Recent and upcoming talks/papers
Meaning
of ‘now’ and other temporal location adverbs, Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium.
Flashback
discourses and the meaning of the Russian imperfective, Sinn und Bedeutung 14. [handout]
Narrative effects in Russian indirect reports and
what they reveal about the meaning of the past tense, in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18, T.
Friedman & S. Ito (eds.), pp. 19-36. CLC Publications, Cornell University. [paper]
Quantity
insensitive iambs in Osage, International Journal of American
Linguistics 75(3): 365-398. [paper]
• Click here for other representative work.
Dissertation
Temporal interpretation in narrative discourse and event
internal reference
Temporal interpretation in narrative discourse and event
internal reference
My
dissertation is about temporal interpretation in narrative
discourse and in particular, the meaning of aspect and temporal
location adverbials. It is grounded on the assumption that the
meaning of a verb phrase (VP) can be described in terms event parts,
which have a particular structure. The nature of the event structure is
illuminated by aspect,
which makes reference to a VP-event part and constrains its temporal
location. Based on
data involving the Russian imperfective aspect, I present findings that
bear on two central questions:
(1) What event parts are linguistically relevant?
(1) What event parts are linguistically relevant?
(2)
What are the temporal parameters relative to which
aspect locates a VP-event part?
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aspect locates a VP-event part?
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Other research interests
In addition to working on aspect and temporal location adverbs, I have also been investigating (i) tense in attitude reports and indirect speech, (ii) demonstratives and other definite determiner phrases and (iii) differences between parentheticals and non-restrictive relative clauses. Click here for some of this work.
I have also been investigating the following central question in phonology: how we can predict the typology of feet from the interaction of Optimality Theoretic constraints? One of the difficulties surrounding this question is the alleged view that quantity insensitive iambs do not exist (e.g. Hayes 1995). My work on the recently extinct language, Osage, has aimed to show that such iambs do, in fact, exist and therefore the universal foot typology is less restrictive than originally thought. In particular, I have been exploring the idea that foot headedness and quantity sensitivity are independent: whether a foot is trochaic or iambic is unrelated to whether it is also quantity-sensitive.
Teaching & pedagogy
I have been fortunate to have had a lot of experience teaching and to have had a chance to share my experiences with the Rutgers community. I have been both a teaching assistant and I have taught my own classes, ranging from general education and gateway courses in linguistics to an upper division course for linguistics majors. For more information about the classes that I have taught, click here.
As a fellow of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, I have also attended monthly meetings with leading teachers at Rutgers to discuss pedagogical issues. I have used these experiences to give workshop and orientation lectures to graduate students about how to become better teaching assistants and lecturers. For more information, see my teaching portfolio, which is available by request (daltshul
gmail.com).
I have been fortunate to have had a lot of experience teaching and to have had a chance to share my experiences with the Rutgers community. I have been both a teaching assistant and I have taught my own classes, ranging from general education and gateway courses in linguistics to an upper division course for linguistics majors. For more information about the classes that I have taught, click here.
As a fellow of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, I have also attended monthly meetings with leading teachers at Rutgers to discuss pedagogical issues. I have used these experiences to give workshop and orientation lectures to graduate students about how to become better teaching assistants and lecturers. For more information, see my teaching portfolio, which is available by request (daltshul
gmail.com).
