Elena Gavruseva

Phone: 319-335-1847
Office: 551 EPB

Office Hours

TTh 11:00-12:30, and by appointment.

Fall 2008 Courses

Course #	Title	Location	Time
103:111	Syntactic Analysis	N203 LC	TTh 1:05-2:20
103:141	The Structure of English	16 EPB	TTh 9:30-10:45

Education

MA (Linguistics/English Philology), Moscow Linguistic University 1991
MA (Linguistics), Georgetown University 1993
Ph.D. (Linguistics), Georgetown University 1997

Areas of Specialization

Syntax/morphology
First and second language acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Discourse analysis

Current Research Projects

Semantic properties of root infinitives in Slavic, Germanic, and Romance
Interpretation of perfective preverbs in child Russian
Expletive negation in child Russian (with John Grinstead, Ohio State U)

Some recent publications

"Root Infinitives in Child L2 English: An Aspectual Features Account" (to appear in Second Language Research).

2003 “Aspect and finiteness in the English/Spanish bilingual acquisition” (to appear in First Language 23-2: 171-192, with Damaris Castro).

2003 “L2 root infinitives uprooted and revisited” (in EUROSLA Yearbook 2003, eds. Susan H. Foster-Cohen & Simona Pekarek, John Benjamins).

2003 “Aktionsart, aspect, and the acquisition of finiteness in early child grammar” (In Linguistics 41-4: 723-55).

2003 “On the Syntax of Predication in Child L2 English” (in The Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), eds. Juana M. Liceras, Helmut Zobl, and Helen Goodluck, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA; with Melissa Meisterheim)

2003 “The Complicity of Telicity in the Root Infinitive Effect in Child L2 English” (in The Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), eds. Juana M. Liceras, Helmut Zobl, and Helen Goodluck, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA).

2002 “Aspect, Eventivity, and Finiteness in Early Child Grammar” (in The Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), eds. João Costa and Maria João Freitas, Lisbon, Portugal, 68-75).

2002 “Is There Primacy of Aspect in Child L2 Acquisition?” (In Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 5-2: 109-130).

2001 “Getting it Right: Acquisition of Whose-questions in Child English” (In Language Acquisition 9-3: 229-267, with Rosalind Thornton).

2000 “On the Syntax of Possessor Extraction”. In Lingua 110, 743-772.

2000 ”Aspect parameter in the guise of optional Infinitives in child L2 English” (in BUCLD Proceedings 24, eds. C. Catherine Howell, Sarah A. Fish, and Thea Keith-Lucas, Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA, 319-330).

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Revised September 3, 2008.