REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (selected)

2009

• "Babby's puzzle: syntax or morphology?", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY. Presentation
• (with Olga Kagan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Bare NPs and Semantic Incorporation: Objects of na-sja verbs at the syntax-semantics interface", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY. Poster
• "Adjectives in layers and Babby's Puzzle", Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco (11 January 2009, 10:30am).

2008

• "Variations in Distributivity", Workshop on nominal and verbal plurality, Paris, CNRS Pouchet.
• "Russian distributive indefinites", Slavic Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Ohio State University.
• "Russian -nibud' items as dependent indefinites", WCCFL, UCLA.
• "Russian nibud'-items as dependent indefinites", Stanford SemFest.

2006

• "LBE is not E: Split Phrases in Colloquial Russian", FASL 15, Toronto.

2005

• "Against Parameterizing the DP-Hypothesis", AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Washington.
• "The Parameterized DP Hypothesis Revisited", FDSL-6, Potsdam.
• "Passing by Cardinals: In support of Head Movement in Nominals", FASL 14, Princeton.
• "Hebrew Nominals: Rehabilitating the Head Movement Approach", GLOW 2005 Workshop on the Syntax of Semitic Languages, Geneva.

2004

• "How many lexical entries do Russian aspectual pairs constitute? Evidence from language attrition", AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
• "Small Nominals", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13, U of South Carolina.

2003

• "Determiner Phrase in Languages with and without Determiners", CASTL Conference, U of Tromso.
• "Syntax of denominal and ditransitive verbs reconsidered", LAGB Biannual Meeting, Oxford.
• "Functional categories in the nominal domain" (with Steven Franks), Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 12, U of Ottawa.
• "Attrition of agreement in Immigrant Russian", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 12, University of Ottawa.
• "The role of L2 in the L1 loss of aspect in Diaspora Russian", LSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta.

Selected earlier presentations

• "Aspect Lost, Aspect Regained: Restructuring of aspectual system in American Russian", Workshop on syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect, U of Iowa. 2002.
• "Case and Aspect: What does American Russian morphology tell us about syntax?", NELS, NYU/CUNY. 2001.
• "Stative Predicates and the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface", LAGB Biannual Meeting, U of Leeds. 2001.
• "Topic and Focus as Linear Notions: Evidence from Italian and Russian", Conference on the Interaction between Syntax and Pragmatics, University College London. 2000.
• "Monotonicity-based vs. veridicality-based approaches to negative polarity: evidence from Russian", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 8, U of Pennsylvania. 1999.
• "On Accusative adverbials in Russian and Finnish", Adverbs and Adjunction, U of Tromso. 1999.
• "Negative Polarity Items in Russian", Conference on Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Negation, Salford. 1998.
• "Cognate Objects in Hebrew", Conference on the Syntax of Semitic Languages, U of Southern California. 1998.

INVITED TALKS

2008

• Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 7.5, Moscow Independent University: invited as a plenary speaker. Scheduled December 2008.
• "On the syntax of attributive adjectives in Russian", University Ca' Foscari, Venice.
• "Variations in Co-variation", Linguistics Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz.

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.
• "Who is Who of Russian indefinites", University of Gottingen, Germany.

2005

• "The DP Parameter Revisited", Cornell University.
• "Getting aHEAD of the Cardinals: Bolstering the Head Movement Approach", The Syntax/Semantics Lecture Series, NYU.
• "Head Movement in Nominals", Yale Linguistics Lunch.

2004

• "Carrying One's Head High: Head Movement in Hebrew Nominals", University of Connecticut, Linguistics Lunch Talk.
• "Semitic Nominals: Rehabilitating the Head Movement Approach", University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics Colloquium.
• "Small Nominals and the nature of referentiality", Princeton University.
• "Small Nominals in Russian and beyond", CUNY Syntax Supper.

2003

• "Small nominals in argument positions", U of York.
• "Language Attrition and Immigrant Russian", Historical Language Studies Seminar, U of Sheffield.
• "Functional architecture and interpretation of noun phrases", U of Sheffield.
• "Russian Diaspora and Diaspora Russian: on the influence of English on first language attrition of Russian", Indiana University Bloomington.

Selected earlier talks

• "What does American Russian morphology tell us about syntax?", U of Tromso. 2001.
• "Stative predicates, UTAH and thematic relations", Concordia University. 2001.
• "A Cross-Linguistic Study of Cognate Objects", Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1998.