Vita

Affiliations University of Florida
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies 263 Dauer Hall Gainesville, FL 32611-7430 Phone: (352) 392-2101			Department of Linguistics 4131 Turlington Hall Gainesville, FL 32611-5454 Phone: (352) 392-0639	Center for European Studies 3340 Turlington Hall Gainesville, FL 32611-7342 Phone: (352) 392-8902

Education
Ph.D. Linguistics	1993	University of California at Berkeley, Department of Linguistics
M.A. Linguistics	1988	University of California at Berkeley, Department of Linguistics

Positions
2005-present	University of Florida	Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies Department of Linguistics Center for European Studies	Assistant Professor
2002-2005	SRI International	NLP Group Discern	Computational Linguist
	Stanford University	Department of Linguistics	Visiting Scholar
2001-2002	Stanford University	Department of Linguistics	Visiting Assistant Professor
1999-2001	Northwestern University	Department of Linguistics	Visiting Assistant Professor
1996-1999	University of Rochester	Department of Linguistics	Visiting Assistant Professor
		Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
1995-1996	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Department of Linguistics	Visiting Assistant Professor
1994-1995	ICSI Berkeley	AI Group	Research Associate

Distinctions, Awards and Fellowships
2007.	Summer Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University. Advanced course in semantics Events: Modification, Aspect and Lexical Meaning (with Cleo Condoravdi).
2005-2006.	Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund. University of Florida.
2000.	Course Enhancement Grant. Awarded for the Formal Semantics course by the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University.
1987–1989.	Research Fellowship Award, Institute of Cognitive Studies. Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of California at Berkeley.
1986-1988.	German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). Fellowship granted for studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
1986-1987.	University of California Fellowship.

Professional Service
2006 – present	Associate Editor, Journal of Slavic Linguistics
	Chief Editor: Steve Franks (Indiana University)
2005	2005. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 14). The Princeton University Meeting. James Lavine, Steven Franks, and Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva (eds.). Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.
1990-1992	Editor of the Technical Report Series of the Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California at Berkeley
1986-1987	1986-1987. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Jon Aske, Natasha Beery, Hana Filip and Laura Michaelis (eds.)

Journal Reviewer

Computational Linguistics

Journal of Linguistics

Journal of Semantics

Journal of Slavic Linguistics

Language

Lingua

Linguistics and Philosophy

Natural Language Semantics

Slavic and East European Journal

Studies in Language

Syntax

Book Manuscript Reviewer

Oxford University Press, Oxford, Great Britain

Basil Blackwell, Oxford, Great Britain

CSLI, Stanford, CA, USA

Conference Referee

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language)

CUNY (Sentence Processing Conference)

FASL (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics)

SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory)

SINN UND BEDEUTUNG (‘Sense and Reference’)

WCCFL (West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics)

Workshop Organization

2004 (March). Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation. Workshop at the Department of Linguistics and the Graduiertenkolleg: “Universality and Diversity: Linguistic Structures and Processes.” University of Leipzig, Germany. Member of the organizing committee.

2000 (August). Paths and Telicity in Event-structure. In collaboration with Gregory N. Carlson, organized in connection with ESSLLI 2000 (Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information), Birmingham, Great Britain.

Membership in Professional Organizations

Linguistic Society of America

Slavic Linguistic Society

Modern Language Association

Alumni Organization of the Fellows of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (http://www.fes.de/index_g.htm)

Languages
Native competence	Czech, German, English
Near-native	Russian, Slovak
Reading and speaking competence	French, Italian
Reading competence	Polish, Latin, Vietnamese