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*

• Noun Phrase Structure: Zeljko Boskovic, Guglielmo Cinque, Giuliana Giusti, Gil Rappaport, Helen Trugman, Pawel Rutkowski, Ed Rubin
• Indefinites: Barbara Partee, Donka Farkas, Anastasia Giannakidou, Adrian Brasoveanu, Olga Kagan, Igor Yanovich, Eric Mathieu
• Heritage Russian: Maria Polinsky, Aneta Pavlenko, Alla Smyslova, Elena Schmitt, Nila Friedberg
• Copular sentences and predication: Ora Matushansky, Line Mikkelsen, Andrew Carnie, Barbara Citko, John Bailyn, John Bowers
• Case in Slavic: Steven Franks, James E. Lavine, Stephanie Harves, Vita Markman

*Additions welcome