Theoretical Comparative and Diachronic Syntax and Semantics, Language Change and Variation, Acquisition, Fieldwork.

Projects and Presentations:

Language change, Diachronic Syntax, Labeling, the Loss of Syntactic Movement

2022. ‘Labelers and Anti-Labelers: Clitics and Second Position’. Flash talk at Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia XIII (GLOW in Asia XIII), The Chinese University of Hongkong, August 4-7, 2022.

2019. ’Head Labeling Preference and Language Change’- Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut. Dadan_2019_Head-labeling-preference-and-language-change

2019.  Loss of Specifiers in Slavic Reflexives: Acquisitional Structure Reanalysis and Diachronic Change. Talk at FASL 28, Stony Brook University, May 3-5, 2019.

2019. ‘Movement that is Kept and Movement that is Lost: Movement, Adjunction, and Labeling in Diachronic Perspective.’ Talk at LSA 93, NYC, January 3-6, 2019.

2018. ‘Loss of Movement and Labeling: Grammatical Pressure and Diachronic Change.’ Presented at WCCFL 36, UCLA, LA. April 20-22, 2018.

Feature Sharing and Case Assignment

2017. ‘Case Sharing: Evidence from Slavic and Beyond’. Presented @ FASL 26, the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, May 19- 21.

Ellipsis, Sluicing, Preposition Omission

2015. ‘Preposition Omission in Sluicing: Guess Where?’ Presented @ FDSL 11, Potsdam University, Germany. December 2-6.

2015. ‘Preposition Omission in Sluicing: Teasing apart PF-deletion and LF- copying in a hybrid system.’ Poster presented @ NELS 46, Concordia University. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. October 16-18.

2015. ’Preposition Omission in Sluicing.’ Presented @ Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICCOG 17), Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, August 5-8.

Syntax and Semantics of Temporal Adverb Clauses cross-linguistically

2016. ‘The Real(is) Distinction in Before and After Clauses: A Cross-linguistic Study,’ with S. Laszakovits, J. Park, and Y.Yoo. Presented @ FASL 25, Cornell University, May 13-15, 2016.

2016. ‘The Real(is) Distinction in Before and After Clauses: A Cross-linguistic Study,’ with Y. Yoo, J.Park, S. Laszakovits, and K.Gokgoz. Poster presented @ GLOW 39, Göttingen, Germany, April 5-8.

2015. ‘Phrasal and Clausal Temporal Adjunct Clauses: Polish and Korean,’ with Y.Yoo. Presented @ FDSL 11, Potsdam University, Germany. December 2-6.

2015. ‘Phrasal and Clausal Temporal Adjunct Clauses in Korean: The semantic analysis,’ with Y.Yoo. Poster presented @ WAFL 11, University of York, June 4-6.

Ellipsis and Structure of Relative Clauses cross-linguistically

2016. ‘What Relative Clause Ellipsis Tells us about The Genitive Subjects: Evidence from Korean and Japanese,’ with J.Patk, H. Saito, and Y. Yoo. Presented @ WAFL 12, Central Connecticut State University, May 13-15.

2016. ‘The Structure of Relative Clause in Japanese and Korean, and Its Consequences for Ellipsis and Availability of Genitive Subjects,’ with H.Saito, J. Park, and Y.Yoo. Presented @ FAJL 8, Mie University, Japan, February.

Syntax and Acquisition of Reflexive Clitics

2024. Agentive Reading in the Middle: The Structure of Polish reflexiva tantum. Studies in Polish Linguistics, Vol. 19, Issue 1, s. 1 – 36.

Acquisition of Reflexiva tantum vs other SE-reflexives (materials).

2015. ‘Reflexiva Tantum acquire differently? Splitting the Voice domain with reflexive clitics in child Polish’ Ms. University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Tense and Aspect

2014. ‘Anteriority without tense: Korean and Polish still being true non-SOT languages.’ Presented @ Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICCOG 16), Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea.

Syntax and Semantics of Negative Concord

2012. ‘Negation, Its Constituents, and Phase Theory: Deriving Negative Concord in Polish.’ M.Phil Dissertation, University of Delhi, India. Supervisor: Dr. Tanmoy Bhattacharya.

2010. ‘Moving Towards a broader landscape of Negative Concord and licensing n-words: Aspects of negation in Polish. Presented @ ‘Language as a Social Fact: International Conference in Honor of prof. R. Agnihotri.’ Udaipur, India.

Fieldwork & Work with Consultants

2023. Meskwaki (Algonquian) [Central Iowa, USA]

2013. Language: Gaddi [in Sidhbari, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India]

2010. ‘Case in Sadri’, Masters Thesis, University of Delhi, India.  Language: Sadri [in Orissa, India]