Selected Publications

(* means corresponding author)

Journal Papers

• Zevakhina, Natalia*, Ponomareva, Polina, and Sofia Krasnoshchekova (2025). The role of extralinguistic knowledge in the derivation of scalar implicatures. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 21(2): 270–286. DOI: 10.30842/alp23065737212270286
• Vilinbakhova, Elena and Natalia Zevakhina (2025). The pragmatics of the Spanish verb resultar 'turn out' for expressing evidentiality and new knowledge in academic texts. Terra Linguistica 16(3): 13–30. DOI: 10.18721/JHSS.16302
• Zevakhina, Natalia*, Schipkova, Alina, and Alisa Chinkova (2025). Postnominal numerals are over-specified in referential communication: Evidence from Thai in comparison to Russian. Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2: 105–122.
• Zevakhina, Natalia*, Dongarova, Kseniya, Shubina, Daria, and Daria Popova (2024). Over-specification of small, borderline cardinalities and color in referential communication: The role of visual context, modifier position, and consistency. Frontiers in Psychology 15. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1417047
• Zevakhina, Natalia*, and Maria Rodina (2024). Presupposition diversity: soft and hard presupposition triggers in (non-)embedded contexts. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 20(1): 248–273.
• Zevakhina, Natalia*, and Elina Sigdel (2022). Experimenting with single-pair vs. pair-list interpretations in Russian multiple wh-clauses. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 30 (FASL 29 extra issue): 1–11.
• Vilinbakhova, Elena, Escandell-Vidal, Victoria, and Natalia Zevakhina (2022). Tautologies, inferential processes and constraints on evoked knowledge. Journal of Pragmatics 191: 55–66.
• Zevakhina, Natalia* (2022). Veridicality and the cause-effect relation in Russian esli and raz conditionals: Experimenting with Conditional Perfection and logical entailment. Linguistics Vanguard 8(s4): 402–412.
• Zevakhina, Natalia*, and Veronika Prigorkina (2021). Processing Conditional Perfection in promises and threats: The role of negation, clause order and incentive. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 50: 1557–1573.
• Zevakhina, Natalia*, Pasalskaya, Elena, and Alisa Chinkova (2021). Over-specification of small cardinalities in referential communication. Frontiers in Psychology 12: 745230.
• Zevakhina, Natalia*, Gornsteyn, Daria, and Anastasiya Egorova (2021). The factors influencing the projection of presuppositions in the Chuvash language: An experimental study. Ural-Altaic Studies 1(40): 7–30.
• Zevakhina, Natalia*, Dzhakupova, Svetlana, and Anna Vishenkova (2017). The grammar of Russian metalinguistic comparatives. Scando-Slavica 63(2): 179–197.
• Zevakhina, Natalia* (2016). The hypothesis of insubordination and three types of wh-exclamatives. Studies in Language 40(4): 765–814.
• Van Tiel, Bob, Van Miltenburg, Emiel, Zevakhina, Natalia, and Bart Geurts (2016). Scalar diversity. Journal of Semantics 33(1): 137–175.
• Zevakhina, Natalia* (2013). Syntactic strategies of exclamatives. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 4(2): 157–178.

Proceedings and Book Chapters

• Zevakhina, Natalia*, and Elena Pasalskaya (2021). Overspecification of small cardinalities in reference production. Proceedings of the First Conference "Experiments in Linguistic Meaning." Linguistic Society of America.
• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Veronika Prigorkina (2020). Quantity inferences in conditionals: A pilot experimental study. In Antonis Botinis (ed.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing), 235–238. Athens, Greece.
• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Alex Dainiak (2017). Russian predicates selecting remarkable clauses: Corpus-based approach and Gricean perspective. In Kata Balogh and Wiebke Petersen (eds.), Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics: Selected Papers of the BRIDGE Workshop 14, "Studies in Language and Cognition" 4, 187–208. Duesseldorf University Press.
• Sassoon, Galit, and Natalia Zevakhina (2015). Degree modifiers: A new perspective on their semantics and the role of stress in it. In Peter Arkadiev et al. (eds.), Donum semanticum: Opera linguistica et logica in honorem Barbarae Partee a discipulis amicisque Rossicis oblata, 272–284. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture.
• Sassoon, Galit, and Natalia Zevakhina (2014). Granularity shifting: Experimental evidence from numerals. In Evan Cohen (ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, 145–166. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
• Sassoon, Galit, and Natalia Zevakhina (2012). Granularity shifting: Experimental evidence from degree modifiers. In Anca Chereches (ed.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22, 226–246. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
• Zevakhina, Natalia* (2012). Strength and similarity affect the derivation of scalar inferences. In Ana G. Aguilar, Anna Chernilovskaya, and Rick Nouwen (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16, 647–658. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

Textbooks

• Dolgorukov, Vitaly, Zevakhina, Natalia, and Popova, Daria (2021). Vvedenie v lingvisticheskuju pragmatiku [Introduction to Linguistic Pragmatics] / Zevakhina, Natalia (ed.). Moscow: Editorial URSS. 312 p.