The 2007 book is the English version of my thesis, the 2009 one is based on the Russian version (with some corrections and additions, and with extensive introductory chapters). Many ideas were developed and revised in later papers. The 2011 book is the first Russian textbook in generative grammar.
- Mitrenina, O., Romanova, Zh., & Slioussar, N. (2011). Vvedenie v generativnuju grammatiku (in Russian, ‘Introduction to generative grammar’). Moscow: Editorial URSS. What’s inside?
- Slioussar, N. (2009). Na styke teorij: Grammatika i informacionnaja struktura v russkom i drugix jazykax (in Russian, ‘On the crossroads of theories: Grammar and information structure in Russian and other languages’). Moscow: Editorial URSS. The second edition came out in 2012. What’s inside?
- Slioussar, N. (2007). Grammar and Information Structure. A study with reference to Russian. Utrecht: LOT Publications. What’s inside?
Main papers
The complete list of my publications can be downloaded here.
Published papers:
- Kireev, M.V., Slioussar, N., Chernigovskaya, T.V., Korotkov, A.D., & Medvedev, S.V. (2015). Changes in functional connectivity within the fronto-temporal brain network induced by regular and irregular Russian verb production. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 36.
- Slioussar, N. (2015). Znakomstvo s generativnoj grammatikoj: osnovnye ponjatija i principy minimalizma (in Russian, ‘Introduction to generative grammar: Key notions and principles of Minimalism’). St.Petersburg: Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St.Petersburg State University. 49 p.
- Slioussar, N., & Chuprina, A. (2015). Grouping morphologically complex words in the mental lexicon: Evidence from Russian verbs and nouns. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1347, 136-139.
- Slioussar, N. (2015). Interpreting sentences without prosody and context. In: P. Arkadiev et al. (eds.). Donum semanticum: Opera linguistica et logica in honorem Barbarae Partee a discipulis amicisque Rossicis oblate (pp. 285-296). Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture.
- Slioussar, N., Kireev, M.V., Chernigovskaya, T.V., Kataeva, G.V., Korotkov, A.D., & Medvedev, S.V. (2014). An ER-fMRI study of Russian inflectional morphology. Brain and Language, 130, 33-41. Download.
- Slioussar, N. (2014). The relation between the linguistic competence and performance and the architecture of the grammar. In: P. Kosta et al. (eds.). Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the Interfaces (pp. 350-362). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Download.
o Slioussar, N., & Cherepovskaia, N. (2014). Case errors in processing: Evidence from Russian. In: C. Chapman, O. Kit, & I. Kučerova (eds.). Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The First Hamilton Meeting 2013 (pp. 319-338). Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. - Cherepovskaia, N., & Slioussar, N. (2013). Comprehending metaphors of different types: Evidence from Russian. In: V. Torrens & L. Escobar (eds.). Papers on the processing of lexicon and syntax (pp. 25-42). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Download.
- Malko, A., & Slioussar, N. (2013). Attraction errors in gender agreement: Evidence from Russian. In: S. Franks et al. (eds.). Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Third Indiana Meeting 2012 (pp. 162-175). Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press. Download.
- Slioussar, N., & Kholodilova, M. (2013). Paradigm leveling in non-standard Russian. In: A. Podobryaev et al. (eds.). Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Second MIT Meeting 2011 (pp. 243-258). Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press. Download.
- Slioussar, N., & Cherepovskaia, N. (2013). Processing of case morphology: Evidence from Russian. Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies, 12, 726-735. Download.
- Slioussar, N. (2011). Processing of a free word order language: The role of syntax and context. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 40, 291–306. Download.
- Slioussar, N. (2011). Russian and the EPP requirement in the Tense domain. Lingua, 121, 2048-2068. Download.
- Slioussar, N. (2010). Russian data call for relational Information Structure notions. In: Zybatow G. et al. (eds.). Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics. Proceedings of Formal Description of Slavic Languages 7.5 (pp. 329-344). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Download.
- Slioussar, N. (2011). Grammar and Information Structure: A novel view based on Russian data. Submitted ms., Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS and St.Petersburg State University. Download.
- Slioussar, N. (2013). Scrambling, primarily in Russian. To appear in: M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk (eds.). The Companion to Syntax. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Slioussar, N. (2012). Limits of Russian word order freedom. To appear in: R. Hinterhölzl et al. (eds.). The German Middle Field in a Comparative and Diachronic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Malko, A., & Slioussar, N. (2014). Gender features in processing: Evidence from Russian. Accepted to the research topic Encoding and navigating linguistic representations in memory in the journal Frontiers in Language Sciences.
- Slioussar, N., & Cherepovskaia, N. (2014). Morphological ambiguity in processing: Evidence from Russian. Accepted to the research topic Encoding and navigating linguistic representations in memory in the journal Frontiers in Language Sciences.
Organizing conferences
- December 2015. The Third Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites). St.Petersburg State University, Russia. Website: nightwhites2015.wordpress.com.
- June 2015. A summer school and conference “Pronouns: Syntax, Semantics, Processing” (PSSP). School of Linguistics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Website: psspconference.wordpress.com.
- February – March 2014. The Second Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites). St.Petersburg State University, Russia. Website: nightwhites2014.wordpress.com.
- June 2013. Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE6). St.Petersburg State University, Russia. Website: spe6conference.wordpress.com.
- June 2006. The 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science. St.Petersburg State University, Russia. Website: www.cogsci.ru/cogsci06.
Talks, posters and lectures
Below are my talks, posters and lectures in 2015, the full list for 2011-2015 can be found here.
- September 2015. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 21 (AMLaP), University of Malta. A poster “Singular nouns disguised as plurals cause agreement attraction.”
- August 2015. Summer Neurolinguistic School "Language and Brain Pathology." Higher School of Economics, Moscow. A lecture “Language and its structure.”
- July 2015. 12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, University of Valencia. A joint talk with Maxim V. Kireev, Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya (N.P. Bekhtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences and St.Petersburg State University), Alexander D. Korotkov, Svyatoslav V. Medvedev (N.P. Bekhtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences) “A PPI analysis of Russian verb production.”
- July 2015. 12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, University of Valencia. A poster “Number agreement in Russian in production and comprehension.”
- June 2015. Agreement across Borders Conference, University of Zadar. A joint talk with Natalia Cherepovskaia (St. Petersburg State University) “Morphological ambiguity in agreement attraction: a novel view from Russian.”
- June 2015. Agreement across Borders Conference, University of Zadar. A joint poster with Anna Stetsenko and Tatiana Matyushkina (St. Petersburg State University) “Attraction errors in case agreement production: Evidence from Russian.”
- June 2015. 9th International Morphological Processing Conference. University of Potsdam. A joint poster with Natalia Cherepovskaia, Anna Stetsenko, Tatiana Matyushkina (St. Petersburg State University) and Anton Malko (UMD) “Non-parallel effects in production and comprehension of agreement attraction.”
- June 2015. Pronouns: Syntax, Semantics, Processing Conference. Higher School of Economics, Moscow. A talk “Individual variation in evaluating Russian sentences with possessive pronouns.”
- May 2015. 21th International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue,” Moscow. A joint poster with Svetlana Alexeeva and Daria Chernova (St. Petersburg State University) “StimulStat: baza dannyx, oxvatyvajushchaja razlichnye xarakteristiki slov russkogo jazyka, vazhnye dlja lingvisticheskix i psihologicheskix issledovanij” (in Russian, “StimulStat: A lexical database for linguistic and psychological research on Russian language.”).
- May 2015. 21th International Computer Linguistics Conference “Dialogue,” Moscow. A joint poster with Maria Samojlova (St. Petersburg State University) “Chastotnosti razlichnyх grammaticheskiх хarakteristik i okonchanij u sushсhestvitel'nyх russkogo jazyka” (in Russian, “Frequencies of different grammatical features and inflectional affixes in Russian nouns”).
- May 2015. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 24. New York University. A joint talk with Varvara Magomedova (SUNY, Stony Brook) “Paradigm leveling in non-standard Russian: consonant alternations in comparatives and nouns.”
- May 2015. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 24. New York University. A joint talk with Anna Stetsenko and Tatiana Matyushkina (St. Petersburg State University) “Attraction errors in case agreement production.”
- March 2015. NetWordS 2015 Conference. Pisa, Italy. A joint poster with Anastasia Chuprina (St. Petersburg State University) “Grouping morphologically complex words in the mental lexicon: evidence from Russian verbs and nouns.”
- March 2015. 3rd ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A joint talk with Maxim V. Kireev, Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya (N.P. Bekhtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences and St.Petersburg State University), Alexander D. Korotkov, Svyatoslav V. Medvedev (N.P. Bekhtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences) “Producing regular and irregular verbs in Russian: a PPI analysis.”
- March 2015. 3rd ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A joint poster with Natalia Cherepovskaia (St. Petersburg State University) “Phi-feature interaction in processing: evidence from Russian.”
- March 2015. 3rd ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A joint poster with Anna Stetsenko and Tatiana Matyushkina (St. Petersburg State University) “Attraction in producing case agreement errors: Evidence from Russian.”
- March 2015. 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA, USA. A joint poster with Natalia Cherepovskaia (St. Petersburg State University) “Number, gender and case feature interaction in processing: Evidence from Russian.”
- March 2015. 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA, USA. A joint poster with Daria Chernova (St. Petersburg State University) “The time course of syntactic ambiguity processing: Evidence from Russian.”
- March 2015. 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA, USA. A joint poster with Anna Stetsenko and Tatiana Matyushkina (St. Petersburg State University) “Attraction errors in case agreement: Evidence from Russian.”
