Office: Calhoun 2

Office Hours: M,W: 1-2 pm, W: 3-4 pm

Phone: (512) 232-9133

larisaz@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, University of Texas, 1997

Research interests:
General and comparative Slavic syntax
Syntactic Theory: HPSG
Noun phrase syntax, case-marking of nouns, theory of agreement
Morphology-syntax interface
Sociolinguistics
Lexical semantics: nouns, argument structure, lexical conceptual structure
Computational linguistics: information retrieval, POS tagging, knowledge representation, statistical NLP methods

Courses taught:
- Syntax and Semantics: The Structure and Meaning of Utterances (in the Department of Linguistics)
- Graduate Syntax courses in the Department of Linguistics
- First and second year Serbian/Croatian

Recent Publications:
To appear: "Slavic Noun Phrases are NPs not DPs." Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax, edited by George Fowler. Columbus: Slavica Publishers

Vlado Keselj, Tanja Keselj, and Larisa Zlatic. 2004. R{j}ecnik.com: English-Serbo-Croatian Electronic Dictionary. In Proceedings of COLING'04 Workshop on Enhancing and Using Electronic Dictionaries. Geneva, Switzerland.

Wechsler, Steven and Larisa Zlatic, 2003: The Many Faces of Agreement. Stanford and Chicago: CSLI Publications and Chicago University Press.

Currie, Anne-Marie, Jocelyn Cohan and Larisa Zlatic: 2001. "Information Retrieval of Electronic Medical Records." Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing-2001), edited by Alexander Gelbukh, pp. 460-471.(Lecture Notes in Computer Science - 2004). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

2001. "The Syntactic Status of Slavic Possessives." In Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics, edited by Gerhild Zybatow et al. pp. 236-246. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatic: 2001. "Case Realization and Identity." Lingua, 111, 539-560.

Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatic: 2000. "A Theory of Agreement and its Application to Serbo-Croatian." Language 76: 799-832.

2000: "The Morpho-Syntax of Slavic Possessives." The Proceedings from the Panels of the Chicago Linguistic Society's Thirty-Sixth Meeting. Volume 36-2, pp. 179-190, edited by Okrent, Arika and John Boyle. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.