John Frederick Bailyn is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, where he directs the Linguistics PhD program. His research interests include theoretical syntax, comparative Slavic syntax, binding, case, word order, scrambling, and ellipsis. His other interests include musical cognition and early Soviet history. He also co-directs theNY-St Petersburg Institute in Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI) held every July in St Petersburg, Russia.

Tatiana Bondarenko received her Bachelor and Master degrees in Linguistics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include syntax, semantics, morphology, argument structure and event structure, ellipsis phenomena, embedded clauses (raising, control, restructuring), structures with dative and applicative arguments, aspectual systems, and fieldwork.