CURRENT PROJECTS

Syntax of noun phrases

  • Functional architecture of noun phrases, the universality of DP, Small Nominals
  • Adjectives and other noun phrase modifiers (possessives, determiners, genitives, relative clauses): relative placement of multiple noun phrase modifiers, case marking, short and long form morphology in Russian
  • Split noun phrases (and PPs), the so-called Left Branch Extraction and information structure of noun phrases
  • Quantification, numerals, approximation, case marking in quantified noun phrases
  • Ordinal numerals and how they combine with cardinals
  • Download Russian questionnaire

Russian Indefinites

  • Negative Polarity Items
  • Specific vs. non-specific indefinites
  • Referentiality and the lack thereof
  • Distributivity and co-variation markers (cross-linguistically)
  • Reciprocals

Grammatical Attrition in Immigrant Russian

  • Aspect, case, agreement in Immigrant Russian
  • Heritage language teaching and learning
  • The demography of Heritage speakers in the U.S.

OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Copular sentences and predication (PhD dissertation research and a recent book from Springer)
  • Information Structure and the expression of Topic/Focus in natural language
  • Adverbs and adjunction
  • Case in Russian: Genitive of Negation, Accusative Adverbials, lexical and inherent case
  • Syntax and morphology of Modern Hebrew
  • Cognate objects

LINGUISTS WHO SHARE MY RESEARCH INTERESTS*

*Additions welcome