I am a final-year PhD student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin advised by Professor Artemis Alexiadou and Professor Uli Sauerland. My research interests lie in morphology and syntactic and semantic theory. I work as a doctoral researcher at the ERC Synergy Grant project LeibnizDream (PIs: Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti) in the Compressor Team led by Professor Artemis Alexiadou.
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My work centers on allomorphy and the internal structure of nominals with particular interest in pronouns, clitics, clitic doubling, argument structure, and (un)agreement. In semantics, I focus on variable binding and its limits, phi-features, (in)definiteness, and subjunctive mood. My upcoming dissertation The Structure of Pronouns and Allomorphy investigates the structure of pronouns introducing allomorphy as a test for accessing the compositionality of morphemes in the syntax.
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Before PhD studies, I graduated from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I was advised by Professor Artemis Alexiadou and Professor Elisabeth Verhoeven, with the thesis Argument Structure, Ergativity, Aspect, and Agreement: a view from n-based nominalizations. Simultaneously with my studies, I worked as a research assistant to Professor Artemis Alexiadou and Professor Thomas McFadden at the project Register and the development of periphrasis in the history of English (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft ZAS) and as a research assistant to Professor Elisabeth Verhoeven at the project Typology of the Psych Alternation in Morphology, Syntax, and Discourse (Institute of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
RECENT AND UPCOMING
Ilić, Ivona. Unagreement and Clitic Doubling
Syntax/Semantics Colloquium, HU Berlin, December 10, 2024
​Alexiadou, Artemis, Ivona Ilić, Yoichi Miyamoto, Uli Sauerland. Acquisition of pronouns in Japanese: A production study
JSPS Core2Core Network "International Research Network for the Human Language Faculty", ZAS, March 15-17, 2024
Alexiadou, Artemis, Johannes Hein, Ivona Ilić, Uli Sauerland. The third person is present: Evidence from determiners in generic statements NELS 54, MIT, January 26-27, 2024 [slides] [handout]
Ilić, Ivona. Unagreement and modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns LSA Annual Meeting, New York, January 4-7, 2024 [poster]
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Ilić, Ivona (2024). Complements and modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns.
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 9(1), 5720. [paper]
Alexiadou, Artemis, Johannes Hein, Ivona Ilić, Uli Sauerland (2024). The third person is present: Evidence from determiners in generic statements. Proceedings of NELS 54. [paper]
Oikonomou, Despina & Ivona Ilić (2023). Subjunctive Questions in Serbian.
CONTACT
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