SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• (May 2008) "Russian -nibud' items as dependent indefinites", WCCFL, UCLA.
• (May 2006) "LBE is not E: Split Phrases in Colloquial Russian", FASL 15, Toronto.
• (Dec. 2005) "Against Parameterizing the DP-Hypothesis", AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
• (Dec. 2005) "The Parameterized DP Hypothesis Revisited", FDSL-6, Potsdam.
• (May 2005) "Passing by Cardinals: In support of Head Movement in Nominals", FASL 14, Princeton.
• (Mar. 2005) "Hebrew Nominals: Rehabilitating the Head Movement Approach", GLOW 2005 Workshop on the Syntax of Semitic Languages, Geneva.
• (Mar. 2005) "Head Movement in Hebrew and Russian Nominals", WCCFL-24, Vancouver. (cancelled for health reasons)
• (Dec. 2004) "How many lexical entries do Russian aspectual pairs constitute? Evidence from language attrition", AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
• (Feb. 2004) "Small Nominals", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13, U of South Carolina.
• (Oct. 2003) "Determiner Phrase in Languages with and without Determiners", CASTL Conference, U of Tromso.
• (Sept. 2003) "Syntax of denominal and ditransitive verbs reconsidered", LAGB Biannual Meeting, Oxford.
• (May 2003)"Functional categories in the nominal domain" (with Steven Franks), Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 12, U of Ottawa.
• (May 2003) "Attrition of agreement in Immigrant Russian", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 12, University of Ottawa.
• (Jan. 2003) "The role of L2 in the L1 loss of aspect in Diaspora Russian", LSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
• (May 2002) "Aspect Lost, Aspect Regained: Restructuring of aspectual system in American Russian", Workshop on syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect, U of Iowa.
• (Oct. 2001) "Case and Aspect: What does American Russian morphology tell us about syntax?", NELS, NYU/CUNY.
• (Sept. 2001) "American Russian: Where Case and Aspect Meet", LAGB Biannual Meeting, U of Reading.
• (Apr. 2001) "Stative Predicates and the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface", LAGB Biannual Meeting, U of Leeds.
• (Sept. 2000) "Equative Sentences: Structure and Interpretation", LAGB Biannual Meeting, U of Durham.
• (Apr. 2000) "Are All Small Clauses Created Equal? Evidence from Russian and Italian", LAGB Biannual Meeting, University College London.
• (Apr. 2000) "Topic and Focus as Linear Notions: Evidence from Italian and Russian", Conference on the Interaction between Syntax and Pragmatics, University College London.
• (Jun. 1999) "Accusative Adverbials in Russian and Finnish and Case Theory", CLA Annual Conference, U of Sherbrooke.
• (May 1999) "Monotonicity-based vs. veridicality-based approaches to negative polarity: evidence from Russian", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 8, U of Pennsylvania.
• (Apr. 1999) "On Accusative adverbials in Russian and Finnish", Adverbs and Adjunction, U of Tromso.
• (Oct. 1998) "Negative Polarity Items in Russian", Conference on Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Negation, Salford.
• (May 1998) "Cognate Objects and Predication of Events", CLA Annual Conference, Ottawa.
• (May 1998) "Cognate Objects in Hebrew", Conference on the Syntax of Semitic Languages, U of Southern California.

INVITED TALKS

• (Dec. 2007) "How to use aspect to do tense and aktionsart: Introduction to aspect (and tense) in Russian", Tense and Aspect Seminar, University of Gottingen, Germany.
• (Dec. 2007) "Who is Who of Russian indefinites", University of Gottingen, Germany.
• (Sept. 2005) "The DP Parameter Revisited", Cornell University.
• (Apr. 2005) "Getting aHEAD of the Cardinals: Bolstering the Head Movement Approach", The Syntax/Semantics Lecture Series, NYU.
• (Feb. 2005) "Head Movement in Nominals", Yale Linguistics Lunch.
• (Nov. 2004) "Carrying One's Head High: Head Movement in Hebrew Nominals", University of Connecticut, Linguistics Lunch Talk.
• (Oct. 2004) "Semitic Nominals: Rehabilitating the Head Movement Approach", University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics Colloquium.
• (May 2004) "Small Nominals and the nature of referentiality", Princeton University.
• (Apr. 2004) "Small Nominals in Russian and beyond", CUNY Syntax Supper.
• (Dec. 2003) "Small nominals in argument positions", U of York.
• (Oct. 2003) "Language Attrition and Immigrant Russian", Historical Language Studies Seminar, U of Sheffield.
• (Oct. 2003) "Functional architecture and interpretation of noun phrases", U of Sheffield.
• (Jul. 2003) "Russian Diaspora and Diaspora Russian: on the influence of English on first language attrition of Russian", Indiana University Bloomington.
• (Mar. 2001) "What does American Russian morphology tell us about syntax?", U of Tromso.
• (Jan. 2001) "Stative predicates, UTAH and thematic relations", Concordia University.
• (Jun. 1998) "A Cross-Linguistic Study of Cognate Objects", Hebrew University of Jerusalem.