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Asia Pietraszko

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I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester. I received my PhD from the University of Chicago Linguistics Department. I’m the director of the Field Syntax Lab at the University of Rochester.

I work in syntax and morphology, with main focus on verbal morphosyntax in Bantu languages. I’m interested in clausal architecture and processes underlying structure building, such as selection and movement. My dissertation was a study of verbal periphrasis and inflectional dependencies in multi-verb constructions in Zimbabwean Ndebele. Other topics I’ve worked on include (successive cyclic) A-movement, clause nominalization, head-movement, do-support, complementation, backward control, relative clauses and the syntax-phonology interface.

 

Updates

August 2022: NSF award (BCS 2214933)

Dec 2021: New paper with Karlos Arregi explaining the complementarity of periphrasis and V-to-T movement.

July 2021: Co-teaching a class with Susi Wurmbrand on exhaustive control, with special focus on backward and crossed control.

May 2021: New paper on Backward Control (to appear in the proceedings of NELS 51)

March 2021: Invited talk at UMass on Backward Control in Ndebele

Dec 2020: BCGL talk arguing for c-selection in clausal complementation [slides]

Nov 2020: NELS talk on Backward Control without A-movement or Phi-agreement [slides]

July 2020: teaching a mini-course at the Virtual NYI on words, morphemes and listedness (co-taught with Omer Preminger).

June 2020: new paper on long head movement in Breton (Co-author: Karlos Arregi)

June 2020: new paper on the timing of agreement and A-movement in Ndebele.

May 2020: new manuscript on periphrasis, cyclicity of selection and Swahili head movement.

April 2020: A paper accepted for publication in NLLT arguing that augmentless DPs in Ndebele reflect structural case, not focus.

March 2020: WCCFL 38 talk on long head movement in Breton [handout] Co-author: Karlos Arregi

Jan 2020: LSA poster on the relationship between periphrasis and word building [handout]. Co-author: Karlos Arregi

Dec 2019: A paper on head displacement accepted for publication in Linguistic Inquiry. Co-author: Karlos Arregi

July/Aug 2019: Teaching a seminar on head displacement at the 2019 NYI (St.Petersburg, Russia).

April 2019: Joining the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester in Fall 2019

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