KAGAN TO JOIN DEPARTMENT IN WINTER AND SPRING 2008

Olga Kagan will join the Department as Visiting Assistant Professor for the Winter and Spring quarters, 2008. A semanticist, Olga trained with Edit Doron and Malka Rappaport Hovav at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation, on genitive-accusative case marking alternations in Russian and in other Balto-Slavic languages, explores some of the semantic correlates of the use of the genitive: non-specificity, narrow scope, and the absence of existential entailment.

Olga will teach a seminar based on her dissertation research in Winter 2008. In the Spring, she will teach Pragmatics (Ling 117) as well a new course on the structure of Russian. We look forward to welcoming her to UCSC’s linguistics community.