Barbara Citko

Barbara Citko is a Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focuses on syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface, and Polish syntax with emphases on phrase structure, relative clauses, wh-questions, and coordination. She contributes to generative grammar frameworks, exploring phase theory, multidominance, and syntactic universals. Academic service roles include Associate Editor of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Alternate Graduate Program Coordinator.

Research Interests:

• Phase Theory and syntactic derivation mechanisms
• Multidominance in coordinate structures
• Wh-constructions (free relatives, across-the-board questions)
• Slavic syntax with focus on Polish
• Formal syntax interfaces with semantics

Teaching:

• Undergraduate courses: Syntax I & II
• Graduate courses: Syntactic Theory I-III
• Seminar topics: Phases, Features, Labels; Coordination & Agreement; Negation & Polarity

Recent Work Trends: Her publications analyze syntactic structures across languages, with emphasis on Polish data to explore universal syntax principles. Recent presentations address agreement in coordinate structures, feature inheritance in syntax, and ellipsis phenomena.

Professional Activities: No listed grants, but maintains active academic service roles and extensive publication record in top linguistics journals.