Prof. Dr. Penka Stateva

Research areas

  • Formal semantics and pragmatics, Experimental pragmatics, Multilingualism, Syntax-semantics interface

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Major research foci

  • Implicatures and presuppositions (including from the perspective of bilingualism); linguistic transfer and ultimate attainment in bilingualism; quantification, numerosity and plurality in natural language (focus on cross-linguistic variation); vagueness and comparison; constraints on movement and repercussions on interpretation; sentence processing.

Education and degrees

  • (1997-2002) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Linguistics, University of Connecticut, USA.
  • (1999) Master of Arts (MA) in Linguistics, University of Connecticut, USA.
  • (1995-1996) University of Oxford, United Kingdom, OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarship in Linguistics
  • (1993) Truman University, Kirksville, USA, Visiting student in Linguistics
  • (1989-1994) University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Diploma for completed higher education; major: Bulgarian and English; minor: Journalism
  • (1986-1988) State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, degree in Information Science

Academic Positions and Service

  • (2022- 2026) Vice-rector for Education and Arts, University of Nova Gorica
  • (2024- ) Professor of Linguistics, University of Nova Gorica
  • (2008-2024) Associate professor of Linguistics
  • (2016- ) Chair, Editorial Board at the University of Nova Gorica Publisher
  • (2007-2008) Visiting Professor, Tübingen University and Research Associate at the University of Konstanz, Germany
  • (2004-2007) Research Associate, Center for General Linguistics, Berlin (ZAS), Germany
  • (2002-2004) Postdoctoral Graduate program in Linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Teaching expertise

  • Slovene Language: Semantics, BA
  • Pragmatics, BA
  • Semantics, MA
  • Pragmatics, MA
  • Formal foundations of linguistic theory, MA
  • Linguistic and cognitive dimensions of multilingualism, MA
  • Topics in semantics, MA
  • Logic and analytical philosophy, MA
  • Formal Semantics, PhD
  • Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics, PhD

Mayor third party research funding at UNG

  • (2020-2023) Principle Investigator "Linguistic transfer in the pragmatic domain: Slovenian speakers in a multilingual environment", funded by ARRS
  • (2020-2023) Principle Investigator "Beyond agreement: How speakers assign syntactic features in real time", funded by ARRS
  • (2018-2019) EURIAS Programme (Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions – COFUND Programme – funded by EU within FP7) Collegium de Lyon, University of Lyon, “Re-thinking natural language quantifiers: a novel view integrating formal semantics, pragmatics and psychometrics”
  • (2014-2019) AThEME (Advancing the European Multilingual Experience large-scale collaborative project funded by EU within FP), member of UNG team, Director of the Bilingualism Mattes Slovenian partner founded within AThEME

Editorial service

Reviewing service

Journal of Linguistics, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of Semantics, Semantics and Pragmatics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Glossa, Wiley-Blackwell, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), Sinn und Bedeutung, North Eastern Linguistic Society Annual Conference (NELS), Generative Linguistics of the the Old world (GLOW), Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages (FASL), Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL), SinFonija, etc.

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