2025
Gehrke, Berit, Kovačević, Predrag, & Simonović, Marko. 2025, February. The importance of having a degree: A semantic approach to short and long form adjectives in BCMS. Talk presented at the 25th Szklarska Poręba Workshop, Szklarska Poręba, Poland, February, 21-24, 2025.
Simonović, Marko (2025). Inter-language mappings: Perché non xe dificile parlar de scienza in fiuman. [Why it isn’t difficult to talk about science in Fiuman]. Workshop Romanische Minderheiten-, Regionalsprachen und Dialekte innerhalb und außerhalb Italiens: Zwischen Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachpolitik, Revitalisierung und Standardisierung [Romance minority, regional languages and dialects inside and outside Italy: Between multilingualism, language policy, revitalisation and standardisation], University of Graz, Graz, Austria, 9 October 2025.
Simonović, Marko (2025). Inter-language mappings: The secret knowledge of almost everyone. Invited talk, 18th Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 18), University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland, 22–24 September 2025.
Lampitelli, Nicola & Simonović, Marko (2025). Balancing the wobbly a in BCMS: The role of epenthesis, infixation, and inhibited slots. Government Phonology Round Table (GPRT) 2025, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Ružomberok, Slovakia, 19-20 June 2025.
Simonović, Marko (2025). “Respect the very few rules that we have!”: Variation and normativity in online Fiuman. Language in Society seminar 2025 “Minoritized and Marginalized Language Varieties in the Digital Sphere”, Inter University Centre Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 12 May 2025.
Simonović, Marko (2025). What does phonology know about theme vowels? Theme-vowel-avoiding stress in stress standard BCMS. CRISSP TCC Seminar Series (Theme vowels, categories, and categorisation), CRISSP (KU Leuven), online (Zoom), 27 February 2025.
Simonović, Marko (2025). Trying Hard to Fail, Failing Hard to Try: How Prosodic Norms Divide Serbia in Two. Workshop on Language and Identity, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 30 January 2025.
Simonović, Marko, & Kovačević, Predrag (2025). Internal verbal structure of -nie/-tie nominalisations across Slavic: Quantitative insights from Ukrainian, Slovak, BCMS, and Pannonian Rusyn. Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA) 18, University of Skopje, Skopje, 26–27 September 2025.
Kovačević, Predrag, Gehrke, Berit, & Simonović, Marko (2025). The importance of having a degree: Attributive short and long form adjectives in BCMS. Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA) 18, University of Skopje, Skopje, 26–27 September 2025.
Gehrke, Berit, Kovačević, Predrag & Simonović, Marko (2025). The importance of having a degree: On the semantics of attributive short and long form adjectives in BCMS. Sinn und Bedeutung 30, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 24–26 September 2025.
Kovačević, Predrag, Grondelaers, Stef, Simonović, Marko, Ivanović, Stefan & Podboj, Martina (2025). Social meaning in syntax: Finite vs non-finite complements in Serbo-Croatian. LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA) 1, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, 17–18 September 2025.
Kovačević, Predrag, Berit Gehrke & Marko Simonović. 2025. The importance of having a degree: Missing short and long form adjectives in BCMS. Talk presented at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 47, Workshop I “(Universal) Paradigmatic Gaps”, Göttingen / Frankfurt am Main, 24 March 2025.
Simonović, Marko, Arsenijević, Boban & Dozet, Iva (2025). Something borrowed, something new, something strangely deverbal?: Latinate nominalisations in BCMS. JENom 11 (11th Workshop on Nominalizations / 11èmes Journées d’Étude sur les NOMinalisations), University of Graz, Graz, 3–4 July 2025.
Lampitelli, Nicola & Simonović, Marko (2025). No special treatment: A representational alternative to [LOAN]. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-20), University of Verona, Verona, Italy, 11 September.
Mirić, Mirjana, & Simonović, Marko (2025). Theme vowels never really go away: Verb integration in Gurbet Romani. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-20), University of Verona, Verona, Italy, 12 September.
Simonović, Marko, Bojana Ristić & Mirjana Mirić. 2025. The adaptation of Serbian loan verbs in Gurbet Romani: An experimental approach. Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on Romani Linguistics (ICRL16), Seminar room 1, Campus of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 23 September 2025.
Simonović, Marko, Predrag Kovačević, Petra Mišmaš & Joeri Vinke. 2025. Nominalisatie and nominalizacija walk into a pub, where nominalisering and nominaliziranje are already sitting: Latinate nominalisations in Germanic and Slavic. Paper presented at the 49. Österreichische Linguistiktagung (ÖLT 2025), workshop “Native vs. Borrowed Word Formation in Synchrony and Diachrony”, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 5–8 December 2025.
Simonović, Marko, Mirić, Mirjana, Ristić, Bojana & Ćirković, Svetlana. (2025). Serbian loan verb adaptation in Gurbet Romani: Evidence from corpus and experimental research. Talk presented at Fundamentals and Advances in Balkan Linguistics II: Folk, Areal and Balkan Linguistics (FABL II), University of Belgrade, Serbia, 31 October 2025.
Ristić, Bojana, Mirić, Mirjana & Simonović, Marko (2025). Loan verb adaptation strategies with Serbian-Romani bilinguals. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, San Sebastián, Spain, June 9–13, 2025.
Kovačević, Predrag, Joeri Vinke, Petra Mišmaš and Marko Simonović, 2025. Nominalisatie and nominalizacija walk into a pub, where nominalisering and nominaliziranje are already sitting: Latinate nominalisations in Germanic and Slavic. Slavic Linguistics Colloquium. December 4th, 2025. online.
Simonović, Marko & Petra Mišmaš. 2025. Kaj lahko naredi zmanjševanje in česa zmanjšanje ne more? Škrabčevi dnevi 14 in Nova Gorica. October 17, 2025.
Ema Štarkl & Marko Simonović. 2025. O končnic-ah in končnic-ih v celjskem govoru. Škrabčevi dnevi 14 in Nova Gorica. October 17, 2025.
Simonović, Marko. 2025. Something borrowed, something new, something with no internal structure? Borrowed nominalisations across languages. Linguistic Colloquium (Linguistisches Kolloquium), Department of Linguistics, University of Graz, Graz, 12 March 2025.
Simonović, Marko. 2025. Something borrowed, something overlapping: Verb integration in Kruševac Romani. Linguistic Colloquium (Linguistisches Kolloquium), Department of Linguistics, University of Graz, Graz, 8 January 2025.
2024
Simonović, Marko, Stefan Milosavljević & Boban Arsenijević. 2024. There is no such thing as a verbal derivational affix. Paper presented at Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL 17). Brussels, December 12-13.
Kovačević, Predrag & Marko Simonović. Severing affixes from categories and borrowed derivations. Paper presented at Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL 17). Brussels, December 12-13.
Lampitelli, Nicola & Marko Simonović. Wobbly a is so wobbly that it's lexical. Paper persented at Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL) 17. Brno, November 20–22, 2024
Simonović, Marko. 2024. Stable variation and language change in written Fiuman. Paper presented at Vulnerable and Endangered Languages in Europe (VELE2024). Belgrade, 2-4 October, 2024.
Simonović, Marko. 2024. Documenting written Fiuman: Spontaneous language change and emergent norms. Paper presented at MiLES Minority Languages in European Societies Documenting, safeguarding, planning. Turin / Bard, July 3rd-6th, 2024.
Simonović, Marko. 2024. The burden of Self-Realisation: Phi-Feature Exponence in Fiuman Verbs. Invited talk at the Crissp Seminar, January 23 2024, KU Leuven Brussels Campus, Belgium.
2023
Simonović, Marko, Predrag Kovačević and Tanja Milićev. 2023. When -nie met -nje: Slavonic-Serbian loan deverbal nominals. Talk given at FDSL-16: Formal Description of Slavic Languages 16, 29 November - 1 December 2023, Graz.
Simonović, Marko. 2023. Niš, Zagreb and Rijeka have Spanish-like lexical stress systems. ¿Por qué? Ivited talk at SLIV@ - Slavic Linguistics Webinars, February 16 2023, Verona, Italy.
Simonović, Marko. 2023. Yes theme vowels, no conjugation classes: Phi-feature exponence in Fiuman. Ivited talk at the Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique, April 25 2023, Geneva, Switzerland.
Simonović, Marko. 2023. Dispensing with conjugation classes in Fiuman. Poster presented at 48° Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. February 16 - 18, 2023. Florence, Italy.
Kraš, Tihana, Maja Miličević Petrović, Martina Podboj and Marko Simonović. Panel session: The Next Generation of Language Specialists: Results of the UPSKILLS Project. CLARC 2023 Language and Language Data. 28 – 30 September 2023, Rijeka, Croatia.
Simonović, Marko and Petra Mišmaš. 2023. Končnice pod drobnogledom dvojine – vsi dvojinski a-ji. Škrabčevi dnevi 13; October 20, 2023, Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
Ema Štarkl, Marko Simonović. 2023. -ica sign: Kako predvidljiv je naglas v slovenskih tvorjenkah s pripono -ica? Škrabčevi dnevi 13; October 20, 2023, Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
Simonović, Marko and Petra Mišmaš. 2023. Predictably Peculiar: Base Modifications in Slovenian Deverbal Nominalisations. Presented at Sinfonija 16. Brno, Czech Republic, September 21-23.
Simonović, Marko. 2023. Three TVs, zero conjugation classes: Phi-feature exponence in Fiuman verbs. Talk presented at Sinfonija 16. Brno, Czech Republic, September 21-23.
Mišmaš, Petra and Marko Simonović. 2023. Ov to the rescue. Presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-18) in Bratislava, Slovakia, August 24-26 2023.
Miličević Petrović, Maja, Tanja Samardžić, Darja Fišer, Silvia Bernardini, Iulianna van der Lek, Boban Arsenijević, Marko Simonović. Research-Based Teaching for Better Language and Linguistics Careers. Talk presented at "Digital Humanities in the Nordic & Baltic Countries", Online, 7 March.
Arsenijević, Boban Milosavljević, Stefan, and Marko Simonović. 2023. Secondary imperfectivisation is reverbalisation is addition of theme vowels. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Athens, Greece, 29 August – 1 September.
2022
Stojković, Jelena and Marko Simonović. There are three theme vowels in BCS and /a/ is not one of them: arguments from the 3PL.PRS allomorphy. Invited talk at Slavic Linguistics Webinars. University of Verona, Italy, 22 December.
Simonović, Marko. Floating features and theme vowel exponents in Fiuman. Invited talk at Seminari di linguistica. University of Padua, Italy, 28 September.
Marko Simonović. 2022. Animacy influences segmental phonology: The velar-sibilant alternation in BCMS. FDSL-15: Formal Description of Slavic Languages 15, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 5-7, 2022. Slides available here.
Štarkl, Ema, Marko Simonović, Stefan Milosavljević & Boban Arsenijević. 2022. nV/ne is a diminutive affix plus a theme vowel. FDSL-15: Formal Description of Slavic Languages 15, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 5-7, 2022. Handout available here.
Boban Arsenijević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Lanko Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Marko Simonović, Stefan Milosavljević and Rok Žaucer. 2022. Licensing deverbal -lac/-lec nominalizations in Western South Slavic. Talk presented at Sinfonija 15 in Udine, Italy, 22–24 September.
Simonović, Marko. 2022. Root allomorphy treatment: How René made lexical storage of allomorphs cool again. Presented at René Kager’s goodbye workshop. Utrecht, The Netherlands, 14 October.
Simonović, Marko. 2022. Feature Affixation and Theme Vowel Exponents in Fiuman and Triestin. Invited talk at Jezik and Linguistics Colloquia. University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 16 June.
2020
Simonović, Marko and Boban Arsenijević. 2020. Linearisation without hierarchy: Transitive roots and Phasal spellout. Talk presented at FASL 29, May 8-10.
Antonyuk Svitlana, Boban Arsenijević, Stefano Quaglia and Marko Simonović. 2020. Allomorphy, morphological operations and the order of Slavic verb-prefixes. Talk presented at FASL 29, May 8-10.
Marko Simonović, Petra Mišmaš. 2020. En ali več morfem-ov? Invited talk at Lingvistični krožek, Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana, Slovenia. February 17, 2020.
2019
Talk "Naglas nominalizacij kot dokaz za privzeto naglasno mesto v slovenščini" at Škrabčevi dnevi 11, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 15 November 2019.
Talk "Good roots go to heaven, bad roots go everywhere: ov and in in Serbo-Croatian" at RTANJ Linguistics 3, Rtanj, Serbia, 4-7 July 2019.
Talk "√OV is in the air: The extreme multifunctionality of the Slovenian affix -ov-" (with Petra Mišmaš) at The 12th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM12), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27-30 June 2019.
Poster "Categories, radical cores and default stress: Slovenian nominalisations revisited" at The 12th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM12), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27-30 June 2019.
Poster "Good Roots Go to Heaven, Bad Roots Go Everywhere: Num Augments in Serbo-Croatian" (with Boban Arsenijević) presented at Connecting roots and affixes in Brno, Czechia, May 13-14 2019.
Poster "Categories, root complexes and default stress: Slovenian nominalisations revisited" at The 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 23 - 25 May 2019.
Poster "Only slightly crazy! Phonologically restricted root allomorphy in Dutch, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian" at the 16th Old World Conference on Phonology, Verona, Italy, 16-18 January 2019.
2018
Talk "Derivational affixes as roots in a lexical stress system" at the 13th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, Göttingen, Germany, December 5-7, 2018. (slides)
Talk "Prosody preservation and borrowing verbs as nouns in three systems with lexical prosody" presented at the workshop Phonological variation and its interfaces, Barcelona, November 22-23, 2018 (handout)
Poster “There is Faith and Faith: Prosodic contrast in Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian verb derivation” presented at the 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 24-26, 2018 (poster)
2017
Poster "Serbo-Croatian is developing stem-based prosody. Why so?" (with René Kager) at Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12.5 Nova Gorica, December 7-9, 2017 (poster)
Talk "Syntax restricts Prosody: The prosody of multi-purpose morphemes in Serbo-Croatian" (with Boban Arsenijević) at Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12.5 Nova Gorica, December 7-9, 2017 (slides)
Invited talk "Inter-language mappings and why we can't have nice theories about them" at the workshop Loanword phonology and phonetics at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, Cologne, Germany, June 11 2017 (slides)
Talk "Zweifelsfrei nicht komplikationslos: Adjektivderivation mit -frei/-vrij und -los/-loos im deutsch-niederländischen Sprachvergleich" (with Anke Poschmann and Stefan Sudhof) at Germanic Sandwich 2017, Münster, Germany, 16-18 March, 2017
Talk "From accent to stress: the verb prosody of Serbo-Croatian creolised standard varieties" (with René Kager) at Old World Conference on Phonology 2017 in Düsseldorf, German, February 20-22, 2017 (slides)
2016
Poster “Same suffix-different endings: paradigm-sensitive spell-out” at the workshop “The Word and the Morpheme”, Humboldt University zu Berlin, September, 22-24 2016 (poster)
2015
Invited talk "Leksikalizacija leksikaliziranih: Variacija in neizpeljivost pri prevzetih samostalnikih v srbohrvaščini" at Škrabčevi dnevi, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 11 December 2015 (slides)
Workshop "How lexical relatedness is established and marked - prosody, compositionality and productivity” (with Boban Arsenijević; call) at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden, 2 – 5 September 2015.
Talk “The sound of lexicalisation – Post-lexical prosody in Serbo-Croatian” (with Boban Arsenijević) (slides)
Talk "The prosody of Serbo-Croatian locatives: Some preliminary remarks" (with Boban Arsenijević), at TIN-dag / Grote Taaldag 2015, Utrecht, 7 February 2015 (slides)
Talk "Just small or small and related: On two kinds of diminutives in Serbo-Croatian" (with Boban Arsenijević), at TIN-dag / Grote Taaldag 2015, Utrecht, 7 February 2015 (slides)
Talk "Surface bases and Lexical Conservatism: The case of SerboCroatian -ova-" at OCP 12 (Old World Conference in Phonology), Barcelona, 27 - 30 January 2015. (handout)
2014
Talk "Voz sa šargarepom i spanaćem zadocneo je 12 časova” Kako je srpskohrvatski sve nasamario", Petnica Science Centre, 11 April 2014 (slides)
Talk "Šta se actually dešava među jezicima? Teorije jezičkog kontakta", Petnica Science Centre, 10 April 2014 (slides)
2013
Talk "Lexicon, Markedness and Grammar in the Serbo-Croatian Wobbly a" (with Antonio Baroni) at SinFonIJA 6 (Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis) Niš, 26 September 2013 – 28 September 2013 (slides)
Talk "The importance of not belonging – Paradigmaticity and Latinate nominalisations in Serbo-Croatian" (with Boban Arsenijević) at SinFonIJA 6 (Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis) Niš, 26 September 2013 – 28 September 2013 (handout)
Workshop "An Interdisciplinary View on Normativity in Language: Cultural, Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives" (with Ad Backus) at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split, Croatia, 18 – 21 September
Talk “As a language, you need norms to live (by)” (slides)
Talk “Twisted by the norm – Serbian verb trebati ’should” (with Boban Arsenijević, slides)
Talk “Regular and honorary membership: On two kinds of deverbal nouns in Serbo-Croatian*” (with Boban Arsenijević) at the 9thMediterranean Morphology Meeting, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 15 – 18 September 2013 (handout, for a remarkable footnote issued by the local organisers concerning the term Serbo-Croatian see the programme)
Talk "Exponence, productivity and default pattern - A study of verb aspect in Serbo-Croatian" (with Tanja Samardžić ) at the International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Geneva, 21 - 27 July 2013 (handout)
Talk “A Perception-Based Account of Variation. Phonetics, Phonology and the Invariant” (with Antonio Baroni) at Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics, APAP 2013, Lublin, Poland, 21 – 23 June 2013 (presentation)
Talk "In and out of paradigms: How to do everything with very few affixes" (with Boban Arsenijević) at JeNom 5: Eventualities beyond verbs, The 5th workshop on nominalizations, Barcelona, 20-21 June 2013 (presentation)
Talk "Loanwords enter the lexicon, not the grammar – Loanword integration theory and Italian facts" as part of the seminari del Dottorato di Ricerca in Linguistica dell’Università di Padova, 24 May 2013 (handout)
Talk "Ličnost i bezličnost srpskog glagola trebati" (with Boban Arsenijević) at Jezik, književnost, marginalizacija, Niš, Serbia, 26-27 april 2013
Talk "Articulating the Inarticulate - when the stimulus is in the red" at the 39th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa in Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy, 21-23 February 2013 (handout, presentation)
2012
Talk "Inter-language mappings and why words are never just borrowed" at the Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts in Tartu, Estonia, 4 - 6 May 2012 (slides)
Faithfulness, Registers and Lexical Representation (with Marta Castella) at Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 38, Verona, 23 - 25 February, 2012 (slides)