Papers

Tomaszewicz, Barbara M., 2012. "Semantics and visual cognition: the processing of Bulgarian and Polish majority quantifiers". LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2012. [eLanguage link]

Tomaszewicz, Barbara M., 2011. “Verification Strategies for Two Majority Quantifiers in Polish”, In Reich, Ingo et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 15, Saarland Unversity Press: Saarbrücken, Germany, 2011. [Download]

Tomaszewicz, Barbara M., to appear. “The Syntactic Position of Slavic ‘by’ and its Effect on Main Clause Phenomena”. In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today - GIST2: Main Clause Phenomena, John Benjamins. [Pre-final version]

Tomaszewicz, Barbara M., to appear “Wh & Wh: Syntactic and Semantic Arguments for Clausal Coordination”, In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 19, Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications. [Pre-final Version]

Tomaszewicz Barbara M., 2011. "Against spurious coordination in multiple wh-questions", Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [Download]

Pancheva, Roumyana and Barbara M. Tomaszewicz, 2011.  "Experimental Evidence for the Syntax of Phrasal Comparatives in Polish", In University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 17: Iss. 1, Article 21. [Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol17/iss1/21]

Tomaszewicz B., 2009. "Subjunctive Mood in Polish". In Zybatow, G., Junghanns, U., Lenertova, D., Biskup, P. (eds) Linguistik International, Vol. 21. Studies in Formal Slavic Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Information Structure, Proceedings of FDSL 7, Leipzig 2007. Peter Lang. pp. 221-234

Tomaszewicz, B. 2009. Subjunctive mood in Polish and the Clause Typing Hypothesis. In Proceedings of the 5th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics, The Ohio State University.

Tomaszewicz, B. 2008. "The morphological structure of the subjunctive and conditional ‘moods’ in Polish" In Lavidas N., Nouchoutidou E., Sionti M. (eds) New 3 Perspectives in Greek Linguistics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 171-188.

Tomaszewicz, B. 2006. "Some aspects of Polish derivational affixation from the point of view of Distributed Morphology". In Anglica Wratislaviensia 44.

Conference Presentations

"A scalar opposite of scalar only", WCCFL30, UC Santa Cruz, 4/13-15/2012 [Handout]

"Cross-linguistic differences in superlative movement out of nominal phrases" (with Roumyana Pancheva), WCCFL30, UC Santa Cruz, 4/13-15/2012 [Handout]

"A family of exclusives in Polish", GLOW 35 Association with focus workshop, University of Potsdam, Germany, 03/31/2012

"The morphosyntax of Polish (un)conditionals", GIST-5 Workshop: Generalizing relative strategies, Ghent, Belgium, 3/22–23/2012

"Semantics and visual cognition: the processing of Bulgarian and Polish majority quantifiers",  LSA 2012 Annual Meeting,  Portland, USA, 01/5-8/2012 [Handout]

"Aż/chak – the scalar opposite of scalar only", FDSL 9 - Formal Description of Slavic Languages , Universität Göttingen, Germany, 12/7-9/2011 [Handout]

"Focus sensitive intensifiers in Slavic aż and chak in contrast to even and only", FASL 20 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, MIT Cambridge, USA, 05/13-15/2011

“The Syntactic Position of Slavic by and its Effect on Main Clause Phenomena”, GIST-2 Conference: Main Clause Phenomena. Ghent, Belgium, 09/29 – 10/1/2010

“Verification Strategies for Two Majority Quantifiers in Polish”, The 15th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany. 09/9-11/2010

“Semantics Guides Visual Interpretation”, VSSoL International conference on language, nature, and cognition. Vigo, Spain. 07/16-17/2010

“An Anti-Locality Constraint on Specifiers” (with Roumyana Pancheva), GIST 1 workshop: Antilocality and Snowballing movement. Ghent, Belgium, 06/24-25/2010 [Handout]

“Wh & Wh: Syntactic and Semantic Arguments for Clausal Coordination”, FASL 19 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park. 04/23-25/2010

“Variability in vP-Subject Island Violations” (with Roumyana Pancheva), FASL 19 - Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park 04/23-25/2010

"Experimental Evidence for the Syntax of Phrasal Comparatives in Polish" (with Roumyana Pancheva), GLOW 33 Slavic Syntax and Semantics workshop, Wrocław University, Poland. 04/13/2010

"Experimental Evidence for the Syntax of Phrasal Comparatives in Polish" (with Roumyana Pancheva), 34th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 03/19-21/2010

"Against Spurious Coordination in Multiple Wh-Questions", West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 28, University of Southern California. 02/19-21/2010

"Operator movement in Polish subjunctive clauses". GLiP-6, Generative Linguistics in Poland, Warsaw, Poland. 04/5-6/2008

"Subjunctive Mood in Polish”. FDSL-7, 7th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, Leipzig, Germany. 11/29 – 12/01/2007

"Subjunctive Mood in Polish and the Clause Typing Hypothesis”. LingO, 2nd Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, Oxford, U.K. 09/21-22/2007

"Subjunctive Complementizers in Polish”. PLM, 38th Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, Poland. 08/3-16/2007

"Polish żeby and gdyby as Complex Complementizers”. SLE, 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Joensuu, Finland. 08/29 – 09/1/2007

"The Puzzle of Polish “inflecting” Complementizers”. SLS, 2nd Congress of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Berlin, Germany. 08/22-24/2007

"The morphological structure of  subjunctive and conditional “moods” in Polish”, APC4, 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference of the Department of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. 06/1-03/2007

"The functional layers of DP and the morphology of Polish nominals”. PASE, Polish Association for the Study of English Conference, Puławy, Poland. 04/24-26/2006

"The functional layers of DP and the morphology of Polish nominals” (poster). Workshop QP structure, Nominalizations, and the role of DP, Saarbrucken, Germany. 12/15-17/2005

Other Presentations (no review process)

"Compositional     derivation of Coordinated Multiple Wh-Questions", invited talk at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. 12/14/2011 [Handout]

“The Syntactic Position of Slavic “by” and its Effect on Main Clause Phenomena”, Southern California Linguistics Workshop (SCL). 03/11/2011

“Semantics guides the visual verification of majority quantifiers”, CUSP 3: California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop, Stanford University. 10/15-16/2010

“The Processing of Majority Quantifiers”, USC Language processing Lab. 03/24/2010

“Against spurious coordination in multiple wh-questions”, Syntax+, USC. 02/8/2010

“Verification strategies and two Polish majority quantifiers”, Southern California Linguistics Workshop (SCL). 05/6/2010

“Spurious Coordination? Multiple Wh-Questions in Slavic”, Southern California Linguistics Workshop (SCL). 12/8/2009

“Subjunctive mood in Polish”, Southern California Linguistics Workshop (SCL). 12/9/2008

“Polish subjunctive and operator movement”. Graduate workshop in linguistics, Wrocław University, Poland. 12/11/2007

“Polish counterfactuals and Exclusion Morpheme”. CogFest, Petersburg, Russia. 07/13/2007

“Polish ‘żeby’ and ‘gdyby’ as complex complementizers”. Arbeitstreffen GK Frankfurt / ZAS&HU Berlin, Germany. 06/15-16/2007

“Polish derivational affixation and Distributed Morphology”. Graduate workshop in linguistics, Wrocław University, Poland. 04/16/2005

Summer schools

2011 ESSLLI, 23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2009 LSA Summer Institute, University of California–Berkeley.

2007 ESSLLI, 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Dublin, Ireland.

2007 New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies, St.Petersburg, Russia.

2006 DgfS & GLOW Summer school, “Macro- and Microvariation”, Stuttgart, Germany. 

2006 Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG 06) Summer school, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

2006 LOT Summer school, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2005 Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG 05) Summer school, Wroclaw, Poland.

2004 Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG 04) Summer school, Cluj, Romania.

Summer projects

Del Amo Foundation Research Award from USC Dornsife College for Summer 2011 - Experimental study of focus association in superlative constructions and the role of prosody in Catalan and Spanish.

International Summer Field Research Award from USC College for Summer 2010 - Experimental study of visual verification strategies for majority quantifiers in Bulgarian and Polish