
Asia Pietraszko
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, The University of Chicago
510 Lattimore Hall
Fax: (585) 273-1088
asia.pietraszko@rochester.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
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