Selected Presentations

Tatiana Nikitina
e-mail: tavnik (at) gmail (dot) com


The syntax of postpositional phrases and word order in Mande
The 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, University of Cologne, August 19, 2009.

(with Boris Maslov) Constructio praegnans and evolution of the source vs. goal differentiation
Poster, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, January 9, 2009.

SOVX word order in Mande: Against transformational accounts
Syntax and Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley, October 16, 2008.

The syntax of nouns and restrictions on PP modification in Wan
39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. University of Georgia, Athens, April 18, 2008.

Nominalization in Wan: category mixing without mixed syntax?
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, IL. January 5, 2008.

Lexical meaning and contextual inference: Goal/source ambiguity in descriptions of motion
The (Un)usual Events Fest. Stanford University, January 20, 2007.

Derivational morphology and mixed category constructions
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Anaheim, CA. January 4-7, 2007.

Aspectual forms and anaphoric time reference in Wan
Chronos 7: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality. University of Antwerp, Belgium. September 18-20, 2006.

Syntax of embedded clauses in Wan
Syntax of the World's Languages (SWL 2). Lancaster University, UK. September 14-17, 2006.

Pragmatic factors and variation in the expression of spatial goals: The case of into vs. in
Conference on Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, The Netherlands. June 2-4, 2006.

Time reference of aspectual forms in Wan (Southeastern Mande)
37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. University of Oregon, Eugene, April 6-9, 2006.

Le sémantisme des postpositions locatives en wan
Colloque annuel de l'Institut de Linguistique Appliquée: Langues ivoiriennes - La théorie et la pratique. Institut de Linguistique Appliquée, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. February 15-16, 2006.

Mixed categories and language change in Niger-Congo
The XVII-th International Conference on Historical Linguistics: Workshop on Constructions in Language Change. University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 31-August 5, 2005.

Thematic role of locative complements with motion verbs in Wan
Talk given at the Department of Linguistic Typology, St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistic Research, Russia. January 11, 2005.

Expressing directed motion in Wan
35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Harvard University, April 2-4, 2004.

Distinguishing between sources and goals of motion in Wan
5th Annual Semantics Fest. Stanford University, March 12, 2004.

Verb valency structures in Wan
Séance de Travail sur la Linguistique Mandé. St. Petersburg University, September 2001.

Correspondances lexicales entre la langue Bisa et les langues Boko/Busa de la Nigéria
Round Table on Lexicology and Comparison in Mande Languages. University of Zürich, Switzerland. May 2000.