Motion and Space

Subcategorization pattern and lexical meaning of motion verbs: A study of the Source/Goal ambiguity.

Linguistics 47-5(2009): 1113-41.
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Locative terms and spatial frames of reference in Wan.

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 29-1(2008): 29-47.
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Pragmatic factors and variation in the expression of spatial goals: the case of into vs. in.

Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke, and Rick Nouwen (eds.) Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008, pp. 175-95.
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Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in Russian.

Viktoria Driagina-Hasko and Renee Perelmutter (eds.) New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010, pp. 267-90.
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(with B. Maslov) Constructio praegnans and evolution of the source vs. goal differentiation.

Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, January 9, 2009.

(with B. Maslov) De constructione Graeca quae 'praegnans' appellatur.

Indoevropejskoe jazykoznanie i klassicheskaja filologija 13(2009): 421-24.
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Syntax

The mixing of syntactic properties and language change. Doctoral dissertation.

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Displaced arguments: S-O-V-X word order in Mande.

Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan & Peter Sells (eds.) Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 2, London: SOAS, 233-39.
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The syntax of postpositional phrases in Wan, an "SOVX" language.

Studies in Language 33(4): 907-30.
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The function and form of action nominalization in Wan.

Mandenkan 45: 17-28.
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On lexical and syntactic licensing of category mixing. Submitted.

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Nominalization and word order change in Niger-Congo. Manuscript.

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Embedded clauses with nominal internal structure in Wan: Mixed category constructions without class-changing morphology.

Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 3: 270-94.

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Joan Bresnan and Tatiana Nikitina. 2007. The Gradience of the Dative Alternation.

To appear in Linda Uyechi and Lian Hee Wee (eds.) Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language and Life. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Downloadable from Joan Bresnan's Publications website.

Joan Bresnan, Anna Cueni, Tatiana Nikitina, and R. Harald Baayen. 2007. Predicting the Dative Alternation.

G. Bouma, I. Kraemer, and J. Zwarts (eds.) Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, pp. 69-94.
Downloadable from Joan Bresnan's Publications website.

Other

Nikitina, Tatiana. 2007. Time reference of aspectual forms in Wan (Southeastern Mande).

Selected Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, ed. Doris L. Payne and Jaime Peña, 125-33. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
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Elena Maslova and Tatiana Nikitina. Stochastic universals and dynamics of cross-linguistic distributions: the case of alignment types. Submitted.

Downloadable from Elena Maslova's Publications website.

Eve V. Clark and Tatiana Nikitina. 2009. One vs. more than one: Antecedents to plurality in early language acquisition.

Linguistics 47(1): 103-39.
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Zaenen, Annie, Jean Carlette, Gregory Garretson, Joan Bresnan, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Tatiana Nikitina, Catherine O'Connor, and Tom Wasow. 2004. Animacy Encoding in English: why and how.

D. Byron and B. Webber (eds.) Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation, Barcelona, July 2004, pp. 118-125.
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Jean Carletta, Shipra Dingare, Malvina Nissim, Tatiana Nikitina. Using the NITE XML Toolkit on the Switchboard Corpus to study syntactic choice: a case study.

Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004), Lisbon, Portugal, 2004.
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