
I am an Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin a. Z.) at the University of Göttingen, Department of General Linguistics led by Professor Stavros Skopeteas. My work centers on allomorphy and the internal structure of nominals with particular interest in pronouns, clitics, clitic doubling, argument structure, and (un)agreement.
I completed my doctoral studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin under the supervision of Professor Artemis Alexiadou and Professor Uli Sauerland in April 2025. My dissertation, The structure of pronouns and allomorphy, is written within the ERC Synergy Grant project LeibnizDream (PIs: Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti). I was employed as a doctoral researcher in the Compressor Team led by Professor Artemis Alexiadou.
Before PhD studies, I graduated from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I was advised by Professor Artemis Alexiadou and Professor Elisabeth Verhoeven, with the thesis Argument Structure, Ergativity, Aspect, and Agreement: a view from n-based nominalizations. Simultaneously with my studies, I worked as a research assistant to Professor Artemis Alexiadou and Professor Thomas McFadden at the project Register and the development of periphrasis in the history of English (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft ZAS) and as a research assistant to Professor Elisabeth Verhoeven at the project Typology of the Psych Alternation in Morphology, Syntax, and Discourse (Institute of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
NEWS
May 1, 2025: I started working as an Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin a. Z) at the University of Göttingen.
April 28, 2025: I defended my dissertation The Structure of Pronouns and Allomorphy at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
UPCOMING TALKS
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Ilić, Ivona. Double marking in contextual allomorphy: The view from pronouns. Distributed Morphology (DM) meets Nanosyntax (Nano) workshop, University of Vienna, July 15-16, 2025
RECENT TALKS & POSTERS
2025
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Ilić, Ivona. Directionality of Allomorphy. General Linguistics Colloquium, University of Göttingen, May 15, 2025
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Ilić, Ivona. The Structure of Pronouns and Allomorphy, General Linguistics Colloquium, University of Göttingen, January 13, 2025 (invited)
2024
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Ilić, Ivona. Unagreement and Clitic Doubling, Syntax/Semantics Colloquium, HU Berlin, December 10, 2024
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Alexiadou, Artemis, Ivona Ilić, Yoichi Miyamoto, Uli Sauerland. Acquisition of pronouns in Japanese: A production study JSPS Core2Core Network "International Research Network for the Human Language Faculty", ZAS, March 15-17, 2024
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Alexiadou, Artemis, Johannes Hein, Ivona Ilić, Uli Sauerland. The third person is present: Evidence from determiners in generic statements NELS 54, MIT, January 26-27, 2024 [slides] [handout]
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Ilić, Ivona. Unagreement and modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns LSA Annual Meeting, New York, January 4-7, 2024 [poster]
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Ilić, Ivona (2024). Complements and modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns.
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 9(1), 5720. [paper]
Alexiadou, Artemis, Johannes Hein, Ivona Ilić, Uli Sauerland (2024). The third person is present: Evidence from determiners in generic statements. Proceedings of NELS 54. [paper]
Oikonomou, Despina & Ivona Ilić (2023). Subjunctive Questions in Serbian.
CONTACT
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3, 37073 Göttingen
Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar
Office: 0.111