Thursday, August 29

9.30 – 10.30

Invited talk:

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) – Ádám Szalontai (RIL-HAS) – Andrea Deme (RIL-HAS) – Balázs Surányi (RIL-HAS & PPKE)

On the interdependency of prosodic phrasing 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 Hegedűs (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

Valéria Molnár (Lund University)

11.10 – 11.50

Éva Kardos (University of Debrecen)

The aspectual structure of creation/consumption predicates

11.50 – 12.00

coffee break

12.00 – 12.40

Éva Dékány (RIL-HAS) – Vera Hegedűs (RIL-HAS)

Word order variation in Hungarian PPs

12.40 – 13.20

Gergely Kántor (RIL-HAS)

Hungarian Mint as Conj0

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

Mátyás Gerőcs (PPKE)

syntax alternate 1

Event quantification in Hungarian. A comparative analysis of ki-ki and mindenki

Barbara Egedi (RIL-HAS)

syntax alternate 2

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

Gréte Dalmi (Eszterházy College, Department of English Linguistics)

The feature geometry of 3SG generic null subjects vs. 3SG referential null subjects

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

Invited talk:

Robert Vago (CUNY)

The Inflectional Phonology and Morphology of Hungarian in
Stratal Optimality Theory

18.45

Conference dinner

Saturday, August 31

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 Gerőcs (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)

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 – 16.55

Huba Bartos (RIL-HAS)

The morphosyntax of causatives and affix multifunctionality