My MIT dissertation, Movement
of Degree/Degree of Movement, is available from MITWPL. My joint book with Tania Ionin, Cardinals,
is available from MIT Press.
For a full list of my papers and presentations, see my CV
(PDF)
My Erdös
number is 6 (via Morris Halle to Noam Chomsky to Marcel
Schützenberger to Samuel Eilenberg to Ivan Niven to Paul Erdös)
All downloads are in PDF unless specified otherwise. Older
phonological papers and handouts may require the SIL
Doulos font.
I generally don't post published papers, but if you don't have access to
the journal in question, feel free to email me
for a prepublication version.
2024:
- Matushansky, Ora. To appear. Russian plural declension and gender
change. In Syntax in Uncharted Territories: Essays in Honor of
Maria Polinsky, ed. by Lauren Clemens, Vera Gribanova and Gregory
Scontras.
- Matushansky, Ora. To appear. Russian verbal stress retraction as
induced unstressability. Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2022,
ed. by Berit Gehrke, Denisa Lenertová, Roland Meyer, Daria Seres, Luka
Szucsich, and Joanna Zaleska. Berlin, Language Science Press.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Thematic
non-uniformity of Russian vocalic verbal suffixes. Glossa:
a journal of general linguistics 9(1), pp. 1–50.
2023:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Russian
verbal stress clash as a tonal conflict. Ms., SFL (CNRS/Université
Paris-8/UPL).
- Matushansky, Ora. To appear. Features
(vignette). In Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Evelina Leivada,
eds., The Cambridge Handbook of the
Minimalist Program. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Matushansky, Ora. To appear. Two
BAP violations in Russian verbal stress. In Tatiana Bondarenko,
Peter Grishin, and Anton Kukhto (eds.), Proceedings
of FASL 30 (MIT).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Phi-congruence and case-agreement in close apposition
in Russian. Advances in Formal
Slavic Linguistics 2021, ed. by Petr Biskup, Marcel Börner,
Olav Mueller-Reichau and Iuliia Shcherbina, pp. 237-267. Berlin:
Language Science Press.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. On
an(n)- and Anne. In
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Herby Glaude, and Elena Soare
(eds.). La
Grammaire est une fête / Grammar is a moveable feast. Mélanges offerts
à / A Webschrift for Anne Zribi-Hertz. Zenodo.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Ablaut
and transitive softening in the Russian verb. In Noah Elkins,
Bruce Hayes, Jinyoung Jo and Jian-Leat Siah (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022
Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic
Society of America.
2022:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2022. On the semantics of inanimate gender. In For Hagit: A celebration. חגיגת חגית/xagigat xagit,
QMUL Occasional Papers in Linguistics 47, ed. by Linnaea Stockall, Luisa
Martí, David Adger, Isabelle Roy, and Sarah Ouwayda. London: QMUL.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2022. The dual nature of the Romanian neuter. In Proceedings
of CLS 56 (2020), ed. by Matthew Hewett, Corinne Kasper, Sanghee
Kim and Naomi Kurtz, 307-320. Chicago: CLS.
2021:
2020:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. Locatives are not cases: Evidence from Lak. Typology of
Morphosyntactic Parameters 4/2, pp. 81–97.
- Matushansky, Ora, Boneh, Nora, Nash, Léa, and Natalia Slioussar. 2020.
To PPs in their proper place. Proceedings
of
FASL 26, ed. by Tania Ionin and Jonathan E. MacDonald, pp.
228-245. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan Slavic Publications.
2019:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2019. Against
the
PredP theory of small clauses. Linguistic
Inquiry 50/1, pp. 63-104.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2019. Tops
and
bottoms: axial nominals as weak definites. In Proceedings of WCCFL 36,
ed. by Richard Stockwell, Maura O'Leary, Zhongshi Xu, and Z.L. Zhou,
pp. 270-280. Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2019. The
case
of restricted locatives. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23/2,
pp.161-178.
2018:
- Ionin, Tania, and Ora Matushansky. 2018. Cardinals: The
Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions. MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA.
- Matushansky, Ora and Tania Ionin. 2018. Polish numeral NP agreement as
a function of surface morphology. In Proceedings of FASL 25,
ed. by Wayles Browne, Miloje Despic, Naomi Enzinna, Robin Karlin, Simone
De Lemos, and Draga Zec, pp. 159-179. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan
Slavic Publications.
2017:
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2017. Making space for measures. In Proceedings
of NELS 47, vol. 2, ed. by Andrew Lamont and
Katerina Tetzlo, pp. 261–274. Amherst, Massachusetts: GLSA (Graduate
Linguistics Student Association).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2017. Ни хуя
себе! Russian genitive IV. In A
Pesky Set: a Festschrift for David Pesetsky, ed. by Halpert,
Claire, Kotek, Hadas, and Coppe van Urk, 281-290. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: MITWPL.
2015:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. On being [feminine] and [proper]. In NELS
45: Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the North East Linguistic
Society: Volume 2, ed. by Thuy Bui and Deniz
Özyıldız, 165-178. Amherst, Massachusetts: GLSA.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. On Russian approximative inversion. In Slavic
Grammar from a Formal Perspective: The 10th Anniversary FDSL
Conference, ed. by Gerhild Zybatow, Petr Biskup, Marcel Guhl,
Claudia Hurtig, Olav Mueller-Reichau and Maria Yastrebova, pp. 303-316.
Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. Against
PredP. In Proceedings of IATL 30, ed. by Nurit
Melnik, 83-99. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MITWPL.
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G. Ruys. 2015. 4000 measure NPs: another pass
through the шлюз. In Proceedings of FASL 23, ed. by Małgorzata
Szajbel-Keck, Roslyn Burns and Darya Kavitskaya, 184-205. Ann Arbor,
Michigan: Michigan Slavic Publications.
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G. Ruys. 2015. Measure for measure. In Slavic
Grammar from a Formal Perspective: The 10th Anniversary FDSL
Conference, ed. by Gerhild Zybatow, Petr Biskup, Marcel Guhl,
Claudia Hurtig, Olav Mueller-Reichau and Maria Yastrebova, pp. 317-330.
Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. The
other
Francis Bacon: on non-bare proper names. Erkenntnis 80:335-362.
- Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2015. Mistaking for:
testing the theory of mediated predication. Linguistic Inquiry
46:43-76.
2014:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2014. Review article: Olga Kagan. Semantics of
Genitive Objects in Russian. Journal of Slavic Linguistics,
22/1, 115-127.
2013:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2013. More or
better: on the derivation of synthetic comparatives and superlatives
in English. In Matushansky, Ora, and Alec Marantz, eds., Distributed
Morphology Today: Morphemes for Morris Halle, 59-78. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
- Marantz, Alec, and Ora Matushansky. 2013. Morris,
Distributed: An Introduction. In Matushansky, Ora, and Alec
Marantz, eds., Distributed Morphology Today: Morphemes for Morris
Halle, vii-xiv. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Ionin, Tania, and Ora Matushansky. 2013. More
than one comparative in more than one Slavic language: an
experimental investigation. To appear in Proceedings of
FASL 21. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic publications.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2013. Gender
confusion. In Cheng, Lisa L.-S., and Norbert Corver (eds.). Diagnosing
Syntax, 271-294. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Guasti, Maria Teresa, and Ora Matushansky. 2013. Diagnosing agreement.
In Cheng, Lisa L.-S., and Norbert Corver (eds.). Diagnosing Syntax,
334-338. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Ionin Tania, and Ora Matushansky. 2013. Numerals.
Oxford Bibliographies Online.
2012:
2011:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2011. Review
article:
Ian Roberts' Agreement and head movement: Clitics, incorporation,
and defective goals. Journal of Linguistics 47/2, pp.
538-545.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2011. No
more no less: existential comparatives revisited. Ms. University
of Utrecht.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Tania Ionin. 2011.
More than one solution. To appear in Proceedings of CLS 47
- Matushansky, Ora, and Tania Ionin. 2011. A
singular analysis of three plurals. Ms. Utrecht University/UIUC
- Matushansky, Ora. 2011. As relatives.
In: Yehuda N. Falk (ed.) Proceedings of IATL 26. Jerusalem: The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2010:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. Same
problem, different solution. Ms. University of Utrecht.
- Cabredo-Hofherr, Patricia and Ora Matushansky. 2010, eds. Adjectives.
Formal
analyses in syntax and semantics. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics
Today, 153. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. Russian
predicate case, encore. In G. Zybatow, P. Dudchuk, S.
Minor, & E. Pshehotskaya (eds.) Formal Studies in Slavic
Linguistics, Proceedings of FDSL 7.5. 117-135. Frankfurt am Main: Peter
Lang.
A demonstration of how a particular proposal for multiple
Case-assignment accounts for a variety of case-related phenomena in
Russian.
2009:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2009. On the
featural composition of the Russian back yer. In G. Zybatow, U.
Junghanns, D. Lenertová and P. Biskup, eds., Studies in Formal
Slavic Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Information
Structure. Proceedings of FDSL 7, Leipzig 2007. Frankfurt: Peter
Lang, pp. 397-410.
2008:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2008. On
the
linguistic complexity of proper names. Linguistics and
Philosophy 31/5, pp. 573-627.
A novel proposal about the syntax and compositional
semantics of proper names, starting with the naming construction and
finishing with proper names in argument positions. I argue that
cross-linguistic syntax of the naming construction (Call me Al)
requires that the proper name in it be a predicate relativized to a
naming convention. This naming convention can be supplied either by
the naming verb or by the context -- and it is the latter option that
is used in argument positions. As a result, we obtain a compositional
analysis of argument proper names as definite descriptions.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2008. On the Attributive Nature of Superlatives. Syntax
11/1, pp. 26-90
Argues on the basis of cross-linguistic syntactic
evidence that superlatives are always attributive.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2008. A
Case Study of Predication. In F. Marušič and R. Žaucer, eds., Studies
in Formal Slavic Linguistics. Contributions from Formal Description of
Slavic Languages 6.5. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 213-239.
I discuss Case assignment to predicates and demonstrate
that to account for it, it is necessary to assume that a head can
assign Case to its complement. I argue that this hypothesis, in
combination with some standard Distributed Morphology assumptions, is
sufficient to account for structural Case assignment as well, and the
standard Case Theory becomes superfluous.
2007:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2007. Les (inter)faces
de mouvement. Habilitation thesis (in French). Université Paris
VIII, December 2007.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2007. Predication and escape hatches in Phase
Extension Theory. Theoretical Linguistics 33/1, pp. 93-104
Solicited "peer commentary". Read the paper this
is commenting on here.
2006:
- Ionin, Tania, Ora
Matushansky, and E.G.
Ruys. 2006. Parts of Speech: Toward a unified semantics for
partitives. In Proceedings of NELS 36, ed. by Christopher Davis,
Amy Rose Deal and Youri Zabbal, pp.357-370. Amherst, Massachusetts:
University of Massachusetts, GLSA.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2006. Call me an ambulance. In L. Bateman and C.
Ussery, eds., Proceedings of NELS 35, pp. 419-434. Amherst,
Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts, GLSA.
- Ionin, Tania, and
Ora Matushansky. 2006. The
composition
of complex cardinals. Journal of Semantics 23/4, pp.
315-360
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G.
Ruys. 2006. Meilleurs voeux: quelques notes sur la comparaison
plurielle. In Olivier Bonami and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, eds., Empirical
Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 6, pp. 309-330.
Here is the pre-final version in
English. Example numbering may be off, but all the main points are
there.
- Halle, Morris, and Ora Matushansky. 2006. The morpho-phonology of
Russian adjectival inflection. Linguistic Inquiry 37.3, pp.
351-404.
A comprehensive study of the adjectival declension in
Russian. Provides evidence for the existence of theme suffixes in
Russian and argues that there is no special "adjectival" paradigm, but
that in fact adjectives and nouns in Russian share Case exponents.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2006. Why Rose is the Rose. In Olivier Bonami and Patricia
Cabredo Hofherr, eds., Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and
Semantics 6, pp. 285-308.
A morphosyntactic analysis of the behavior of definite
articles with proper names
- Babyonyshev,
Maria, and Ora Matushansky. 2006. Back to the Past. In James
Lavine, Steven Franks, Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva and Hana Filip (eds.),
Proceedings of FASL 14: The Princeton Meeting. Michigan Slavic
Publications. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Novel data on Sequence of Tense in Russian: (1) the difference between
complements of attitude report predicates and clauses introduced by
adverbials shifting to another point of view (e.g., according to
Alice), and (2) resolution of lifetime effects in generic
sentences by introducing a covert POV-adverbial.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2006. Head-movement in linguistic theory. Linguistic
Inquiry 37.1.
An analysis of head-movement. A tighter and better
version of the MITWPL paper on the same subject, with some new
arguments.
2005:
- Les adjectifs – une introduction. In Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Ora
Matushansky, eds., Recherches
Linguistiques de Vincennes 34 (L'adjectif)
A general introduction into everything I know about
adjectives (in French)
Here's another
list
of references on adjectives (RTF)
- (with Patricia Cabredo Hofherr)
Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes 34 (L'adjectif)
- Moving a-head. In K Hiraiwa and J.
Sabbagh (eds.), Minimalist Approaches to Clause Structure, MIT
Working Papers in Linguistics 50. MITWPL.
Argues against the phonological status of head movement
proposed by Chomsky in the recent work. Suggests that head movement is
best viewed as the combination of two operations, the usual syntactic
movement and the independently motivated morphological operation of
m-merger. Superseded by the 2006 LI paper.
- Going through a phase. In Martha McGinnis and Norvin Richards (eds.),
Perspectives on Phases. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 49.
MITWPL.
Uses the tests of phonological and interpretational
independence on DPs. Shows that the end result renders the notion of a
phase suspicious.
- Call me
Ishmael. Emar Maier, Corien Bary, and Janneke Huitink, eds., Proceedings
of SuB9, NCS, Nijmegen, pp. 226-240.
A novel definite-description analysis of proper names
based on their syntax and semantics in naming constructions.
This paper and the one in Proceedings of NELS 35 are as
different as I could possibly make them and still draw the same
conclusions. In particular, I used different sets of languages to
argue for my points, and only partially intersecting sets of
arguments.
- (with Benjamin
Spector): Tinker,
tailor,
soldier, spy. Emar Maier, Corien Bary, and Janneke Huitink, eds.,
Proceedings of
SuB9, NCS, Nijmegen, pp. 241-255.
An analysis of bare vs. indefinite NPs in the predicate
position in French (and by extension in Dutch, German and Italian),
suggesting that bare NPs (Marie est linguiste) are true
predicates, while indefinite NPs (Marie est une linguiste) are
arguments in a construction involving existential quantification,
which is a special case of what is known as equative copula.
2004:
- (with Tania Ionin)
A singular plural. Benjamin Schmeiser, Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher and
Angelo Rodriguez (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 23, UC Davis, pp.
399-412. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
A novel analysis of numerals based on the necessity to
account for complex numerals, arguing that we need to assume that each
numeral is a head taking the base numeral (3 of hundred) or the
lexical NP (7 of books) as a complement and proposing the semantics
for this.
2003:
- (with Tania
Ionin) DPs with a twist:
A unified analysis of Russian comitatives. Wayles Browne, Ji-Yung Kim,
Barbara H. Partee, and Robert A. Rothstein, eds., Formal Approaches
to Slavic Linguistics #11: The Amherst Meeting 2002. Michigan
Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor.
- Adjectives in Buli. George Akanlig-Pare and Michael Kenstowicz, eds.,
Studies in Buli Grammar. MIT
Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages 4,
MITWPL.
2002:
- A beauty of a construction. Line Mikkelsen and Christopher Potts,
eds., Proceedings of the 21st West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, pp. 264-277
- Tipping the scales: The
syntax of scalarity in the complement of seem. Syntax
5.3.
I found out after the publication that the observation
that seem requires scalarity in the small clause complement
has been made by Joan Maling considerably earlier. I show that the
situation is more complicated than she says, but I should have known
about her paper.
- (with Morris
Halle) [a back] assimilation in
Russian - an overview. In Anikó Csirmaz, Zhiqiang Li, Andrew
Nevins, Olga Vaysman and Michael Wagner, eds., Phonological Answers
(and their corresponding questions). MITWPL
42, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge MA, pp. 69-79.
- On formal identity of Russian
prefixes and prepositions. In Anikó Csirmaz, Zhiqiang Li,
Andrew Nevins, Olga Vaysman and Michael Wagner, eds., Phonological
Answers (and their corresponding questions). MITWPL
42, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge MA, pp. 217-253.
- More of a good thing:
Russian synthetic and analytic comparatives. In Jindrich Toman, ed., Proceedings
of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 10.
- (with Ken
Wexler) Again on the subject of
English null subjects: Discourse and syntax. J. Costa and M.
J. Freitas, eds., Proceedings of GALA 2001. Associação
Portuguesa de Linguistica.
2001:
- Obligatory Scalarity (a
sliding scale). In Karine Megerdoomian and Leora Anne Bar-el, eds., Proceedings
of the 20th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp.
400-413. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2000:
- The Instrument of Inversion.
Instrumental case and verb raising in the Russian copula. In Roger
Billerey and Brook Lillehaugen, eds.,: Proceedings of the 19th West
Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 101-115. Somerville,
MA: Cascadilla Press.
1998:
- Partial pro-drop in Hebrew and Russian. In Langues et Grammaire 3,
Syntaxe : Communications présentées au colloque Langues et grammaire
III (Paris 1997), ed. by Patrick Sauzet, 145-162. Paris:
Département SDL, Université Paris 8.
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2024:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Affix
conglutination as allosemy in a complex affix. November 28-29,
2024, Formal
Diachronic Semantics 9, Bologna.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. On
the theme of deverbal nouns. November 20-22, 2024, FDSL 17, Brno (Czech Republic).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Mass and
plural: on the Russian suffix -ĭj-. November 20-22, 2024,
FDSL 17,
Brno (Czech Republic).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Floating
a new take on the Russian declension. November 6, 2024, Atelier
de phonologie, SFL.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. One
case of plural augmentation in Russian. September 26-28, 2024, SinFonIJa
17, Nova Gorica (Slovenia).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Mass nouns, plurals, and mass plurals: on the
Russian suffix -ĭj-. September 16-20, 2024, Sinn und Bedeutung 29, Noto. Poster, handout
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Stem-final default in Russian short-form
adjectives. June 26-28, 2024, Réseau
Français de Phonologie (RFP), Amiens.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Où? Là,
là! On locative encoding in French and au-delà. Workshop Non-Bare Proper Names: Proper Names with
Determiners and Modifiers in Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
May 16-17, 2024, Cologne.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. The anatomy
of an aggregate: on the Russian suffix -ьj-.
Mayfest in Honor of
Masha Polinsky. May 3-4, 2024, University of Maryland.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Go forth and
multiply and change your gender. Séminaire Genre
et Langage, SFL. April 29, 2024, Paris.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. On plural
augments and complex suffixes in Russian. Slavistics
in Verona Webinars (Sliv@). April 4, 2024, Verona (online).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Stem-final
default in Russian variable stress. Atelier
de phonologie, SFL. February 28, 2024, Paris.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2024. Stress
asymmetries in Russian nominal declension. Dutch Annual
Linguistics Day 2024, February 2, 2024, Utrecht.
2023:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Russian
stress retraction as unstressability. LingBaW,
October 12-13, 2023, Lublin.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Allosemy
and suffixal complexes. NYU, September 11, 2023.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Russian feminitive stress shift and complex
suffixes. Introductory notes for the session on "Morphology and the
Lexicon" of MorrisHalle@100, MIT,
September 8-10, 2023. [Slides,
handout]
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Suffixal complexes and semantic deletion. MorrisHalle@100, MIT, September 8-10,
2023. [Poster, handout]
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Russian
e-verbs and conditioned vowel change. RFP 2023: Rencontres du réseau français
de phonologie, June 27-29, 2023, Lille (France).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Russian
e-verbs and transitive softening. Formal
Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 32, May 19–21,
2023, Indiana University, Bloomington.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. On
the complexity of becoming feminine in Russian. May 3, 2023,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Three
puzzles
in Russian feminine formation. February 16, 2023,
ZAS, Berlin.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2023. Russian
ablaut and the second conjugation. Dutch
Annual Linguistics Day 2023, February 3, 2023, Utrecht.
2022:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2022. Russian transitive softening as ablaut (poster, handout).
AMP 2022.
October 21-23, 2022. UCLA.
The paper can be found higher on this page.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2022. Russian
verbal stress retraction as non-local allomorphy. FDSL-15.
October 5-7, 2022. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
This version is a further improvement. It introduces the
hypothesis that retraction is conditioned by the accentuation of the
stem
- Matushansky, Ora. 2022. Non-local
allomorphy in Russian verbal stress retraction. SinFonIJa
15. September 22-24, 2002, University of Udine.
This version improves on the previous one and argues that
unstressability of the present-tense suffix is conditioned by the
combination of the stem and the thematic suffix, but also examines the
accentual properties of various thematic suffixes
- Matushansky, Ora. 2022. Russian
verbal stress retraction, a bigger picture. SLE workshop "Lexical
and fixed word stress: Representation, Production and Perception". 55th
Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. August
24–27, 2022, University of Bucharest.
This version discusses the range of stress retraction in Russian
verbs, shows that it cannot be explained by mechanisms that have been
postulated indepedently and argues that it can be formalized as
unstressability of the present-tense suffix
2021:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. Russian
nominalizations
as a window on the verbal theme. Moscow State University
Linguistics Colloquium, November 24, 2021.
The video of the talk.
Sergei Tatevosov said extremely flattering things in it, thanks, Sergei!
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. On
the
theme of Russian deverbal nouns. Slavic
Linguistics
Colloquium, November 3, 2021, Berlin (Online)
- Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2021. Slavic
compounds and acategorial roots. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters
2021. October 13-15, 2021, Moscow.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. Locatives
are not cases: evidence from Lak. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters
2021. October 13-15, 2021, Moscow.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2021. Parameters
of nominal deficiency in complex prepositions. Complex prepositions in French:
theories, descriptions, applications. September 30 –
October 1, 2021, Toulouse.
- Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2021. The dinosaur in your
lexicon: linguistic fossils and acategorial roots. Ling-lunch
Paris
Diderot. June 10, 2021, Paris.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. A case for stem dominance in Russian verbal
stress. UC Santa Cruz phonology group.
June 9, 2021, Santa-Cruz (Online).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. Secondary
imperfectives and W-Epenthesis in Russian. FDSL
14
Workshop on Secondary Imperfectives in Slavic. June 5, 2021,
Leipzig (Online).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. Die Stadt
Leipzig and other fun places in Russian. FDSL
14. June 2-4, 2021, Leipzig (Online).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. Gender-fluid
coordination. Workshop
on
Agreement in Multivaluation Constructions (AMC 2021). May 19-20,
2021, Frankfurt (Online).
The original handout
contains the relevant example sentences and more reasoning, but this redux version has
an updated analysis and additional languages.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. En
France, à Paris, là-dedans - où? Frankfurt linguistic colloquium.
May 18, 2021, Frankfurt (Online).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. Mixed
stress assignment in the Russian verb. FASL
30. May 13-16, 2021, MIT (Online).
- Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2021.
On Cranberries, Categories, and
Core. Morphology Days in
the Low Countries. April 22-23, 2021, Utrecht (Online).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. ThEmAtIc
nOn-Uniformity of Russian vocalic verbal suffixes. Theme
vowels in V(P) Structure and beyond (ThV2021), April 22-23, 2021,
University of Graz (Online).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. The case of French places. UC
Santa
Cruz Linguistics Colloquium Series, April 2, 2021, Santa-Cruz
(Online).
Superceded by the Frankfurt paper
- Matushansky, Ora. 2021. On Russian verbal post-accentuation. Grote
Taaldag (GTD) 2021. January 29, 2021, Utrecht (Online).
Superceded by the FASL 30 paper.
2020:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2020. Missing
types. Caritive
constructions
in the languages of the world. Saint-Petersburg (Online), November
30 – December 2, 2020.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2020. Relative
degrees and degree relatives. Seminar on relative clauses,
LLF/SFL. February 10, 2020, Paris.
- Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2020. Pieces of
derivation. GTD 2020, January 31, 2020, Utrecht.
Superceded by the MiLC paper.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2020. Gender features in coordination. GTD
2020, January 31, 2020, Utrecht.
Superceded by the Frankfurt paper.
2019:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2019. Numerals
and
numbers. Numerals in
Grammar and Beyond, Leiden University, October 17-18, 2019.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2019. Decomposing
and recomposing gender features. The
Alphabet
of Universal Grammar. July 4-5, 2019, The British Academy, London.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2019. Doing
without. April 25, 2019,
Universiteit Frankfurt.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2019. Russian
athematic
verbs, without stress (and with). Atelier de phonologie, SFL.
March 20, 2019.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2019. Without
prejudice. GTD 2019, February 2, Utrecht.
2018:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2018. Non-default adpositional encoding of
possession. Séminaire LaGraM, UMR 7023, Paris, November 12, 2018.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2018. The ideal husband: on relational generics. OASIS 1 workshop, Paris, November
26-27, 2018
- Matushansky, Ora. 2018. The
case of restricted locatives. Sinn
und Bedeutung 23, Barcelona, September 5-7, 2018.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2018. The
syntax
of modified numerals and the semantics of derived degrees.
Workshop “The pragmatics of quantifiers: implicature and presupposition
– experiment and theory”, ZAS, Berlin, June 6-7, 2018.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2018. Tops
and bottoms: axial nouns as kinds. WCCFL 36, Los Angeles. April
20-22, 2018.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2018. Axes to grind. GLOW 41,
Budapest. April 10-14, 2018. [poster,
handout]
- Matushansky, Ora. 2018. Floating number.
QMUL LingLunch, London, March 2, 2018.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2018. The
proper approach to definite articles. University of Rochester,
February 12, 2018.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2018. On
cross-linguistic combinatorics of axial complexes. GTD-2018,
Utrecht, February 3, 2018.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2018. The
partial nominality of axial parts. Syntax-interface meetings,
Utrecht University. January 22, 2018.
2017:
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G. Ruys. 2017. Counting measures. Institut für
Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien. November 30, 2017.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2017. Deficient
measures. Workshop on the occasion of Heidi Klockmann's
defense. June 28, 2017.
- Matushansky, Ora, Boneh, Nora, Nash, Léa, and Natalia Slioussar.
2017. To PPs in their proper
place. Formal Approaches to
Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 26, UIUC. May 19-21, 2017.
- Matushansky, Ora, Boneh, Nora, Nash, Léa, and Natalia Slioussar. 2017.
Intersecting PPs and the locative semantics of possession. Morphosyntactic
Variation in Adpositions. Queens' College, May 8-9, 2017.
Superseded by the FASL 26 handout.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2017. A problem in the Hallean approach
to the Russian verb. Formal
Approaches to Russian Linguistics (FARL) 2, Moscow, March
28-31, 2017.
- Matushansky, Ora (with Eddy Ruys and Joost Zwarts). 2017. On
the
structure and composition of pseudo-partitives. Paris, January 16,
2017.
2016:
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2016. Taking measures in space.
RALFe 2016 : Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique formelle : Langage,
Langues et Cognition. Paris, November 3-4, 2016.
Same as the NELS handout.
- Matushansky,
Ora,
and Joost Zwarts. 2016. Making space
for measures. NELS 47,
UMass Amherst, October 14-16, 2016.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Joost Zwarts. 2016. Spatial measures, special
measures. HSE Semantics &
Pragmatics Workshop, Moscow, September 30-October 1, 2016.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2016. On
the number of plurals. Séminaire
LaGraM, June 20, 2016, Paris.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2016. The
definite article in proper places. Workshop
on the semantic contribution of Det and Num. (In)definiteness,
genericity and referentiality). UAB, May 27-28, 2016.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Tania Ionin. 2016. Polish
numeral NP agreement as a function of surface morphology. FASL
25. May 13-15, 2016. Cornell.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2016. On the syntax of place names. Workshop
“Namengrammatik”, Delmenhorst, March 17-18, 2016.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2016. Case
as a complex of features. TIN-dag 2016. Utrecht,
February 6, 2016.
2015:
- Matushansky, Ora, and Tania Ionin. 2015. When
cardinals agree (a catholic point of view). 48th
Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. September
2-5, 2015 Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. Locative
case in French? Séminaire de l’équipe LaGraM (Langues, Grammaire,
Modélisation). June 8, 2015, Paris VIII.
Presentation arguing that the en/au alternation
in French rises from the interaction of a number of phenomena,
including case, gender, denotation (entity vs. location) and
liaison.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. The
mistake of PredP. Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest.
May 20, 2015.
Presentation arguing that Pred° is unmotivated from the
theoretical point of view and cannot be given any semantics while
overt copular particles, such as the Welsh copular particle yn,
that have been argued lexicalize Pred° do not have the distribution to
support this hypothesis.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. Place names as names of places. Workshop Proper
Names: Recent Work in Linguistics and Philosophy of Language.
Central European University, Budapest: Institute for Advanced Study
& Dept. of Philosophy, May 18–19, 2015.
Superseded by the Paris VIII presentation (June 2005).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. n is for
"Not there".
FASL 24: Special Workshop on Approaches to Slavic Morphology. May
7, 2015, New York University.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. Place-denoting toponyms. Frankfurt University,
April 30, 2015.
Superseded by the Paris VIII presentation (June 2005).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. Predication without PredP. University of
Geneva, March 17, 2015.
Superseded by the Budapest presentation (May 2015).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2015. Definite loci. TIN-dag
2015. Utrecht, February 7, 2015.
Superseded by the Paris VIII presentation (June 2005).
2014:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2014. Yn: a non-argument for Pred°.
(More than) Syntax: a Tribute to Alain ROUVERET. Paris, November
13-14, 2014.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2014. Against PredP. IATL
30. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 20-21, 2014.
Superseded by the Budapest presentation (May 2015).
- Matushansky, Ora. 2014. On being
[feminine] and [proper]. NELS 45.
MIT, October 31-November 2, 2014.
Presentation arguing that the overtness of the definite article
with German proper names depends on whether they are specified for
gender.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2014. On being [feminine] and [proper]. Workshop on
the occasion of Ana Aguilar-Guevara's dissertation defense. July 27,
2014.
Superseded by the NELS paper.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2014. On
the gender of proper names. Workshop on the formal semantics of
proper names. Göttingen, June 6-7, 2014.
Superseded by the NELS paper.
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G. Ruys. 2014. 4000
measure NPs: another pass through the шлюз. FASL 23, University
of California, Berkeley, May 2-4, 2014.
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G. Ruys. 2014. On
the syntax of measure. TIN-dag, Utrecht, February 1, 2014.
2013:
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G. Ruys. 2013. Measure
for measure. FDSL 10, Leipzig, December 5-7, 2013.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2013. On Russian
approximative inversion. FDSL 10, Leipzig, December 5-7, 2013.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2013. Projecting
phi. UMR 7023, Paris, November 18, 2013.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2013. Engendering
phi. Typology of
morphosyntactic parameters. Moscow, October 16-18, 2013.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2013. Sorts of proper
names. Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6. St. Petersburg, June
10-14, 2013.
- van Dooren, Annemarie, Hendriks, Lotte and Ora Matushansky (2013). The DOR to the result. Secondary
Predication in Formal Frameworks (SPIFF), May
27, 2013, Utrecht.
- van Dooren, Annemarie, Hendriks, Lotte and Ora Matushansky (2013). A path to the result(ative).
TIN-dag 2013, February 9, 2013, Utrecht.
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G.
Ruys (2013). Numeral NPs, to a degree. TIN-dag 2013,
February 9, 2013, Utrecht.
2012:
- Matushansky, Ora, Annemarie van Dooren and Lotte Hendriks (2012). Subject-oriented "resultatives" are not
true
resultatives. RALFe 2012, Université Paris 8, St-Denis,
November 29-30, 2012.
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G.
Ruys (2012). Numeral NPs, to a
degree. RALFe 2012, Université Paris 8, St. Denis, November 29-30,
2012. Also presented at TIN-dag 2013, February 9, 2013, Utrecht.
- Matushansky, Ora (2012). On the role of
the copular particle: evidence from Welsh.
Seventh Celtic Linguistics Conference. June 22-23, 2012, Rennes.
Also presented at UIUC
- Matushansky, Ora (2012). What's
proper. Workshop on binominal denominative NPs. Paris I.
June 2, 2012
- Matushansky, Ora (2012). What's proper. Weak Referentiality Group.
Utrecht, May 30, 2012
- Matushansky, Ora (2012).
Improper names. Semantics-pragmatics colloquium,
University of Nijmegen. April 3, 2012.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Mulusew Asratie Wondem (2012). Case-marking
in Amharic nonverbal predication. Weak Referentiality
Workshop, Utrecht University. March 26, 2012.
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G.
Ruys. 2012. ...we can do
better. TIN-dag, February 4, 2012
- Matushansky, Ora. 2012. Yn absentia.
TIN-dag, February 4, 2012
- Matushansky, Ora. 2012. The
case of close apposition. Symposium "(Ap)positive thinking
in linguistics", Groningen, January 20, 2012
- Matushansky, Ora. 2012. On
the linguistic correlates of use vs. mention: the case of close
apposition. UMR 7023. Paris, January 9, 2012.
2011:
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G.
Ruys. 2011. Modals in
focus. University of Frankfurt. December 21, 2011.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2011. The number 50. Poster presentation at 50
years of linguistics at MIT. Cambridge, Massachusetts, December
9-11, 2011.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2011. Some remarks
on modified numerals. University of Frankfurt. October 20, 2011.
Joint work with Tania Ionin and Eddy Ruys
- Matushansky, Ora. 2011. On the
morphosyntax of comparative semantics. Sinn und Bedeutung 16.
Utrecht, September 5, 2011
Also: Vagueness circle. Amsterdam, October 7, 2011
- Matushansky, Ora. 2011. On
modified proper names. The Game of the Name. Proper Names:
Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives. Goettingen, September 3-4,
2011
- Matushansky, Ora, and Tania Ionin. 2011. More than one 'more than
one'. FASL 20, MIT, May 13-15, 2011
- Matushansky, Ora, and Tania Ionin. 2011. More
than one solution. CLS 47, April 7-9, 2011.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Tania Ionin. 2011. Uncle
Vanya meets three sisters: On the reciprocal use of relational nouns.
UMR 7023, Paris, March 21, 2011.
Also: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 5, 2011.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2011. SMS: the
derivation of comparatives at the interfaces. Leiden SyntaxLab,
March 17, 2011.
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G.
Ruys. 2011. This insupportable do.
MUST, Utrecht, February 28, 2011.
2010:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. Case
decomposition. MUST, Utrecht, December 6, 2010.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. Alternatives
to head-movement. Verb movement: Its nature, triggers, and
effects. Amsterdam, December 11-12, 2010.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. Head-movement and synthetic comparatives.
Paris, October 25, 2010.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. As relatives.
IATL, Bar-Ilan University, October 5-6, 2010.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. Finno-Ugric predicate
case-marking. Finno-Ugric Syntax and Universal Grammar.
Piliscsaba, Budapest, Hungary. August 9-14, 2010.
- Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2010. Against
overt predicators in Slavic. Session on Slavic Syntax and
Semantics. GLOW 33, Wroclaw, April 13, 2010.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. Some
prevalent myths about NPs. MUST, March 10, 2010, Utrecht.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2010. Some
issues in Russian adjective formation. TIN-dag 2010. February 6,
2010, Utrecht.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Merijn de Dreu. 2010. The
myth of conjugated nouns. TIN-dag 2010. February 6, 2010, Utrecht.
2009:
- Matushansky, Ora. 2009. No more no
less: existential comparison revisited. University of Chicago,
April 14, 2009.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2009. [human]
matters. UIUC Linguistics Seminar, April 7, 2009.
- Matushansky, Ora, and Merijn de Dreu. 2009.
Some thoughts on non-verbal predication in Bantu. MUST, UiL OTS,
Utrecht, March 11, 2009.
A general introduction into the hypothesis of mediated
non-verbal predication illustrated by Bantu languages, which provide
no evidence for the existence of a universal functional head of the
small clause.
- Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2009. Against
overt predicators in Slavic. Workshop
"Syntax
and Ontology of Predication". Paris, February 7, 2009.
We analyze the status of the Slavic equivalents of as,
for and in(to) and conclude that they cannot
correspond to overt lexicalizations of the small clause head in
examples like We took him for an idiot, or She regards
this hypothesis as silly.
- Matushansky, Ora. 2009. Gender
confusion: It's not (just) about sex. Workshop
"Diagnosing
Syntax". Leiden/Utrecht, January 29-31, 2009.
I examine mixed agreement instances in several languages
and argue that in order to deal with them it is necessary to
presuppose that agreement morphology may be interpreted at LF.
2008:
- Matushansky, Ora. From Case to case, Center for Language and
Cognition, Groningen. December 19, 2008.
- Matushansky, Ora. Some cases of
Russian, Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL) 7.5.
Moscow, December 6-8, 2008.
- Matushansky, Ora. Special Cases,
MIT Linguistics Colloquium Series, November 21, 2008
- Matushansky, Ora. A WYSIWYG syntax
for comparatives. Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse: the Theory of
the Interface. In memory of Tanya Reinhart. Utrecht University, July 5,
2008
- Matushansky, Ora. More of the same,
GLOW 2008,
Newcastle, March 26-28, 2008
- Matushansky, Ora. The Same Analysis. TIN-dag,
Utrecht, February 2, 2008
- Matushansky, Ora. Predication, Case by Case, MUST, Utrecht, February
13, 2008.
2007:
- Matushansky, Ora. A third Russian yer?
Workshop on the Phonology of Slavic Languages, Formal
Description
of Slavic Languages (FDSL) 7, Leipzig, November 30 - December 2,
2007
- Matushansky, Ora. Proper treatment of proper names. Center for
Research in Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (CRISSP). Brussels, November
6. 2007
- Matushansky, Ora. The Remarkable Case
of Predicates. Comparing
languages
and comparing theories: Generative Grammar and Construction Grammar.
Freie Universität Berlin, October 26-27, 2007
- Matushansky, Ora. Deriving the
Russian secondary imperfective. Workshop
on Problems with Surface-based Generalizations. Paris, October
8-9, 2007
- Matushansky, Ora. The Same As? Colloque
international
sur les adjectifs, Université Lille 3, September 13-15, 2007
- Matushansky, Ora. What's in a name?
Paris
Amsterdam Logic Meeting of Young Researchers (PALMYR) 5, June 1-2,
2007
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G.
Ruys. Same in Russian.
FSiM 2007, Moscow, April
28, 2007
- Matushansky, Ora, and E.G.
Ruys. Same is Different. JSM 2007, Paris, March
29-30, 2007
- (The) Bare Nouns? Groupe de travail LSA/LAA, March 5, 2007
I don't post this handout because it consisted mostly of
an overview
2006:
- The Case of Predicates. PIONIER Project “Case Cross-linguistically”,
Nijmegen, December 20, 2006
This handout contains some Hungarian data that didn't
make it into the FDSL paper (mostly due to lack
of space, but also because I learned that the pattern is even more
complex than I thought) and an appendix on directional and locative
case marking
- Prédication au cas par cas. Séminaire de l'UMR 7023, December 11,
2006
- Predication: A Case Study. Formal
Description
of Slavic Languages (FDSL) 6.5. Nova Gorica Polytechnic, December
1-3, 2006 (invited presentation)
- How to be short: Some remarks on the syntax of Russian adjectives.
Séminaire de l'UMR 7023, May 22, 2006
- (with E. G.
Ruys) The same talk. LLF Paris 7, May 15, 2006.
- Superlatives at the Interface. UMass Amherst, April 26, 2006
- (with E. G.
Ruys) Best Deals at Lower Prices. Journées
de
sémantique et modélisation. March 30-31, 2006.
- (with Norbert Corver) At our best when at our boldest. TIN-dag,
February 4, 2006.
2005:
- Iraqi head seeks arms: Are bare nouns created equal? A
Bare Workshop. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, December 22,
2005, Utrecht (invited presentation)
- (with E. G.
Ruys) Men are all the same. Workshop on Nominal Anaphora. Utrecht
Institute of Linguistics OTS, December 21, 2005, Utrecht.
- (with Tania Ionin
and E. G. Ruys)
Parts of Speech: A unified semantics for partitives. NELS
36, October 28-30, 2005, UMass Amherst.
- Why Rose is the Rose. Sixième
Colloque
de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 6). September 29-October 1,
2005, Paris.
- (with E. G.
Ruys) Best Regards. Sixième
Colloque
de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 6). September 29-October 1,
2005, Paris
- The young Frankenstein. Séminaire du volet DP (TUL), June 6,
2005, Paris.
- Godzilla vs. the Simpsons: On the use of definite articles in proper
names. Trans
Syntax
and Semantics Seminar, UiL OTS, May 18, 2005, Utrecht.
- The Best Deal: more on comparative superlatives. Leiden
Utrecht
Semantics Happenings (LUSH), May 13, 2005, Utrecht.
- (with Maria
Babyonyshev): Back to the Past: Russian Past Tense Revisited. FASL 14, May
6-8, 2005, Princeton.
- Appelle-moi! La sémantique des noms propres en vue des
constructions d'appellation. April 8, 2005, Séminaire
de l'Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.
- (with Tania Ionin
and E. G. Ruys):
Partitives: genericity in in, episodicity of of. CGG
15, April 4-6, 2005, Barcelona, Spain.
- (with E. G.
Ruys): Plural superlatives: a critical review of Stateva
2005, Groupe comparaison, March 30, 2005, IJN, Paris.
- (with Tania Ionin
and E. G. Ruys):
Taking parts. Séminaire de l'UMR 7023, March
21, 2005, Paris.
- Calling a Spade a Spade. February 10, 2005, Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universtät, Frankfurt/Main.
2004:
2003:
- (with Morris
Halle) The morpho-phonology of adjectival inflection in Russian. Séminaire
Langues et Grammaire. Séminaire de l'UMR 7023.
October 27, 2003.
- (with Morris
Halle) The morpho-phonology of adjectival inflection in Russian. MIT ling-lunch,
October 9, 2003.
- Appeler un chat un chat - les verbes d'appel et
d'appellation. Volet
VP de TUL-4. Paris, October 6, 2003.
- (with Benjamin Spector): The Semantics of Nominal Predicate Marking in
French and Russian. LaBRI
(Bordeaux), May 27, 2003.
- Is the best like good enough? ENS (DEC), May 21, 2003.
- (with Benjamin
Spector): To be (a) human. Journées
scientifiques Sémantique et Modélisation. Paris,
March 20-21, 2003.
- DP-internal degree movement (an excerpt from my thesis).
- Superlatives as DPs. Utrecht (UiL
OTS), January 29, 2003.
- DPs and Phase Theory. Utrecht (UiL
OTS), January 30, 2003.
- Going through a Phase. Independent Activities Period (IAP) Workshop on
EPP and Phases, January 16-18, 2003, MIT.
2002:
- The DP and the Deepest, MIT ling-lunch, November 14, 2002.
- (with Tania Ionin):
Encasing the Time: Temporal Effects on Russian
Predicative Case. NELS-33, November 8-10, 2002, MIT.
We never wrote up the paper after figuring out that the
proposed analysis didn't work for article-drop in French predicates,
which show a meaning difference very similar to what we find in
Russian. We thought that we would return to it eventually, but in the
meantime, we have nothing new to say.
- (with Tania Ionin):
Elephants, times and predicate case in the Russian copula. Existence:
semantics and syntax September 26-28, 2002, Nancy.
- (with Tania Ionin)
DPs with a twist: A unified
analysis of Russian comitatives. FASL
11, May 3-5, 2002, Amherst.
- DP-internal degree QR in
non-adjectival modification. GLOW
25, April 9-11, 2002, Amsterdam.
- A Beauty of a Construction.
WCCFL 21,
April 5-7, 2002, Santa-Cruz.
- What is it a beauty of? MIT
ling-lunch, March 7, 2002.
- The Severed Head, or:
head-movement as pied-piping. Scandinavian Conference of
Linguistics, Tromsø, January 10-12, 2002.
2001:
- Invitation to a beheading,
or why head-movement doesn't exist. MIT Ling-lunch, December 6,
2001.
- More synthesis, better analysis:
the morphology of comparatives. Conférences de
syntaxe et sémantique organisées par la Jeune Equipe de Syntaxe
anglaise et syntaxe comparative (Université Paris 3), le Laboratoire
de Linguistique Formelle (Université Paris 7) et l'UMR 7023
Grammaire formelle, acquisition, poétique (CNRS/Paris 8).
- (with Ken
Wexler) Again on the subject of
English null subjects: Discourse and syntax. GALA 2001,
Palmela, Portugal.
- More of a good thing:
Russian synthetic and analytic comparatives. FASL 10. Ann Arbor.
- The more the merrier: the
syntax of synthetic and analytic comparatives. GLOW 24, Portugal.
- Obligatory Scalarity (a sliding
scale). WCCFL 20 (USC), February 25, 2001.
2000:
- When Seeming is Being.
Adjectival movement in nominal quasi-copula. Presented at the Conference
for (preferably) non-lexical semantics, Université Paris-7, May 29-31,
2000.
- Why Am I a Linguist If I Only Seem
Good? Adjectival movement in nominal quasi-copula. Presented
at the UPRESA/CNRS seminar. Paris, January 17, 2000.
- La perfection du perfectif: Le
cas du prédicat dans la copule russe. Presented at the Langues et
Grammaire seminar. Paris, January 17, 2000.
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