Presentations

upcoming

• Local Dislocation (LD) and prosodic structure building in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) truncated infinitives - Aug 29th - Sep 1st, 2023: Talk at Societas Linguistica Europaea 56, Inflection and derivation in the Slavic verb, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. 

• Cyclicity and empty moras leading to compensatory vowel lengthening - Aug 24th-26th, 2023: Talk at Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) 18, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. 

2023

• Telugu modifiers and the structure of the nominal phrase - Jun 21st-23rd, 2023: Talk at 50th All India conference of Dravidian Linguistics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

• Timing of post-syntactic operations in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian truncated infinitives - May 19th-21st, 2023: Talk at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 32, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 

• Phases and accent assignment domains - May 14th, 2023: Talk at Sunday Satellite Workshop at NAPhCxii, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

 

2021

• On structure sensitive tone and spell-out domains (not) mapping to accent domains -Dec 10th, 2021: Invited Colloquium at Center for Linguistics at Nanzan University, Japan.

• The (non)isomorphism between spell-out domains and accent Domains - May 16, 2021: Invited talk at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 30 at MIT.

• Tone differences signaling structural differences in BCS. – April 11, 2021: Talk at Purdue Linguistics Symposium, West Lafayette, IN, via Zoom.

2020

• The shape and syntactic place of long-form adjectival inflection in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian - Sep 4-7, 2020. Talk at the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) 15, Virtually at Indiana University,  IN. 

• Syntactic complexity of BCS long-form adjectives and their tone - Jan 2-5, 2020. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), New Orleans, LA. 

2019

• Structure dependent tone in BCS adjectives - Oct 11th-13th, 2019. Poster at Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), Stony Brook, NY.

• Accentogenic clitics and prosodic incorporation by phase. - Jan 18, 2019: Invited talk at the Morphology Syntax Workshop in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago.

 2018

• Introduction to sign languages and what they tell us about humans. - May 30th, 2018: Invited lecture in the English Language and Literature Department, International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

• On (Non)uniformity of the adjectival and the nominal domain. - Jan 18th, 2018: Invited talk in the Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

 

2017

• Spelling out enclitics in BCS and giving their tone a voice. - Sep 18, 2017: Talk at Linguistics Seminar Series 2017/2018, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Do BCS long and short adjectival forms correspond to direct and indirect modification? - May 19-21, 2017: Talk at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 26, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. 

• From 1 to 2 to 3: A 3-way typology and structural parallelism between the domain of N and A - May 15, 2017: Invited talk at Carleton College, Northfield, MN.

• Cyclic clitic incorporation and High-tone spreading in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian - March 14-18, 2017: Talk at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 40, Leiden, The Netherlands.

• Syntactic limits on High-tone spreading. -January 5-8, 2017: Talk at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 91, Austin, Texas.

2016

• The other channel of the human language faculty: Visual Linguistic Sign - Invited lectures at The Faculty of Philology at The University of Banja Luka (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nov 21, 2016) and The Department of English Language and Literature at The University of Zenica (Zenica, Nov 22, 2016).

• Accentogenic Enclitics in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Copy Deletion in PF - Talk at the 3rd International Linguistics and Language Studies Conference (LILA '16), DAKAM, (Istanbul, Turkey, June 24-25, 2016)

 

• Visible and invisible null copies: Enclitics in the syntax and in prosody - Talk at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 25, (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 13-15, 2016) 

 

2015

• Extraction of Adverbs and the Structure of AP in Slavic and Beyond: Structural Parallelism Across Domains Hypothesis - Talk at the 11th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL), (Potsdam, Germany)

 

• Adverbial LBE and the structure of AP in Slavic -Talk at the 8th Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 8), (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24-26, 2015)

 

 

 

2014

• Syntactic mobility of the host and accent shift to proclitics (Handout) - Talk at North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 45 - (MIT, Cambridge, Nov 2nd, 2014)

• On clitics, their place in the prosodic structure, and accent (Handout) - Talk at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)23 - (University of California, Berkeley, May 4th, 2014)

• Upward P-cliticization, accent shift, and extraction out of PP (Handout)- Talk at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 37 (Brussels, Belgium, April 2nd, 2014)

• Parallel extended domains of N and A (Handout) - Talk at Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 38 (UPenn, Philadelphia, March 28th, 2014)

2013

• Off with their heads! - Commonalities between "extraordinary LBE" and apparent N-complement extraction (Poster, Handout) - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 22 (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada: May 3rd, 2013)

• Extraordinary Complement Extraction (Handout) - Talk at LSALAA 2013 in Paris (Paris, February 28th, 2013) and Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 37 (UPenn, Philadelphia, March 23rd, 2013)

2012

• A Twist of Bosnian Accent - UConn Linguistics Graduate Roundtable (ULGR) 2 (December 1st, 2012)

• The identity of phases: Making the right cut (Handout) - Invited lecture - Linguistics Roundtable at the English Department of the University of Zenica (July 9th, 2012)

• Frozen at the Edge of the English TNP (Poster) - Third Annual UConn Language Fest (April 16th, 2012).

2011

• "Why can't I get out of this phase?" (Handout) - UConn Linguistics Graduate Roundtable (December 2011).