Papers and handouts

 

The papers below can be downloaded in a pdf format. For other papers not listed here, please contact me.



Dissertation


  1. •Semantics and phonology in syntax (also available from MITWPL) pdf



Papers


  1. • Scales, verbs and verbal modifiers [ms, University of Utah] pdf

  2. • Flexibility and rigidity: Multiplicatives, frequency and quantification adverbs pdf

[appeared in the Proceedings of BLS 34, 2008]

  

  1. •Multiplicatives, frequency and quantification adverbs in Hungarian paper   references
    [an earlier version of the paper submitted for K. É. Kiss (ed.) Adverbs and Adverbial Modifiers at the Interfaces]


  1. • Particles and a two-component theory of aspect pdf

[in K. É. Kiss (ed) 2006 Event structure and the left periphery of Hungarian. Dordrecht: Springer]


  1. • Accusative case and aspect pdf

[in K. É. Kiss (ed) 2006 Event structure and the left periphery of Hungarian. Dordrecht: Springer]


  1. • Aspect, negation and quantifiers pdf 

[in K. É. Kiss (ed) 2006 Event structure and the left periphery of Hungarian. Dordrecht: Springer]


  1. • Perfective and imperfective in Hungarian: (Invisible) differences pdf

[in S. Blaho, L. Vicente and M. de Vos (eds.) 2004 Proceedings of Console XII. University of Leiden]


  1. • Acquisition patterns of particle constructions in Hungarian pdf

[in A. Csirmaz, A. Gualmini and A. Nevins (eds.) 2004. Papers on Acquisition. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics]


  1. • Light verb constructions in Zazaki (with Marketa Ceplova) pdf

[in M. Kenstowicz (ed) 2004. Papers in Zazaki Grammar. MITWPL]


  1. • Particles and phonologically defective predicates pdf

[ms, 2001. Appeared in a revised form in K. É. Kiss and H. van Riemsdijk (eds). 2004. Verb Clusters. A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch. Amsterdam: John Benjamins]



Conference presentations and other talks


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

  2. • Spatial relations and temporal expressions pdf
    [Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Discussion Group, University of Utah. January 20 and February 24, 2010]

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

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

  5. •Scales, verbs and verbal prefixes pdf
    [International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 9. Debrecen, Hungary. August 30 - September 1, 2009]

  6. •Building temporal structure: Adverbs and times pdf

[18th International Congress of Linguists. Korea University, Seoul, Korea. July 21-26, 2008; Workshop on Formal Approaches to the Relations of Tense, Aspect and Modality]


  1. • Spatial interpretations of durative expressions pdf

[The Fourth Workshop on the Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation. Department of Linguistics, Kyoto University. July 18, 2008]


  1. • Adverbs of quantity: Entities of different kinds pdf

[32nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. February 22-24, 2008]


  1. • Flexibility and rigidity: Multiplicatives, frequency and quantification adverbs pdf

[34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California at Berkeley. February 8-10, 2008]


  1. • Interface interactions - aspect and case pdf

[8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul. August 9-12, 2006]


  1. • Interface interactions - aspect and case pdf

[Interface Legibility at the Edge. University of Bucharest. Bucharest, Romania. June 25-27, 2006]


  1. • Variability of Hungarian durative adverbs pdf

[The Hungarian Language: Past and Present (workshop). University of California at Los Angeles. May 5-6, 2006]


  1. • Durative adverbs and divisibility pdf

[16th Colloquium of Generative Grammar. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid, Spain. April 20-22, 2006]


  1. • Times and durative adverb modification pdf

[GLOW Workshop on Adjuncts and Modifiers. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. April 5, 2006]


  1. • Measuring times pdf

[Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. February 24-26, 2006]


  1. • Is negation special? pdf

[Mellon Postoctoral Conference. Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. November 11-13, 2005]


  1. • Case alternation and aspect in Finnish pdf

[Invited talk at the Nordic Department at the University of Lund, Sweden. September 9, 2004]


  1. • Universality in aspect systems: Categories and category change pdf

[Invited talk at the German Department at the University of Lund, Sweden. September 7, 2004]


Aspect and aspect change crosslinguistically pdf

[in L. Hunyadi, Gy. Rakosi and E. Toth (eds.) 2004. Preliminary Papers of LOLA8. Debrecen, Hungary]


Aspect and aspect change crosslinguistically pdf

[Eighth Symposium on Logic and Language (LOLA8). Debrecen, Hungary. August 26-28, 2004]


Aspect, aspect variation and universality pdf

[poster presented at the Cornell Symposium on Language Universals. Ithaca, NY. May 1-2, 2004]


Severely constrained aspect pdf

[talk at the Workshop on Tense, Aspect and Modality. GLOW 27. Thessaloniki, Greece. April 18-21, 2004]


Perfective and imperfective in Hungarian: (Invisible) differences pdf

[talk at ConSole XII. Patras, Greece. December 12-14, 2003]


Morphological agreement and timing pdf

[talk at the Lisbon Workshop on Agreement. Lisbon, Portugal. July 10-11, 2003]


Aspect and case variation pdf

[talk at the North American Syntax Conference. Concordia Univeristy, Montreal. May 2-4, 2003]