NYI 9 opens Monday July 18, at 12:00 noon at the School of Philology, St. Petersburg State University (universitetskaya naberezhnaya 7/9)! Please arrive a few minutes early and follow signs to the NYI Opening Ceremonies. Only confirmed, registered students will be able to attend NYI events. Auditors and visitors are not allowed except by special arrangement.
COG-B "3 Puzzles in Syntax and Semantics" will consist of the following subsections:
Week 1: A puzzle in the syntactic and semantic interaction of scopal elements and negation (Sabine Iatridou, MIT and Ivy Sichel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Week 2: The pseudoclefts puzzzle (Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh)
Week 3: A puzzling subject/object dependency (John F. Bailyn, Stony Brook University)
COG-A "Universals of Language" will consist of the following subsections:
Week 1: Typology and Syntax (Maria Polinsky, Harvard and John F. Bailyn, Stony Brook University)
Week 2: Semantics (Roumyana Pancheva, USC)
Week 3: Phonology(Jaye Padgett, University of California, Santa Cruz)