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Contact Information

University of Illinois
Dept. of Linguistics, MC-168
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Office: 4021 Foreign Languages Bldg.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Syntax, Comparative Syntax, Phonology, Syntax-Prosody Interface, Morphology, Psycholinguistics

Education

Level 1 Mental Health Ambassador, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

PhD (University of Connecticut, 2017)

Awards and Honors

2016 University of Connecticut Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Courses Taught

LING 301 Elements of Syntax
LING 307 Elements of Semantics and Pragmatics
EIL 422 English Grammar for ESL Teachers
LING 400 Introduction to Linguistic Structure (online)

LING 403 Introduction to Field Methods in Linguistics
LING 501 Syntax I
LING 541 Syntax II

LING 591 Seminar on Topics in Morphosyntax

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Honors & Awards

2016 University of Connecticut Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Recent Publications

Talić, A. (2023). Phases and accent assignment domains. In Representing phonological detail part I: Segmental structure and representations (pp. 289-306). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730098-015

Talić, A. (2020). Affixal-Article Languages and Structural Parallelism in Slavic and Beyond. In T. Radeva-Bork, & P. Kosta (Eds.), Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics: Twenty Years After (based on selected papers from FDSL 11) (pp. 131-144). (Potsdam Linguistic Investigations; Vol. 29). Peter Lang Publishing.

Talić, A. (2019). Upward P-cliticization, accent shift, and extraction out of PP. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 37(3), 1103-1143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-018-9424-1

Talić, A. (2018). Spelling out enclitics and giving their tone a voice: Cyclic clitic incorporation in BCS and breaking the cycle. Linguistic Review, 35(2), 307-370. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2017-0026

Talić, A. (2017). Long-form and short-form prenominal adjectives are not reduced relative clauses in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. Linguistic Inquiry, 48(1), 194-212. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00241

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