Diego Krivochen
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Assistant Professor
Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures: Linguistics
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I am a syntactician interested in how understanding formal properties of grammars can help us provide better analyses of linguistic phenomena. I work in theoretical syntax as well as the application of formal tools (graph theory, symbolic encoding, formal language theory) to the analysis of English and Spanish grammar and the creation of stimuli for Artificial Grammar Learning protocols that aim to understand the human capacity to assign structure to external signals. I am comfortable working with transformational and non-transformational theories of syntax (Minimalism, Tree Adjoining Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar) and am particularly interested in comparative syntactic metatheory: what constitutes 'explanation' in each of these theories and how do they expect 'syntax' to provide explicit characterisations of languages? Is there any formalism (graph theory, set theory, unification grammars...) particularly well-suited to express syntactic theory?
In pursuing these questions, I have been fortunate to collaborate with syntacticians, semanticists, traditional grammarians, philosophers of language, cognitive neuroscientists, and computer scientists. I am especially keen on developing and maintaining connections that span across field boundaries.
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D. G. Krivochen, D. Saddy & J. Franck (2026) The architecture of agreement: from strings to structures. Front. Lang. Sci. 5:1689620. https://doi.org/10.3389/flang.2026.1689620
Sheehan, A., D. Saddy, D. G. Krivochen, S. Gupta & C. Pliatsikas (2026) Bilingualism modulates domain-general functional connectivity: insights from EEG and artificial grammar learning. Sci Rep 16, 12756 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42094-x
Krivochen, D. G. (2025) EPP: can’t live with it, can’t raise without it. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-linguistics-revue-canadienne-de-linguistique/article/epp-cant-live-with-it-cant-raise-without-it/C972C9C9723BBFC4D52877EAD4A31868
Krivochen, D. G. (2025) Different and proud of it: a TAG perspective on the coordination of unlike categories. Studia Linguistica. https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.70003
Krivochen, D. G. (2025) Subjecthood in Spanish meteorological verbs. Isogloss 11(1)/7. 1-48. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.561
Krivochen, D. G. (2024) Constituents, arrays, and trees: two (more) models of grammatical description. Folia Linguistica 45(3). 699-727. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/flin-2024-2025/html
Krivochen, D. G. (2024) Raising to object: a graph-theoretic analysis. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5(2). 128-161.
García Fernández, L. & D. G. Krivochen (2023) La perífrasis <dar + gerundio> en el español andino. Anuari de filología. Estudis de lingüística 13/2023. 113-134.
Krivochen, D. G. (2023) Towards a theory of syntactic workspaces: neighbourhoods and distances in a lexicalised grammar. The Linguistic Review 40(2). 311-360. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2023-2004
Krivochen, D. G. (2023) The search for Minimal Search. Biolinguistics 17. https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9793
Krivochen, D. G. (2023) Syntax on the Edge: a graph-theoretic analysis of sentence structure. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/64516
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