Contact

Email Address

j.a.pietraszko@rochester.edu

Mailing Address

Department of Linguistics

University of Rochester

503 Lattimore Hall

Rochester, NY 14627

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