Selected talks
2025
Perfect variations across Slavic and Baltic: Translation Mining approach to corpus data (with Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Alberto Frasson, Antonina Mocniak, Andrzej Żak, Elena Vaiksnoraite, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Diana Androva, Patrick Mihaylov) conference Inner Aspect, VP Structure and the Functional Domain in Slavic Languages, Venice, Italy, November.
Multifunctionality of ONE in Slavic (with Luca Molinari), workshop Grammatical indeterminacy in empirical research, Osnabrück, Germany, September.
Indefiniteness marking in Belarusian, conference The 20th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-20), Verona, Italy, September.
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Perfect Variations Across Slavic and Baltic (with Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Alberto Frasson, Antonina Mocniak, Andrzej Żak, Elena Vaiksnoraite, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Diana Androva, Patrick Mihaylov) conference Grammar and Corpora (C&G 2025), Riga, Latvia, June.
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Perfect Uses in Slavic and Baltic (with Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Alberto Frasson, Antonina Mocniak, Andrzej Żak, Elena Vaiksnoraite, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Diana Androva, Patrick Mihaylov), conference The Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco), Olomouc, Czechia, June.
To D or not to D? (poster with Luca Molinari), The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG34), Madrid, Spain, May.
2024
A cross-Slavic empirical investigation of NP-marking (poster with Luca Molinari), conference Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav2024), Wrocław, Poland, July.
NP marking in Slavic: bare vs non-bare subjects (with Luca Molinari), workshop Functional categories, dimensions of meaning, and expletiveness (FCDME 2024), Barcelona, Spain, June.
Proper names: a translation corpus view (with Bert Le Bruyn, Olga Borik, Ljudmila Geist, Jianan Liu, Hagay Schurr & Sadhwi Srinivas), workshop Non-bare Proper Names, Cologne, Germany, May.
(C)overt NP marking in Bulgarian, Russian, and Polish: An experimental investigation (with Luca Molinari), conference Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 33), Halifax, Canada, May.
(Un)marked indefinites in Russian and Bulgarian: An experimental investigation (poster with Luca Molinari), conference Linguistic Evidence (LE2024), Potsdam, Germany, February.
2023
Bare vs non-bare subjects in Russian (and Bulgarian): An experimental investigation (with Luca Molinari), workshop Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Definiteness at the 23rd International Conference of the Department of Linguistics: Approaches to Language: Structures, Uses, Interfaces. Bucharest, Romania, December.
The use of ONE+N in Slavic: a corpus-based study, conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-16), Graz, Austria, November.
‘ONE + N’ in Slavic: from quantification to (non-)referentiality, invited seminar, ZAS Semantics circle, Berlin, Germany, November.
Referential and non-referential uses of ‘one’ + N in Slavic languages, workshop Functional categories and meaning hierarchies (project INTERCAT II), Barcelona, Spain, September.
A parallel corpus study of the distribution of ONE+N across six Slavic languages, workshop Research Techniques and Approaches: New Journeys in Linguistics (RTANJ Linguistics 4), Rtanj, Serbia, August.
Re-thinking linguistic competence from Catalan language textbooks (with Isabel Crespí, Marta Khouja & Noèlia Sánchez), Grammar teaching and learning: challenges and opportunities (5th Eduling Biannual Meeting), Barcelona, Spain, June.
The theory of argument formation: between kinds & properties (poster with Jianan Liu, Shravani Patil, Hagay Schurr, Olga Borik & Bert Le Bruyn), conference Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 33), Yale, USA, May. Handout.
Indefiniteness without articles: the case of Slavic languages, invited talk, Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL), Manchester, UK, April.
2022
Bare nouns in Slavic and beyond (with Olga Borik, Bert Le Bruyn & Jianan Liu), conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-15), Berlin, Germany, October.
Reference across article(less) languages: the view from the HRM Group (with Jianan Liu, Shravani Patil, Olga Borik & Bert Le Bruyn), seminar, CLT (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, October.
‘Articleless’ languages are not created equal (with Jianan Liu, Shravani Patil, Olga Borik & Bert Le Bruyn), conference Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB 27), Prague, Czech Republic, September.
Catalan and Russian speakers’ preferences for nominal forms: an experimental investigation (poster with Joan Borràs-Comes & M. Teresa Espinal), conference Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 55), Bucharest, Romania, August.
The form of discourse-new subject NPs in Russian as compared to Catalan: an experimental investigation (poster with Joan Borràs-Comes & M. Teresa Espinal), conference Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages 2022 (PsychoSlav2022), Tübingen, Germany, July.
Speakers’ choice of nominal forms in Russian as compared to Catalan - An experimental investigation, seminar, SlavLingColl, HU-Berlin, Germany, March.
The choice of nominal forms by speakers of Catalan and Russian, seminar, CLT (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, January.
2021
(In)definiteness in languages with and without articles: Russian vs. Catalan, seminar, Research on Languages and Linguistics (ROLLING), URV, Tarragona, Spain, May.
2020
The expression of genericity in languages with and without articles: Russian as compared to English and Romance. PhD thesis defence, CLT (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, May.
2019
Generic plurals in languages with and without articles, seminar, GLiF (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, November.
Russian definitional generics (with M. Teresa Espinal), seminar, CLT (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, October.
The interpretation of bare nominals in languages without articles: the case of Russian (poster with Olga Borik), conference Ontology as Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics (OASIS 2), Nantes, France, October.
The generic interpretation of Russian bare plurals, workshop Research Techniques and Approaches: New Journeys in Linguistics (RTANJ Linguistics 3), Rtanj, Serbia, July.
Russian definitional generic sentences (with M. Teresa Espinal), workshop Significado y gramática (SIGGRAM), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June.
Towards a semantic analysis of bare nominals in a language without articles: the case of Russian (with Olga Borik), workshop Significado y gramática (SIGGRAM), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June.
The expression of genericity in languages without articles: The case of Russian, seminar, SlavLingColl, HU-Berlin, Germany, May.
Generic plurals in languages with and without articles, seminar, RUESHeL Lab Meeting, HU-Berlin, Germany, May.
Definiteness in the absence of uniqueness: The case of Russian (with Olga Borik), Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 41), Bremen, Germany, March.
The generic interpretation of Russian bare nominals, workshop The meaning of functional categories in the nominal domain, Barcelona, Spain, March.
2018
Uniqueness/maximality in Russian bare nominals (with Olga Borik), conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 13), Göttingen, Germany, December.
Psychological verbs and their arguments: morphosyntactic variation and individual object interpretation (with M. Teresa Espinal), IX. NEREUS Workshop: Morphosyntactic and semantic aspects of the DP in Romance and beyond, Wuppertal, Germany, November.
The expression of genericity in Russian, workshop Retreat for Students in Semantics and Pragmatics (ReSSP I), Olot (Girona), Spain, October.
Syntactic position and interpretation: the case of Russian preverbal subjects (with Olga Borik), workshop Functional Categories and Semantic Mismatches (MISM4TCHES 2018), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October.
Preverbal indefinite subjects in Russian: an experimental investigation (with Olga Borik), conference Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 51), Tallinn, Estonia, August.
An interplay between position and interpretation: an experimental study of Russian bare plurals (with Olga Borik & Joan Borràs-Comes), Annual international conference of the English Department (AICED 20), Bucharest, Romania, June.
Definitional generic sentences in Russian, Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln (LAK), Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany, May.
Interpretation of Russian bare plurals in object position, Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 40), Stuttgart, Germany, March.
2017
Indefinite by position: an experimental investigation (with Olga Borik), workshop Significado y gramática (SIGGRAM), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, October.
Russian bare plurals in object position: generic or not?, Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP 14), Oviedo, Spain, June.
The interpretation of bare nominals in subject position, International Russian Grammar Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June.
Generic bare plurals in Russian, II Workshop Predoctoral de Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge (CCiL), Barcelona, Spain, May.
Russian bare plurals: Distribution and meaning, workshop New Perspectives on the Form and Meaning of (Bare) Nominals, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April.
2016
Definitional generics in Russian, workshop Semantic Contribution of Det and Num. (In)definiteness, Genericity and Referentiality, Barcelona, Spain, May.
Definitions as generic sentences, workshop Significado y gramática (SIGGRAM), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, April.
2015
Dificultats de traducció: interjeccions i frases expressives, conference Llengües i cultures en contacte: el català i l’Europa d’avui. Diàlegs culturals mitjançant traduccions literàries, Bucharest, Romania, April.