Curriculum vitae

 

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  1. •For downloadable papers, slides and handouts, see Papers


Education


  1. • PhD   
        (2005)
        Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Linguistics


  1. • MA   
       (2000)
       Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), English language and literature


  1. • MA   
       (2000)
       Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), Theoretical linguistics



Employment


  1. • (2008-)
        Assistant professor, University of Utah


  1. • (2007-2008)
        Visiting assistant professor, University of Utah


  1. • (2005-2007)
        Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Carleton College




Publications


Invited contributions


  1. • (2009) Adverbs of counting, frequency and quantification: Flexibility and rigidity. Acta Linguistica Hungarica. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó


  1. • (2008) Igei argumentumszerkezet (Argument structure of verbs). in F. Kiefer (ed.) Strukturális magyar nyelvtan IV, A szótár szerkezete (Structural grammar of Hungarian, vol. 4, The Structure of the Lexicon). Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó (in Hungarian)


  1. • (2006) A typology of Hungarian time adverbs. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 53:3. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó



Refereed publications


  1. • (submitted) Adverbial modification. ms, University of Utah

  2. • (revised) Partitive and pseudopartitive structures in durative adverbials. ms, University of Utah

  3. • (under revision) Variation in telicity is not an implicature. ms, University of Utah

  4. • (2012a) The case of the divisible phase. Syntax 15(3):215-252

  5. • (2012b) Durative adverbials and homogeneity requirements. Lingua 122(10):1112-1133

  6. • (2009) Homogeneity and flexibility in temporal modification. in J. M. Brucart, T. Cabré, A. Gavarró and J. Solá (eds.) Features and Merge: Computation, Interpretation and Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press

  7. • (2006a) Particles and a two-component theory of aspect. In K. É. Kiss (ed.) Event Structure and the Left Periphery of Hungarian. Dordrecht: Springer


  1. • (2006b) Accusative case and aspect. In K. É. Kiss (ed.) Event Structure and the Left Periphery of Hungarian. Dordrecht: Springer


  1. • (2006c) Aspect, negation and quantifiers. In K. É. Kiss (ed.) Event Structure and the Left Periphery of Hungarian. Dordrecht: Springer



Book chapters, conference and workshop proceedings


  1. • (to appear) (with Éva Dékány, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Hungarian is a classifier language. In Raffaele S. and F. Masini (eds.) Word Classes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

  2. • (2012a) (with Anna Szabolcsi, NYU) Quantifier checklist for Hungarian. In E. L. Keenan and D. Paperno (eds.) Handbook of Quantification in Natural Language. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag

  3. • (2012b) Flexibility and rigidity: Multiplicatives, frequency and quantification adverbs. In S. Berson et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 8-10, 2008. Berkeley Linguistics Society

  4. •(2011) Morphological case in Finnish. in Csúcs, S. et al. (eds.) Congressus XI Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. Solymár: Reguly Társaság

  5. •(2009a) Building temporal structure: Adverbs and times. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists (Available at http://www.cil18.org/new\_html/10\_publications/publications\_01.php)


  1. • (2009b) Adverbs of quantity: Entities of different kinds. in Laurel MacKenzie (ed). Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. (Available at http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss1/)


  1. •  (2008) Durative adverbs: peculiarities and implications. In E. Elfner and M. Walkow (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 37. Amherst, MA: GLSA


  1. • (2007) Measuring time. In T. Scheffler, J. Tauberer, A. Eilam and L. Mayol (eds.) Proceedings of PLC 30. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Philadelphia


  1. • (2006a) Interface interactions -- aspect and case. In Changguk Yim (ed.) Minimalist Views on Language Design. Proceedings of the 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Seoul: Hankook

  2. • (2006b) Anti-agreement: Features and locality. In J. Costa and M. C. Figueiredo Silva (eds.) Studies on Agreement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins


  1. • (2004a) Perfective and imperfective in Hungarian: (Invisible) differences. In S. Blaho, L. Vicente and M. de Vos (eds.) Proceedings of Console XII. University of Leiden


  1. • (2004b) Aspect and aspect change crosslinguistically. In L. Hunyadi, G. Rákosi and E. Tóth (eds.) Preliminary Papers of LOLA 8. Debrecen, Hungary


  1. • (2004c) Particles and phonologically defective predicates. In K. É. Kiss and H. van Riemsdijk (eds.) Verb Clusters. A Study of Hungarian, German and Dutch. Amsterdam: John Benjamins


  1. • (2003) Null subjects in Hungarian DPs and inflected infinitivals. In G. M. Alexandrova and O. Arnaudova (eds.) The Minimalist Parameter. Selected Papers from the Open Linguistics Forum. Ottawa, 21-23 March 1997. Amsterdam: John Benjamins


  1. • (2000) Middles in English and Hungarian. In A. Kürti (ed.) Docsymp 2000 Proceedings. Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary


  1. • (1999) Verbal modifiers are clitics. In V. Trón (ed.) Doximp 3: Graduate Students' Third Linguistics Symposium. Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary


  1. • (1997) Swahili possessive structure and PP. In Á. Bende-Farkas (ed.) Docsymp: Graduate Students' First Linguistics Symposium. Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences



Working papers


  1. • (2005) Semantics and phonology in syntax. PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Distributed by MITWPL


  1. • (2004a) (with M. Ceplová) Light verb constructions in Zazaki. In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.) Papers on Zazaki Grammar. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL


  1. • (2004b) Acquisition patterns of particle constructions in Hungarian. In A. Csirmaz, A. Gualmini and A. Nevins (eds.) Plato's Problems: Papers on Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL


  1. • (1999a) Verbal modifiers as incorporated elements. In S. Aoshima, J. Drury and T. Neuvonen (eds.) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 8. Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park


  1. • (1999b) Light verbs and stress avoiding verbs in Hungarian. In Z. Kiss (ed.) The Odd Year Book 1999. Eötvös Loránd University. Budapest, Hungary



Reviews


  1. • (2009) Review of L. McNally and C. Kennedy (eds). 2008. Adjectives and Adverbs. Syntax, Semantics and Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Journal of Linguistics 45.2


  1. • (2004) Review of Williams: Representation Theory. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 51:419-435



Manuscripts


  1. • (under revision) (with E. J. Rubin, University of Utah) Contra the arguments for inheritance: Premises, conclusions and consequences. ms, University of Utah

  2. • (in preparation) (with Éva Dékány, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Lexical specification and the universality of the Universal Grinder. ms, University of Utah and Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

  3. • (in preparation) (with E. J. Rubin, University of Utah) ECP effects and rescue strategies. ms, University of Utah

  4. • (2012) Telicity in Hungarian: A heterogeneous treatment. ms, University of Utah

  5. • (2011) Re again again. ms, University of Utah



Talks and presentations


Invited talks


  1. • (2012a) TBA. Symposium dedicated to the verbal aspect in Slavic languages. Bucharest, Romania. October 4-7, 2012

  2. • (2012b) Are durative adverbials arbitrary? Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary. July 19, 2012

  3. • (2012c) Stipulated for decades and explained in an hour? Deriving the homogeneity requirements of some temporal adverbials. Department of Linguistics talk, University of Utah. April 11, 2012

  4. • (2010a) TBA. Symposium at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics. Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary. November 25-27, 2010 (declined)

  5. • (2010b) Degree achievements: Achieving specific aspectual properties. LingLunch talk. Department of Linguisitics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. April 15, 2010

  6. • (2010c) Now you see it, now you don't. Universal aspectual categories. Department of Linguistics. Boston University. April 15, 2010

  7. •(2009) Scales, verbs and verbal prefixes. The 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian. University of Debrecen, Hungary. August 30 - September 1, 2009


  1. •(2008) Spatial interpretations of durative expressions. The Fourth Workshop on the Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation. Department of Linguistics, Kyoto University. July 18, 2008


  1. • (2005a) Is negation special? Mellon Postdoctoral Conference. Grinnell College, Grinnel, IA. November 11-13, 2005.


  1. • (2005b)  For two hours, only Fred arrived (but you didn't). Carleton College. May 4, 2005


  1. • (2004a) Types and crosslinguistic patterns of focus. Workshop on Dimensions on Focus. Dokkyo University, Japan. November 13-14, 2004


  1. • (2004b) Case alternation and aspect in Finnish. Nordic Department, University of Lund. September 9, 2004


  1. • (2004c) Universality in aspect systems: Categories and category change German Department, University of Lund. September 7, 2004



Conference presentations

  1. • (2011a) Primitive relations and operations unique to FLN? Advances in Biolinguistics Workshop. Societas Linguistica Europea 44. September 10-11, 2011 (Canceled)

  2. • (2011b) (with Éva Dékány, University of Tromso) Hungarian classifiers and DP structure. 13th Seoul international Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 13). August 16-19, 2011 (Canceled)

  3. • (2010a) The case of the divisible phase. Syntax of Finno-Ugric Languages and Universal Grammar. Piliscsaba, Hungary. August 9-14, 2010

  4. •(2010b) (with Éva Dékány, University of Tromso) Classifiers and the functional sequence in DPs. Syntax of Finno-Ugric Languages and Universal Grammar. Piliscsaba, Hungary. August 9-14, 2010

  5. •(2010c) (with Éva Dékány, University of Tromso) Hungarian classifiers. Word classes. Nature, Typology, Computational Representation. Rome, Italy. March 24-26, 2010

  6. •(2009a) Morphological case and interpretation. Texas Linguistics Society XII. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. November 13015, 2009

  7. •(2009b) (with Edward J. Rubin) Accusative case and maximality. 2009 Mid-America Linguistics Conference. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. October 9-11, 2009

  8. •(2009c) Semantic interpretation and case marking. 2009 Mid-America Linguistics Conference. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. October 9-11, 2009

  9. •(2009d) Telicity, particles and variable scales. Workshop on Scalarity and Event Structure. Chronos 9. University Paris-Diderot - Paris 7 & University of Chicago Center in Paris. September 2-4, 2009

  10. •(2009e) (with Paul Clayton) Maximal interpretation of temporal and spatial adverbs. Chronos 9. University Paris-Diderot - Paris 7 & University of Chicago Center in Paris. September 2-4, 2009

  11. •(2008a) Building temporal structure: Adverbs and times. 18th International Congress of Linguists. Korea University, Seoul, Korea. July 21-26, 2008


  1. • (2008b) Adverbs of quantity: Entities of different kinds. 32nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. February 22-24, 2008


  1. • (2008c) Flexibility and rigidity: Multiplicatives, frequency and quantification adverbs. 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California at Berkeley. February 8-10, 2008


  1. •(2006a) Interface interaction -- aspect and case. 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul. August 9-12, 2006


  1. • (2006b) Interface interaction – aspect and case. Interface Legibility and the Edge. University of Bucharest. Bucharest, Romania. June 25-27, 2006


  1. • (2006c) Durative adverbs and divisibility. 16th Colloquium of Generative Grammar. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid, Spain. April 20-22, 2006


  1. • (2006d) Measuring times. Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. February 24-26, 2006


  1. • (2004a) Aspektus: rendszer és jelentésváltás (Aspect: system and meaning change) (in Hungarian). Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kongresszus (Congress on Hungarian Linguistics) Budapest, Hungary August 29-31, 2004


  1. • (2004b) Aspect and aspect change crosslinguistically. Eighth Symposium on Logic and Language (LOLA8). Debrecen, Hungary. August 26-28, 2004


  1. • (2004c) Aspect, aspect variation and universality. Cornell Symposium on Language Universals. Ithaca, NY. May 1-2, 2004


  1. • (2004d) Severely constrained aspect. Workshop on Tense, Aspect and Modality. GLOW 27. Thessaloniki, Greece. April 18-21, 2004


  1. • (2003a) Perfective and imperfective in Hungarian: (Invisible) differences. Console XII. Patras, Greece. December 12-14, 2003


  1. • (2003b) Morphological agreement and timing. Workshop on Agreement. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal. July 10-11, 2003


  1. • (2003c) Aspect and case variation. North American Syntax Conference. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. May 2-4, 2003


  1. • (2001) There is no default case in Hungarian. Fifth Conference on the Structure of Hungarian. Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary. May 24-26, 2001


  1. • (2000) A new look at middles. Docsymp 2000. Szeged, Hungary. May 27, 2000


  1. • (1999a) Two types of negation in Hungarian. Doximp 1999. Budapest, Hungary. June 24, 1999


  1. • (1999b) Verbal modifiers and auxiliary strategies in Hungarian. Meeting of Scholarly Circle Students. Pécs, Hungary. March 29-31, 1999


  1. • (1998a) Igemódosítók (Verbal modifiers) (in Hungarian). II. Nyelvészeti Doktorandusz-konferencia (2nd Conference of Doctoral Students in Linguistics). Szeged, Hungary


  1. • (1998b) (with B. Surányi) Ott ('there') in Hungarian – A case of an expletive? Fourth International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian. Pécs, Hungary. August 26-28, 1998


  1. • (1998c) Verbal modifiers as incorporated elements. Doximp 1998. Budapest, Hungary. June 5, 1998


  1. • (1998d) (with B. Surányi) Ott ('there') in Hungarian – A case of an expletive? First Conference on the Linguistic Theory in Eastern European Languages (CLITE). Szeged, Hungary. April 19-21, 1998


  1. • (1997a) Abstract Pro. Seventh Colloquium in Generative Grammar. Oviedo, Spain. April 2-4, 1997


  1. • (1997b) Pro in inflected infinitivals and DPs in Hungarian. Open Linguistics Forum '97. Ottawa, Canada. March 21-23, 1997


  1. • (1996) Swahili possessive structure and PP. Graduate Students' First Linguistic Symposium. Budapest, Hungary. June 7, 1996



Poster presentation


  1. • (2006) Durative adverbs: Peculiarities and implications. Poster presentation at the 37th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 13-15, 2006



Workshop presentations


  1. • (2006a) Variability in Hungarian durative adverbs. The Hungarian Language: Past and Present. University of California at Los Angeles. May 5-6, 2006


  1. • (2006b) Times and durative adverb modification. GLOW Workshop on Adjuncts and Modifiers. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. April 5, 2006


  1. • (2000) Light verbs and stress avoiding verbs in Hungarian (2). Workshop on verb clusters. Dutch-Hungarian Study Center at Budapest, Hungary. June 4-6, 2000


  1. • (1999a) Light verbs and stress avoiding verbs in Hungarian (1). Workshop on verb clusters. Dutch-Hungarian Study Center at Öttevény, Hungary. October 7-10, 1999


  1. • (1999b) Verbal modifiers are clitics. Conference of the Dutch-Hungarian Study Center on Language Contact. Wassenaar, the Netherlands. February 20-23, 1999



Grants


Internal grant


  1. • (2012) Faculty Fellow Award. University of Utah. Spring 2012

  2. • (2009) Tanner Humanities Center. Funding for an Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Discussion Group

  3. • (2008) University of Utah Teaching Committee. Funding for proposal Fieldwork materials for linguistics


External grants


  1. • (2006-2008) Hungarian National Scientific and Research Fund (OTKA) 'Adverbial modification' (principal investigator: Katalin É. Kiss). Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences


  1. • (2001-2005) Hungarian National Scientific and Research Fund (OTKA) 'The interaction of event structure and operator structure in Hungarian clauses' (principal investigator: Katalin É. Kiss). Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences



Research project


  1. • (2007-) (with Edward J. Rubin, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah) Issues in syntax

  2. • (2008-) (with Sarah H. Creem-Regehr, Department of Psychology, University of Utah) Spatial and temporal parallels

  3. • (2009-) (with Éva Dékány, University of Tromso) Classifiers and nominal structure, with special reference to Hungarian



Service


  1. • Undergraduate advisor (Department of Linguistics, University of Utah)


Committee membership


  1. • Dee Council member (2012-2015)

  2. • Faculty Advisory Committee (2011-2013, chair 2012-2013)

  3. • Intellectual Explorations Humanities Area Committee, University of Utah (2008 - 2011)

  4. • Curriculum Committee (2010-)

  5. • Intellectual Explorations Humanities Area Committee (2008-2011)

  6. • Executive Committee, Department of Linguistics (2009-2013)

  7. • Graduate Committee, Department of Linguistics (2009-2012)

  8. • Library Liaison (2009-2010)

  9. • Graduate Research Fellowship Selection Committee (2012-2013)

  10. • Undergraduate Ad Hoc Committee, Department of Linguistics (2010)

  11. • Phonology Search Committee, Department of Linguistics (2009-2010)



PhD committee: Member


  1. • Hossam Ahmed, Katherine Matsumoto-Gray, Miranda McCarvel, Jeffrey Pynes

    MA committee: Chair

  2. • Paul Clayton, Katherine Grace, Christina Yong

MA committee: Member


  1. • Scott Duede, Todd McKay (defended 2011), Shaun Matthews (defended 2009)

    Other committees

  2. • Saara Huhmarniemi (Pre-examiner for doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki)


    Teaching award

  3. • Student choice award (University of Utah, Department of Linguistics), 2009



Reviewing


  1. • Occasional reviewer for Mouton de Gruyter, Diachronica, Syntax Akadémiai Kiadó (Budapest, Hungary), Acta Linguistica Hungarica, NELS the International Conference on Hungarian and other conferences



Conference organization


  1. • Member of the organizing committee for Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics I at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003)


  1. • Member of the organizing committee for NELS 33 at the Massachusetts Institute of Techology (2002)



Editing


  1. • (2007) Collection of papers on Tibetan. Papers written by students of Syntax of an unfamiliar language (Tibetan) at Carleton College. Northfield, MN: Carleton College


  1. • (2004a) (with A. Gualmini and A. Nevins) Plato's Problems: Papers on Language Acquisition. (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 48). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics


  1. • (2004b) (with Y-J. Lee and M. Walter) Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics I (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 46). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics


  1. • (2002)  (with Zh. Li, A. Nevins, O. Vaysman, and M. Wagner) Phonological Questions (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 42). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics



Teaching experience


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