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Talks at CamCoS 8 and SLE 52

10 April 2019

In the spring/summer of 2019, I will give peer-reviewed talks at the eighth installment of the Cambridge Comparative Syntax conference (CamCoS) at the University of Cambridge and the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europæa in Leipzig.

Talk at FARL 3

5 April 2019

I have recently given a presentation at the third installment of the Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics workshop at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In my talk, I have tried to adapt an exhaustification analysis of PPI-disjunction to the facts of Russian. An abstract and a set of slides are available here.

Grant from the Russian Science Foundation

1 July 2018

A team of researchers at HSE, including myself, has recently been awarded a highly competitive and prestigious grant by the Russian Science Foundation. Over the next few years, we’ll be investigating non-finite constructions in a number of severely understudied languages of Russia (Avar, Bagwalal, Udi, Agul, Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Northern Khanty, Chukchi). The project’s title is When the verb isn’t a verb: Non-finite constructions in the languages of Russia, and you can read more about it here.

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Avar negation (talk at the Russian Academy of Sciences)

17 November 2017

I have recently presented my ongoing work on the syntactico-semantic properties of negation in Avar in the Andic seminar at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This was my first Russian-language presentation after a long lull. In the talk, I argued that the rather idiosyncratic morphosyntactic properties of Avar negation, as well as the restrictions on the expression and interpretation of negation, can be accounted for in a framework postulating an ontological distinction between (sets of) events and (sets of) situations as conceptual underpinnings of the hierarchy of functional projections.

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IATL 33

11 June 2017

I will present my recent work on the PPI-behaviour of the Russian plain disjunction marker ili at the 33rd annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics. In the talk, I argue that that behaviour as well as the apparent exceptions can be derived from the phrasal versus clausal character of the disjunction, and the status of Russian as a negative concord language.

 

Recent Writing

  • “Two challenges for existentialist approaches to strict negative concord.” Unpublished manuscript. HSE University Abstract  pdf
  • “Categorial selection and functional structure in the noun phrase: Revisiting Russian small nominals.” to appear in Russian Linguistics. Abstract  pdf
  • Caha, Pavel, Pavel Rudnev and Svetlana Toldova (eds.) The many facets of agreement. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 68. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Abstract
  • “The Anaphor Agreement Effect as epiphenomenon.” In Pavel Caha, Pavel Rudnev and Svetlana Toldova (eds.) The many facets of agreement. 111–144. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 68. LINCOM Europa. Abstract  pdf
  • (with Ksenia Shagal and Anna Volkova) “Multifunctionality and syncretism in non-finite forms: An introduction.” Folia Linguistica 56(3): 529–557. Abstract

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I’m Pavel Rudnev, and this is my personal website. I’m a research fellow and lecturer in linguistics at HSE University in Moscow. My main area of interest is syntax and its interfaces with sound and meaning. In particular, my current research revolves around the structure of nominal expressions, agreement, case and verbal morphosyntax in East Caucasian languages, and the syntax-to-phonology mapping in Russian Sign Language.

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