Associate Professor of Linguistics, Russian and Slavic Studies
Ph.D. in General and Slavic Linguistics, Princeton University 2002 M.A. in Slavic Linguistics, The University of Michigan 1996 B.A. in Russian Language and Literature, Grinnell College 1994

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Personal Homepage: http://pages.pomona.edu/~sah04747/

Research Interests:

syntactic theory, Russian syntax, comparative syntax, morphology, language acquisition.

Fellowships/Honors:

Wig Curriculum Development Grant, Pomona College 2007-2008 • NEH Supplemental Research Grant 2006-2007 • Yale Griffith Summer Research Grant 2005, 2006 • Downing College/Pomona College faculty exchange grant recipient Summer 2004 Wig Curriculum Development Grant, Pomona College Fall 2003 Wig Teaching Innovation Grant, Pomona College Fall 2003 Graduate Student Fellowship, Princeton University 1996-2001 GLOW Student Fellowship, Thermi Summer School in Linguistics 1999 LSA Student Fellowship, LSA Summer Institute Cornell University 1997 GAANN Fellowship, The University of Michigan 1994-1996 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Spring, Fall 2002, Harvard University Spring 2003 Phi Beta Kappa, Grinnell College 1994

Selected Works:

Selected Publications

Non-agreement, Unaccusativity, and the External Argument constraint. 2006. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 14, the Princeton Meeting, J. Lavine et al. (eds.), pp. 172-188.

Getting Impersonal: Case, agreement, and distributive po-phrases in Russian. 2003. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 11, the Amherst Meeting, W. Browne, J. Kim, B. Partee, and R. Rothstein (eds.), pp. 235-254.

Genitive of Negation and the Existential Paradox. 2002. In Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Vol. 10(1-2):183-210.

Where have all the Phases gone? (Non-)defective categories and Case alternations in Russian. 2002. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 10, the Second Ann Arbor Meeting, J. Toman, (ed.), pp. 97-118.

The syntax of negated prepositional phrases in Slavic. 1998. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, The Connecticut Meeting 1997, Zeljko Boskovic, Steven Franks and William Snyder, (eds.), pp. 166-186.

Unaccusativity. (in press) To appear in Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science: Slavic Languages, Vol. 2, 32. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.

Intensional Transitives and Silent HAVE: Distinguishing between Want and Need. 2008. In Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, eds. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 211-219.

Unaccusative Syntax in Russian. 2003. MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics #21.

Genitive of Negation and the Syntax of Scope. 2002. In Proceedings of ConSOLE IX. M. van Koppen, E. Thrift, E. J. van der Torre, & M. Zimmerman (eds.), http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/sole/, pp. 96-110.

Lavine, J. Harves, S. and Billings, L. Feature-Checking, the EPP and Diatheses. (forthcoming) In Slavic Morphosyntax: The State of the Art, L. Billings (ed.).

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