ouhalla The Morphosyntax of Pluractionality Jeffrey Keith Parrott Gender and the ‘Y’ Question Elena Rudnitskaya The Analysis of the Evenki Analytic Negation Denisa Šebestová English Translation Counterparts of the Czech Particles copak, jestlipak, kdepak Chao-Kai Shih A V Raising Account of Verb-Initiality in Isbubukun Bunun Masaharu Shimada and Akiko Nagano Mirativity and Focus in DP Jana Šindlerová and Aleš Tamchyna Emotions Translated: Enhancing a Subjectivity Lexicon Using a Parallel Valency Lexicon Filip Smolík Imageability and Past Tense: Imageability Effects Are Not Limited to Irregular Verbs Filip Smolík and Veronika Bláhová Grammar or Social Understanding? Both Mental State Language and Grammatical Skills Predict Children’s Use of Personal Pronouns and Verb Inflections Réka Sólyom Metaphors, Metonymies, and Blends in English–Hungarian Equivalents of an Online ICT Glossary Eva Švejdarová A Sociolinguistic Study of Hybrid Language Practices, Attitudes towards Language and the Role of Language in Identity Formation of Latina Students at a Public University in Los Angeles Magdalena Szczyrbak Stance and “Saying” Routines in Expert-Lay Communication Krisztina Szécsényi and Tibor Szécsényi Definiteness Agreement in Hungarian Multiple Infinitival Constructions Jen Ting On the New Expression Bucuo V in Taiwan Mandarin and Its Implications for Rule Borrowing Enikő Tóth and Péter Csatár Preverbal Focus and Syntactically Unmarked Focus in Hungarian: A Comparison Gergő Turi and Balázs Surányi Information Structure and Inverse Quantifier Scope Interpretation Wout Van Praet Subject-Complement Asymmetry in Copular Clauses: Investigating the Realization of the ‘General’ NP across Different Copular Types Jorge Vega Vilanova Specificity and Past Participle Agreement in Catalan: A Diachronic Approach Kateřina Veselovská Using Universal Dependencies for Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Syntactic Features in Evaluative Structures Ludmila Veselovská Economy of Czech Group Nouns and Quantifiers Marcin Wągiel Fake Guns, Privative Adjectives and Taxonomies of Concepts Susi Wurmbrand How to Do Your Best—Feature Sharing and Rule H Susi Wurmbrand Semantic Gender Features of Nouns—Visible and Active in Syntax Joanna Zaleska Testing Phonotactic Constraints: A Language Game Experiment Hedde Zeijlstra Contentives or the Alleged Universal Noun-Verb Distinction: An Asymmetric Perspective Magdalena Zíková What Can a Discourse Behavior of a Demonstrative Tell Us about Its Stage of Grammaticalization? Invited Speakers Towards an Empirical Study of Sentence Semantics: Examples from the Domains of Scalar Operators and Concessives in English and German Volker Gast Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany [email protected] The study of sentence semantics in a model-theoretic framework (formal semantics), which grew out of logic and mathematics (e.g. Frege 1879, Russell 1905, Montague 1973, Cresswell 1973) and which abstracts away from any extra-sentential or non-linguistic information, has increasingly taken the factor of ‘context’ into account, thus leading to the establishment of a ‘formal’ branch of pragmatics (e.g. Kadmon 2001, Potts 2010). The consideration of the context is of particular relevance to the study of elements that make reference to alternatives, such as focus particles (Rooth 1985), or that refer to contextually given background assumptions, such as concessives (König 1991). Given that contextual embedding is arguably