Dmitry Levinson

Dmitry Levinson

Dmitry Levinson

Graduate student

Department of Linguistics
Stanford University

E-mail: dmitryle @ stanford.edu

Recent research

Negative Polarity Particles

(2007). Negative Polarity Particles and Semantic Negativity. Dissertation Proposal. pdf.

(2007). Licensing of Negative Polarity Particles in English. Presented at the Workshop on Negation and Polarity at the University of Tübingen, March 2007. Abstract.

Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology

(2006). Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology. Swarthmore Workshop on Negation and Polarity. Handout.

(2006). Irrealis as Polarity Sensitivity. Stanford 7th Annual Semantics Fest. Handout.

(2006). Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology. Berkeley Linguistics Society 32. pdf. handout.

(2005). Aspect in Negative Imperatives and Genitive of Negation: A Unified Analysis of two Phenomena in Russian. Ms. pdf. (Similar to the document below, but contains Russian data only.)

(2005). Aspect in Negative Imperatives and Genitive of Negation: A Unified Analysis of two Phenomena in Slavic Languages. Ms. pdf. (This document was previously known as "Imperfective of imperative and Genitive of Direct Object: Grammaticalization of aspect and case due to emphatic negation in Russian and other Slavic languages")

Definiteness: gradual uniqueness effect

2006. Gradual Uniqueness Effect in Non-Unique Definite Noun Phrases. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Albuquerque, NM. Handout.

2006. Definiteness of Body Part Terms in Spanish and Portuguese. In Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Timothy L. Face and Carol A. Klee, 172-182. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Abstract and complete pdf. Presented in November 2004.

April 2005. Gradual Uniqueness Effect: A Pragmatic Explanation. Stanford 2nd Annual QP Fest. Handout.

March 2005. Gradual Uniqueness Effect. Stanford 6th Annual Semantics Fest. Handout.

January 2005. Definiteness of Noun Phrases with Body Part Terms. Qualifying Paper. pdf.

Existentials

David Beaver, Itamar Francez and Dmitry Levinson (2005). Bad Subject: (Non-)Canonicality and NP Distribution in Existentials. Semantics and Linguistic Theory XV. pdf.

David Beaver, Itamar Francez, Ivan García-Álvarez, Dmitry Levinson and Line Mikkelsen (2004). Existentials: from Angst to Harmony. Presented by David Beaver and Line Mikkelsen at Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop, Oct 21, 2004. Also presented by David Beaver at the Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation Colloquium of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam. pdf.

Miscellaneous

September 2006. Is Topic Time Needed to Account for Russian Aspect? Chronos 7, International conference on tense, aspect, mood, and modality. Handout.

Earlier research

Levinson, Dmitry (2003). Probabilistic model-theoretic semantics for 'want'. Semantics and Linguistic Theory XIII. pdf.

Levinson, Dmitry (2003). Probabilistic model-theoretic semantics for 'want'. Penn Linguistics Colloquium 27. pdf.

Levinson, Dmitry (2000). Corpus-based methods for word sense disambiguation. Master's thesis. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Haifa, Israel.

Levinson, Dmitry (1999). Corpus-Based Method for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation. Workshop on Machine Learning in Human Language Technology, Chania, Greece. ps.

Education

2003 - Present	Ph.D. program in Linguistics, Stanford University.
2003 - 2005	M.A. in Linguistics, en route to Ph.D., Stanford University.
2000 - 2003	Linguistics studies. Tel-Aviv University.
1998 - 2000	M.Sc. in Computer Science. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
1995 - 1998	B.A. in Computer Science. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.