Inna Livitz

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First-year Ph.D. student

NYU Department of Linguistics
726 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003

i l i v i t z @ n y u . e d u

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Research Interests

I am broadly interested in language as a cognitive and biological system, with more specific areas of focus in theoretical and experimental linguistics. On the theoretical side, I am primarily interested in syntax, and my previous work has tried to relate traditional grammatical notions, like “subject,” to the interactions between discourse function, case, and argument structure. I am also a member of the NYU Neurolinguistics Lab, where I am currently working on a project that investigates the processing of English middle constructions.

Education

Harvard University
B.A./M.A. in Linguistics, June 2006
“Mind, Brain, Behavior” track

Honors Thesis: What's in a Nominative? Implications of Russian non-Nominative Subjects for a Crosslinguistic Approach to Subjecthood. Presented at the Fourth Annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, 2006.
Advisor: Cedric Boeckx

See my CV for more information.

Languages

I am a native speaker of Russian, and can be fluent in German and French when immersed in the relevant environment. I am fascinated by and conversational in Hungarian (and have recently developed a further interest, though not conversation skills, in its Siberian cousins). I also have classroom experience with Old Church Slavonic and Tagalog.

Extra-linguistic

I am a Moscow native, though I long since consider Boston home. In my past, non-linguistic, lives I dedicated two summers to the travel guide industry, working for Let’s Go. I also spent the 2006-2007 academic year in Hungary, researching the link between politics and cultural memory, as well as the presentation of the latter to uninformed tourists (which inadvertently involved witnessing riots in Budapest streets). These days, when not doing linguistics I am usually trying to take advantage of all the cultural and gastronomic distractions New York has to offer.