Publications and talks
Agreement mismatches in Russian
How abstract is the abstract noun? Gender agreement in Russian restrictive relative clauses. Talk given at Penn Linguistics Conference 46, UPenn, 18-20.03.2022. 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
Disclaimer: I was kind of a typologist rather than a theoretician at the time. However, I do believe that these works have at least some empirical value. There are more listed on my CV; feel free to reach me if you’d like to have a look at them!
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