Nick Kalivoda
nick.kalivoda@gmail.com
nick.kalivoda@gmail.com
I'm a linguist with interests including OT typologies, Property Theory, and prosody. I got my PhD at UC Santa Cruz in 2018 and am one of the co-creators of the Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory application (SPOT). I'm also a co-editor of a SPOT book.
Manuscripts
Kalivoda, Nick. 2025. Defocus in Match Theory: Remarks on Yip & Yuan 2025. Lingbuzz manuscript: lingbuzz/009471.
(Syntax-)Phonology Publications:
Kalivoda, Nick. 2023. Interactions of Matching, Alignment, and Binarity in Japanese and Beyond. In Jennifer Bellik, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, & Armin Mester (eds.), Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory: Theory and Analyses. Equinox Publishing.
Kalivoda, Nick. 2023. Overtly Headed XPs and Irish Syntax–Prosody Mapping. In Jennifer Jennifer Bellik, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, & Armin Mester (eds.), Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory: Theory and Analyses. Equinox Publishing.
Bellik, Jennifer, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, & Armin Mester. 2023. Introduction: Why SPOT? In Jennifer Bellik, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, & Armin Mester (eds.), Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory: Theory and Analyses. Equinox Publishing.
Kalivoda, Nick. 2022. Matching, C-Command, and Basic Sentence Prosody. In Hisao Tokizaki (ed.), Phonological Externalization, Vol. 7, pp. 97-130.
Bellik, Jennifer, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, & Armin Mester. 2022. Matching and Alignment. In Haruo Kubozono, Junko Ito, & Armin Mester (eds.) Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces. Oxford University Press.
Ishihara, Shinichiro & Nick Kalivoda. 2022. Match Theory: An overview. Language and Linguistics Compass, Vol. 16, No. 1.
Bellik, Jennifer & Nick Kalivoda. 2021. Syntax Prosody in Optimality Theory (SPOT) app tutorial. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6(1), pp. 243-53.
Bellik, Jennifer & Nick Kalivoda. 2019. Automated tableau generation using SPOT (Syntax Prosody in Optimality Theory). Linguistics Vanguard Vol. 5, No. 1.
Kalivoda, Nick & Jennifer Bellik. 2018. Prosodic recursion and pseudo-cyclicity in Danish compound stød. In Ryan Bennett et al. (eds.), Hana-bana (花々): A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester.
Bellik, Jennifer & Nick Kalivoda. 2016. Adjunction and Branchingness Effects in Syntax-Prosody Mapping. In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology.
(Morpho)syntax Publications:
Zyman, Erik & Nick Kalivoda. 2020. XP- and X⁰-movement in the Latin verb: Evidence from mirroring and anti-mirroring. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 20.
Foley, Steven, Nick Kalivoda, & Maziar Toosarvandani. 2018b. Forbidden clitic clusters in Zapotec. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 2017.
Foley, Steven, Nick Kalivoda, & Maziar Toosarvandani 2018a. Gender–Case Constraints in Zapotec. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas, 2017.
Kalivoda, Nick & Erik Zyman. 2015. On the Derivation of Relative Clauses in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. In Proceedings of BLS 2015.
Selected presentations:
Kalivoda, Nick. 2025. Linear and Structural (A)symmetries in Syntax-Prosody Mapping. Talk given at Exploring Boundaries: Phonological Domains in the Languages of the World, University of Tromsø, March 14, 2025.
Kalivoda, Nick. 2024. Quasi-Alignment Properties in nGX+NᴏCʟᴀsʜ. Talk given at Linguistic Typologies in Optimality Theory (LTOT), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, December 6, 2024.
Kalivoda, Nick. 2024. Properties of a stress typology with *FᴏᴏᴛFᴏᴏᴛ. Talk given at University of Valencia, September 18, 2024.
Kalivoda, Nick. 2024. Nuclear Consonants in OT Syllable Typology. Talk given at University of Tromsø Phonology Reading Group, May 24, 2024.
Kalivoda, Nick. 2022. Match, Command, and Basic Sentence Prosody. Talk given at the 12th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure (phex 12), Sapporo University, February 13, 2022.
Bellik, Jennifer & Nick Kalivoda. 2017. Syntax Prosody in OT. Talk given at SPOT Workshop, UC Santa Cruz, November 18, 2017.
Selected OTWorkplace workbooks:
Kalivoda, Nick. 2024. The Book of nGX+NoClash (Version 1). OTWorkplace workbook.
Bellik, Jennifer, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, & Armin Mester. 2022. Supplementary Material for Bellik, Ito, Kalivoda and Mester, "Matching and Alignment". OTWorkplace workbook.