Upcoming talks

Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Ekaterina Levina. Do Referentiality and Animacy Affect Null Object and Accusative Clitic Use in Romanian? Talk to be presented at the conference "Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective" (NOCroDeP). October 23-24, 2025, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Levina, Ekaterina. Reexamining the Role of Affectedness in Differential Object Marking in Spanish. Workshop on Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference 2025. Dezember 5-8, 2025, University of Klagefurt, Austria

Levina, Ekaterina. Mismatches in argument realization: Differential object marking in Spanish. 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). February 24-27, 2026, The University of Trier, Germany.

Past talks (selection)

Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Ekaterina Levina. "The role of animacy and contrast in overt personal pronoun subjects in child Romanian". September 11-13,2025, 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference, Tours, France.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia amd Ekaterina Levina. When contrast overrides animacy: Overt personal pronouns as subjects in anaphoric contexts in adult Romanian. Talk presented at 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2025). August 26-29, 2025, University of Bordeaux, France.

Levina, Ekaterina. Differential object marking in Spanish. Does affectedness really matter? The International Argument Alternation Workshop. July 16-17, 2025, Kobe University, Japan.

Levina, Ekaterina. Clitic doubling and scope: why weak definites cannot be clitic-doubled? RED 2025 Conference: Mismatches in Anaphoric Relations. May 29-30, 2025, University of Graz, Austria.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Ekaterina Levina. The role of animacy and number in anaphoric personal pronoun subjects. Experimental insights from child and adult Romanian. RED 2025 Conference: Mismatches in Anaphoric Relations. May 29-30, 2025, University of Graz, Austria.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Ekaterina Levina. The Role of Animacy and Contrast in Overt Personal Pronoun Subjects in Child Romanian. Talk presented at the Annual International Conference of the English Department. May 29, 2025, University of Bucharest, Romania.

Levina, Ekaterina. Definite but not specific: weak definites and clitic doubling. SALT 35. May 20-22, 2025, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Ekaterina Levina. Contrast over animacy? Overt personal pronoun subject anaphora in adult Romanian. A poster presented at Colloquium on Generative Grammar 34 (CGG34), 7-9 May, 2025, UNED, Madrid, Spain.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Ekaterina Levina. Animacy and number in subject anaphora. Experimental evidence from child and adult Romanian. Pre- and Protomorphology Workshop. Fabruary 13-14, 2025, University of Vienna, Austria.

Guetiérrez Lorenzo, Ambrocio and Ekaterina Levina. The meaning of the potential and the future prefixes in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), September 8–14, 2024, Poznań, Poland. Slides

Levina, Ekaterina. How many dependent possessees are there? 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), September 8–14, 2024, Poznań, Poland

Levina, Ekaterina. Eine Verbalternation – fünf Verbklassen? Eine Untersuchung der Verbbedeutung in der Possessor-Anhebung-Alternation. Conference: Verbklassen – Semantik, Grammatik und ihre Interdependenzen. September 4-6, 2024, University of Passau, Germany.

Guetiérrez Lorenzo, Ambrocio and Ekaterina Levina. Functions and scope of the Zapotec counterfactual prefix nī-. 57th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea. August 21-24, 2024, Helsinki, Finnland. Slides

Levina, Ekaterina. One account for three kinds of weak definites. Evidence from German possessor raising constructions. 60th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. April 26-28, 2024, The University of Chicago. Poster

Levina, Ekaterina. Is the definite article just definite enough? A new perspective on weak definites. Workshop on Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. 47th Austrian Linguistics Conference 2023. Dezember 8-10, 2023, Graz, Austria

Gutiérrez Lorenzo, Ambrocio and Ekaterina Levina. ¿Qué tan potencial es el futuro? Un acercamiento semántico-pragmático a los prefijos temporales en el zapoteco de Teotilán del Valle. The tenth Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America. November 9-11, 2023, Austin, TX

Boas, Hans and Ekaterina Levina. A frame-semantic account of the preposition 'mit' in Texas German. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 2023. April 20-22, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Levina, Ekaterina. Verb meaning in German body-part possessor ascension alternation. Poster presented at LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. January 5-8, 2023, Denver, CO

Levina, Ekaterina. Verbs in possessor ascension alternation: the case of German. 2022 Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. November 30 - December 2, 2022, University of Melbourne, Australia. Slides

Levina, Ekaterina. Possession and affectedness in verb alternations. Poster presented at Conference of Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA|ALC). June, 2022.

Levina, Ekaterina. On the semantics of raised possessor. Talk presented at 42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. May, 2022.

Levina, Ekaterina. Verb alternations: Possession and affectedness. Talk presented at Zadar Linguistic Forum 2022, University of Zadar, Croatia. April, 2022. Slides

See my CV for the full list of my talks.