Miloje Despic

About

Miloje Despic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University. His research interests encompass syntax, morphology, semantics, and interfaces. His work involves languages such as Slavic, Turkic, and Algonquian, focusing on the structural and functional aspects of these language families. He is engaged in exploring the complexities of linguistic structures and their interrelations, contributing to the understanding of language systems through his academic and research activities at Cornell University.

Research topics

• Linguistics
• Computer science
• Mathematics
• Psychology
• Natural language processing

Selected publications

• Binding and the Structure of NP in Serbo-Croatian

  Linguistic Inquiry · 2013-04-01 · 113 citations

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  On the basis of binding facts, I argue that Serbo-Croatian (SC) does not project DP and that DP is not a universal property of language. I show that a number of binding contrasts between English and SC follow straightforwardly from independently motivated differences in their nominal structure, most notably from the assumption that DP is present only in English. I also discuss in detail the potential significance of this puzzling set of facts for the binding theory in general. Specifically, I pr…

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• Syntax in the Absence of Determiner Phrase

  OpenCommons - UConn (University of Connecticut) · 2011-01-01 · 110 citations

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  This dissertation investigates the structure of the noun phrase in Serbo-Croatian (SC) and cross-linguistically and argues that DP is not universal.^ Chapters 2 and 3 examine the relationship between the Binding Theory and DP/NP. Chapter 2 explores Conditions B and C and argues that the most principled way of accounting for a number of binding contrasts between English and SC is to assume that the latter lacks DP. I propose a model which employs a predicate-based version of Condition B, Conditio…

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• Phases, Reflexives, and Definiteness

  Syntax · 2015-07-07 · 57 citations

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  Abstract This paper investigates a puzzling correlation between two seemingly disparate phenomena: the crosslinguistic distribution of reflexive possessives and definiteness marking. As observed in Reuland 2007, 2011 and supported here by additional crosslinguistic evidence, reflexive possessives are available only in languages that either lack definiteness marking or encode definiteness postnominally. Languages that have prenominal (article‐like) definiteness marking, on the other hand, systema…

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• Investigations on mixed agreement: polite plurals, hybrid nouns and coordinate structures

  Morphology · 2017-04-10 · 40 citations

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• Suspended Morphology in Serbian: Clitics vs. Affixes

  Glossa a journal of general linguistics · 2017-02-24 · 23 citations

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  This article offers a case study of what appears to be an instance of “suspended affixation” in Serbian. The phenomenon in question is particularly interesting and potentially theoretically significant since it occurs in a language in which suspended affixation is generally impossible. The account I am led to suggests, however, that what is being “suspended” is not an affix but a second position clitic disguised as an affix. This is not a surprising outcome, since Serbian second position clitics…

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Frequent coauthors

• Sarah E. Murray

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• Michael David Hamilton

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