Milena Šereikaitė, a theoretical linguist specializing in syntax and morphology, will join the department as Assistant Professor in Fall 2025. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and has since held postdoctoral positions at Yale and Princeton, where she also taught a range of linguistics courses. Her research focuses on two core questions: (i) what is the structure and nature of extended verbal projections (such as Voice), and (ii) what is the division of labor among the lexicon, syntax, and post-syntactic structures? She explores these issues through the study of passive and active Voice constructions, impersonal pronouns, case, agreement, gender, and related phenomena. Her work draws on data from the Baltic languages and original fieldwork on Ndebele, an understudied Bantu language.
Congratulations, Milena, and welcome to Cornell!
