Denis Paperno

UCLA Linguistics
PhD student

contact: "last name" at ucla dot edu.

Interests

•Formal semantics
•Syntax
•Learning Theory
•Field Linguistics
•African languages
•Finno-Ugric languages
•Philosophy of language
•Formal language theory

Research projects

Syntax and Semantics of Coordination

•Dissertation Abstract
•(with Rui Chaves) On the Russian Hybrid Coordination Construction
•Syntax and Semantics of Hybrid Coordination in Russian (MA thesis, UCLA): Title page; Preliminary pages; Thesis body.

Quantifiers in Russian

•Article for the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural language (draft).
•Negative concord items in Russian (abstract of the paper presented at the 5th Slavic Linguistics Society meeting)

Computational ideas in linguistics

•Learnable classes of quantifiers: two persectives
•Observations on complexity and expressive power of laguages (abstract of the paper to be presented at the Workshop on Formal Linguistics and the Measurement of Grammatical Complexity)

South Mande Languages

•Summary of my MSU Thesis on the basic syntax of Beng
•Beng dialects. An updated version of
Paperno, Denis. Parlers décrits par Tauxier et Delafosse et le Beng moderne de Ouassadougou. In: Mande languages and linguistics. 2nd International Conference, St. Petersburg (Russia), September 15-17, 2008. Abstracts and Papers. V.Vydrin (ed.). St. Petersburg, 2008, pp. 113-120.
•On Gbin language. (presented at the 3rd Congress on Mande language family, Paris)
•On a syntactically determined tonal change in Beng (to be presented at ACAL 2012)
•Grammatical sketch of Beng (in Russian)
•Preliminary notes on Gbin language (in Russian, published in Le monde Mande: collected papers in honor of Valentin Vydrine).