Selected Talks

Organisation of Linguistic Events

• 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016: Semantics and Pragmatics Workshops (HSE University)
• 2014: Indian Summer School in Linguistics (School on Linguistic Typology; HSE University)
• 2010: 4th International Conference on Cognitive Science (Tomsk)

Invited Talks

• Zevakhina, Natalia. Conditional Perfection in promises and threats.
  Workshop "Scales, degrees and implicature: Novel synergies between Semantics and Pragmatics." Potsdam, Germany, 26–28.05.2021. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Veridicality and cause-effect relation in indicative and subjunctive conditionals.
  Workshop "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives" (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS). 24–26.02.2021. (Online)

Talks

• Natalia Zevakhina. Approximative citation as a variety of hybrid citation: A case of Russian particle "mol."
  Formal Models in Linguistics Conference. Saint-Petersburg, 02–03.12.2025. (Online)
• Elena Vilinbakhova, Victoria Escandell-Vidal, and Natalia Zevakhina. Constraints on evoked knowledge in nominal tautologies: evidence from corpus and experimental data.
  The 10th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics. Seville, Spain, 23–25.05.2022.
• Elena Vilinbakhova, Victoria Escandell-Vidal, and Natalia Zevakhina. Evocation and tautologies: varieties and constraints.
  The 17th International Pragmatics Conference. Winterthur, Switzerland, 27.06–02.07.2021. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Veronika Prigorkina. Quantity inferences in conditionals: a pilot experimental study.
  The 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. Athens, Greece, 12–14.10.2020. (Online) · YouTube
• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Veronika Prigorkina. The role of negation, clause order and face in derivation of Conditional Perfection.
  Workshop "The Processing of Negation and Polarity." Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 01–02.10.2020. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Ilmira Bainazarova. Widening and exhaustifying alternative propositions in multiple wh-exclamatives.
  Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 29. University of Washington in Seattle, USA, 8–10.05.2020. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia and Svetlana Dzhakupova. Russian Metalinguistic Comparatives: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics.
  Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 29. University of Washington in Seattle, USA, 8–10.05.2020. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Ambiguity of Implicature.
  Logical and Linguistic Pragmatics workshop. HSE University, Moscow, Russia, 28.10.2015.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Which semantics better accounts for the predicates embedding exclamatives?
  Workshop Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics. Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, 12–13.04.2014.
• Sassoon, Galit and Natalia Zevakhina. Accent on modifiers of gradable adjectives.
  Focus Sensitive Expressions from a Cross Linguistic Perspective. Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 3–5.02.2014.
• Sassoon, Galit and Natalia Zevakhina. Granularity shifting: Experimental evidence from numerals vs. adjectives.
  The 28th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL 28). Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 2012.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Syntax of exclamative constructions in the world's languages.
  The 5th Conference on Syntax of the World's Languages (SWL 5). Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2012.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. A cross-linguistic study of exclamatives.
  The 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 45). Stockholm, Sweden, August–September 2012.
• Sassoon, Galit and Natalia Zevakhina. Granularity shifting: Experimental evidence from degree modifiers.
  Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22 (SALT 22). Chicago, USA, May 2012.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Exclamative constructions: Typological data and theoretical implications.
  Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, May 2012.
• Van Tiel, Bob, Emiel van Miltenburg, Natalia Zevakhina, and Bart Geurts. Scalar diversity.
  The 5th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics. Utrecht, Netherlands, September 2013.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Heterogeneity of scalar inferences.
  Sinn und Bedeutung 16 (SuB 16). Utrecht, Netherlands, September 2011.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Availability of quantifier scales.
  Proper Use of Quantification in Ordinary Language (PUQOL), ESSLLI. Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2011.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Diversity of scalar inferences.
  Moscow Syntax and Semantics (MoSS). Moscow, Russia, April 2011.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. On Availability of scales.
  Meaning, Context, and Cognition (MCC). Lodz, Poland, March 2011.

Posters

• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Veronika Prigorkina. If-Clauses and Quantity Inferences.
  The 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference. University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 8–9.07.2021. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Daria Gornshteyn. Presupposition Homogeneity: Evidence from an Understudied Language.
  The 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference. University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 8–9.07.2021. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Lena Pasalskaya. Overspecification of number in reference production.
  The 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference. University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 8–9.07.2021. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia, Elena Pasalskaya, Alina Schipkova, Veronika Prigorkina, and Elina Sigdel. Overspecification of number in reference production.
  The first "Experiments in Linguistic Meaning" Conference. University of Pennsylvania, USA, 22–24.09.2020. (Online)
• Zevakhina, Natalia, and Ilmira Bainazarova. Widening and exhaustifying alternative propositions in multiple wh-exclamatives.
  Workshop "Focus alternatives: Theoretical and empirical perspectives." Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 27–28.02.2020.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Cross-linguistic evidence for the three types of wh-exclamatives.
  Workshop "Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse" (SPAGAD-1). Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, Germany, 30.10–01.11.2019.
• Zevakhina, Natalia, Elena Pasalskaya, Alina Schipkova, and Margarita Berseneva. Overspecification of Number.
  The 8th Experimental Pragmatics Conference. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, June 2019.
• Zevakhina, Natalia, Elena Pasalskaya, Alina Schipkova, and Margarita Berseneva. Overspecification of Number.
  The 6th Summer Neurolinguistic School. HSE University, Moscow, Russia, July 2019.
• Philippova, Natalia and Natalia Zevakhina. Classes of adjectives and modifiers: not just lexical semantics.
  Formal Semantics Meets Cognitive Semantics. Nijmegen, Netherlands, 22–23.01.2015.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Standard-shifting in the adjectival domain: Corpus evidence and discussion.
  Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6. Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, June 2013.
• Sassoon, Galit and Natalia Zevakhina. Experimental evidence for granularity shifting in the adjectival domain.
  St. Petersburg Winter Symposium on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language. Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, December 2011.
• Zevakhina, Natalia. Diversity of scalar inferences.
  The 32nd TaBu Dag. Groningen, Netherlands, June 2011.