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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious"
"The search for truth is more precious than its possession"
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty"
Albert Einstein

What language is the one on the bottom?

Address:     Department of Linguistics   University of Pennsylvania   619 Williams Hall   Philadelphia, PA  19104 E-mail: PAPERS & CONFERENCES              CV [pdf]          Dissertation: Semantics and pragmatics of arbitrariness.   [pdf] Paper-saving single-spaced version  [pdf] M.A. thesis in mathematics: Entropy as relevance: maximizing entropy and minimizing loss.  [pdf] Research interests formal semantics, discourse functions of syntax, syntax-semantics interface game-theoretical semantics; game-theoretic approaches to language mathematical properties of linguistic formalisms theoretical and psycholinguistic studies of semantics of impersonal constructions / impersonal pronouns sloppy identity in various domains null reference parallels between the nominal, temporal, modal, and verbal domains accommodation

I was born in the city of Kharkov, Ukraine (city map).       I know some Ukrainian, but my mother-tongue is Russian.       Together with my family, I moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1994.       After a couple of years of high school, I went to the University of       Pennsylvania for a B.A. in Linguistics and Math.       In the fall of 2001, I entered a Ph.D. programme in Linguistics at UPenn.       I am also currently pursuing an M.A. in Math.

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