Research

Polina Berezovskaya (to appear): “Variation in the Grammar of Alternatives – Are there Intervention Effects in Tundra Nenets?”. TripleA 10 proceedings.

Dissertation

Polina Berezovskaya (2020): Comparing Comparatives: New Perspectives from Fieldwork and Processing. Tübingen: TOBIAS-lib Publikationssystem. http://hdl.handle.net/10900/108468

Journal articles

Anna Howell, Vera Hohaus, Polina Berezovskaya, Konstantin Sachs, Julia Braun, Şehriban Durmaz and Sigrid Beck (2022): “(No) Variation in the Grammar of Alternatives”. Linguistic Variation 22(1): 1-77. Open access here: https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.19010.how

Polina Berezovskaya (2019): “Comparisons in Nenets: About a Language that Has Degrees and also Uses them”, Ural-Altaic Studies 35:4, 18-35. Electronic ISSN 2500-2902. Click here for the full issue.

Sigrid Beck, Polina Berezovskaya & Katja Pflugfelder (2009): “The Use of Again in 19th Century vs. Present Day English”. Syntax 12:3, 193-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9612.2009.00124.x  pdf

Proceedings papers (refereed)

Polina Berezovskaya, Sigrid Beck & Robin Hörnig (2023): “Turkish Correlatives in Monolingual Turkish and Bilingual Turkish-German Grammar”, Proceedings of TU+8 (Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic), 30-43. https://doi.org/10.3765/j92h0b81

Polina Berezovskaya & Anna Howell (2020): “(No) Variation in the Grammar of Alternatives – Intervention Effects in Russian”, Proceedings of FASL 26 (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics), 1-19. ISBN 9780930042905.

Polina Berezovskaya & Robin Hörnig (2019): “The Processing of Ambiguous Degree Constructions in German”. In: Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data drives Linguistic Theory. Ed. by A. Gattnar, R. Hörnig, M. Störzer & S. Featherston, 229-244. pdf  (URL: https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/87132)

Polina Berezovskaya & Vera Hohaus (2015): “The Crosslinguistic Inventory of Phrasal Comparative Operators: Evidence from Russian”, Proceedings of FASL 23 (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics), 1-19. ISBN: 978-0-936534-16-9

Polina Berezovskaya (2014): “Acquisition of Russian Degree Constructions: A Corpus-Based Study”, Proceedings of FASL 22 (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics), 1-22.

Proceedings papers (refereed abstracts)

Polina Berezovskaya (2014): “Acquisition of Russian Comparison Constructions – Semantics Meets First Language Acquisition”.  In: ConSOLE XXI: Proceedings of the 21st Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. Ed. by M. Kohlberger, K. Bellamy & E. Dutton, 45-65. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. ISSN: 1574-499X. pdf

Book Review

Polina Berezovskaya (2018): Review of “The Semantics of Evaluativity”, by Jessica Rett. Language, Volume 94, Number 3, September 2018, pp. 723-727.
https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2018.0045

Editing Work

Liu, Peng, Erin, Sjovall, Xue Sun, Polina Berezovskaya & Vera Hohaus (2023): Proceedings of TripleA 7.
https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/142681

Bade, Nadine, Polina Berezovskaya & Anthea Schöller (2016): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20.
http://siteground357.com/~semant60/Archive/GRmOGQ4N/SUB20html4.html

Selected Talks

June 8, 2023: “Variation in the Grammar of Alternatives: No Intervention Effects in Tundra Nenets?”, TripleA 10, Universität Potsdam.

March 4, 2023 (with Sigrid Beck and Robin Hörnig): “Turkish Correlatives in Monolingual Turkish and Bilingual Turkish-German Grammar”, Tu+8, Harvard University.

June 24th, 2021: “About a Metalinguistic Degree Suffix in Tundra Nenets.”, TripleA 8, National University of Singapore. (online) Handout Video

May 4th, 2021: “Degree Modification in Tundra Nenets and Beyond.” Invited Talk at SynSem Colloquium, University of Potsdam.  (online) Slides

February 16, 2018: “The Processing of Ambiguous Degree Constructions in German”. Joined poster talk with Fabian Schlotterbeck & Oliver Bott at Linguistic Evidence 2018, University of Tübingen. Poster

May 20, 2017 (with Anna Howell): “(No) Variation in the Grammar of Alternatives – Intervention Effects in Russian.” FASL 26 (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Handout

September 9, 2016: “Comparison in Nenets: About a Language that Decided to have Degrees and also Use them.” 6th Conference on Samoyedology, Institute of Linguistics RAS (Russian  Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia.

April 16, 2016: “Processing Ambiguous Degree Constructions Cross-linguistically.” ECO-5 Graduate Student Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, USA.

March 17, 2016: “‘Small Degrees’: Degree Modification in Nenets.” Invited Talk at Ling-Lunch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.  Handout

October, 6th 2015: “A little bit taller, taller or just tall – The Pecularities of Nenets Comparison Constructions.” Invited Talk at the Institute of Linguistic Studies, Saint-Petersburg.

June, 3rd 2015: “The Positive Puzzle in the Semantics of Nenets Comparison Constructions.” Invited Talk at the “Semantikzirkel”, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin.

May, 3rd 2014: “The Crosslinguistic Inventory of Phrasal Comparative Operators: Evidence from Russian.”, FASL 23 (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics), University of California, Berkeley, USA.

July, 25th 2013: “Does your Mouth open Wider than Mine? – On Child Acquisition of Russian Comparatives.”, Ph.D. Student Colloquium , Collaborative Research Center 833, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

May, 4th 2013: “Acquisition of Russian Degree Constructions – A Corpus-Based Study.”, FASL 22 (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

April, 11th 2013: “A Parametric Approach to the Acquisition of Russian Degree Constructions.” Invited talk at LUSH (Leiden Utrecht Semantics Happenings), Universiteit Utrecht.

January, 9th 2013: “Acquisition of Russian Comparison Constructions –  Semantics Meets First Language Acquisition”, ConSOLE XXI, Universität Potsdam. Awarded with best presentation. Handout

July 2012 (with Vera Hohaus): “Association with Focus in Degree Constructions”, Research Seminar, English Department, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

July, 10th 2007 (with Sigrid Beck and Katja Pflugfelder): “The Use of Again in 19th Century vs. Present Day English”, 3rd Late Modern English Conference, Universiteit Leiden.