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Employment:

2008-2011....Principal Investigator, European Research Council 7th Framework Marie Curie IR Grant (number 224943), Assistant Professor level, University of Warsaw, Poland
2007-2013....Associate of the Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
2007-2008....Assistant Professor, University of Nova Gorica
2006-2007....Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University
2004-2006....Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Boston College
2004-2006....Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
2002-2003....Assistant Head Tutor, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
2002-2003....Head Teaching Fellow, Department of Linguistics Harvard University
1997-2002....Teaching Fellow, Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Education:

Harvard University
Department of Linguistics
Cambridge, MA
PhD, 2004
Committee: Prof. Noam Chomsky, Advisor
Prof. David Pesetsky
Prof. Cedric Boeckx
Prof. Jay Jasanoff

Cambridge University, Clare College
Cambridge, UK
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), 1993 (Advisor: Prof. Peter Matthews)

Warsaw University, Poland
Institute of English Studies
BA, 1990 (Advisor: Prof. Jerzy Rubach)

Academic honors, grants and fellowships:

Principal Researcher, Marie Curie Seventh Framework Program, European Research Council IR Research Grant, Grant Number 224943, 2008-2011

Core Fellow, Harvard University, 2004-2005

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award, Harvard University, 2003

Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001

Harvard Graduate Society Fellowship Summer Award, 1998

Soros/Batory Foundation Travel Grant, 1995

Soros/Batory Foundation Scholarship and Stipend to study at Cambridge University, 1992-1993

Dissertation:

Dissertation title: Relativization and Ellipsis
The major claim of my thesis is that VP ellipsis requires VP topicalization.
Support for this claim comes from the interaction of relative clause formation and VP ellipsis in Russian and Polish. I show that there are two types of relative clauses in Russian and Polish: (i) those derived via head noun movement from within the relative clause, and (ii) those derived via operator movement and adjunction to the head noun. VP ellipsis is only possible in type (i). It is blocked in type (ii) because operator movement prohibits VP topicalization (due to constraints on Remnant Movement).

Publications:

"Islands in Sluicing in Polish". (2008) Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop (eds). Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA. 404-412.

“Ellipsis and Relativization in Slavic” (2006). WECOL 2004 Proceedings, Vol 16. Michal Temkin Martínez, Asier Alcázar,  Roberto Mayoral Hernández (eds). University of Southern California. 373-385.

“VP Ellipsis and Topicalization” (2006). NELS 35 Proceedings. Leah Bateman, Cherlon Ussery (eds). GLSA UMass, BookSurge Publishing.Volume 2. 603-615.

“Two Types of Resumptive Pronouns in Polish Relative Clauses.” (2006) Linguistic Variation Yearbook Vol. 5. John Benjamins. 165-185.

“Relativization that you did…” (2005). MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics 24.

“Clitic Position within the Left Periphery: evidence for a phonological buffer.” (2005). Clitics and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives. L. Heggie, P. Ordoñez (eds).  John Benjamins. 283-301.

“Polish Optional Movement” (2001) The Minimalist Parameter: Selected Papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21-23 March 1997, G. M. Alexandrova and O. Arnaudova (eds). Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol.192, John Benjamins.137-159.

"'That-t Effects' Cross-Linguistically and Successive Cyclic Movement” (1999) Papers on Morphology and Syntax, Cycle One MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 33. Karlos Arregi, Benjamin Bruening, Cornelia Krause, and Vivian Lin (eds). MITWPiL. 369-393.

“Deficient Heads, and Long Head Movement in Slovak” (1995) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. The Indiana Meeting 1996. Steven Franks and Martina Lindseth (eds). Ann Arbor. Michigan Slavic Publications, 312-333.

“Certain Aspects of Cliticization in Polish” (1994) Working Papers In Linguistics. Penn Review of Linguistics. Vol.2, No.2. 143-159.

Talks and presentations:

University of Venice, Department of Linguistics Collquium, May 2009
"Strategies in forming relative clauses".

WCCFL 27, UCLA, May 2008
“Islands in Sluicing in Polish.”

LingLunch, MIT, December 2007
“Relative Clause formation.”

Workshop on Movement and its Relations to the Interfaces, Harvard, May 2007
“Moving into Islands.”
(with Clemens Mayr, Harvard)

University of Michigan Syntax Discussion Group, UM April 2007
“Simpler Syntax – an Account of Superiority.”
(with Michael Putnam, MSU)

MSU Linguistic Colloquium, November 2007
“Paradoxes in Sluicing.”

3rd LPIA (Left Periphery in Aphasia)-Meeting: The Structure of the Left Periphery in Germanic languages – CP- and IP-related elements in normal and impaired speech, Venice 2006
“Revisiting agrammatic comprehension: the case of Turkish.”
(With: Beste Kamali, Clemens Mayr and Cedric Boeckx, Harvard University)

Ling-Lunch, MIT 2006
“Bare bones syntax and how it interacts with processing. An investigation of the Strong Minimalist Hypothesis.”

LSA, January 2006 Annual Meeting
“Sluicing and P Stranding in Polish.”

Linguistics Theory Group, Harvard University, November 2005
“The Topology of Syntactic Structures.”

Ling-Lunch, MIT 2005
“All Sluiced up and Nowhere to Go.”

TEAL 2005, MIT/Harvard, Cambridge MA
Invited Commentator on a paper by:
I-Ping Wan (National Chengchi University)
“The Connectionist Approach to Phonological Encoding: Evidence from Mandarin Speech and Aphasic Errors.”

CUNY’05 Sentence Processing Conference, March 2005, Tucson Arizona
“The processing of VP ellipsis.”
(With Evelina G. Fedorenko and Edward F. Gibson, MIT)

LSA, January 2005 Annual Meeting
“VP ellipsis, remnant movement, and topicalization in Polish”

WECOL, USC November 2004
“Ellipsis in Relative Clauses in Slavic”

Ling-Lunch, MIT November 2004
“Ellipsis and movement”

NELS 35, UConn October 2004
“Ellipsis and Remnant Movement: Evidence from Slavic”

Ling-Lunch, MIT March 2003
“ACD in Russian and Polish”

HUMIT (Harvard-MIT Student Conference), September 2001.
“Agrammatic Comprehension: The Case of WB”

Harvard University Slavic Colloquium, January 2000.
“Agreement in Relative Clauses”

HUMIT (Harvard-MIT Student Conference), August 2000.
“Phonological errors at the beginning of a word”

LSA Summer Institute workshop entitled: ‘Perspectives on Clitic and Agreement Affix Combinations’, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 1999.
“An OT account of Slavic agreement clitics”

WCCFL XVIII, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 1999.
“‘That-trace effects’: a minimalist approach”

30th. Poznan Linguistics Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, July 1997.
“A Minimalist Account of Past Tense Constructions in Polish and Slovak”

Open Linguistics Forum 1997, ‘Challenges of Minimalism’, University of
Ottawa, Canada, March 1997.
“Polish Optional Movement in the Minimalist Programme”

Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics Fifth Workshop, Wabash College and Indiana University, Indiana, April 1996.
“A Minimalist Account of Polish Auxiliary Clitics and of why there is no Long Head Movement in Slovak”

GLOW conference, Tromsø, Norway, April 1995.
“Economy of Movement, the Nature of Features, Move Alpha, and Form Chain - the Case of Polish”

5th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, La Coruña, Spain, April 1995.
“Certain Aspects of Cliticization in Polish”

Teaching experience:

2007-2008, Assistant Professor, Department of Slovene Studies, Uniwersity of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
- 7SL2002 Syntax
- 7SL2014 Psycholinguistics

2006-2007, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics Michigan State University
- Lin 401 Introduction to Linguistics
- Lin 434 Introduction to Syntax
- Lin 834 Syntax I
- Lin 835 Syntax II
- IAH 231C Mechanisms underlying language diversity and similarity

2004-2006, Lecturer, Department of Linguistics Harvard University:
- Ling 130 Psycholinguistics
- Ling 112a Introduction to Syntax

2005-2006, Lecturer, Harvard Extension School:
- Ling E -110c Introduction to Linguistics
- Ling E -130 Psychology of Language

2005-2006, Visiting Faculty, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Boston College:
- SL 362 Language in Society
- SL 367 Language and Language Types

2005, Lecturer, Harvard Summer School:
- Ling S-131 Psychology of Language

Supervision/Advising:

- Thesis Advisor for Joseph Salonga ‘Negation in Tagalog’(Harvard University)
- Thesis Reader for Rebecca Katherine McKeown ‘On relative clauses.' (Harvard University)

- Assistant Head Tutor (Asst. Director of Undergraduate Studies), Dept. of Linguistics Harvard University
[Supervised Tutorials offered in the Department, assisted in the supervision of concentrators’ progress, provided academic counselling and assistance to undergraduates.]

- Head Teaching Fellow Social Analysis 34 ‘Knowledge of Language’ , Harvard University
[Supervised the work of Teaching Fellows in the Department of Linguistics]

Languages:

Native: Polish, English. Fluent: Russian. Good: French

Interests:

Syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics (especially syntactic processing), complexity theory, mathematics.

Service:

Reviewer for: Journal of Linguistics, Syntax, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Biolinguistics.
Co-Editor MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 40 - Proceedings from HUMIT.
Reviewer for University of Cyprus Cognitive Science Grants.
Reviewer of grants in the field of psycholinguistics for The Hong Kong Research Council.
Editor of Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics (2000-2001).
Abstract Reviewer for FASL 9 (2000) and FASL 14 (2005).
Co-organizer of HUMIT (a joint Harvard-MIT conference on language research) (2000, 2001).
Co-organizer of GSAS Departmental Colloquia in Theoretical Linguistics (1998-2000).