Publications

Monographs

• 2022 - Compositional Structure and Idiosyncrasy in Nominalizations, Cumulative Habilitation Thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin.

• 2010 - Negative Concord with Negative Quantifiers: A Polyadic Quantifier Approach to Romanian Negative Concord, PhD Thesis, University of Tübingen.

Online Resources

• 2022 - Zero-derived nouns and deverbal nominalization: Databases for English and Italian (1.0) [Dataset] (Principal Investigator; with Chiara Melloni as a collaborator for the Italian database). 

• 2007 - Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: Negative Polarity Items in Romanian, online database, SFB 441, University of Tübingen.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

• 2023 - Zero Affixes in Derivational Morphology (with Chiara Melloni), special issue, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft - Journal of the Linguistic Society of Germany 42.1.

• 2020 - Nominalization (with Elena Soare), special issue, Zeitschrift für Wortbildung/Journal of Word-formation 4.2.

• 2020 - Compounds between Words and Phrases (with Martina Werner), special issue, Word Structure 13.2.

• 2018 - Positive Polarity: Data and Theory (with Mingya Liu), special issue, Linguistics 56.2.

• 2017 - Lingvistică generală, lingvistică formală, lingvistică computațională - Omagiu profesorului Emil Ionescu la 60 de ani “General Linguistics, Formal Linguistics, Computational Linguistics. Festschrift for Prof. Emil Ionescu at his 60th anniversary” (with Verginica Barbu Mititelu and Mihaela Ionescu), Bucharest University Press, Bucharest.

• 2013 - Categorization and Category Change (with Isabelle Roy and Kaori Takamine), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.

• 2012 - Proceedings of JeNom 4 (4èmes Journées d’ Étude sur les Nominalisations/The 4th Workshop on Nominalizations), SinSpeC, Working Papers of the SFB 732, vol. 09. http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/volltexte/2012/7639/

Journal Articles

• 2023 - Morphological vs. syntactic conversion: Diagnostics and analytical means. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 20.4: 57-73. 

• 2023 - The zero suffix in English and Italian deverbal nouns (with Chiara Melloni). Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft - Journal of the Linguistic Society of Germany 42.1: 109-132.

• 2023 - Zero affixes in derivational morphology: Introduction (with Chiara Melloni). Special issue, Zero Affixes in Derivational Morphology, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft - Journal of the Linguistic Society of Germany 42.1: 1-11.

• 2022 - The verbal structure in English synthetic compounds (with Artemis Alexiadou). Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 7(1): 1-37.

• 2020 - Event structure and argument realization in English zero-derived nominals with particles. Nordlyd 44.1: 35-51.

• 2020 - Deverbal zero-nominalization and verb classes: Insights from a database (with Susanne Schweitzer, Yaryna Svyryda & Maria Camila Buitrago Cabrera). Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation 4.2: 120-142.

• 2020 - Preface: Current trends in the study of nominalization (with Elena Soare). Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation 4.2: 5-12.

• 2020 - Introduction: Compounds between words and phrases (with Martina Werner). Word Structure 13.2: 127-141.

• 2020 - D and N are different nominalizers. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 5(1): 53. 1–25.

• 2019 - The root derivation of psych nominals: Implications for competing overt and zero nominalizers. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 21.2: 57-79.

• 2019 - Categorial shift via aspect and gender change in deverbal nouns (with Martina Werner). Language Sciences 73: 62-76.

• 2018 - Introduction: Current perspectives on positive polarity (with Mingya Liu). Linguistics 56.2: 283-300.

• 2017 - Morphosyntactic sources for nominal synthetic compounds in English and Greek (with Artemis Alexiadou and Andreas Pairamidis). Zeitschrift für Wortbildung/Journal of Word Formation 1: 47-72.

• 2015 - Pluractionality with Lexically Cumulative Verbs (with Elena Soare). Natural Language Semantics 23.4: 307-352. 

• 2015 - Negative Concord with Polyadic Quantifiers (with Frank Richter). Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33.2: 607-658. 

• 2014 - The Psych Causative Alternation (with Artemis Alexiadou). Lingua 148: 53-79. 

• 2014 - Two Syntactic Strategies to Derive Deadjectival Nominals (with Artemis Alexiadou). Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis 3585, Anglica Wratislaviensia LII: 67-85. 

• 2013 - The Realization of External Arguments in Nominalizations (with Artemis Alexiadou, Mariangeles Cano, Fabienne Martin and Florian Schäfer). Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 16.2: 73-95. 

• 2010 - Number/Aspect Interactions in the Syntax of Nominalizations (with Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Soare). Journal of Linguistics 46.3: 537-574. 

• 2007 - A Case of Negative Polarity in Romanian. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 52.1-2: 195-209.

Peer-reviewed Volume Contributions

• 2023 - The meaning of zero nouns and zero verbs (with Verginica Barbu-Mititelu, Svetlozara Leseva and Ivelina Stoyanova), in S. Kotowski & I. Plag (eds.), The Semantics of Derivational Morphology. De Gruyter, Berlin, 63-102. 

• 2022 - Paradigmatic aspects of deverbal noun conversion in English, in A. E. Ruz, C. Fernández-Alcaina & C. Lara-Clares (eds.), Word-formation Paradigms: Theory and Applications. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 155-180.

• 2020 - Categorization and nominalization in zero nominals, in A. Alexiadou & H. Borer (eds.), Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks, 231-253. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

• 2020 - Compositionality in English Deverbal Compounds: The Role of the Head (with Lonneke van der Plas and Glorianna Jagfeld), in Sabine Schulte im Walde & Eva Smolka, The Role of Constituents in Multiword Expressions: An Interdisciplinary, Cross-lingual Perspective, book series Phraseology and Multiword Expressions, Language Science Press, 61-106.

• 2019 - The Development of Gender and Countability Effects in German ung- and English ing- Nominals (with Martina Werner). Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected Papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 116-132.

• 2019 - Quantitative Derivation in Morphology, in Rochelle Lieber (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology, in Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 

• 2016 - The Grammar of English Deverbal Compounds and their Meaning (with Lonneke van der Plas and Glorianna Jagfeld), in Eva Hajicova & Igor Boguslavsky (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar and Lexicon: Interactions and Interfaces, 81–91, Osaka, Japan.

• 2016 - A Collocational Approach to Romanian Strong Negative Polarity Items (with Monica Rizea and Frank Richter), in M. Mitrofan, D. Gifu, D. Tufis and D. Cristea, eds., Proceedings of the 12th International Conference Linguistic Resources and Tools for Processing the Romanian Language, 173-185.

• 2015 - Deverbal Nominalization with the Down Operator (with Elena Soare), in E. O. Aboch, J. C. Schaeffer, and P. Sleeman, eds., Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected Papers from Going Romance 2013. John Bejamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 223-238.

• 2015 - The Structural Source of Stative Nominalizations from Psych Verbs (with Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Soare), in E. Labeau and Q. Zhang, eds., Taming the TAME systems. Cahiers Chronos 27. Brill Rodopi, Leiden/Boston, 137-160.

• 2014 - Causative Nominalizations: Implications for the Structure of Psych Verbs (with Artemis Alexiadou), in A. Bachrach, I. Roy and L. Stockall, eds., Structuring the Argument. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, 119-137.

• 2013 - `Direct Participation' and `Agent Exclusivity' Effects in Derived Nominals and Beyond (with Artemis Alexiadou, Fabienne Martin, Florian Schäfer, and Mariangeles Cano), in G. Iordachioaia, I. Roy and K. Takamine,eds., Categorization and Category Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 153-180.

• 2013 - Categories and Categorization: Introduction (with Isabelle Roy and Kaori Takamine), in G. Iordachioaia, I. Roy and K. Takamine, eds., Categorization and Category Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastleupon Tyne, 3-10. 

• 2013 - Category Change: Introduction (with Isabelle Roy and Kaori Takamine), in G. Iordachioaia, I. Roy and K. Takamine, eds., Categorization and Category Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 87-94. 

• 2012 - In Support of Long Distance Agree (with Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Mihaela Marchis), in A. Alexiadou, G. Müller and T. Kiss, eds., Local Modelling of Non-local Dependencies, de Gruyter, Linguistische Arbeiten 547, 85-110. 

• 2011 - Scaling the Variation in Romance and Germanic Nominalizations (with Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer), in P. Sleeman and H. Perridon, eds., The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic. Structure, variationand change [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, volume 171]. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 25-40.

• 2010 - Syntactic Realizations of Plural in Romance and Germanic Nominalizations (with Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Soare), in K. Arregi, Z. Fagyal, S. Montrul and A. Tremblay, eds., Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance (Selected Papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008). John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 107-124.

• 2010 - Plural Marking in Argument Supporting Nominalizations (with Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Soare), in P. Cabredo Hofherr and B. Laca, eds., Layers of Aspect. CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1-22.

• 2010 - No Objection to Backward Control (with Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Mihaela Marchis), in N. Hornstein and M. Polinsky, eds., Movement Theory of Control, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 89-117. 

• 2009 - Structural Patterns Blocking Plural in Romance Nominalizations (with Elena Soare), in E. Aboh, E. der Linden, J. Quer and P. Sleeman, eds., Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory (Selected Papers from `GoingRomance', Amsterdam 2007). John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 145-160.

Proceedings of Peer-reviewed Conferences and other Collections

• 2019 - English deverbal compounds with and without arguments, in E. Ronai, L. Stigliano & Y. Sun (eds.). 2019. Proceedings of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. CLS, 179-194.

• 2017 - Deverbal compounds between nominalizations and phrasal compounds in English and Romanian, in V. Barbu Mititelu, M. Ionescu & G. Iordachioaia (eds.), Lingvistica generala, lingvistica formala, lingvistica computationala. Omagiu profesorului Emil Ionescu la 60 de ani [General Linguistics, Formal Linguistics, Computational Linguistics. A Festschrift for Professor Emil Ionescu on his 60th Birthday]. Bucharest University Press, Bucharest. 

• 2014 - Direct Participation Effects in Derived Nominals (with Artemis Alexiadou, Mariangeles Cano, Fabienne Martin and Florian Schäfer), in Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), vol. 1, 17-31. 

• 2014 - The Interaction between nP and DP in Nominalizations, in H.-L. Huang, E. Poole and A. Rysling, eds., Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North-East Linguistic Society (NELS), vol. 1, 179-190. 

• 2013 - Psych Nominalizations with Causers (with Artemis Alexiadou), in S. Keine and S. Sloggett, eds., Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North-East Linguistic Society (NELS), vol. 1, 53-66. 

• 2011 - A Further Insight into the Syntax-Semantics of Pluractionality (with Elena Soare), in N. Ashton, A. Chereches and D. Lutz, eds., Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT), 95-114.

• 2011 - A Stronger Argument for Backward Control (with Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Mihaela Marchis), in Proceedings of the 39th North-East Linguistic Society (NELS). 

• 2011 - The Negative Semantics of Romanian N-words, in Studii si cercetari stiintifice: seriafilologie (Scientific Studies and Research: The Philological Series), 20. Universitatea "Vasile Alecsandri", Bacau. 

•  2010 - Nicht sonderlich oder doch sattsam bekannt? Positive und Negative Polaritätselemente als lexikalische Einheiten mit Distributionsidiosynkrasien (Not especially or quite well known? Positive and Negative Polarity Items with Distributional idiosyncrasies) (with Jan-Phillip Soehn, Mingya Liu and Beata Trawinski), in J. Korhonen, W. Mieder, E. Piirainen and R. Pinel, eds., EUROPHRAS 2008. Beiträge zur internationalen Phraseologiekonferenz vom 13.-16.8.2008 in Helsinki, 273-281.

• 2009 - Negative Concord in Romanian as Polyadic Quantification (with Frank Richter), in Stefan Müller, ed., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 150-170. 

• 2008 - External Argument PPs in Romanian Nominalizations, in F. Schäfer, ed., SinSpeC - Working Papers of the SFB 732 Incremental Specification in Context, 01, Online Publikationsverbund der Universität Stuttgart (OPUS), 71-84. http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/volltexte/2008/3544/.

• 2008 - Two Kinds of Event Plurals: Evidence from Romanian Nominalizations (with Elena Soare), in O. Bonami and P. Cabredo Hofherr, eds., Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics, 7, online publication, 193-216. http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/eiss7/.

• 2004 - N-words as Negative Quantifiers in Romanian, in E. Ionescu, ed., Understanding Romanian Negation. Syntactic and Semantic Approaches in a Declarative Perspective, Bucharest University Publishing House, Bucharest, 119-150.

Book Reviews

• 2024 - Leah Kawaletz, The semantics of English -ment nominalizations, Language Science Press, 2023, in English Language and Linguistics, first view, October 2024, pp. 1-7. DOI: 10.1017/S1360674324000145.

• 2012 - Mark Aronoff and Kirsten Fudeman, What is Morphology?, Wiley-Blackwell,2nd ed., 2011, in Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 23.2, 191-193.

• 2012 - Geert Booij, Construction Morphology, Oxford University Press, 2010, in Linguistische Berichte 229, 117-122.