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Allomorphy

My dissertation The Structure of Pronouns and Allomorphy investigates the universal internal compositionality of pronouns by looking at the allomorphic alternations as a key diagnostic for accessing the inventory of morphemes that make up pronouns across languages. I put forth and explore the hypothesis that allomorphy is a crucial tool that reveals the internal structure. 

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Talks 

  • Invariant building blocks in the structure of personal pronouns              December 11th, 2023, Research seminar, ZAS Berlin 

  • The structure of pronouns                                                                                        June 3rd, 2024, Research seminar, ZAS Berlin

  • Allomorphy and multiple allomorphy: The view from pronouns                         June 10th, Research seminar, ZAS Berlin 

  • The structure of pronouns and allomorphy                                                September 23rd, 2024, LeibnizDream Retreat, ZAS Berlin

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Clitic Doubling

In this study, I introduce a novel generalization on the correlation of Clitic Doubling and Unagreement, which refers to availability of omitting the first and second person pronouns while keeping the first and second person agreement morphology on the verb. I demonstrate that Unagreement languages simultaneously exhibit CD, which points toward a unified formal account of the two phenomena.

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Talks

  • December 10th, 2024, Talk at the Syntax/Semantics Colloquium, HU Berlin

  • September 19-23rd, 2023,  Talk at the Topic, Focus and Subject (TFS) Conference, University of Osnabrück

  • September 14th, 2023, Research Seminar, ZAS Berlin

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Syntax of pronouns

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  • ​​​Ilić, Ivona (2024). Complements and Modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 9(1), 5720.  [paper]

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Poster

  • Ilić, Ivona (2024). Complements and Modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns. LSA Annual Meeting, New York, January 4-7, 2024 [poster]

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Person features

In this study, we present a novel argument for the presence of third person in the general system of the φ-features on the basis of realization of definite determiners in generic statements across Germanic, Greek, and Romance. 

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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. â€‹

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Talk

  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Johannes Hein, Ivona Ilić, Uli Sauerland (2024). The third person is present: Evidence from determiners in generic statements. NELS 54, MIT, January 26-27, 2024

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Passive
 

In this paper, we present two findings: early production of passives in Japanese and unexpected, frequent production of long passives. We attribute these results to the presence of overt dedicated passive morphology in Japanese, which facilitates early acquisition. 

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Paper 

  • Alexiadou, Artemis and Ivona Ilić (2023). Acquiring Japanese passives: A production study. In P. Gappmayr and J. Kellogg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press

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Presentations

  • Artemis Alexiadou and Ivona Ilić. Acquiring Japanese passives: a production study, The 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, BUCLD 47, Boston University, November 3-6, 2022  [poster]

  • Artemis Alexiadou and Ivona Ilić. Overt and implicit arguments and Voice in Japanese passives: a child language perspective, Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics BCGL 15, CRISSP, Brussels, October 6-7, 2022  [talk]

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PRO 

In this study, we demonstrate that English-acquiring children produce overt PRO in the context of the verb want. We attribute this finding to children's preference for the 1-to-1 mapping between structural/semantic representations and morphology. 

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Talk

  • Ilić, Ivona and Artemis Alexiadou. Silent and overt arguments in child language, SinFonIJa 15, University of Udine, Italy, September 22-24, 2022 [talk]

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Subjunctives

Paper​

  • Oikonomou, Despina and Ivona Ilić (2023). Subjunctive Questions in Serbian, Journal of Slavic Linguistics: FASL 30 Extra Issue

 

Talk​

  • Oikonomou, Despina and Ivona Ilić. Subjunctive Questions in Serbian. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 30, FASL 30, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), May 13-16, 2021 [talk]

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Nominalizations

In my M.A. thesis,  I investigate nominalizations in nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive languages. I discuss the argument and event structure, agreement patterns, morphological properties, and mechanics of word formation. The core generalizations are formed on the basis of the Serbian language, as a representative of the nominative-accusative alignment, and Yucatec Mayan, a language surfacing with the ergative-absolutive pattern. 

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Thesis

  • Ilić, Ivona (2021). Argument Structure, Ergativity, Aspect, and Agreement: A view from n-based nominalizations

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Talks

  • Ilić, Ivona. Argument Structure Inheritance: Evidence from Deverbal Compounds, 16th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, SLS 16, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 3-5, 2021 [talk]

  • Ilić, Ivona. The Interaction of Aspect and the Height of Affixation, 9th Workshop on Nominalizations, JENom9, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and the University of Silesia, Poland, June 17-18, 2021 [talk]

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