Upcoming
September 2024
Copular clauses, nominalizations and ellipsis in Meadow Mari and Udmurt
On the so-called passive construction of Udmurt (with Éva Dékány)
5th Conference on Syntax of Uralic Languages, Hamburg
Selected presentations
May 2024
On sluicing in Meadow Mari and Udmurt
Versions of this talk were presented at the Syntax & Morphology Circle (Stanford University), SynSem (UCLA), Syntax & Semantics Circle (UC Berkeley), Uralic Information Centre talk series, Jezik & Linguistics Colloquium (University of Nova Gorica)
Exploring the cross-linguistic variation in sluicing
Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos), Leiden
October 2023
Morpheme order variation in Udmurt and the so-called adverbial case (invited talk)
TÜling talk series, Tartu
October 2023
Rethinking the Case-Poss and Poss-Case morpheme order variation in Udmurt
HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest
October 2023
Morpheme order variation in Udmurt adverbial clauses
Third International Conference on Adverbial Clauses: On the variation of adverbial clauses, Göttingen
August 2023
Converb clauses as clausal manner adverbials?
56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Workshop “The concept of manner and its linguistic realizations”, Athens
June 2023
Converbs in Uralic and beyond (invited talk)
Institute for Finno-Ugristics/Uralistics, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich
January 2023
The role of Lowering and non-cyclic heads in Udmurt stress placement (with Lena Borise)
53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Göttingen [slides]
September 2022
Sluicing in Mari
Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest [handout]
September 2022
Towards a DM account of verbal morphophonology in Udmurt (with Lena Borise)
20th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest
August 2022
Wh-expressions and sluicing in Mari
13th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies, Symposium “Interrogativity in the Uralic languages”, Vienna
August 2022
Acoustic correlates of initial and final stress in Udmurt (with Lena Borise)
55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Workshop “Lexical and fixed word stress: Representation, production and perception”, Bucharest
June 2022
Nominal ellipsis and number mismatches in Meadow Mari
4th Syntax of Uralic languages, Budapest [online]
June 2022
Towards a DM account of verbal morphophonology in Udmurt (with Lena Borise)
4th Syntax of Uralic languages, Budapest [online]
May 2022
On coordinate converbs
Adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination, Cologne
April 2022
Fake possessives, partitives and definites sharing the same D (poster)
45th Generative Linguistics in the Old World, London [handout]
February 2022
Emerging Ds, possessives and partitives: evidence from Meadow Mari
47th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Catania
Dec 2021
The intonational realization of stress in Udmurt (with Lena Borise) (poster)
1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation [online]
Aug 2021
The use of Meadow Mari possessive suffixes in nominal ellipsis
Workshop on the Structure of Uralic Languages, Pécs [online]
Aug 2021
Nominal ellipsis in Meadow Mari
5th American International Morphology Meeting, Ohio [online]
June 2021
Inflectionless adjectives in Bulgarian as nominal predication
14th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, Leipzig [online]
Apr 2021
Acoustic correlates of stress in Udmurt verbs: variation and theoretical implications (with Lena Borise) (flash talk)
44th Generative Linguistics in the Old World [online]
Feb 2021
Where propositional arguments and participial relative clauses meet (with Éva Dékány)
43. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Workshop “On the nouniness of propositional arguments”, Freiburg [online]
Feb 2021
The participle-nominalizer polysemy in Uralic and Turkic (with Éva Dékány)
6th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, Toronto [online]
Jan 2021
How ‘before’ turns into ‘rather’: evidence from Turkic and Uralic
Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives/Formal Diachronic Semantics 5, Jerusalem [online]
Dec 2020
Stress and phrasal prosody in Udmurt: initial results (with Lena Borise)
Beszédkutatás – Speech Research 2020, Budapest [online]
Dec 2020
Stress and phrasal prosody in Udmurt: initial results (with Lena Borise)
5th workshop on the languages of Volga-Kama Sprachbund, Moscow [online]
Dec 2020
The participle-nominalizer polysemy in Udmurt (with Éva Dékány)
5th workshop on the languages of Volga-Kama Sprachbund, Moscow [online]
Dec 2020
On the shared morphology between participles and nominalizations (with Éva Dékány) (invited talk)
Syntactic Approaches to Morphology workshop, New York [online]
Sep 2020
Three ways of explaining the participle-nominalizer polysemy (with Éva Dékány)
13th Conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis, Budapest [online]
Sep 2020
Inflectionless adjectives in Bulgarian as a case of nominal predication
15th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Bloomington (In) [online]
Oct 2019
Ellipsis does not bleed Lowering. Evidence from do-support and fragment answers in Finno-Ugric (with Martin Salzmann and Philipp Weisser) (poster)
50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Cambridge (MA)
Sep 2019
Preference clauses in the Volga-Kama language area
13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Pavia
Jun 2019
The syntax of belonging: cross-linguistic variation within Uralic (with Barbara Egedi, Veronika Hegedűs and Nikolett Mus)
3rd Conference on Syntax of Uralic languages, Tartu
Jun 2019
Negative verb clusters in Meadow Mari and Udmurt (with Martin Salzmann and Philipp Weisser)
3rd Conference on Syntax of Uralic languages, Tartu
Jun 2019
Negation, adverbial clitics and the insertion of a dummy copula: Arguments for postsyntactic verb cluster formation in Mari and Udmurt (with Martin Salzmann and Philipp Weisser)
3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference, Budapest
May 2019
Forming verb clusters postsyntactically: Evidence from Udmurt and Mari (with Martin Salzmann and Philipp Weisser)
42nd Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Oslo
Apr 2019
Adjunct control in Udmurt
Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest
Mar 2019
Ambiguous heads. Optional clitic placement in negated Udmurt verb clusters (with Martin Salzmann and Philipp Weisser)
41. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Workshop “Who cares? Contrast and opposition in "free" phenomena”, Bremen
Oct 2018
A reverse Wackernagel clitic: Negation in Udmurt and Mari verb clusters – An argument for the ordering of post-syntactic movement operations (with Martin Salzmann and Philipp Weisser) (alternate/poster)
49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Ithaca (NY)
Sep 2018
Aspect-negation interaction in Komi and Udmurt non-finite ‘before’/‘until’-clauses (with Nikita Muraviev)
Syntax of the World’s Languages 8, Paris
Sep 2018
The diachrony of ‘rather than’-clauses revisited
51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn
Sep 2018
Locative and existential clauses in Uralic: A case study of Hungarian, Udmurt and Tundra Nenets (with Veronika Hegedűs and Nikolett Mus)
51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn
May 2018
Future tense > habitual past: the case of Udmurt
18th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest
Jan 2018
Sound-aligned corpus of Udmurt dialectal texts (with Timofey Arkhangelskiy) (poster)
4th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, Helsinki
Jun 2017
Converbs in Udmurt: a unified class?
2nd Budapest Linguistics Conference, Budapest
Aug 2015
Null and overt pronouns in Udmurt non-finite clauses (poster)
12th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies, Oulu
Aug 2015
Syntactic similarities between non-finite clauses in Udmurt and Tatar (with Eszter Ótott-Kovács) (poster)
12th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies, Oulu