CURRENT MANUSCRIPTS 

“In Defense of the Clause-Internal Phase: Evidence from Operational Opacity in Ndebele“, to appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

“Reciprocals and Passives in Ndebele“, under review at ACAL 56 Proceedings, Co-author: Milena Šereikaitė

 

DISSERTATION

Pietraszko (2017), Inflectional Dependencies: A study of complex verbal expressions in Ndebele. PhD Thesis, The University of Chicago.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Arregi, K. & A. Pietraszko (2025), The relation between head movement and periphrasis”, Journal of Linguistics [Lingbuzz]

Pietraszko, A., (2023) “Timing-driven derivation of a NOM/ACC agreement pattern”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5849

Pietraszko, A. (2023), “Cyclic Selection. Auxiliaries are merged, not inserted” Linguistic Inquiry, 54 (2): 350–377.

Arregi K. & A. Pietraszko (2021), “The ups and downs of head displacement“, Linguistic Inquiry 52 (2): 241-289. (Published online: Jan 2019)

Pietraszko, A. (2021) “The coming apart of case and focus in Bantu”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 39, pp. 579–-99. (Published online: July 2020) [lingbuzz]

Pietraszko A. (2021), Backward Control without A-movement or φ-agreement, In A. Farinella & A. Hill (Eds.), Proceedings of NELS 51 (pp. 139–152).: UMass GLSA.

Arregi K. & A. Pietraszko (2021) Unifying long head movement with phrasal movement: a new argument from spellout, Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Rachel Soo et al., 21-31. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Pietraszko, A. (2019) “Obligatory CP nominalization in Ndebele”, Syntax, 22: 66-111. (Published online: Dec 2018) DOI:10.1111/synt.12167

Arregi K. & A. Pietraszko (2019), Do-support as spellout of split head chains, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Eds. Baird, M & J. Pesetsky, vol. 2, pp. 63–72, GLSA: Amherst, MA

Pietraszko A. (2018) “Auxiliary vs INFL in Bantu. The syntactic and phonological complexity of Ndebele verbs”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 36(1): 265–308. (Published Online: 12 July 2017) DOI:10.1007/s11049-017-9373-0

Arregi K. & A. Pietraszko(2018), Generalized Head Movement, Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. Volume 3, Article 4:1-15.

Pietraszko, A.(2018) The distribution of φ-probes in the inflectional structure, Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. Volume 3, Article 59:1-15.

Pietraszko, A. (2018) Direct and dependent valuation in Ndebele light-verb constructions, Proceedings of WCCFL 35, pp. 313-320.

Pietraszko, A.(2016) The Syntax of simple and compound tenses in Ndebele, Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. Volume 1, Article 18:1-15.

Pietraszko, A.(2015) The Correlative Configuration in Polish, in P. Biskup et al (Eds.), Slavic Grammar from a Formal Perspective. The 10th Anniversary FDSL Conference, Leipzig 2013, Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Reciprocals and Passives in Ndebele (with Milena Šereikaite) [handout]
56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Minneapolis (May 2025)

An argument for true c-selection in clausal complementation [slides] 
Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics 13 (Dec 2020)

Backward Control Without A-movement or Phi-Agreement [slides]
NELS 51, UQAM (Nov 6 2020)

Unifying long head movement with phrasal movement: a new argument from spellout (with Karlos Arregi) [handout]
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 38, Vancouver, Canada. (March 2020)

Periphrasis is not failure of word building (with Karlos Arregi) [handout]
94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, LA. (January 2020)

Multiple probing in A-over-A configurations [handout]
55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, The University of Chicago. (May 2019)

Do-support as spellout of split head chains (with Karlos Arregi) [poster] [handout]
49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Cornell University. (October 2018)

Generalized Head Movement (with Karlos Arregi) [handout]
92st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT. (January 2018)

The distribution of Phi-probes in the inflectional structure [handout]
92st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT. (January 2018)

Direct and Dependent Valuation in Ndebele light-verb constructions [handout] [poster]
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 35, Calgary, Canada. (April 2017)

Tense agreement in Ndebele light-verb constructions [handout]
48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Bloomington, IN. (March 2017)

Clause size and transparency in Ndebele [handout] [poster]
91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX. (January 2017)

Local interactions in the prosodic structure of Ndebele verbs [handout] [poster]
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 34, Salt Lake City, UT. (April 2016)

The Ndebele relative marker as a nominal linker [handout]
47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Berkeley, CA. (March 2016)

The syntax of synthetic and periphrastic tenses in Ndebele
90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington DC. (January 2016)

Discourse Configurationality and agreement in Ndebele [handout]
89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR. (January 2015)

Structural focus in Bantu: Evidence from Ndebele
Graduate Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies, Milwaukee, WI. (Oct 2014)

The correlative configuration in Polish
Formal Description of Slavic Languages 10, Leipzig, Germany. (Dec 2013)

Augmentless arguments in Northern Ndebele: nominal and clausal domain
43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands. (Aug 2013)

Free Relatives and Negation
Semantics in the Netherlands 8, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. (Oct 2010)

 

INVITED TALKS

In-situ subjects in Ndebele reveal a clause-internal phase
Plenary talk at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Montreal

Clause internal phase and successive cyclic A-movement
New York University, Syntax Brown Bag (April 2024)

Operational opacity at the clausal middle field
Princeton University Colloquium (Mar 2024)

Clause internal phase and successive cyclic A-movement
The University of Chicago Syntax-Morphology Workshop (Mar 2024)

Operational opacity at the clausal middle field
Tel-Aviv University Colloquium (Feb 2024)

Operational opacity at the clausal middle field
University of Pennsylvania Colloquium (Nov 2023)

A-movement across domains
Indiana University Colloquium (Sep 2023)

Reassessing functional verb diagnostics [handout]
UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Oct 2022)

What Bantu languages can teach us about verbal periphrasis [slides]
Southern African Linguistics Network (April 2022)

Syntactic structure building: lessons from periphrasis [slides]
Harvard University (April 2022)

Syntactic structure building: lessons from periphrasis [slides]
Rutgers University (March 2022)

Syntactic structure building: lessons from periphrasis [slides]
University of Maryland (Feb 2022)

Cyclic Selection and verbal periphrasis [slides]
HSE University Colloquium (Nov 2021)

Cyclic Selection and verbal periphrasis [slides]
University of Goettingen Colloquium Series (July 2021)

Backward Control Without A-movement or Phi-Agreement [slides]
UMass Syntax Workshop, Amherst, MA (March 2021)

A Syntactic Side of Word Formation 
University of Rochester Linguistics Colloquia Series, Rochester, NY (February 2019)

Do-support crosslinguistically: when head chains split  [handout]
UMass Linguistics Department SuSurrus, Amherst, MA (November 2018)

Synthesis and Periphrasis. How complex do words get?
The New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture 16. Saint Petersburg, Russia (July 2018)

Obligatory clause nominalization in Ndebele [handout]
MIT Ling-Lunch, Cambridge MA. (November 2017)

How many verbs and why? Deriving synthesis and periphrasis from their syntactic context
University of Florida Linguistics Colloquium, Gainesville, FL. (February 2017)

Clause nominalization in isiNdebele: an argument from relative clauses
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. (September 2016)

The morphosyntax of compound tenses in Ndebele
Language Variation and Change Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. (April 2015)