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Date Name of institution Course title and material
2022 Department of Linguistics, Harvard University Syntactic Theory II (graduate)
Syllabus: Ling212
2022 Department of Linguistics, Harvard University Sentence structure (undergraduate)
2021-22 FH Campus, Logopädie - Phoniatrie – Audiologie, Vienna, Austria Grundlagen der Linguistik
2021 Virtual Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (V-NYI) With Asia Pietraszko | Semantic control: Backward Control, Crossed Control and Voice Restructuring.
2021 Department of Linguistics, Harvard University Syntactic Theory II (graduate)
2021 Department of Linguistics, Harvard University Topics in syntax (graduate)
2020-21 FH Campus, Logopädie - Phoniatrie – Audiologie, Vienna, Austria Grundlagen der Linguistik
2020-21 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Clause structure (Seminar)
2020 Virtual Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (V-NYI) Finiteness
2020 Department of Linguistics, Harvard University Syntactic Theory II (graduate)
2020 Department of Linguistics, Harvard University The Science of Language (undergraduate)
2019-20 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria BA/MA Proseminar aus Grammatiktheorie und kognitiver Sprachwissenschaft
2018 Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI), St. Petersburg, Russia Case and agreement across clause boundaries
2018 ACTL Summer School, London, UK Cross-clausal A-dependencies
Handout 1: ACTL1
Handout 2 (slides): ACTL2
Handout 3: ACTL3
2017 Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University A-movement and features
2017-18 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Formale Syntax (Proseminar)
2017-18 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Der A/A-bar Unterschied: Herausforderungen und neuere Entwicklungen (The A/A-bar distinction: Challenges and newer developments; Seminar)
2017 Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI), St. Petersburg, Russia Discoveries and puzzles in syntax
2017 Institut für Linguistik, Goethe Universität Frankfurt Binding
2016-17 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Grammatiktheorie und Struktur einer nichtindogermanischen Sprache — Tagalog (Course and proseminar)
2016-17 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Universalien und Variation in Satzeinbettungen (Seminar)
2016 Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, & Phonology (CRISSP), Brussels, Belgium Variable clause size cross-linguistically—The extent and significance of restructuring
2016 Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI), St. Petersburg, Russia Feature dependencies - the ups and downs of Agree
2016 Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics, LOT Summer School, Utrecht, The Netherlands The ups and downs of Agree
2015 EGG Summer School, Brno, Czech Republic Cross-linguistic investigation of restructuring and finiteness—Implications for clausal domains and locality
2015 Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI), St. Petersburg, Russia With J. Bobaljik and L. Kalin | Topics in the Morphosyntax of Agreement
2015 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Locality domains of variable binding and quantifier raising (Seminar)
2014 Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI), St. Petersburg, Russia Morphology: the syntactic structure of words (with J. Bobaljik); Syntax 2 (with J. Bailyn); Puzzles in syntax and semantics
2013 Department of Linguistics, University of São Paulo Move, Agree, and phasehood in raising constructions—a typology
2013 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Phasensyntax und syntaktische Abhängigkeiten (Syntax of phases and syntactic dependencies; Proseminar)
2000 Concordia University, Department of Linguistics, Montréal Generative Syntax II (undergraduate syntax introduction)
1999 Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Verbsyntax der germanischen Sprachen (Verb syntax of the Germanic languages; Proseminar)
2003, 2007, 2009 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Language and mind (undergraduate)
Syllabus: LING1010-2009
2007-2015 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut The science of linguistics (undergraduate)
Syllabus: LING2010Q-2012
2008, 2012, 2013 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Syntax and semantics (undergraduate)
Syllabus: LING3510Q-2013
2014 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Syntax (undergraduate)
Syllabus: LING3511Q-2014
2013, 2015, 2016 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Advanced introduction to syntax (undergraduate and graduate)
Syllabus: LING4500-5500-2015
2004, 2006-2015 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Syntax I (graduate)
2009 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Syntax II (graduate)
2003, 2006, 2008 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Readings and research in syntax (graduate)
2004, 2006 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Generals workshop (graduate)
2004 Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Professional methods (graduate)

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Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Advanced graduate seminars:
  • With Y. Sharvit | Syntax and semantics of infinitives
  • Topics in Germanic syntax
  • With J. Bobaljik | Word order and scope
  • Economy in Syntax
  • Syntactic dependencies
  • Agree, Merge, and Phasehood
  • Phases and features
  • Syntactic domains, transparency phenomena, and some locality
  • With M. Kaufmann | The features and monsters of binding
  • Current issues in syntax: domains and directions
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