Stanford Humanities Center
Vera Gribanova is an associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Stanford’s Department of Linguistics in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Gribanova studies interactions between syntax (sentence structure) and morphology (word structure). Her work as a linguist focuses primarily on Russian and Slavic languages, but also includes the Turkic languages of Central Asia (primarily Uzbek). She is the recipient of the C.L. Baker Award, awarded by the Linguistic Society of America in 2022.
SHC Project
Ellipsis and the Identity Relation
Gribanova’s research focuses on the interaction between the principles that dictate how words and sentences are structured with constituent ellipsis, in which a grammatically salient chunk of linguistic content is left unpronounced and is recoverable from the linguistic context. This approach yields mutually reinforcing insights that bear both on the fundamental nature of recoverability and redundancy in linguistic discourse, and on the unifying principles that underpin grammatical structure across the diverse range of human languages.
2017. Co-edited with Stephanie S Shih. The morphosyntax-phonology connection: locality and directionality. Oxford University Press
Journal Publications:
2020. Predicate formation and verb-stranding ellipsis in Uzbek. [doi]
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2019. With Boris Harizanov. Whither head movement?. [doi]
2017. Head movement and ellipsis in the expression of Russian polarity focus. [doi]
2016. With Emily Manetta. Ellipsis in wh-in-situ languages: deriving apparent sluicing in Hindi-Urdu and Uzbek. [doi]
2015. Exponence and morphosyntactically triggered phonological processes in the Russian verbal complex. [doi]
2013. Copular clauses, clefts, and putative sluicing in Uzbek. [doi] [data]
2013. A new argument for verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis. [doi]
2013. Verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis and the structure of the Russian verbal complex. [doi]
2009. Structural adjacency and the typology of interrogative interpretations. [doi]
Research Groups & Events:
Stanford Syntax and Morphology Circle
