Research Overview

Prof. Asia Pietraszko works in syntax and morphology, with main focus on verbal morphosyntax in Bantu languages. Her research contributes to developing a theory of clausal architecture and processes underlying structure building, such as selection, movement and agreement.

Research Interests

• Syntax and Morphology
• Clausal Architecture
• Processes underlying Structure Building
• Bantu Morphosyntax

Courses Offered (subject to change)

• LING 389:  Senior Seminar
• LING 260/460:  Syntactic Theory
• LING 220/420:  Intro to Grammatical Systems

Selected Publications

• Pietraszko, A. (to appear) The coming apart of case and focus in Bantu, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
• Arregi K. & A. Pietraszko (to appear), The ups and downs of head displacement. Linguistic Inquiry
• Pietraszko A. (to appear), The timing of agreement and A-movement in Ndebele, Working Papers in the Language Sciences at the University of Rochester 
• Pietraszko, A. (2019) Obligatory CP nominalization in Ndebele. Syntax, 22: 66-111. (Published Online: Dec 2018) DOI:10.1111/synt.12167
• Arregi K. & A. Pietraszko (2019), Do-support as spellout of split head chains, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Eds. Baird, M & J. Pesetsky, vol. 2, pp. 63–72, GLSA: Amherst, MA
• Pietraszko A. (2018) Auxiliary vs INFL in Bantu. The syntactic and phonological complexity of Ndebele verbs, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 36(1): 265–308. (Published Online: 12 July 2017) DOI:10.1007/s11049-017-9373-0
• Pietraszko A. (2017), Inflectional Dependencies: A study of complex verbal expressions in Ndebele. PhD Thesis, The University of Chicago