Lena Borise

Chercheur CNRS

Présentation générale

My research lies at the intersection of syntax and phonology, with focus on understudied languages. I am particularly interested in how prosody interacts with clause structure, and how information structure is reflected in syntax and prosody. Recently, I have also been studying the behavior of postverbal constituents in verb-final languages. I have investigated these topics in Georgian (Kartvelian), Iron Ossetic (Iranian), Udmurt and Khanty (Uralic), as well as Basque.

I am also interested in the phonetics and phonology of stress and prosodic prominence, and have worked on these topics in Georgian, Iron Ossetic, Udmurt, and Belarusian.

Bibliographie

Journal papers

Borise, Lena, Andreas Pregla & Balázs Surányi. Under review. Raised and in-situ preverbal foci: a unified prosodic account.

Burukina, Irina, Lena Borise & Marcel den Dikken. 2024. A ‘big DP’ analysis of Russian copular constructions with èto. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1).
    
Borise, Lena & Ekaterina Georgieva. 2024. Acoustic correlates of word stress and focus marking in Udmurt.  Journal of the International Phonetic Association 54(1):318-358.
    
Borise, Lena. 2023. The syntax of wh-phrases, narrow foci, and neg-words in Georgian. The Linguistic Review 40(2), 173-215.
    
Borise, Lena & David Erschler. 2023. Flexible syntax-prosody mapping of intonational phrases in the context of varying verb height. Phonology 39(2), 171-212.
    
Borise, Lena. 2023. Disentangling word stress and phrasal prosody: a view from Georgian. Phonological Data and Analysis 5(1), 1–37.
    
Borise, Lena & Katalin É. Kiss. 2023. The emergence of conjunctions and phrasal coordination in Khanty. Journal of Historical Linguistics 13(2), 173-219.
    
Borise, Lena. 2021. Focus projection need not be based on pitch accents: evidence from Georgian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 128, 1-46.

Book chapters

Borise, Lena, Andreas Pregla & Balázs Surányi. Forthcoming. The challenge of postverbal adverbs and PP-adverbials in flexibly verb-final languages. In Lekakou, Marika, Kriszta Szendrői & Robert Truswell (eds.): Generation Flex: Flexible Syntax, 25 years on, Berlin: Language Science Press, 57–101.
    
Borise, Lena. 2020. Word Stress in the Languages of the Caucasus. In Polinsky, Maria (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus, Oxford University Press, 729-756.    
    
Borise, Lena. 2020. Tone and Intonation in the Languages of the Caucasus. In Polinsky, Maria (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus, Oxford University Press, 757-782.

Conference proceedings
    
Borise, Lena & Ekaterina Georgieva. 2023. The role of Lowering and non-cyclic heads in Udmurt stress placement. Proceedings of NELS 53, 105-118.
    
Borise, Lena & David Erschler. 2022. Mora count and the alignment of rising pitch accents in Iron Ossetic. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022.
        
Borise, Lena & David Erschler. 2021. Verb height indeed determines prosodic phrasing: evidence from Iron Ossetic. Proceedings of NELS 51, 65-74.
    
Borise, Lena & Maria Polinsky. 2018. Focus without movement: syntax-prosody interface in Georgian. Proceedings of NELS 48, 97-110.
    
Borise, Lena & Xavier Zientarski. 2018. Word stress and phrase accent in Georgian. Proceedings of TAL 6, 207-211.
        
Borise, Lena. 2017. Prominence redistribution in the Aŭciuki dialect of Belarusian. Proceedings of FASL 24, 94-109.
    
Borise, Lena. 2017. Prosody of focus in a language with a fixed focus position: evidence from Georgian. Proceedings of WCCFL 34, 89-96.
    
Borise, Lena. 2016. Sluicing in Tagalog: strategies and implications. Proceedings of AFLA 22, 15-30.
    
Borise, Lena. 2015. Tagalog sluicing revisited. Proceedings of BLS 41, 31-48.

    
Working papers
    
Borise, Lena. 2015. The role of the Finnic substratum in the loss of the neuter gender in the Baltic languages. Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 13, 1-23. (pre-print)