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SFS, Uni Tübingen
ISCL, Uni Tübingen
SFB 441, Tübingen
SFB 632, Potsdam
LiLi, Uni Bielefeld
IDF, Uni Heidelberg
IMS, Uni Stuttgart
CAS, Oslo
ZAS, Berlin

whoami

I have completed my PhD at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen, on "Pragmatics and Prosody of Implicit Discourse Relations" [Full version (PDF, 3.1M)] with Fritz Hamm (University of Tübingen) and Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld).

Since January 2011, I am a researcher in the DFG project Implicatures and Discourse Structure at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin.

My last project (2007-2010) was Konzeptualisierung und Versprachlichung von Ereignissequenzen at the University of Heidelberg, in collaboration with Antje Roßdeutscher at the IMS, University of Stuttgart.

research interests

Formal semantics and pragmatics, discourse semantics, prosody and intonation, discourse structure, information structure and focus

texts, talks, teaching

2011

• Jasinskaja (2011). Correction as Restatement. Paper presented at the Workshop Implicatures and Discourse Structure at the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). Submitted. [Draft (PDF)]
• Jasinskaja (2011). Correction by Adversative and Additive Markers. Submitted. [Draft (PDF)]
• Jasinskaja & Karagjosova (2011). Elaboration and Explanation. Paper presented at Constraints in Discourse 4. [Paper (PDF)]

2010

• Jasinskaja (2010). The Global Aboutness Topic in German Narrative. Ms. Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo. [Draft (PDF)]
• Jasinskaja (2010). Corrective Contrast in Russian, in Contrast. In Atle Grønn & Irena Marijanovic (eds.) Russian in Contrast. Special Issue of Oslo Studies in Language, 2(2): 433-466. [Final draft (PDF)]
• Jasinskaja (2010). Modelling Discourse Relations by Topics and Implicatures: The Elaboration Default. In Benz, Kühnlein & Sidner (eds.) Constraints in Discourse 2: pp. 61-79. John Benjamins. [Final draft (PDF)]

2009

• Jasinskaja & Zeevat (2009). Explaining Conjunction Systems: Russian, English, German. In Riester, A. & Solstad, T. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13: 231-245. Stuttgart, Germany. [Draft (PDF)]
• Jasinskaja & Roßdeutscher (2009). Through Narrative Planning Towards the Preverbal Message: A DRT-based Approach. Ms. University of Stuttgart. [Draft (PDF)]

2008

• Jasinskaja & Zeevat (2008). Explaining Additive, Adversative and Contrast Marking in Russian and English. Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique, 24: 65-91. [Draft (PDF)]
• with Henk Zeevat: Rhetorical Relations. Introductory course at the European Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information ESSLLI 2008. University of Hamburg, Germany. August 4-15, 2008
• with Henk Zeevat: Rhetorische Relationen. Seminar an der Universität Heidelberg. SS 2008.
• Jasinskaja & Roßdeutscher (2008). Towards Generating Narratives from a Preverbal Message: A DRT-based Approach. In Benz, A., Kühnlein, P. & Stede, M. (eds.) Constraints in Discourse 3. Proceedings of the Workshop (45-52). University of Potsdam, Germany. [Paper (PDF)]

2007

• Zeevat & Jasinskaja (2007). `And' as an additive particle. In Aurnague, M., Korta, K. & Larrazabal, J. M. (eds.) Language, Representation and Reasoning. Memorial volume to Isabel Gómez Txurruka (315-340). University of the Basque Country Press
  [Because of some technical problems in the publishing process, unfortunately, the printed version is difficult to read. Please, refer to the Final Draft (PDF)]
• Jasinskaja (2007). Pragmatics and Prosody of Implicit Discourse Relations: The Case of Restatement. PhD Thesis. University of Tübingen. Full version (PDF, 2M); Full version, 2up (PDF, 1.6M)
• Jasinskaja, Kölsch, & Mayer (2007). Nuclear Accent Placement and Other Prosodic Parameters as Cues to Pronoun Resolution. In Branco, A. (ed.) Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications (1-14). Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg Final Draft (PDF)
• Jasinskaja (2007). Nominal Restatement. In Puig-Waldmüller, E. (ed.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11 (346-360), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 21-23 September 2006. Abstract (PDF) Final Draft (PDF)

2006

• Mayer, Jasinskaja, & Kölsch (2006). Pitch Range and Pause Duration as Markers of Discourse Hierarchy: Perception Experiments. Paper presented at Interspeech'2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Jasinskaja (2006). Non-Canonical Applications of Topic Continuity: Restatement and Elaboration. In Sidner, Harpur, Benz, & Kühnlein (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Constraints in Discourse (107-115), Maynooth, Ireland. Paper (PDF)
• Jasinskaja (2006). Topics in Prosody and Discourse Interpretation. Guest lecture at ERSS, Université de Toulouse le Mirail. July 4, 2006.
• Jasinskaja (2006). Monologue in Dialogue: Modelling Discourse Relations with Exhaustive Interpretation and QUDs. Unpublished manuscript. Paper (PDF)

2005

• Jasinskaja, Kölsch, & Mayer (2005). Global prosodic parameters and anaphora resolution. In Auran et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the IDP05 International Symposium on Discourse-Prosody Interface. Aix-en-Provence, France. Paper (PDF)
• Jasinskaja (2005). Exhaustive Interpretation of Plurals and Mass Terms. Talk. Semantics Colloquium, June 30, 2005. Institut für Linguistik, Universität Potsdam: Handout (PS)
• Jasinskaja (2005). Implicit Causal Relations in Discourse: Exhaustivity and the Lexicon in Interaction. Talk. Discourse Colloquium, June 14, 28, 2005. Institut für Linguistik, Universität Potsdam: Handout (PS)

2004

• Jasinskaja (2004). Applying Various Theories of Exhaustification to the Analysis of Restatements. Talk. Discourse Colloquium, November 9, 23, 2004. Institut für Linguistik, Universität Potsdam: Handout (PDF)
• Jasinskaja, Mayer & Schlangen (2007). Discourse Structure and Information Structure: Interfaces and Prosodic Realization. Ishihara, S., Schmitz, M., & Schwarz, A. (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 1 (151-206). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam. Paper (PDF)
• Jasinskaja (2004). Exhaustification and Semantic Relations in Discourse. In Geurts, & Van der Sandt (Eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Implicature and Conversational Meaning (14-19). 16-20 August 2004, Nancy, France. Paper (PDF)
• Jasinskaja (2004). Discourse Semantics of Prosodic Finality: Experimental Evidence for a Joint Effect of Prosody and Conjunction in Russian. Phonetik und Phonologie 1. June, 18-19, 2004, Potsdam, Germany. Handout (PS)

2003

• Introduction to Praat: The Basics. Tutorial. December 11, 2003. Institut für Linguistik, Universität Potsdam: Handout (PDF), Examples (ZIP)
• Prosodie und Pragmatik von Fokus. Hauptseminar. Sommersemester 2003. Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld. Einige Handouts: [1], [2], [3], [4]. Literatur. Präsuppositionen von only und also.

2002

• Jasinskaja (2002). On part-whole relations between abstract objects. Guest lecture at the DIP Colloquium. 12 December 2002. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). University of Amsterdam. Handout (PS)
• Jasinskaja (2002). Relevance and other constraints on the quantification domain of "only". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Structure in Context. 15-17 November 2002, IMS Stuttgart. Paper (PS)

2001

• Jasinskaja (2001). On the role of structural context in the implementation of prenuclear pitch accents in Russian. Poster at the Workshop on Prosody in Processing. 5-6 July 2001, Utrecht.
• Jasinskaja (2001). Prenuclear Pitch Accents in Russian Declaratives and Interrogatives. Workshop on Tone and Intonation in Europe. June 28-30, 2001. Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Basque Country. Handout (PS).

1999

• Jasinskaja (1999). Word Order in Russian Written Discourse. MA Thesis. Short English version.
• Jasinskaja (1999). Porjadok slov v russkom narrativnom diskurse. MA Thesis. (in Russian)
• with Grigoriy Strokin: DATR - jazyk predstavlenija leksicheskoj informacii. Specialization seminar. Spring term 1999. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Moscow State University. On-line course materials in Russian.