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Progovac, Ljiljana Title Professor & Program Director  Office# 10303.2, 5057 Woodward Research Area Linguistics: Syntax, Semantics, Nonsententials, Evolution of syntax, Serbian syntax Phone (313) 577-7553 E-Mail ad6003@wayne.edu Web Site www.clas.wayne.edu/faculty/progovac

Books Available on Amazon

(2006) The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, co-edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles and Ellen Barton. Pages: ix + 372. Linguistik Aktuell (LA) 93. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

(2005) A Syntax of Serbian: Clausal Architecture, pp. 245. Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, Indiana.

(1994) Negative and Positive Polarity: A Binding Approach, pp. 168. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 68. Cambridge University Press.

(1994) Proceedings of MIT Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, co-edited by Sergey Avrutin, Steven Franks and Ljiljana Progovac. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor.

Recent papers on the evolution of syntax, or related to the evolution of syntax:

2007. Root Small Clauses with Unaccusative Verbs. FASL (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics) 16, Stony Brook, May 2007.

2007. “Grammars Within without Recursion: Implications for Evolutionary Studies.” Workshop on Recursion in Human Language. Illinois State University , Normal, IL , April 2007.

2007. “If syntax evolved, what might be some vestiges of its evolution in modern-day languages?” International Linguistic Association (ILA), Hunter College , New York .

2007. “Layering of Grammar: Vestiges of Evolutionary Development of Syntax in Modern-Day Languages.” Workshop on Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

2007. “What is there when little words are not there: Possible implications for evolutionary studies.” GURT 2007: Workshop on Little Words, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

2006. “The Syntax of Nonsententials: Small Clauses and Phrases at the Root.” In The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives,” 33-71, co-edited by Progovac, Paesani, Casielles and Barton. Benjamins, Amsterdam.

2006. “Fossilized Imperative in Compounds and Other Expressions.” Online Proceedings of the First Inaugural Meeting of SLS (Slavic Linguistics Society). Bloomington, IN.

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