Education
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Postdoc & Senior postdoc, Slavic Studies (linguistic orientation), 2007 & 2011
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Ph.D., General Linguistics (minor: Slavic Linguistics), 2003, summa cum laude
University of Vienna, Vorstudienlehrgang der Wieneruniversitäten
Advanced Level Certificate, German, 1999
University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
University degree, Bulgarian Language and Literature and English Language and Literature (pedagogical orientation), 1996, Bulgarian language and literature with distinction
Nikola Obreškov School of Mathematics, Kazanlăk, Bulgaria
Specialization in Computer Programming, 1988, with a gold medal (valedictorian)
Professional positions
Middle European Interdisciplinary Master Program in Cognitive Science
Lecturer & Supervisor of research projects and MA-theses, University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy, 2012 -
(lecture series, supervision of research, individual studies)
Since 2013, various scientific tasks for Oxford University Press (New York)
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
Visiting Senior Researcher, Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology (ICLTT), 2011 - 2016
Associated Partner in NetWordS - The European Network on Word Structure
(independent research on affixation, host and supervisor of foreign-scholar research projects; sponsor: Wolfgang U. Dressler, Head ICLTT)
University of Vienna
Senior Researcher (Elise Richter Fellow), Department of Slavic Studies, 2007 - 2011
(PI of (De)composing the Slavic word , lecturer in Slavic linguistics, supervisor of research students)
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York, USA
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, 2008 - 2009
(research on affix ordering in typologically diverse languages; sponsor: Mark Aronoff)
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Honorary Visiting Researcher, Surrey Morphology Group, 2004
(research on Bulgarian verb inflection; sponsor: Greville G. Corbett)
University of Vienna
Research Fellow, Department of Slavic Studies, 2003 - 2007
(Project Bulgarian morphology, lecturer in Bulgarian linguistics)
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
Collaborator, Department of Linguistics and Communication Research, 1999 - 2003
(Project Inflectional systems and their L1 acquisition, PI Wolfgang U. Dressler)
Teaching positions at various high schools, Bulgaria, 1992 - 1999
Visiting scholar / professor
Scuola Normale Superiore, Laboratorio di Linguistica
Pisa, Italy
May 2013
New Bulgarian University, Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science
Sofia, Bulgaria
March 2013
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
Barcelona, Spain
December 2011
Russian Academy of Sciences, V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute
Moscow, Russia
June 2010
University of Sofia, Department of Bulgarian Language
Sofia, Bulgaria
November 2007
Recent honors, fellowships, grants and awards
2023 Invited speaker, The Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology - DeriMo, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 5-6 October 2023
2022- Invitation to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings / THE's Global Academic Reputation Survey
2021 Invited speaker Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF) 2022
2020 Invited expert, evaluation of research and professional activities of research-oriented institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences
2017 PhD examiner, University of Sydney, Australia
2017- Invited certified expert of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV)
2015 AMU short-visit-grant host (PhD-student research in psycholinguistics)
2015 ESF short-visit-grant host, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 7019
2014 ESF short-visit-grant host, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 7006
2014- Jury at the language contest SAG'S MULTI!
2013- Pool of experts of the National Science Centre of Poland
2013 NetWordS support to attend the annual workshop of the network in Dubrovnik, Croatia
2013 ESF short-visit-grant host, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 5565
2013 Innovative Teaching Award, University of Vienna (with the MEi:CogSci team)
2013 Postdoctoral selection committee at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with P. M. Bertinetto (SNS Pisa) and G. E. Booij (Leiden U)
2013 Grant from the European Science Foundation (ESF), NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 5566
2012 CEEPUS teaching grant, Research Platform Cognitive Science, University of Vienna
2011 PhD-defence President, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Support from the Erste Bank, Vienna (for 3rd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)
2010 Open Access Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2009 Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), V64-G03 (2nd part)
2009 Dean's Office Grant, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)
2009 Support from the Mayor of Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)
2009 Support from the Erste Bank, Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)
2008 Invited to a position of a qualified rank, Stony Brook University, SUNY, USA
2007 Elise Richter Award from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Grant V64-G03 (1st part)
2006 Grant prolongation, Austrian National Bank (Bulgarian morphology)
2006 Awarded Austrian citizenship as a promising scholar, § 10 Abs. 4 StBG 1985
2003 Grant from the Austrian National Bank (Bulgarian morphology)
2002 Travel grant from Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, Junta de Andalucía (Spain) to read an invited paper at the Seminar on Conversion/Zero Derivation, held in conjunction with the 10th International Morphology Meeting, Szentendre, Hungary.
Grants and awards won by my advisees
2017 Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) competitive graduate student award / travel scholarship, won by Dušan Ptáček.
(Awarded for our joint paper "Second-grade diminutives in Czech and Slovak: A contrastive study with data from corpora".)
2016 Short-Term Grant Abroad / Kurzfristiges Auslandsstipendium (KWA) for 3 months, International Office of the University of Vienna, won by Alastair L. Brown.
(Awarded for the thesis Processing Contrasts in the Mental Lexicon: Phonological Asymmetries of which I advised.)
2015 Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) competitive graduate student award / travel scholarship, won by Bartosz Brzoza.
(Awarded for a joint paper on the processing and representation of suffix combinations in Polish.)
2015 Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB) travel grant, won by Bartosz Brzoza.
(Presentation of a joint paper on suffix ordering in Polish at the ULAB 2015 meeting.)
2014 European Science Foundation (ESF) short visit grant, won by Bartosz Brzoza.
(Project on the combinability of the derivational suffixes in Polish, based on my research on the topic.)
Publications
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Scientific presentations
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Professional service
PhD examiner
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
University of Sydney, Australia
Journal editor
Morphology (invited guest editor of two special issues)
Word Structure (guest editor of two thematic issues)
Referee for journals, publishers and funding bodies
Journals: Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Languages in Contrast / International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics (Benjamins), Morphology (Springer), Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics - PSiCL (de Gruyter), SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, Studies in Language (Benjamins), Studies in Polish Linguistics (WUJ), Word Structure (EUP)
Publishers: Brill, Cambridge University Press, de Gruyter, Edinburgh University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer, Peter Lang
Book manuscripts: Brill, for the series "Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory", Cambridge University Press
Conference volumes: Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL), Vienna Workshops on Affix Order, Derivational Paradigms
Funding institutions: National Science Center of Poland, Slovak Research and Development Agency, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Conference organizer
Main organizer
1. Dissecting morphological theory: Diminutivization (peer-reviewed workshop series, workshops held in conjunction with different international conferences)
2. SLE workshop
3. Vienna Workshops on Affix Order (an international peer-reviewed workshop series, participants from more than 30 countries)
I also took part in the organization of:
Board of experts / Program committee / Abstract reviewer
(The following list is alphabetical. I have been on the boards / program committees of most of these conferences more than once.)
Annual Conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
DeriMo - Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology (Europe)
Dissecting morphological theory: Diminutivization (Europe)
GLOW in Asia
International Conference on Typology and Universals in Word-Formation (Slovakia)
International Morphology Meeting (IMM) (Austria)
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (USA)
New Territories in Word Formation (Bulgaria)
Poznan Linguistic Meeting (general sessions) (Poland)
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) Annual Meeting (Europe)
Vienna Workshops on Affix Order (Austria)
Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) (USA)
Sponsor
The visits of the following guest scholars to the University of Vienna were funded through my research program on affix ordering:
2015 Bartosz Brzoza, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2015 Paula Orzechowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2014 Bartosz Brzoza, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2013 Alexandra Bagasheva, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 Alice C. Harris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
2011 Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2011 Pavol Štekauer, University of Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia
2011 Natalia Pertsova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
2011 Peter Kosta, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
2010 Dmitri Sitchinava, Russian National Corpus, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
2009 Harald Baayen, University of Albertha, Edmonton, Canada
2009 Keren Rice, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2009 Pier Marco Bertinetto, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
2009 Ferenc Kiefer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Livio Gaeta, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
2009 Marek Łaziński, The National Corpus of Polish, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Russelina Nitsolova, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Dmitri Sitchinava, Russian National Corpus, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
2008 Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook Uiversity, Stony Brook, NY, USA
2007 Bogdan Szymanek, The Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
Supervision
PhD Committee - chair
Angelina Markova (2011). The Role of Prefixation in the Nominalizing Process. Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
MSc in Cognitive Science Theses & Projects
Kimberly Brosche (2022). Representation of suffix combinations in the mental lexicon of native and non-native German speakers. University of Vienna (BA University of Vienna)
Beata Sobotova (Cséfalvayová) (2022). The role of cognition in grammatical organization: The concepts of baby and small animals in Slovak monolinguals and bilinguals. University of Bratislava / University of Vienna. (BA University of Bratislava)
María Fernanda Silva Azúa (2021). Language and cognition: Word formation processing in Spanish. University of Vienna. (University degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Georgia Knell (2019). Morphologically defined phonotactic sequences in English. University of Vienna. (MA degree from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
Alastair L. Brown (2019). Processing contrasts in the mental lexicon. MSc thesis, University of Vienna, defended with distinction. (BA from University College London, UK)
Roberta Chissich (2018). Word-Formation in Italian: Cognitive Concepts and Morphological Processing . University of Ljubljana / University of Vienna.
(BA degree from the University of Trieste, Italy)
Dušan Ptaček (2017). Deriving Second-Grade Diminutives in Czech and Slovak. University of Bratislava / University of Vienna. (BA University of Bratislava)
Špela Medvešek (2017). Processing Suffix Combinations in Slovene: A Psycholinguistic Study. University of Ljubljana / University of Vienna. (BA University of Ljubljana)
Alastair L. Brown (2014). Suffix Combinations In English: a Conceptual and Cognitive Semantics Approach. University of Vienna. (BA UC London)
Milena Mihajlović (2013). Gender and default as cognitive categories: A computational morphology analysis of the Croatian noun inflection. University of Ljubljana / University of Vienna. (BA University of Belgrade)
Supervised research students
(research financed by the Austrian Science Fund, 2009-2011)
Philipp Egginger. Suffixation in Russian. Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna
Kimberley Winternitz. Suffixation in Polish. Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna
Host of foreign-scholar research projects (ICLTT, Austrian Academy of Sciences & University of Vienna)
Bartosz Brzoza (2015). Suffix combinability in Polish: A psycholinguistic account. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Paula Orzechowska (2015). Phonological aspects of affix ordering in German and Polish. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Bartosz Brzoza (2014). The analysis of the derivational suffix combinations in Polish. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Alexandra Bagasheva (2013). Semantically-conditioned combinability of suffixes in Bulgarian and English. St. Kliment Oxridski University of Sofia.
Teaching
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
I teach in English and German.
In English:
MEi:CogSci Lecture Series in Cognitive Science (MSc, 1st year) (a ring lecture) (Fall 2012/13, Fall 2013/14, Fall 2014/15, Fall 2015/16, Fall 2016/17, Fall 2017/18, Fall 2018/19, Fall 2019/20, Fall 2020/21, Fall 2021/22)
MEi:CogSci Into Research II (MSc, 1st year) (Spring 2014, Fall 2014/15 Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
MEi:CogSci Special Topic of Interest (MSc, 2nd year) (Fall 2012/13, Spring 2013, Fall 2016/17, Spring 2018, Fall 2021/22)
MEi:CogSci MSc Thesis (Spring 2016, Fall 2016/17, Spring 2017, Fall 2017/18, Spring 2018)
In German:
Bulgarian Linguistics (MA) (Fall 2010/11)
Russian and South Slavic Word-Formation (Magister) (Spring 2008)
Contrastive Bulgarian Morphology (Magister) (Spring 2007)
Directed research (Magister) (Spring 2009 through Fall 2010/11), see research students above
Single classes taught in:
Bilingualism and Migration (BA) (Spring 2012)
Basic Issues in General Linguistics (BA) (Spring 2012)
(Note: The BA/MA programs were first introduced in Fall 2008/9, prior to that the University of Vienna had a single Magister program.)
New Bulgarian University (Sofia, Bulgaria)
(MA courses within the CEEPUS program, taught in English)
Seminar in Cognitive Linguistics (Spring 2013)
Morphology and Cognition (Spring 2013)
Recent Developments in Construction Grammar (Spring 2013)
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Postdoc & Senior postdoc, Slavic Studies (linguistic orientation), 2007 & 2011
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Ph.D., General Linguistics (minor: Slavic Linguistics), 2003, summa cum laude
University of Vienna, Vorstudienlehrgang der Wieneruniversitäten
Advanced Level Certificate, German, 1999
University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
University degree, Bulgarian Language and Literature and English Language and Literature (pedagogical orientation), 1996, Bulgarian language and literature with distinction
Nikola Obreškov School of Mathematics, Kazanlăk, Bulgaria
Specialization in Computer Programming, 1988, with a gold medal (valedictorian)
Professional positions
Middle European Interdisciplinary Master Program in Cognitive Science
Lecturer & Supervisor of research projects and MA-theses, University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy, 2012 -
(lecture series, supervision of research, individual studies)
Since 2013, various scientific tasks for Oxford University Press (New York)
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
Visiting Senior Researcher, Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology (ICLTT), 2011 - 2016
Associated Partner in NetWordS - The European Network on Word Structure
(independent research on affixation, host and supervisor of foreign-scholar research projects; sponsor: Wolfgang U. Dressler, Head ICLTT)
University of Vienna
Senior Researcher (Elise Richter Fellow), Department of Slavic Studies, 2007 - 2011
(PI of (De)composing the Slavic word , lecturer in Slavic linguistics, supervisor of research students)
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York, USA
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, 2008 - 2009
(research on affix ordering in typologically diverse languages; sponsor: Mark Aronoff)
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Honorary Visiting Researcher, Surrey Morphology Group, 2004
(research on Bulgarian verb inflection; sponsor: Greville G. Corbett)
University of Vienna
Research Fellow, Department of Slavic Studies, 2003 - 2007
(Project Bulgarian morphology, lecturer in Bulgarian linguistics)
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
Collaborator, Department of Linguistics and Communication Research, 1999 - 2003
(Project Inflectional systems and their L1 acquisition, PI Wolfgang U. Dressler)
Teaching positions at various high schools, Bulgaria, 1992 - 1999
Visiting scholar / professor
Scuola Normale Superiore, Laboratorio di Linguistica
Pisa, Italy
May 2013
New Bulgarian University, Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science
Sofia, Bulgaria
March 2013
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
Barcelona, Spain
December 2011
Russian Academy of Sciences, V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute
Moscow, Russia
June 2010
University of Sofia, Department of Bulgarian Language
Sofia, Bulgaria
November 2007
Recent honors, fellowships, grants and awards
2023 Invited speaker, The Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology - DeriMo, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 5-6 October 2023
2022- Invitation to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings / THE's Global Academic Reputation Survey
2021 Invited speaker Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF) 2022
2020 Invited expert, evaluation of research and professional activities of research-oriented institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences
2017 PhD examiner, University of Sydney, Australia
2017- Invited certified expert of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV)
2015 AMU short-visit-grant host (PhD-student research in psycholinguistics)
2015 ESF short-visit-grant host, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 7019
2014 ESF short-visit-grant host, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 7006
2014- Jury at the language contest SAG'S MULTI!
2013- Pool of experts of the National Science Centre of Poland
2013 NetWordS support to attend the annual workshop of the network in Dubrovnik, Croatia
2013 ESF short-visit-grant host, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 5565
2013 Innovative Teaching Award, University of Vienna (with the MEi:CogSci team)
2013 Postdoctoral selection committee at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with P. M. Bertinetto (SNS Pisa) and G. E. Booij (Leiden U)
2013 Grant from the European Science Foundation (ESF), NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 5566
2012 CEEPUS teaching grant, Research Platform Cognitive Science, University of Vienna
2011 PhD-defence President, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Support from the Erste Bank, Vienna (for 3rd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)
2010 Open Access Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2009 Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), V64-G03 (2nd part)
2009 Dean's Office Grant, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)
2009 Support from the Mayor of Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)
2009 Support from the Erste Bank, Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)
2008 Invited to a position of a qualified rank, Stony Brook University, SUNY, USA
2007 Elise Richter Award from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Grant V64-G03 (1st part)
2006 Grant prolongation, Austrian National Bank (Bulgarian morphology)
2006 Awarded Austrian citizenship as a promising scholar, § 10 Abs. 4 StBG 1985
2003 Grant from the Austrian National Bank (Bulgarian morphology)
2002 Travel grant from Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, Junta de Andalucía (Spain) to read an invited paper at the Seminar on Conversion/Zero Derivation, held in conjunction with the 10th International Morphology Meeting, Szentendre, Hungary.
Grants and awards won by my advisees
2017 Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) competitive graduate student award / travel scholarship, won by Dušan Ptáček.
(Awarded for our joint paper "Second-grade diminutives in Czech and Slovak: A contrastive study with data from corpora".)
2016 Short-Term Grant Abroad / Kurzfristiges Auslandsstipendium (KWA) for 3 months, International Office of the University of Vienna, won by Alastair L. Brown.
(Awarded for the thesis Processing Contrasts in the Mental Lexicon: Phonological Asymmetries of which I advised.)
2015 Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) competitive graduate student award / travel scholarship, won by Bartosz Brzoza.
(Awarded for a joint paper on the processing and representation of suffix combinations in Polish.)
2015 Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB) travel grant, won by Bartosz Brzoza.
(Presentation of a joint paper on suffix ordering in Polish at the ULAB 2015 meeting.)
2014 European Science Foundation (ESF) short visit grant, won by Bartosz Brzoza.
(Project on the combinability of the derivational suffixes in Polish, based on my research on the topic.)
Publications
Click on Publications.
Scientific presentations
Click on Presentations.
Professional service
PhD examiner
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
University of Sydney, Australia
Journal editor
Morphology (invited guest editor of two special issues)
Word Structure (guest editor of two thematic issues)
Referee for journals, publishers and funding bodies
Journals: Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Languages in Contrast / International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics (Benjamins), Morphology (Springer), Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics - PSiCL (de Gruyter), SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, Studies in Language (Benjamins), Studies in Polish Linguistics (WUJ), Word Structure (EUP)
Publishers: Brill, Cambridge University Press, de Gruyter, Edinburgh University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer, Peter Lang
Book manuscripts: Brill, for the series "Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory", Cambridge University Press
Conference volumes: Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL), Vienna Workshops on Affix Order, Derivational Paradigms
Funding institutions: National Science Center of Poland, Slovak Research and Development Agency, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Conference organizer
Main organizer
1. Dissecting morphological theory: Diminutivization (peer-reviewed workshop series, workshops held in conjunction with different international conferences)
- 2021. Dissecting morphological theory 1: Diminutivization across languages and frameworks, workshop at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Athens, Greece, 31 August - 03 September 2021, with Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz), Laura Grestenberger (University of Vienna) and Katharina Korecky-Kröll (University of Vienna)
- 2021. Dissecting morphological theory 2: Diminutivization in root-, stem- and word-based morphology, workshop at the 46th Austrian Linguistics Conference (ÖLT, i.e. Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung), Vienna, Dec 4-6, 2020; due to COVID-19 moved to Dec. 11-12, 2021, with Katharina Korecky-Kröll
- 2022. Dissecting morphological theory 3: Diminutivization, allomorphy and the architecture of grammar, workshop at the 20th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, sept. 1-4, 2022, with Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Olga Steriopolo
2. SLE workshop
- 2017 What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches to the relation of meaning and form in morphology. Workshop held in conjunction with the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), co-convenors: Harald Hammarström (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History / Uppsala University) and Itamar Kastner (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / University of Edinburgh)
3. Vienna Workshops on Affix Order (an international peer-reviewed workshop series, participants from more than 30 countries)
- 2008. Affix Order in Typologically Different Languages, held in conjunction with the 13th International Morphology Meeting, selected papers were published with Springer in 2010 (invited publication)
- 2009. Affix Order in Slavic and Languages with Similar Morphology, selected papers were published with Edinburgh University Press in 2011
- 2011. Advances in Affix Order Research, selected papers will be published with Oxford University Press (invited publication)
I also took part in the organization of:
- 2000. 9th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
- 2002. Annual Workshop of the Project Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition, Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Vienna.
Board of experts / Program committee / Abstract reviewer
(The following list is alphabetical. I have been on the boards / program committees of most of these conferences more than once.)
Annual Conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
DeriMo - Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology (Europe)
Dissecting morphological theory: Diminutivization (Europe)
GLOW in Asia
International Conference on Typology and Universals in Word-Formation (Slovakia)
International Morphology Meeting (IMM) (Austria)
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (USA)
New Territories in Word Formation (Bulgaria)
Poznan Linguistic Meeting (general sessions) (Poland)
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) Annual Meeting (Europe)
Vienna Workshops on Affix Order (Austria)
Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) (USA)
Sponsor
The visits of the following guest scholars to the University of Vienna were funded through my research program on affix ordering:
2015 Bartosz Brzoza, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2015 Paula Orzechowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2014 Bartosz Brzoza, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2013 Alexandra Bagasheva, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 Alice C. Harris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
2011 Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2011 Pavol Štekauer, University of Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia
2011 Natalia Pertsova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
2011 Peter Kosta, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
2010 Dmitri Sitchinava, Russian National Corpus, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
2009 Harald Baayen, University of Albertha, Edmonton, Canada
2009 Keren Rice, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2009 Pier Marco Bertinetto, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
2009 Ferenc Kiefer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Livio Gaeta, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
2009 Marek Łaziński, The National Corpus of Polish, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Russelina Nitsolova, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Dmitri Sitchinava, Russian National Corpus, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
2008 Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook Uiversity, Stony Brook, NY, USA
2007 Bogdan Szymanek, The Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
Supervision
PhD Committee - chair
Angelina Markova (2011). The Role of Prefixation in the Nominalizing Process. Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
MSc in Cognitive Science Theses & Projects
Kimberly Brosche (2022). Representation of suffix combinations in the mental lexicon of native and non-native German speakers. University of Vienna (BA University of Vienna)
Beata Sobotova (Cséfalvayová) (2022). The role of cognition in grammatical organization: The concepts of baby and small animals in Slovak monolinguals and bilinguals. University of Bratislava / University of Vienna. (BA University of Bratislava)
María Fernanda Silva Azúa (2021). Language and cognition: Word formation processing in Spanish. University of Vienna. (University degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Georgia Knell (2019). Morphologically defined phonotactic sequences in English. University of Vienna. (MA degree from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
Alastair L. Brown (2019). Processing contrasts in the mental lexicon. MSc thesis, University of Vienna, defended with distinction. (BA from University College London, UK)
Roberta Chissich (2018). Word-Formation in Italian: Cognitive Concepts and Morphological Processing . University of Ljubljana / University of Vienna.
(BA degree from the University of Trieste, Italy)
Dušan Ptaček (2017). Deriving Second-Grade Diminutives in Czech and Slovak. University of Bratislava / University of Vienna. (BA University of Bratislava)
Špela Medvešek (2017). Processing Suffix Combinations in Slovene: A Psycholinguistic Study. University of Ljubljana / University of Vienna. (BA University of Ljubljana)
Alastair L. Brown (2014). Suffix Combinations In English: a Conceptual and Cognitive Semantics Approach. University of Vienna. (BA UC London)
Milena Mihajlović (2013). Gender and default as cognitive categories: A computational morphology analysis of the Croatian noun inflection. University of Ljubljana / University of Vienna. (BA University of Belgrade)
Supervised research students
(research financed by the Austrian Science Fund, 2009-2011)
Philipp Egginger. Suffixation in Russian. Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna
Kimberley Winternitz. Suffixation in Polish. Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna
Host of foreign-scholar research projects (ICLTT, Austrian Academy of Sciences & University of Vienna)
Bartosz Brzoza (2015). Suffix combinability in Polish: A psycholinguistic account. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Paula Orzechowska (2015). Phonological aspects of affix ordering in German and Polish. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Bartosz Brzoza (2014). The analysis of the derivational suffix combinations in Polish. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Alexandra Bagasheva (2013). Semantically-conditioned combinability of suffixes in Bulgarian and English. St. Kliment Oxridski University of Sofia.
Teaching
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
I teach in English and German.
In English:
MEi:CogSci Lecture Series in Cognitive Science (MSc, 1st year) (a ring lecture) (Fall 2012/13, Fall 2013/14, Fall 2014/15, Fall 2015/16, Fall 2016/17, Fall 2017/18, Fall 2018/19, Fall 2019/20, Fall 2020/21, Fall 2021/22)
MEi:CogSci Into Research II (MSc, 1st year) (Spring 2014, Fall 2014/15 Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
MEi:CogSci Special Topic of Interest (MSc, 2nd year) (Fall 2012/13, Spring 2013, Fall 2016/17, Spring 2018, Fall 2021/22)
MEi:CogSci MSc Thesis (Spring 2016, Fall 2016/17, Spring 2017, Fall 2017/18, Spring 2018)
In German:
Bulgarian Linguistics (MA) (Fall 2010/11)
Russian and South Slavic Word-Formation (Magister) (Spring 2008)
Contrastive Bulgarian Morphology (Magister) (Spring 2007)
Directed research (Magister) (Spring 2009 through Fall 2010/11), see research students above
Single classes taught in:
Bilingualism and Migration (BA) (Spring 2012)
Basic Issues in General Linguistics (BA) (Spring 2012)
(Note: The BA/MA programs were first introduced in Fall 2008/9, prior to that the University of Vienna had a single Magister program.)
New Bulgarian University (Sofia, Bulgaria)
(MA courses within the CEEPUS program, taught in English)
Seminar in Cognitive Linguistics (Spring 2013)
Morphology and Cognition (Spring 2013)
Recent Developments in Construction Grammar (Spring 2013)
Last changed: April 2023