Hi there!

I am a Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

I previously worked at the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto and Reed College. I completed my Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. I am from Novi Sad in Serbia. 

My research is on syntactic theory and syntax-semantics interface in Slavic languages and the languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

I am curious about temporal and aspectual interaction everywhere - in (superficially) tenseless languages, in various clausal complements, with (omni)present tense, etc. 

I started as a theoretical linguist but have fallen in love with conducting fieldwork. I am working on Gitksan, an endangered Tsimshianic language of northwest British Columbia. I am fascinated by the symbiosis between the two: how new empirical findings inform existing theories and how those theories lead us to greater understanding of the languages we are engaged with.

Please note that my email address has changed to: ntodorovic[et]umass[dot]edu