Current Projects in Linguistics

Presentations coming up

• Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2026. TBA. Syntax-interface lectures (SIL), Utrecht, April 30, 2026.
• Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2026. Against length-determined tone assignment in Serbo-Croatian. FASL 35, UCSC, May 1-3, 2026.
• Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2026. Against length-determined tone assignment in Serbo-Croatian. FASL 35, UCSC, May 1-3, 2026.
• Marelj, Marijana, and Ora Matushansky. 2026. Two structures of intransitive degree achievements in Slavic. Colloquium on Generative Grammar 35, Universitat de Barcelona, May 27-29, 2026.
• Matushansky, Ora. 2026. Very complex affixation. 22nd International Morphology Meeting, June 18-21, 2026, Budapest, Hungary.

Courses coming up:

• CreteLing (July 2026, Crete)
• TBA (Brussels/KU Leuven)

Workshops organized

[with David Erschler] IMM-22 Workshop "Micromorphology of Inflection". 22nd International Morphology Meeting (IMM22). Budapest, June 18-21, 2026.

[with Marijana Marelj and Sergei Tatevosov] Workshop "Inflection and derivation in the Slavic verb" dedicated to the memory of Morris Halle. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, August 29 – September 1, 2023.

Research interests

While in the past I have worked primarily on syntax-semantics interface, now I focus mostly on Russian morphology and lexical phonology.

• Complex affixes
• Deadjectival degree achievements and other anti-causatives, uncausatives and decausatives
• Russian derivation and inflection (morphosyntax and morphophonology)
• Locatives: toponyms, locative and directional PPs, axial parts and locative cases
• Proper names, bare, definite and modified; naming verbs
• Cardinal numerals
• Predicate marking cross-linguistically (article omission with NP-predicates, Case-marking, copular particles)

Feminism: gender as a social phenomenon in the academic field of linguistics

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