Sue Brown, Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor of Slavic Linguistics
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Harvard University
Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge MA 02138

office telephone: (617) 495-2457

email: sbrown@fas.harvard.edu

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Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax

  negative concord

  genitive of negation

  expletive negation

  interrogatives

  indefinites

  focus and topicalization/word order effects

Generative Syntax

Southern American English

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Ph.D. Indiana University, December 1996; Slavic Linguistics, minor in General Linguistics

Dissertation Title: The Syntax of Negation in Russian

Committee Members:

Steven Franks, Indiana University (chair)
George Fowler, Indiana University
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Indiana University
Ronald Feldstein, Indiana University
Linda Schwartz, Indiana University

M.A. Indiana University, October 1991, Slavic Linguistics

B.A.

University of Virginia, May 1988; double major in Slavic Languages and Literatures and
Russian Studies

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July 2001 – present Harvard University

Associate Professor of Slavic Linguistics
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

July 1997 – July 2001 Harvard University

Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

August 1996 – June 1997 Bucknell University

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Summers 1990, 1991, 1992,
1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Indiana University

Coordinator/Instructor of Intensive Beginning and Intermediate Russian
Summer Workshop for Slavic and East European Languages

Sept. 1994 – May 1995 Indiana University

Assistant to Slavic and Reference Librarians
Indiana University Library

Fall 1993 Indiana University

Associate Instructor of Russian Literature
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Academic Year 1992–1993 Indiana University

Associate Instructor of Russian Grammar
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Academic Years 1989–1990, 1990–1991 Indiana University

Associate Instructor of Russian Conversation
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Sept. 1987 – May 1988 University of Virginia

Student Assistant
Center for Russian and East European Studies

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(in progress) Expressing indefiniteness in Russian. Ms. Harvard University
(in press) Negation in Slavic. Co-editor with Adam Przepiórkowski. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.
(1999) The syntax of negation in Russian: A Minimalist approach. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics) [Winner of "Best Book in Slavic Linguistics" Award given December 2001 by AATSEEL Publications Committee].

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(in press) "Negation in Slavic" in Negation in Slavic (S. Brown and A. Przepiórkowski, eds.). Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.
(in press) "Negative concord in Slavic and Attract All-F" in Negation in Slavic (S. Brown and A. Przepiórkowski, eds.). Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. [Download here]
(2002) "A Minimalist approach to negation in Old Church Slavonic: A look at the Codex Marianus" in Formal approaches to Slavic linguistics XI: The Amherst meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. [Download here]
(1999) "Negated yes/no questions in Russian and Serbian/Croatian: Yes or no, both, either, or neither?" in Formal approaches to Slavic linguistics VII: The Seattle meeting, Herbert Coats, Katarzyna Dziwirek, and Cynthia Vakerilyska (eds.), Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications, 59–80.
(1997) "The syntax of pleonastic negation in Russian" with Steven Franks, in Formal approaches to Slavic linguistics IV: The Cornell meeting, Wayles Browne, Natasha Kondrashova, and Draga Zec (eds.), Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.
(1995) "Asymmetries in the scope of Russian negation" with Steven Franks, in Journal of Slavic linguistics 3:2, 239–287.
(1995) "Scope of negation: Genitive of negation and polarity in Russian" in Proceedings of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America VI, vol. 2: 13–24.

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(1999) Review article with Catherine Chvany of A. A. Kibrik, I. M. Kobozeva, and I. A. Sekerina (eds.) (1997), Fundamental'nye napravlenija sovremennoj amerikanskoj lingvistiki: Sbornik obzorov [Basic trends in contemporary American linguistics: A collection of essays]. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo universiteta, in Journal of Slavic linguistics 6:2, 301–323.
(1998) Review of David K. Hart (1996) Topics in the structure of Russian: An introduction to Russian linguistics. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers in Slavic and East European journal.

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"Negative concord in Slavic and Attract All-F", 32nd Poznan' Linguistic Meeting, organized by the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan', Poland, May 1999
"Negation in Russian", Princeton University, December 1998
"The syntax of negative concord in Russian: A parametric approach", Harvard University, January 1997
"The status of Russian pronouns in -nibud'", Harvard University, January 1996

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"Putting nothing in its place: A minimalist approach to negation in the Codex Marianus", Slavic Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, February 2003.
"To be or not to be: Genitive of negation, discourse interpretation, and A-chain reconstruction", Slavic Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, November 2000.
"Case marking and negative closure: Arguments for A-chain reconstruction", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics IX, Bloomington, Indiana, February 2000
"Generative approaches to Slavic linguistics", Slavic Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, April 1999
"Case assignment and genitive of negation in Russian", Harvard University Davis Center for Russian Studies Literary Seminar, February 1999.
"Fundamental'nye napravlenija sovremennoj amerikanskoj lingivistki: Sbornik obzorov", review presentation, co-presented with Catherine Chvany, Slavic Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, Fall 1998
"Negative concord and Attract All" at Workshop on Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax, McCormick's Creek, June 1998
"Negated yes/no questions in Russian and Serbian/Croatian: Yes or no, both, either, or neither?", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics VII, Seattle, Washington, May 1998
"Russian and Serbian/Croatian negated yes/no questions", Slavic Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, Fall 1997
"The syntax of negative concord in Russian", American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, Washington, December 1996
"Negative Concord in Russian", Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics V (poster session), Crawfordsville, Indiana, April 1996
"The status of Russian pronouns in -nibud'", American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 1995
"Scope of negation: Polarity and the genitive of negation in Russian", Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America VI, Bloomington, Indiana, May 1995
"The syntax of pleonastic negation in Russian" with Steven Franks, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics IV, Ithaca, New York, April 1995
"Locality in Slavic", Slavic Linguistics Forum, Indiana University, November 1993
"Teaching methodologies: Using Russian in the classroom", Training Workshop, Indiana University, August 1990, 1991, 1992

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Harvard University Davis Center for Russian Studies Research Grant for Fall 2002

Winner of AATSEEL Publications Committee award for "Best Book in Slavic Linguistics", December 2001, for The syntax of negation in Russian: A Minimalist approach

Clark-Cooke Research Grant, Harvard University, November 1999

Mellon Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid of Research, Indiana University, May 1995

FLAS fellowship to study Russian, Indiana University, Summer 1989

FLAS fellowship to study Czech, Indiana University, 1988–89

Vladimir Pertzoff Prize for Excellence in Russian Studies, University of Virginia, May 1988

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Harvard University

Fall 2003 FS 35w: Freshman Seminar - Language, Gender, and Culture

Slavic 202: Introduction to West Slavic Languages

Spring 2003 on leave

Fall 2002 on leave

Spring 2002 FS 11:  Freshman Seminar – Language, Gender, and Culture

Slavic126a:  Structure of Russian – Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Fall 2001 Slavic 296r:  Slavic Linguistics Seminar – Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax

Course relief as Director of Undergraduate Studies

Spring 2001 Slavic 126a:  Structure of Russian – Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Slavic 125:  Modern Russian in Historical Perspective

Fall 2000 on leave

Spring 2000 Slavic 296r:  Slavic Linguistics Seminar – Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax

Slavic 126b:  Structure of Modern Russian – Morphosyntax

Fall 1999 Slavic 296r:  Slavic Linguistics Seminar – Negation in Slavic

Slavic 126a:  Structure of Russian – Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Spring 1999 Slavic 202:  Introduction to West Slavic Languages

Slavic 126a:  Structure of Russian – Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Fall 1998 Slavic 273:  Russian Syntax and Discourse Grammar
Slavic 273:  (Topic for Fall 1998:  Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax)

Slavic 126a:  Structure of Russian – Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Slavic 301:  Readings in Slavic Linguistics [co-taught with Michael Flier]

Spring 1998 Slavic 203:  Introduction to South Slavic Languages

Slavic 126b:  Structure of Modern Russian – Morphosyntax

Fall 1997 Slavic 296r:  Slavic Linguistics Seminar – Negation in Slavic

Slavic 126a:  Structure of Russian – Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Bucknell University

Spring 1997 Russian 101:  First-Year Russian, First Semester

Russian 102:  First-Year Russian, Second Semester

Russian 103:  Second-Year Russian, First Semester

Fall 1996 Russian 101:  First-Year Russian, First Semester

Russian 102:  First-Year Russian, Second Semester

Russian 103:  Second-Year Russian, First Semester

Russian 401:  Russian Civilization and Culture to the end of the 19th Century

Indiana University

Summer 1996 Intensive First-Year Russian

Summer 1995 Intensive First-Year Russian

Summer 1994 Intensive First-Year Russian

Fall 1993 Russian Literature Intensive Writing Seminar (discussion sections)

Summer 1993 Intensive First-Year Russian

Spring 1993 First-Year Russian

Fall 1992 First-Year Russian

Summer 1992 Intensive Russian: First-Year, Second Semester–Second-Year, First Semester

Summer 1991 Intensive First-Year Russian

Spring 1991 First- and Second-Year Conversation

Fall 1990 First- and Second-Year Conversation

Summer 1990 Intensive First-Year Russian

Spring 1990 First- and Second-Year Conversation

Fall 1989 First- and Second-Year Conversation

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Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics VIII, University of Pennsylvania, May 1999.

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, December 1997, Toronto.

Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics V, University of Connecticut, May 1997.

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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University Slavic Department, Fall 2003-present

Dissertation second reader: Kylie Richardson, The case for meaningful case: The interaction of tense, aspect, and case in Russian, Harvard University Slavic Department

Dissertation second reader: Javier Martín-González, The syntax of negation in Spanish, Harvard University Linguistics Department

Chair of committee to redesign Slavic Department website

Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University Slavic Department, Spring 2001–Fall 2001

Sohier Prize Committee, Harvard University

Freshman adviser for three first-year students (1999–2000), Harvard University

Co-sponsor with Lynn Nichols (Assistant Professor, Harvard Linguistics Department) of Ford Foundation Workshop on Acquisition and Learnability (1999–2000, 2000–2001)

Evaluated undergraduate thesis for Harvard University Hoopes Prize (Spring 1999)

Evaluated submissions for Slavic and East European Journal, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, annual meeting of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (repeated)

Reviewed book manuscript for Slavica Publishers (Fall 1998)

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	Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax
		negative concord
		genitive of negation
		expletive negation
		interrogatives
		indefinites
		focus and topicalization/word order effects
	Generative Syntax
	Southern American English
	Language and Gender
	Language and Culture

	Ph.D.	Indiana University, December 1996; Slavic Linguistics, minor in General Linguistics
		Dissertation Title: The Syntax of Negation in Russian Committee Members: Steven Franks, Indiana University (chair) George Fowler, Indiana University Laurent Dekydtspotter, Indiana University Ronald Feldstein, Indiana University Linda Schwartz, Indiana University
	M.A.	Indiana University, October 1991, Slavic Linguistics
	B.A.	University of Virginia, May 1988; double major in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Russian Studies

July 2001 – present	Harvard University Associate Professor of Slavic Linguistics Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
July 1997 – July 2001	Harvard University Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
August 1996 – June 1997	Bucknell University Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Summers 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996	Indiana University Coordinator/Instructor of Intensive Beginning and Intermediate Russian Summer Workshop for Slavic and East European Languages
Sept. 1994 – May 1995	Indiana University Assistant to Slavic and Reference Librarians Indiana University Library
Fall 1993	Indiana University Associate Instructor of Russian Literature Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Academic Year 1992–1993	Indiana University Associate Instructor of Russian Grammar Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Academic Years 1989–1990, 1990–1991	Indiana University Associate Instructor of Russian Conversation Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sept. 1987 – May 1988	University of Virginia Student Assistant Center for Russian and East European Studies

	Harvard University Davis Center for Russian Studies Research Grant for Fall 2002
	Winner of AATSEEL Publications Committee award for "Best Book in Slavic Linguistics", December 2001, for The syntax of negation in Russian: A Minimalist approach
	Clark-Cooke Research Grant, Harvard University, November 1999
	Mellon Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid of Research, Indiana University, May 1995
	FLAS fellowship to study Russian, Indiana University, Summer 1989
	FLAS fellowship to study Czech, Indiana University, 1988–89
	Vladimir Pertzoff Prize for Excellence in Russian Studies, University of Virginia, May 1988

	Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics VIII, University of Pennsylvania, May 1999.
	American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, December 1997, Toronto.
	Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics V, University of Connecticut, May 1997.

	Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University Slavic Department, Fall 2003-present
	Dissertation second reader: Kylie Richardson, The case for meaningful case: The interaction of tense, aspect, and case in Russian, Harvard University Slavic Department
	Dissertation second reader: Javier Martín-González, The syntax of negation in Spanish, Harvard University Linguistics Department
	Chair of committee to redesign Slavic Department website
	Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University Slavic Department, Spring 2001–Fall 2001
	Sohier Prize Committee, Harvard University
	Freshman adviser for three first-year students (1999–2000), Harvard University
	Co-sponsor with Lynn Nichols (Assistant Professor, Harvard Linguistics Department) of Ford Foundation Workshop on Acquisition and Learnability (1999–2000, 2000–2001)
	Evaluated undergraduate thesis for Harvard University Hoopes Prize (Spring 1999)
	Evaluated submissions for Slavic and East European Journal, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, annual meeting of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (repeated)
	Reviewed book manuscript for Slavica Publishers (Fall 1998)