Ivan A Derzhanski's Professional Interests

Theoretical Linguistics

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Linguistics.
• The Meta-index of Linguistic Resources.

In the last several years my favourite part has been aspect -- its semantics and syntax and its interaction with other categories (viz. mode of action, tense and negation as well as number, countability, specificity/definiteness and thematic structure).

Some other things that I'm interested in:

• The interaction between semantic relations, discourse structure and grammatical functions across languages. Systems and mechanisms of case marking.
• Linguistic universals, their nature and parametrisation and their motivation within the existing formal frameworks.
• Statistical phonotactics.
• Writing systems, their history and typology.

An interesting link to follow: Nick Nicholas' Anti-Chomsky page.

Computational Linguistics

At present I'm mostly interested in computational morphology and its handling by finite-state methods.