Selected publications and talks

Reference and the DP level in Russian

(In)definiteness in Russian bare nouns: evidence from presentational contexts. Talk given at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics Conference 32, Indiana University, May 2023. slides

Chasing pragmatics: an experimental study of bare noun interpretation. Poster presented at Human Sentence Processing, March 2023. poster

How abstract is the abstract noun? Gender agreement in Russian restrictive relative clauses. Talk given at Penn Linguistics Conference 46, UPenn, March 2022. slides

Syntax and semantics of non-finite clauses

papers on it

Bikina, Daria, Rakhman, Denis, Potseluev, Vsevolod, Starchenko, Aleksey, and Svetlana Toldova. Non-finite constructions in Khanty: their unity and diversity. Folia Linguistica 56 (3). Pp. 625–665. (Email for a preprint)

Bikina, D. A., and A. M. Starchenko (2019). Relative clause or nominalized clause: the evidence from Kazym Khanty. Typology of Morphosyntactic parameters 2 (1). Pp. 49–69. (in Russian)

talks on it

Relative clause or nominalized clause: the evidence from Kazym Khanty (in coauthorship: D. Bikina, A. Starchenko). Talk given at the Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters conference, MSU/ILS RAS/Pushkin Institute of Russian Language, Moscow, 2019. handout

Possessed relative clauses in Kazym Khanty. Poster presented at the Fall School in Formal Syntax and Formal Semantics poster session, HSE, Moscow, 2019. poster

Voice alternations in Kazym Khanty participial relative clauses. Talk given at SOUL 3 (Syntax of Uralic languages), Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, 2019. handout

D-linking, topicality, and (in)definiteness

papers on it

Bikina, D. A. (2018). Double indefiniteness marking in Hill Mari. In Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies 14 (2), ed. Golovko E. Saint-Petersbourg: ILS RAN. Pp. 37–60. (in Russian)

Bikina, D. A. (2016). Bikina, D. A. (2016). Grammaticalization of Russian borrowings in Moksha Mordvin: the marker kat’i. Typology of Morphosyntactic parameters 2, ed. Lyutikova E., Zimmerling A., and M. Konoshenko. Moscow: MPSU. Pp. 16–27. (in Russian)

selected talks on it

Moksha “definite” declension, D-linking, and global choice functions. Talk given at Southern New England Workshop in Semantics, UConn (virtually), 2021. handout

Restrictions on the ontological category of indefinite pronoun series in the languages of Europe. Talk given at ConSOLE XXVI (Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), UCL, London, 2018. slides

Indefinite pronouns with two indefiniteness markers and the semantics of specificity: the case of Hill Mari. Talk given at Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns, Debrecen University, Debrecen, Hungary, 2017. slides

Russian long and short adjectives

Intersectivity at the interface: the syntax and semantics of Russian adjectives (in coauthorship: J. Martin, D. Bikina). Talk given at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 30, MIT, 13-16.05.2021. slides