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2025

  • Positive polarity disjunction of CPs in Russian: role of alternatives in PPI anti-licensing.
    @ FASL 34, May 2025

  • Experimental evidence in favor of argument ellipsis derivation for Russian verb-stranding constructions.
    w/ Pavel Rudnev (HSE University)
    @ FASL 34, May 2025

  • Polish /v/: underspecified word-internally, specified word-externally
    @ NAPhCxiii, May 2025

  • Illicit LBE in Russian sluicing: rescue by deletion (of linearization statements)
    w/ Ivan Kalyakin (ILS RAS)
    @ WCCFL43, April 2025

  • Terek Kumyk negative copulas require non-terminal insertion
    @ PLC 49, April 2025

2024

  • C-selection is necessary for clausal embedding: evidence from questions with declarative syntax
    @ SYNC 2024, December 2024 [handout pdf]

  • Pseudo-ABA, non-local allomorphy, and word-internal phrasal movement
    @ NYU Syntax Brown Bag, November 2024 [handout pdf]

  • Second thought on the form and the substance of Russian vowel reduction
    w/ Alexandra Shikunova (HSE)
    @ Réseau Français de Phonologie 2024 [poster pdf]

  • Opacity in Chechen nominalizations: evidence for A/A-bar bleeding interaction
    w/ Maria Berkovich (HSE)
    @ Minor Languages in Big Linguistics, April 2024 [slides pdf]

  • Verb-Stranding VP Ellipsis is impossible: evidence from Terek Kumyk
    @ Minor Languages in Big Linguistics, April 2024

2023

  • Avoiding *ABA phonologically: case of Terek Kumyk
    w/ Alexandra Shikunova (HSE)
    @ Atelier de phonologie research seminar (online), November 2023
    [slides pdf]

  • Russian to-conditionals as hanging topic constructions
    w/ Daria Paramonova (MSU)
    @ FDSL16, November 2023

  • Inferential evidentials and conjectural questions: support from Terek Kumyk
    w/ Daria Paramonova (MSU)
    @ 20th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, November 2023\

  • Morphosyntax of politeness and indexical shift: evidence from Terek Kumyk
    @ 20th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, November 2023\

  • Russian to-conditionals as hanging topic constructions
    w/ Daria Paramonova (MSU)
    @ Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 13, October 2023

  • Verb dopuskat’, Neg-Raising, and the nature of scalar alternatives (given in Russian)
    w/ Daria Sidorkina (HSE)
    @ Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 13, October 2023

  • Russian to-conditionals as hanging topic constructions
    w/ Daria Paramonova (MSU)
    WOSSP19, September 2023

  • Local Dislocation for phi-feature sensitive morpheme order in Nanai nominals
    @ WAFL17, September 2023

  • The place of modal ambiguity in the modular grammar
    @ RALFE 2023, May 2023 [poster pdf]

  • Revisiting Basque xe-comparatives: in support of structural adjacency
    @ WCCFL 41, May 2023 [poster pdf]

  • Power of direction in Precedence-based (morpho-)phonology: ABA in Terek Kumyk
    @ 12th American Phonology Conference, May 2023 [poster pdf]

  • Russian iotation: length is key
    w/ Alexandra Shikunova (HSE)
    @ 12th American Phonology Conference, May 2023\

  • Two paradigms of Balkar agreement and the shape of Nanosyntactic trees
    @ Minor Languages in Big Linguistics, April 2023\

  • Syntactic correlates of dynamic modality In Terek Kumyk (given in Russian)
    w/ Daria Paramonova (MSU)
    @ Minor Languages in Big Linguistics, April 2023

  • Shughni complex predicates and denominal verbs
    w/ Alexander Sergienko (HSE)
    @ NACIL 3, April 2023

  • Variation of dynamic modals on the syntax-semantics interface: case of Terek Kumyk
    w/ Daria Paramonova (MSU)
    @ Workshop on Modality in Understudied Languages, April 2023 [poster pdf]

  • Non-finite clauses and root modality: a view from Russian
    @ ConSOLE 31, February 2023

2022

  • Deriving sufficiency with strenghtening in conditionals: case of Terek Kumyk
    w/ Daria Paramonova and Anastasiia Krainova (MSU)
    @ 7th Asian Junior Linguistis conference, December 2022

  • Particle nature of Turkic evidential perfect in Terek Kumyk (in Russian)
    w/ Daria Paramonova (MSU)
    @ The 2nd Conference on Uralic, Altaic and Paleo-Asiatic languages, November 2022\

  • Syntactic variation in complement clauses of Terek Kumyk modal jaraj (in Russian)
    w/ Anastasiia Krainova (MSU)
    @ The 2nd Conference on Uralic, Altaic and Paleo-Asiatic languages, November 2022\

  • Sufficiency by antecedent strengthening in Terek Kumyk
    w/ Daria Paramonova and Anastasiia Krainova (MSU)
    @ 19th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, November 2022\

  • Allomorphy of the plural affix in Terek Kumyk: avoiding ABA phonologically
    @ 19th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, November 2022\

  • F=PL syncretism and default gender: case of Shughni
    w/ Alexander Sergienko, Artyom Badeev (HSE)
    @ Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 12, October 2022

  • Accounting for Russian superlatives with Nanosyntax
    @ FDSL 15, October 2022

  • Stress shift in Russian prepositional phrases: a strict CV approach
    w/ Alexandra Shikunova (HSE)
    @ FDSL 15, October 2022

  • Semi-direct speech and semantic agreement: view from Balkar (in Russian)
    @ Minor Languages in Big Linguistics, April 2022

  • Imperatives as counterfactual antecedents in Russian: a stripped down approach
    @ Thoeretical Linguistics at Keio: Semantics Conference, March 2022

  • Balkar conditional marker as antecedent X-marking
    @ Tu+7, February 2022

2021

  • Multiple exponence in Russian exhortatives: Not what it seems
    @ Multiple Exponence workshop (MultEx@ZAS), December 2021

  • Indexical shift and monstrous agreement in Balkar
    @ 18th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars

  • Egophoricity: an AGREE analysis
    @ Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 11

  • Russian imperative as a counterfactual antecedent
    @ Slavic Lingustics Society 16