I am a 3rd year PhD student at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück and a member of the linguistics and computational linguistics research group.
In my PhD project, I aim to develop a theory of adjectival event modification which accounts for a range of well-known and novel observations. The project is jointly supervised by Peter Bosch (U Osnabrück) and Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan U), being funded by the Graduiertenkolleg 'Adaptivity in Hybrid Cognitive Systems' of the University of Osnabrück.
Before enrolling into the PhD program, I received an MSc degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrück and an MA in German and English Studies from the University of Odessa.
Research interests
~ adjectival semantics, event adjectives
~ event semantics, adverbial modification
~ genericity and habituality, dispositions
~ gradability, context-dependence, vagueness
Publications
forthcoming
External-argument-oriented manner adverbs and adjectives as VoiceP modifiers. To appear in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL27). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
English -er nominals: A case of relative clause structure in morphology. To appear in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Nominalizations (JeNom4). Working Papers of the SFB 732: Incremental Specification in Context, University of Stuttgart.
2011
(with Olga Kagan) The adjectival suffix -ovat as a degree modifier in Russian. In I. Reich et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 15 (pp. 321-335). Saarbrücken: Universaar. [paper]
(with P. Bosch, K. Brukamp, X. Deng, M. Klimek-Cieschinger, & P. König) Definite reference: Salience is only a poor substitute for uniqueness. In Proceedings of the PRE-CogSci 2011 workshop on Production of Referring Expressions. Boston, Massachusetts. [paper]
2010
(with Olga Kagan) Degree modification in Russian morphology: The case of the suffix -ovat. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL26). Bar-Ilan University. [paper]
Talks
accepted
Nominal generics: Past and present. The Third Genericity Conference: From Morphology to Cognition, Paris, December 2011.
2011
A slow typist when tired: On adverbial modifiers of predicative nominals. The 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL27), Haifa, October 2011.
Rescuing modifier-needy nominals: A contrast-based analysis. The 4th Workshop on Nominalizations (JeNom4), Stuttgart, June 2011.
(with P. Bosch, K. Brukamp, X. Deng, M. Klimek-Cieschinger, & P. König) Definite reference is not the same as reference to the most salient referent. Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2011), Barcelona, June 2011.
Manner adjectives
rescuing modifier-needy nominals: a contrast-based analysis. The
Linguistics Colloquium at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, March
2011.
(with P. Bosch, K. Brukamp, X. Deng, M. Klimek-Cieschinger, & P. König) Definite reference is not always based on salience. The 4th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL4), HU Berlin, March 2011.
2010
(with Olga Kagan) Degree modification in Russian morphology: the case of the suffix -ovat. The 26th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL26), Bar-Ilan University, October 2010.
(with P. Bosch, K. Brukamp, X. Deng, M. Klimek-Cieschinger, & P. König) Adaptivity in the visual interpretation of definite reference: Can salience substitute for uniqueness? The 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science (KogWis 2010), University of Potsdam, October 2010.
(with Olga Kagan) The adjectival suffix -ovat as a degree modifier in Russian. The 15th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference (SuB15), Saarbrücken, September 2010.
(poster) Dispositional
generics as in-virtue-of generalizations. The Second Genericity
Conference: Dispositions, Abilities, and States, Paris, June 2010.
What is famous about a famous workaholic: Fact modification in adjectives. Workshop Adjectives and Relative Clauses: Syntax and Semantics, Venice, June 2010.
2009
Restricted predication and event modification in adjectival domain. The Linguistics Departmental Seminar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 2009.
Roles and manner modication in adjectives. The Second Conference on Concept Types and Frames, Düsseldorf, August 2009.
Dimensionality in the semantics of adjectives. The Third Scandinavian PhD Conference in Linguistics and Philology, Bergen, June 2009.
Teaching
8.3000 Introduction to Semantics (Summer 2010)
(with Carla Umbach)
8.3046 Concepts and Words: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (Summer 2009)
(with Ulf Krumnack, Katya Ovchinnikova, and Konstantin Todorov)
Last modified: November 2011.
Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft
Universität Osnabrück
Albrechtstraße 28
49069 Osnabrück
Germany
email: olalyeks at uos dot de
phone: +49 541 969 3901
Links
Institute of Cognitive Science
Computational Linguistics Group
Research Training Group "Adaptivity"
Linguistic Links
Some Stuff About Odessa
