CV

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Scientific activities and collaborations in the following countries

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and USA

Honors, fellowships, grants, etc. (since I moved to Austria)

2024   Invitation to be part of the newly created international expert panel of  the Slovak Research and Development Agency 

2022-  Evaluator, Times Higher Education World University Rankings (by invitation only)

2021     Invited volume editor, De Gruyter Mouton (Berlin)

2021     Invited contributor, Oxford Handbook of Iconicity

2020    Invited contributor, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology 

2020    Invited expert, “evaluation of research and professional activities of research-oriented institutes 

              of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the period 2015–2019”

2019     Invited contributor, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Morphology 

2018     Invited contributor, Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Linguistics (online only)

2017     PhD examiner (Education, Foreign Language Teaching and Learning), University of Sydney,    

               Australia

2017-    Invited certified expert of the Slovak Research and Development Agency 

2015-    Invited curator, Subtractive Morphology, Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics

2015     Host of a short visit grant (AMU Poznań PhD-student’s project)

2015      Host of an ESF short-visit grant, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 7019 

2014     Host of an ESF short-visit grant, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 7006

2014-    Jury (national level, Vienna, Austria) at the language contest SAG'S MULTI!

2014     Invited volume editor, Oxford University Press (New York)

2013-    Invited curator, Affixation, Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics

2013     University of Vienna Innovative Teaching Award, with the MEi:CogSci team

2013-    Pool of experts of the National Science Centre of Poland

2013      NetWordS support to attend the annual workshop of the network in Dubrovnik, Croatia

2013      Host of an ESF short-visit grant, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 5565

2013      Postdoctoral selection committee at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with P. M. Bertinetto 

              (SNS  Pisa) and G. Booij (Leiden University)

2013      Grant from the European Science Foundation (ESF), NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Grant 5566

2012      Invited contributor, Word-Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe  

              (De Gruyter, Berlin)

2012      Teaching grant from the Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies 

2011       PhD-defence President, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 

2011       PhD examiner (Language and Cognition, Slavic and General Linguistics), Universitat Autònoma 

               de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 

2011       Support from the Erste Bank, Vienna  (for 3rd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order) 

2010      Invited scholar, V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian National Corpus Section,    

               Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

2010      Open Access Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 

2009     Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), V64-G03 (2nd part)

2009     Dean's Office Grant, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of 

   Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order) 

2009     Support from the Mayor of Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)

2009     Support from the Erste Bank, Vienna  (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)

2008     Invited to a position of a qualified rank, Stony Brook University, SUNY, USA

2007     Elise Richter Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Grant V64-G03 (1st part)

2006     Grant prolongation, Austrian National Bank (Bulgarian morphology)

2006     Awarded Austrian citizenship as a promising scholar, § 10 Abs. 4 StBG 1985

2003     Grant from the Austrian National Bank (Bulgarian morphology)

2002     Travel grant from the Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, Junta de Andalucía (Spain), to read an 

               invited paper at the Seminar on Conversion / Zero-Derivation, held in conjunction with the 10th 

               International Morphology Meeting, Szentendre, Hungary

Invited speaker

2023   Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology, 

Dubrovnik, October 5-6.

2023   Inflection and derivation in the Slavic verb, workshop in honor of the late Morris 

Halle, 56th  Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2023), Athens, 

August 29 - September 1. (recruited talk)

2022   Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF), Princeton University, NJ, December 2-3.

2022   Natural Language Processing Without Grammar, Cognitive Science Research in Vienna, 

            University of Vienna, November 22.

2022   Diminutivization, allomorphy and the architecture of grammar: phonology before 

morphology and syntax. Introduction to DMTD3, 20th International Morphology 

Meeting (IMM), Budapest, September 1-4. 

2021    Current Perspectives and Directions in Recent Research in Slavic Languages. Department of 

  Modern Languages, Uppsala University, November 17. (online)

2021    Deriving Language Structure with N-Grams: The End-to-end N-Gram Model - 

      EteNGraM. MEi:CogSci Lecture Series, October 19. 

2021    Diminutivization across languages and frameworks. Introduction to DMTD1, 54th 

Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, online, August 30. 

(with Boban Arsenijević, Laura Grestenberger and Katharina Korecky-Kröll)

2020   Natural language processing with n-grams: A linguistic solution to the zero-frequency 

problem. Cognitive Science in Vienna. Ring Lecture, University of Vienna, November 3.

2019    Writing texts with n-grams: The Fibonacci sequence in linguistics. Cognitive Science 

in Vienna. Ring lecture, University of Vienna. October 15.

2018    Young animals and diminutives in Bulgarian and other Slavic languages: A contrastive 

study with emphasis on derivational paradigms, Bǎlgaristični ezikovedski četenija 

organized on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of St. Kliment Ohridski University 

of Sofia, Sofia, November 19.    

2018   Language Processing and Morphology. Research Platform Cognitive Science. 

University of Vienna, October 16. 

2017   Word structure in language processing. Research Platform Cognitive Science. 

University of Vienna, November 28.

2017    What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches to 

the relation of meaning and form in morphology. WS introduction, 50th Annual 

Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, September 10-13. 

(with Harald Hammarström and Itamar Kastner)

2017    Forma di citazione e forma di accesso lessicale. Uno studio sperimentale sui verbi 

italiani e bulgari. Seminario, Scuola Universitaria Superiore, Pavia, May 3. (with Pier Marco 

Bertinetto and Chiara Finocchiaro, presented by PM Bertinetto).

2016    Word-formation and the organization of the mental lexicon. Lecture in Cognitive 

Science. University of Vienna. November 29.

2015    Word-formation in the mental lexicon. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of 

             Vienna, December 1.

2015    Word-formation, cognition and the organization of the mental lexicon. Presentation of 

current research at the 4th Annual Lecture in Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, 

April 28. (poster with Bartosz Brzoza)   

2014   Cognitive concepts in word-formation. Research Platform Cognitive Science. 

University of Vienna, November 25.

2013    Lexical semantics and cognition. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of 

Vienna, November 12.

2013    Suffix ordering in Italian and Russian: A cognitive approach. 3rd Annual Workshop of 

NetWordS (the European Network on Word Structure), Dubrovnik, September 19-20. 

(reporting joint work with L. Talamo)     

2013    Semantically-conditioned two-suffix constructions in English and Bulgarian. 3rd 

Annual Workshop of NetWordS (the European Network on Word Structure), 

Dubrovnik, September 19-20. (with A. Bagasheva)     

2013    (De)composing the Slavic word: A domain-specific approach to affix order. 

CogSci-Talk. Cognitive Science Platform, University of Vienna, June 19.    

2013    A cognitive approach to suffix ordering: Two-suffix constructions in English and 

Slavic. Seminar of the Laboratorio di Linguistica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, May 17.    

2013    Word-formation in English and Slavic: A typological view. Seminar of the Department 

of British and American Studies, University of Sofia, March 14th.

2013    Word-formation and cognition: The role of syntax and semantics. Seminar of the 

Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian 

University, Sofia, March 13.

2012    Word-formation and cognition. Department of Philosophy / Research Platform 

Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, November 20.

2011     Suffix combinations in English and Bulgarian, with some comparisons to Russian and 

Polish. Seminar of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de 

Barcelona, December 15. 

2010    Invited chair of the panel ‘Rules of Language’. KogWis 2010 – The 10th Biannual 

 Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science, Potsdam, October 3 – 6.

2009   Restrictions on recursive diminutivization in Slavic. Workshop on recursiveness in 

word-formation. 42 Annual Meeting of the Societas Lingusitica Europaea, Lisbon, September 

9 – 12. (recruited talk)

2009   Affix order in the Slavic word: parsability, closing suffixes and related issues. State University of 

             New York at Stony Brook, February 4.

2007   Zatvarjašti sufiksi v bălgarskija ezik / Closing suffixes in Bulgarian. Lingvističen 

seminar na Sofijskija universitet / Linguistic Seminar of the University of Sofia, November 27.

2005   Wie kompliziert ist die bulgarische Verbalflexion? Institut für Slawistik der Universität Wien, 

             December 12.

2004   Bulgarian verbs as a dynamic system. University of Surrey, Guildford, July 27.

2004   Subtrakcijata kato vid morphologična texnika / The morphological technique of 

subtraction, Lingvističen seminar na Sofijskija universitet / Linguistic Seminar of the 

University of Sofia, May 20. 

2002   Conversion versus modification and subtraction. Workshop on Conversion / 

Zero-Derivation, 10th International Morphology Meeting. Szentendre, May 12. 

(with Wolfgang U. Dressler).

Grants and awards won by my advisees 

2017    Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) competitive graduate student award, won by 

Dušan Ptáček. (Awarded for our joint paper Second-grade diminutives in Czech and 

Slovak: A contrastive study with data from corpora.)

2016    Short-Term Grant Abroad / Kurzfristiges Auslandsstipendium (KWA) for 3  

months, International Office of the University of Vienna, won by Alastair L. Brown.
(Awarded for the project Processing Contrasts in the Mental Lexicon: Phonological Asymmetries which I supervised.) 

2015    Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) competitive graduate student award, won by 

Bartosz Brzoza. (Awarded for our joint paper on the processing and representation of 

suffix combinations in Polish.)

2015    Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB) travel grant. Won by 

Bartosz Brzoza. (Presentation of our joint paper on suffix ordering in Polish at the 

ULAB 2015 meeting.)

2014   European Science Foundation (ESF) short-visit grant. Won by Bartosz Brzoza. 

       (Project on the combinability of the derivational suffixes in Polish; the project was based on my   

       research on the topic and I hosted and advised it in Vienna.)