PETR KUSLIY

Research

Publications

  • Kusliy, P., [with E. Vostrikova] (2025) Discontinuous past: a semantic account. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29. Vol. 29, pp. 825-842. (PDF)
  • Kusliy, P. (2024) English fronting constructions as a window to the semantics of tense. Natural Language Semantics, 32, 505-544. (PDF)
  • Kusliy P., Veretennikov A. (2024) Analytical truths in R. Carnap’s theory and in natural language. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. Vol. 61, No. 1. Pp. 184–201. [In Russian] (PDF)
  • Kusliy P., Nikiforov A. (2023) Philosophy and linguistics today: points of contact. Review of Altshuler D. (ed.) (2023) Linguistics meets Philosophy. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. Vol. 60, No. 4. Pp. 225-236. [In Russian] (PDF)
  • Kusliy P. (2023) The fateful copula: on an attempt to justify linguistic relativity. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 210–223. [In Russian] (PDF)
  • Kusliy P. (2022) Truth as correspondence and unconcealment without self-deception or mysticism. Philosophy. The journal of the Higher School of Economics. Vol. 6, No. 1. Pp. 308-320. [In Russian] (PDF)
  • Mikirtumov I., Kusliy P. (2022) Perception, knowledge, and natural language. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. Vol. 59, No. 2. Pp. 6–22. [In Russian] (PDF)
  • Kusliy P., Vostrikova E. (2021) Contextualism and the problem of knowledge ascription // Epistemology and philosophy of science. Vol. 58. No. 4. Pp. 110-126. [In Russian] (PDF)
  • Kusliy, P. (2020) Condition C effects in VP fronting constructions and the mode of semantic composition. M. Franke et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, vol. 1, pp.464–481. Osnabrück University, 2020. (PDF)
  • Kusliy P., Vostrikova E. (2019) The elimination of Carnap’s critical arguments against metaphysics through formal semantic analysis of natural language. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. Vol. 56. No. 4. Pp. 78-98. [In Russian] (PDF)
  • Kusliy, P. Vostrikova, E. (2019) De Re Attitude Reports about Disjunctive Beliefs. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 25.1, 2019. Pp. 149-157. (PDF)
  • Kusliy, P. (2019) Simultaneous Present-under-Past in Relative clauses: Evidence from Fronted Verb Phrases. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 25.1, 2019. Pp. 139-148. (PDF)
  • Kusliy, P. (2018) Simultaneous under Past: English Present-under-Past in fronted CP and fronted VP constructions. Proceedings of NELS-48. (PDF)
  • Kusliy, P., Vostrikova, E. (2018) Hard cases of third readings in terms of the Standard Solution. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung-22. Pp. 37-52. (PDF)
  • Kusliy, P. (2017) On Incompatibilities Between Tenses and Temporal Adverbs in English, Japanese, and Russian. Proceedings of NELS-47. Vol. 2. Pp. 221-230.

Talks

  • Kusliy, P. (accepted) Cessation inferences are entailments. GLOW-2026.
  • Kusliy, P., Vostrikova E. (accepted) The semantics of ky particle in Tundra Nenets. SULA-Triple A. 2026.
  • Kusliy, P., Vostrikova E. (2026) A Polarity Phenomenon in the Propositional Domain in Tundra Nenets. Oberseminar. University of Göttingen, February 10, 2026. (Handout)
  • Kusliy, P. (2026) Double negation and negative concord in Russian. Semantics Colloquium. University of Göttingen, January 8, 2026. (Slides)
  • Kusliy, P. (2025) Canonical readings of the imperfective: towards a unified analysis. Semantics Colloquium. University of Göttingen, June 26, 2025. (Slides)
  • Kusliy, P. (2024) Imperfective Aspect and Tense: Rethinking the Kleinian Semantics. Oberseminar in Linguistics. University of Göttingen, December 10, 2024. (Handout)
  • Kusliy, P. (2024) How to dispense with acquaintance relations in the semantics of de re attitude reports. Meaning in Language Colloquium (University of Düsseldorf. November 6, 2024). (Handout)
  • Kusliy, P. (2024) De re reporting without acquaintance relations. The Semantics Workshop at the Department of Linguistics (UMass Amherst, USA. October 11, 2024) (Handout)
  • Kusliy, P. (2024) Towards more fine-grained distinctions in the semantics of the imperfective aspect and the past tense. Semantics Colloq. University of Göttingen. July 11, 2024. (Handout)
  • Kusliy, P. (2023). De re reporting without acquaintance relations. Oberseminar in linguistics. University of Göttingen. November 21, 2023. (Handout)
  • Kusliy, P. [with E. Vostrikova] (2023). Discontinuous Past in Optional Tense languages: old and new challenges for a semantic analysis. Oberseminar in linguistics. University of Göttingen. June 15, 2023. (Handout)
  • Kusliy, P. (2023). (Anti-)reconstruction effects in predicate-fronting constructions. Oberseminar in linguistics. University of Göttingen. February 7, 2023. (Handout)
  • Kusliy, P. (2021). On the nature of the Present tense in English: evidence from VP-fronting constructions. Oberseminar English Linguistics. The Georg August University of Göttingen. December 14, 2021. (Handout)

Dissertation

  • Kusliy, P. (2020). The Emptiness of the Present: Fronting Constructions as a Window to the Semantics of Tense. Dissertation. University of Massachusetts Amherst (PDF)