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Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina
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Current Position

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
Reed College
3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard,
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199

Education

PhD in Theoretical Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Stony Brook University, Sept. 2004 – present
Degree expected: Summer 2010
Dissertation: “Quantifier Scope and Prosodic Effects in Russian”

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
(Empirical Foundations of Language)
Stanford University, CA July 1 – July 27, 2007

MA (Honors) in English and French
Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, July 2004

Exchange Program
(Course study: Psychology and French)
University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada, Sept. 2002 – Dec. 2002

BA (Honors) in English language and literature
Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, July 2002

Research Interests

Syntax, Syntax/Semantics interface, Experimental Phonology, Sentence Prosody, Acoustic Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Slavic and Comparative Linguistics

Publications

• Antonyuk-Yudina, Svitlana. (in press) Russian Loanword Phonology: A Phonetic Account.
  Proceedings of 5th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics,
  Ohio State University

• Antonyuk-Yudina, Svitlana (under review) Prosodic Description of Scopally Ambiguous Sentences in Russian.
  Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 18,
  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

• Antonyuk-Yudina, Svitlana. Scope Freezing, Scrambling and QR in Russian (under revision, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)

• Antonyuk-Yudina, Svitlana. (2009) Long-Distance Scrambling, VP Ellipsis, and Scope Economy in Russian. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 15.1: Proceedings of PLC 32, ed. L. MacKenzie, 1-9. http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss1/2

• Antonyuk, Svitlana. (2006) The Scope of Quantifier Phrases in Russian: A QR Analysis. Linguistics in the Big Apple. Available at: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/liba/CSN2006.html

Teaching

LIN 320, Phonetics, Instructor
Reed College, Jan. 2010 – May 2010

LIN 321, Phonology, Instructor
Reed College, Jan. 2010 – May 2010

LIN 341, Formal Semantics, Instructor
Reed College, Jan. 2010 – May 2010

LIN 211, Introduction to Linguistic Analysis, Instructor (co-taught with Matt Pearson)
Reed College, Sept. 2009 – Dec. 2009

LIN 312, Advanced Syntax (seminar on Quantifier Raising and Scrambling), Instructor
Reed College, Sept. 2009 – Dec. 2009

ESL (Composition), Instructor
SUNY at Stony Brook, Jan. 2009 – May 2009

Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics (4 credit summer course), Instructor
SUNY at Stony Brook, July – August 2008

Writing 101, Instructor
SUNY at Stony Brook, Sept. 2005 – May 2006

ESL 591, Instructor
SUNY at Stony Brook, Jan. 2005 – May 2005

Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics, TA to Prof. Marie Huffman
SUNY at Stony Brook, Sept. 2008 – Dec. 2008

Language and Meaning, TA to Prof. Richard Larson
SUNY at Stony Brook, Jan.2008 – May 2008

Undergraduate Syntax, TA to Prof. Daniel Finer
SUNY at Stony Brook, Sept. 2007 – Dec. 2007

Introduction to Linguistics, TA to Prof. Alice Harris
SUNY at Stony Brook, Jan. 2007 – May 2007

Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics, TA to Prof. Marie Huffman
SUNY at Stony Brook, Sept. 2006 – Dec. 2006

Literacy Development, TA to Prof. Joy Jansen
SUNY at Stony Brook, Sept. 2004 – Dec. 2004

Teacher, Sunday Enrichment School ‘SchoolPlus’
Stony Brook Division Feb. 2005 – Feb. 2007
Courses taught: Advanced/Intermediate Russian for Heritage Speakers,
Russian as a Foreign Language (all levels), Advanced English

Undergraduate Thesis Advising

Jordan Frand, Reed College, Sept. 2009 – May 2010
Hilary McMahan, Reed College, Sept. 2009 – May 2010
Amy Vaughan, Reed College, Sept. 2009 – May 2010

Honors and Awards
National Science Foundation dissertation research improvement grant, 2009 - 2010
Departmental nomination for President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate
Student, Spring 2009
Teaching Assistantship, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2004 – 2009
Dept. of Linguistics Summer Research Fund, July 2009
Dean's Fellowship for Professional Activities, SUNY Stony Brook, March 2009
Tuition Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America, July 2007
GSEU Professional Development Funds Award, 2006 – 2008
Research Access Program Award, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2006 – 2009

Conference Presentations

• Mykhaylyk, R. and S. Antonyuk-Yudina. 2010. On the Interaction of Prosody and Scrambling in Ukrainian. LSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

• Antonyuk-Yudina, S. and R. Mykhaylyk. 2009. Prosodic Effects in Word Order: Evidence from Ukranian. 40th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (general session), MIT, Cambridge, MA

• Antonyuk-Yudina, S. 2009. Prosodic Description of Scopally Ambiguous Sentences in Russian. 18th Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

• Antonyuk-Yudina, S. and John F. Bailyn. 2008. Backwards Pronominalization in Russian: A Syntactic Account. 17th Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

• Antonyuk-Yudina, S. 2008. Long-Distance Scrambling, VP-Ellipsis and Scope Economy in Russian. Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA

• Antonyuk-Yudina, S. and John F. Bailyn. 2007. A Binding-Theory Approach to Backward Pronominalization in Russian. Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Chicago, IL

• Antonyuk -Yudina, S. 2007. Russian Loanword Phonology: A Phonetic Account. Invited Presentation. 5th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics, Columbus, OH

• Antonyuk-Yudina, S. 2007. Russian Loanword Phonology: A Phonetic Account. 2nd Congress of the Slavic Linguistic Society. Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research (ZAS), Berlin, Germany

• Antonyuk, S. 2006. Reconstruction for Scope and Weak Crossover Effect in Russian: Evidence for the QR Analysis. 8th Annual SUNY/CUNY/NYU Mini Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, NY

• Antonyuk, S. 2006. Scope of Quantified NPs in Russian: A Case for Movement Analysis. The First Conference of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Bloomington, IN

Invited Talks

• February 24th, 2009. On QR and Scrambling in Russian: A Unification Attempt. CUNY Syntax Supper. CUNY Graduate Center, NY.

• November 14th, 2008. On the Prosodic Realization of Doubly Quantified Sentences in Russian. NYU Brown Bag, NYU, NY.

Posters

• Antonyuk-Yudina, S. 2008. To The Discussion of Quantifier Scope in Russian. 17th Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Yale, New Haven, CT

Work in Progress

• Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina. On QR and Superiority: a Reply to Stepanov A. and P. Stateva.

• Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (with John F. Bailyn). A Binding-Theoretic Approach to Backward Anaphora

• Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (with John F. Bailyn). On the Structure of Ditransitive VP in Russian

• Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (with Roksolana Mykhaylyk). The Prosody of Object Scrambling in Ukrainian

Professional Service

Abstract Reviewer, SYNC Linguistics Conference, Dec. 2009
Second Reader, Undergraduate Thesis Defense of Tara Barnet, Reed College, Sept. 2009
Abstract Reviewer, CUNY/SUNY/NYU Linguistics Mini Conference, Dec. 2008
Reviewer, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 16
Organizing Committee Member, FASL 16, Stony Brook University Feb. 2007 – May 2007
Linguistic Colloquium Co-organizer, Linguistics Dept., SUNY Stony Brook Spring 2006

Professional Organizations

Linguistic Society of America
Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society

Languages
Ukrainian (native) English (near-native)
Russian (native) French (fluent)
German (reading knowledge)

References
John F. Bailyn, Associate Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Phone: (631) 632-7364
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Prof. Marie K. Huffman, Associate Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Stony Brook University
Phone: (631) 632-1388
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Richard K. Larson, Professor
Dept. of Linguistics
Stony Brook University
Phone: (631) 632-7778
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