BOOK

Copular Sentences in Russian. A Theory of Intra-Clausal Relations. A detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. The originality of this study lies in treating the copula in the two types of copular sentences neither as completely identical nor as two distinct lexical items; instead, the two types of copula are derived through the process of semantic bleaching. It is concluded that Russian draws a distinction between saturated DPs and unsaturated NPs, despite its renowned lack of overt articles.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2008

• "Split Phrases in Colloquial Russian". Studia Linguistica, special volume on spoken language, 62(1): 5-38.
• "Aspect in Russian as grammatical rather than lexical notion: Evidence from Heritage Russian". Russian Linguistics 32(1): 27-42.

2007

• "On the Universality of DP: A View from Russian". Studia Linguistica 61(1): 59-94.

2006

• "Head Movement in Hebrew Nominals: A Reply to Shlonsky". Lingua 116(8): A1-A40.
• "Small Nominals". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24(2): 433-500.

2004

• "Topic and Focus as Linear Notions: Evidence from Italian and Russian". Lingua 114(3): 325-344.

1999

• "Cognate Objects in Russian". Canadian Journal of Linguistics 44(3): 267-291.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (selected)

2008

• "Russian nibud’-Series as Markers of Co-variation". In Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Pp. 370-378.

2007

• "Split Phrases in Colloquial Russian: A Corpus Study". In: M. Goledzinowska et al. (eds.) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 15: The Toronto Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. Pp. 262-280.

2006

• "Passing by Cardinals: In support of Head Movement in Nominals". In: J. Lavine, et al. (eds.) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 14: The Princeton Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. Pp. 277-292.
• "Negative Polarity Items in Russian and the 'Bagel Problem'". In A. Przepiorkowski and S. Brown (eds.) Negation in Slavic. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers.

2005

• "Small Nominals in Russian". In S. Franks, et al. (eds.) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13: The South Carolina Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. Pp. 241-252.
• "Aspect Lost, Aspect Regained: Restructuring of aspectual marking in American Russian". In P. Kempchinsky and R. Slabakova (eds.) Aspectual Inquiries. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Pp. 369-395.

2004

• "Agreement in the absence of Agreement: Gender Agreement in American Russian". Cahiers Linguistique d'Ottawa. Special volume on Slavic psycholinguistics 32: 87-107.
• (with Steven Franks) "Functional Categories in the Nominal Domain". In O. Arnaudova et al. (eds.) Proceedings of FASL 12. The Ottawa Meeting 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 109-128.
• "Immigrant Russian: Factors in the restructuring of the aspectual system under attrition". Proceedings of BLS 29S. [263 KB] -

2002

• "Cognate objects in Modern and Biblical Hebrew". In J. Ouhalla and U. Shlonsky (eds.) Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Pp. 107-136.

2001

• "Syntactic Categories are Neither Primitive nor Universal: Evidence from Short and Long Adjectives in Russian". In S. Franks et al. (eds.) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 9. Michigan Slavic Publications. Pp. 209-227.
• "On thematic relations in copular sentences". In M. Yoo and J. Steele (eds.) McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 16(1): 85-104.

2000

• "Monotonicity-based vs. veridicality-based approaches to negative polarity: Evidence from Russian". In T. H. King and I. A. Sekerina (eds.) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 8. Michigan Slavic Publications. Pp. 328-346.
• "On Accusative adverbials in Russian and Finnish". In A. Alexiadou and P. Svenonius (eds.) Adverbs and Adjunction. Linguistics in Potsdam 6: 155-176.
• "On Accusative adverbials in Russian and Finnish". The Proceedings of the 15th IATL Annual Conference. Jerusalem, Israel. Pp. 165-190.
• "Are All Small Clauses Created Equal? Evidence from Russian and Italian". In M. Yoo and J. Steele (eds.) McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 15(1): 73-104.

1999

• "Two Classes of Cognate Objects". In K. Shahin, S. Blake, and E.-S. Kim (eds.) The Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XVII. Stanford, CA: SCLI Publications. Pp. 537-551.
• "The Genitive of Negation and Aspect in Russian". In Y. Rose and J. Steele (eds.) McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 14: 111-140.

1998

• "Genitive of Negation in Russian". In The Proceedings of the 13th IATL Annual Conference. Jerusalem, Israel. Pp. 167-190.

FORTHCOMING PAPERS

• "On the Semantics of Russian Tense and Aspect Morphology". To appear in: Journal of Slavic Linguistics. [252 KB] -
• "What Does American Russian Tell Us About Language?" To appear in: Journal of Slavic Linguistics. [539 KB] -
• "Syntax of denominal and ditransitive verbs reconsidered" Ms. [333 KB] -
• "Compounds in Modern Hebrew". Ms. In the USC Semitic Archive.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Carnie, A., H. Harley and S. A. Dooley, eds. (2005) Verb First. On the Syntax of Verb-Initial Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. – LinguistList 16.2503
• Cinque, Guglielmo, ed. (2002) Functional Structure in DP and IP. The Cartography of Syntactic Structures. Volume 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. - LinguistList 14.1479
• Landman, Fred (2004) Indefinites and the Type of Sets. Oxford: Blackwell. Explorations in Semantics. - LinguistList 15.1244
• Moro, Andrea (2000) Dynamic Antisymmetry, LI Monograph Series, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. - LinguistList 12.1030.
• Salaberry, Rafael and Yasuhiro Shirai, eds. (2002) The L2 Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. - LinguistList 14.397
• Slabakova, Roumyana (2001) Telicity in the Second Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. - Web Journal of Modern Languages and Linguistics.
• Tenny, Carol and James Pustejovsky, eds. (2000) Events as grammatical objects. The Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics and Syntax. Stanford: CSLI Publications. - Canadian Journal of Linguistics 47(1-2): 101-104.
• Timberlake, Alan (2004) A Reference Grammar of Russian. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Lingua 117(6): 1125-1130.
• Wurmbrand, Susanne (2001) Infinitives. Restructuring and clause-structure. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Studies in Generative Grammar 55. - Canadian Journal of Linguistics 49(1): 125-127.
• Zemskaya, Elena Andreevna (ed.) (2001) Jazyk Russkogo Zarubezhja [Language of Russian emigration]. Moscow/Vienna: Wiener Slawisticher Almanach. - joint review with Maria Polinsky. Slavic Review 62(2): 424. Also at in the online Journal of Heritage Languages

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