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Talks (selection)

 

Upcoming

Expletive subjects as anaphoric spatiotemporal Anchors.

Ekaterina Levina • RED 2026 Conference: Rules and Exceptions in Anaphoric Processing, University of Brasov, Romania

Expletives as anaphora.

Ekaterina Levina • GLOW 48, University of Siena, Italy

Past

​2026

Mismatches in argument realilzation: differential object marking in Spanish.

Ekaterina Levina • 48th DGfS Conference University of Trier, Germany

2025

Reexamining the role of affectedness in differential object marking in Spanish.

Ekaterina Levina • 49th Austrian Linguistic Conference (ÖLT 49), University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Do referentiality and animacy affect null object and accusative clitic use in Romanian?

Adina Camelia Bleotu & Ekaterina Levina • Null Objects from a Cross-linguistic and Developmental perspective (NOCroDeP) University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

The role of animacy and contrast in overt personal pronoun subjects in child Romanian.

Adina Camelia Bleotu & Ekaterina Levina • 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 17), University of Tours, France

When contrast overrides animacy: Overt personal pronouns as subjects in anaphoric contexts in adult Romanian.

Adina Camelia Bleotu & Ekaterina Levina • SLE 2025 Conference, University of Bordeaux, France

Differential object marking in Spanish. Does affectedness really matter?

Ekaterina Levina • The International Argument Alternation Workshop, Kobe University, Japan

​Clitic doubling and scope: why weak definites cannot be clitic-doubled?

Ekaterina Levina • RED 2025 Conference: Mismatches in Anaphoric Relations, University of Graz, Austria

The role of animacy and number in anaphoric personal pronoun subjects. Experimental insights from child and adult Romanian.

Adina Camelia Bleotu & Ekaterina Levina • RED 2025 Conference: Mismatches in Anaphoric Relations, University of Graz, Austria

The role of animacy and contrast in overt personal pronoun subjects in child Romanian.

Adina Camelia Bleotu & Ekaterina Levina • Annual International Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania

Definite but not specific: weak definites and clitic doubling.

Ekaterina Levina • SALT 35, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Contrast overanimacy? Overt personal pronoun subject anaphora in adult Romanian.

Adina Camelia Bleotu & Ekaterina Levina • A poster presented at Colloquium on Generative Grammar 34 (CGG34), UNED, Madrid, Spain

Animacy and number in subject anaphora. Experimental evidence from child and adult Romanian.

Adina Camelia Bleotu & Ekaterina Levina • Pre- and Protomorphology Workshop, University of Vienna, Austria

2024

How many dependent possessees are there?

Ekaterina Levina • 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Poznań, Poland

The meaning of the potential and the future prefixes in Teotitlán de Valle Zapotec.

Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo & Ekaterina Levina • 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Poznań, Poland

Eine Verbalternation – fünf Verbklassen? Eine Untersuchung der Verbbedeutung in der Possessoranhebung-Alternation.

Ekaterina Levina • Verbklassen – Semantik, Grammatik und ihre Interdependenzen. University of Passau, Germany

Functions and scope of the Zapotec counterfactual prefix ni-.

Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo • 57th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea. Helsinki, Finland

One account for three kinds of weak definites. Evidence from German possessor raising constructions.

Ekaterina Levina • 60th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. The University of Chicago, IL, USA

2023

Is the definite article just definite enough? A new perspective on weak definites.

Ekaterina Levina • 47th Austrian Linguistics Conference (ÖLT), Graz, Austria

¿Qué tan potencial es le futuro? Un acercamiento semantico-pragmatico a los prefijos temporales en el zapoteco de Teotitlán del Valle.

Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo & Ekaterina Levina • 10th Conference of Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA). Austin, TX, USA

A frame-semantic account of the preposition mit in Texas German.

Hans C. Boas & Ekaterina Levina • Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Verb meaning in German body-part possessor ascension alternation.

Ekaterina Levina • Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Language Society of America (LSA), Denver, Colorado

2022

Verbs in possessor ascension alternation: the case of German.

Ekaterina Levina • Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS), University of Melbourne, Australia

Possession and affectedness in verb alternations.

Ekaterina Levina • Poster presented at Conference of Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA|ALC)

On the semantics of raised possessor.

Ekaterina Levina • 42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Verb alternations: Possession and affectedness.

Ekaterina Levina • Zadar Linguistic Forum, University of Zadar, Croatia

On the accessibility of possessions.

Ekaterina Levina • 3rd Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

2020

On the accessibility of possessions.

Ekaterina Levina • 15th Conference of Slavic Linguistic Society, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Recapitulative Linkage in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu).

Manfred Krifka & Ekaterina Levina • 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages Conference (APLL 11) Leiden University, Netherlands

2017

Recapitulative (Tail-Head) Linking as a Marker of Discourse Coherence in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu).

Ekaterina Levina & Manfred Krifka• Conference on Oceanic Languages (COOL) 10. Hoianra, Solomon Islands

2015

Subordination of Realis and Irrealis Clauses in Wichí (Matacoan, Argentina).

Ekaterina Levina • The 7th Conference of Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA), The University of Texas at Austin

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