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Research Interests / Recherches

Genoveva Puskás holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Geneva. She was a Visiting Fellow Researcher at the University of California in Santa Cruz during the academic year 1998-1999, a Visiting Professor at McGill University (Montréal) in 2006-2007 and a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico in 2019. She joined the English Department as chargée d'enseignement, and was Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche before being appointed to her current position as an Associate Professor in English Linguistics. She also teaches in the Linguistics Department. Her main research domains are syntax, the syntax-semantics interface and Finno-Ugric languages. More specifically, her research activities include the syntax and semantics of negation and quantification in a comparative approach, the syntax and semantics of left peripheral phenomena in Hungarian, such as Topic, Focus, wh-questions and Contrastive Topic, the syntax of subjunctive clauses, modality and, more recently, case and cased clauses.

 

Research Projects/Projets

Main reserach projects:

- 2001-2005: Swiss National Foundation (SNF) project no 1114-064985, "Quantification and negation: a comparative study of the syntactic and semantic constraints". [on the interaction between quantification and negation in various languages, including English, French, Bellinzonese, and Hungarian].

- 2009-2013: SNF funded project no 100015_126861/1, "Une étude comparative des propriétés syntaxiques du subjonctif" [a cross-linguistic approach to the syntactic proprties of embedded subjunctives, including Slavic languages, Modern Greek, Hungarian].

- 2018-2019: Movetia International Mobility Funding for the project “Revisiting Research Teaching in Linguistics: theory, logic, method”, in collaboration with UniZurich (Dr. Tanja Samardzic) and the University of Belgrade (Prof. Maja Milicevic Petrovic).

- 2020-2023: Movetia Grant ‘Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange for Good Practices’, in a partner project ‘UPgrading the SKIlls of Linguistics and Language Students [UPSKILLS]’, in collaboration with the universities of Malta, Belgrade, Graz, Rijeka, Bologna, Zurich and  CLARIN ERIC.

- 2022-2025: SNF funded Weave project,100015L_204566 “Case-marked subordinate clauses”, in collaboration with Prof. Pavel Caha, Université Masaryk (Brno).

 

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Publications

Monographs / Monographies

2022. (with Lena Baunaz). A cross-linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive Mood. Cham: Springer.

2013. Initiation au Programme Minimalisme: éléments de syntaxe comparative. Berne: Peter Lang.

2000a. Word Order in Hungarian: the Syntax of A’-positions. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

Edited Volumes /Volumes édités

2022. (ed. with G. Consenza, C.Forel and T. Robert). Saussure and Chomsky: Converging and Diverging. Bern: Peter Lang.

2017. (ed. with E. Aboh, E. Haeberli and  M.Schönenberger). Elements of Comparative Syntax: Theory and Description. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2016. (ed. with M. Leer). Economies of English [SPELL 33]. Tübingen: Narr Franke.

2007a. (ed. with L de Saussure and J. Moeschler). Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality [Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 185]. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2007b (ed. with L. de Saussure and J. Moeschler). Information temporelle, procédures et ordre discursif [Cahiers Chronos 18]. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi.

2006a (ed). Negation in Finno-Ugric Languages. Lingua Special Issue, 116/3

2000a. Word Order in Hungarian: the Syntax of A’-positions. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Selected Articles/Sélection d'articles

2022. (with C. Grisot and J. Blochowiak). “Predicting verbal mood in complement clauses: the role of the semantic category, the tense and the grammatical aspect of the matrix verb”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5798

2021. (with Y. Konan) “On quantified DPs in Baule-Kode”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5707.

2020. (with L. Baunaz) “Complementizer functional sequence: the contribution of Italo-Romance”. In Hinzelin, Marc‐Olivier, Natascha Pomino & Eva‐Maria Remberger (eds), Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax: Linking Variation to Theory, 251-279. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2018a. "To wish or not to wish: modality and (meta)linguistic negation". Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1), 125. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.412

2018b.  “Les anaphores dans la syntaxe”. In L. de Saussure (ed). Deixis et anaphore [Série « Les concepts fondateurs de la philosophie du langage », dirigée par B. Godart-Wendling, vol 5], 183-204. London: ISTE Editions.2012. "Licensing Double Negation in NC and non-NC languages". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 30(2): 611-649. DOI 10.1007/s11049-011-9163-z

2017c. "Discontinuous Quantification, Primarily in French". In M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk (eds). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax [2nd edition], 1037-1335. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

2017b. “Negation and modality: on negative purposive and avertive complementizers”. In E. Aboh, E. Haberli, G. Puskás & M. Schönenberger (eds) Elements of Comparative Syntax: Theory and Description, 153-183. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 
2017a. "Some Notes on Floating Quantifiers". In J. Blochowiak, C. Grisot, S. Durrleman-Tame, C. Laenzlinger (eds.), Formal Models in the Study of Language, 65-82. Cham: Springer.

2014.(with L. Baunaz).  "On Subjunctives and Islandhood". In Côté, Marie-Hélène and Eric Mathieu (eds.) Variation within and across Romance Languages. Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011, [CILT 333], 233-254. Amsterdam : John Benjamins.

2009. "De l'interaction entre structure informationnelle et syntaxe: quelques réflexions sur la double négation en français". In Mélanges Plurilingues offerts à Suzanne Schlyter à l'occasion de son 65ème anniversaire, P. Bernardini, V. Egerland & J. Granfeldt (eds). Lund: Lunds universitet Sprach- och litteraturcentrum Romanska.

2008 (with L. Baunaz)."Feature stripping and wh-movement in French and Hungarian". In Selected Proceedings of the 34th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Paola Benincà, Federico Damonte & Nicoletta Penello (eds). Special Issue of the Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, vol. 33. Padova: Unipress.

2006b. "Double Negation and Information Structure: somewhere between Topic and Focus". In The Architecture of Focus, V. Molnár & S. Winkler (eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

2006c. “Negation in Finno-Ugric: an introduction". In Negation in Finno-Ugric Languages, G. Puskás (ed.). Lingua 116/3: 203-227.

2002. “On negative licensing contexts and the role of n-words”. In Approaches to Hungarian, I. Kenesei, K. E-Kiss and P. Siptár (eds), vol. 8: 81-106. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

2000b. “Quantification in the left periphery: a syntactic argument for ‘split’ domains”. In The Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistics Society’s Thirty-sixth Meeting, Arika Okrent & John Boyle (eds), 36-1: 355-368. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

1999. “Negation and n-words in Hungarian”. In Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Western Conference on Linguistics, Nancy M. Antrim, Grant Goodall, Martha Shulte-Nafeh and Vida Samiian (eds), 11 (Wecol 99): 443-456. Fresno: California State University.

1998a. “On the Neg-criterion in Hungarian”, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 45,1-2: 167-213.

1998b. “A split-CP approach: evidence from Hungarian”. In Papers from the Amsterdam Conference . Approaches to Hungarian, I. Kenesei (ed.), Vol. 6: 183-208. Szeged:JATE.

1997. “Focus and the CP domain”. In The New Comparative Syntax, L. Haegeman (ed). 145-164. London: Longman.