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Research Interests / Recherches

Genoveva Puskás holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Geneva. She was a Visiting Fellow Researcher at the University of California in Santa Cruz during the academic year 1998-1999 and a Visiting Professor at McGill University (Montréal) in 2006-2007. She taught English linguistics as a chargée d'enseignement before being appointed to her current position as a Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche in English Linguistics, with part of her teaching in the Linguistics Department. Her main research domains are syntax, the syntax-semantics interface and Finno-Ugric languages. This entails, on the one hand, research on the syntax and semantics of negation and quantification in a comparative approach; and, on the other hand, research on the syntax and semantics of left peripheral phenomena in Hungarian, such as Topic, Focus, wh-questions, and more recently, the problem of Contrastive Topic. Between 2001 and 2005, she was Principal Investigator of a Swiss National Foundation (SNF) project on the interactions between quantification and negation in various languages, including English, French, Bellinzonese, and Hungarian. As of October 2009, she is PI of a SNF funded project on a cross-linguistic approach to the syntactic properties of subjunctive.

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Publications

Books and Monographs / Livres et monographies

2007a. (ed. with L de Saussure and J. Moeschler). Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality [Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 185]. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2007b (ed. with L. de Saussure and J. Moeschler). Information temporelle, procédures et ordre discursif [Cahiers Chronos 18]. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi.

2006a (ed). Negation in Finno-Ugric Languages. Lingua Special Issue, 116/3

2000a. Word Order in Hungarian: the Syntax of A’-positions. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Sélection d'articles

2009. "De l'interaction entre structure informationnelle et syntaxe: quelques réflexions sur la double négation en français". In Mélanges Plurilingues offerts à Suzanne Schlyter à l'occasion de son 65ème anniversaire, P. Bernardini, V. Egerland & J. Granfeldt (eds). Lund: Lunds universitet Sprach- och litteraturcentrum Romanska.

2008 (with L. Baunaz)."Feature stripping and wh-movement in French and Hungarian". In Selected Proceedings of the 34th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Paola Benincà, Federico Damonte & Nicoletta Penello (eds). Special Issue of the Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, vol. 33. Padova: Unipress.

2006b. "Double Negation and Information Structure: somewhere between Topic and Focus". In The Architecture of Focus, V. Molnár & S. Winkler (eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

2006c. “Negation in Finno-Ugric: an introduction". In Negation in Finno-Ugric Languages, G. Puskás (ed.). Lingua 116/3: 203-227.

2002. “On negative licensing contexts and the role of n-words”. In Approaches to Hungarian, I. Kenesei, K. E-Kiss and P. Siptár (eds), vol. 8: 81-106. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

2000b. “Quantification in the left periphery: a syntactic argument for ‘split’ domains”. In The Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistics Society’s Thirty-sixth Meeting, Arika Okrent & John Boyle (eds), 36-1: 355-368. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

1999. “Negation and n-words in Hungarian”. In Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Western Conference on Linguistics, Nancy M. Antrim, Grant Goodall, Martha Shulte-Nafeh and Vida Samiian (eds), 11 (Wecol 99): 443-456. Fresno: California State University.

1998a. “On the Neg-criterion in Hungarian”, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 45,1-2: 167-213.

1998b. “A split-CP approach: evidence from Hungarian”. In Papers from the Amsterdam Conference. Approaches to Hungarian, I. Kenesei (ed.), Vol. 6: 183-208. Szeged:JATE.

1997. “Focus and the CP domain”. In The New Comparative Syntax, L. Haegeman (ed). 145-164. London: Longman.