Research

A sample of downloadable manuscrips / papers / handounts / slides by topic

Syntax, morphosyntax and syntax-semantics interface

Strong islands

• 2022 Adjunct islands a configurational. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). -- paper.

• 2021 A theory of two strong islands (PhD thesis) -- manuscript.

Distributed Deletion (Covert Pied-piping)

• 2024 Towards a theory of covert pied-piping and chain pronunciation -- handout.

Concord and noun phrase structure

• 2023 (with Neil Banerjee) On Russian doctors and Estonian numbers. Nominal concord as allomorphy -- handout.

• 2020 Partial concord and the noun phrase structure -- manuscript.

Topicality and A/A'-dependencies

• 2020 (with Justin Colley) On the Topic of Subjects: Composite Probes in Khanty. In: Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50), edited by  Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, and Ayana Whitmal -- handout / manuscript.

Compositional semantics

Discourse anaphora and presupposition projection

• 2024 The syntax of discourse anaphora and presupposition projection (Tel Aviv Linguistics Colloquium) -- slides, video recording, handout.

• 2023 The syntax of presupposition projection (LingLunch@MIT) -- handout.

• 2021 Spelling Spell Out out. A friendly syntactic amendment to dynamic semantics -- manuscript.

• 2020 Structural Conditions on Discourse anaphora; Presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 25 (SuB25); University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL); London, United Kingdom -- OSF page.

Lexical semantics

Aspect and modality

• 2023 On actuality entailments, causation and telicity in Balkar. In: Theoretical Studies on Turkic Languages, ed. by J. Kornfilt -- paper.

• 2019 Telic modality in Russian and beyond -- manuscript.

• 2013 Возможность, сферы действия и вид в черекском диалекте балкарского языка (Possibility, scope and aspect in Cherek dialect of Balkar) -- manuscript (in Russian).

Argument structure

• (to appear, with Anastasia Gruzdeva) (Chapter) Актантные деривации и аргументная структура (Valency alternations and argument structure); In: Tatevosov, S., Bondarenko, T., Podobryaev, A., Privoznov, D. (eds.) Элементы баргузинского диалекта бурятского языка в типологическом освещении (Elements of Barguzin Buryat in a Typological Perspective) -- manuscript (in Russian).

• 2021 Causative, v and Agent in Buryat; In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 15), edited by Julia Sinitsyna and Sergei Tatevosov. 167-178 -- handout / manuscript.

• 2019 Causality of Passive and Paradigmatic Gaps. In: Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 14), edited by Tatiana Bondarenko, Justin Colley, Colin Davis, and Dmitry Privoznov. Cambridge: MIT Press. 239-252 -- handout / manuscript.

• 2017 Семантика и синтаксис ассистива (The Semantics and Syntax of the Assistive). In: Элементы татарского языка в типологическом освещении: мишарский диалект (Elements of Tatar in a Typological Perspective: Mishar Dialect), edited by Sergei Tatevosov, Anna Pazelskaya, and Djavdet Sulejmanov. Moscow: Buki Vedi. 197-226 -- manuscript (in Russian).

• 2015 Participle Passives and Passive Participles in Russian: Aspect; In: Ziková, M., Caha, P., Dočekal, M. (eds.) Proceedings of Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages (FDSL 10.5); Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang Verlag -- manuscript.

• 2012 Семантика одного глагольного показателя в мишарском диалекте татарского языка (The semantics of one verbal suffix in the Mishar dialect of Tatar); In: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference in Grammar and Typology for Young Researchers; St. Petersburg: The Institute for Linguistics Research, Russian Academy of Sciences -- handout (in Russian).

Temporal clauses

• 2022 On definite descriptions of time intervals -- handout.

Discourse particles

• 2019 (with Verena Hehl and Svetlana Toldova) "Fig/Hren" and their semantic interpretation in Russian. Or: Wondering what the f*** fig (tebe) is? Presented at Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics (FARL 3); Moscow State University; Moscow, Russia -- slides.

Phonology

Stress

• 2020 Russian Stress in Inflectional Paradigms. In: Proceedings of the 26th Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 26), edited by Tanya Ionin and Jonathan MacDonald. Ann Arbor MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. 303-322 -- poster / handout / manuscript.

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