University Assistant (PraeDoc) at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna
Previously a member of the FWF-funded project Implicational hierarchies in clausal complementation
Kovač, Iva & Gert-Jan Schoenmakers. accepted. An experimental-syntactic take on long passive in Dutch: Exploring the patterns underlying its (un)acceptability. Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR).
Kovač, Iva. 2024. PIMPing up Implicit Control. In Proceedings of WCCFL 40, ed. by Lu, Jiayi, Erika Petersen, Anissa Zaitsu & Boris Harizanov, 182–191. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [preprint]
Bryant, Shannon, Iva Kovač & Susi Wurmbrand. 2023. Forward, Backward, Crossed: Voice restructuring and its semantics. In Proceedings of NELS 53, vol. 1, ed. by Lam, Suet-Ying and Satoru Ozaki, 129–138. Amherst: GLSA Publications. [preprint]
Lohninger, Magdalena, Iva Kovač & Susanne Wurmbrand. 2022. From Prolepsis to Hyperraising. Philosophies 7 (2): 32. [paper]
Kovač, Iva. 2021. Restricted number and stubborn dative: Long-distance agreement across Basque nominalised complement clauses. In ConSOLE XXIX: Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, ed. by Holtz, Annie, Iva Kovač, Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, and Joanna Wall, 41–65. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. [paper] [volume]
Wurmbrand, Susi, Iva Kovač, Magdalena Lohninger, Caroline Pajančič & Neda Todorović. 2020. Finiteness in South Slavic complement clauses: Evidence for an implicational finiteness universal. Linguistica 60 (1): 119–137. [paper]
Bryant, Shannon, Iva Kovač & Susi Wurmbrand. 2025. Argument sharing as a syntactic dependency. Talk at the workshop Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective (2025 DGfS Annual Meeting), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (March).
Kovač, Iva. 2024. Ways of being habitual. Invited talk at the Workshop on Habituals and Habitual Auxiliaries, Université Paris-8/CNRS, Paris (October). [link]
Kovač, Iva. 2024. Što sve možemo znati? O evidencijalnim, modalnim i habitualnim svojstvima hrvatskoga glagola znati. Invited talk at Zagrebački lingvistički krug (Zagreb linguistics circle), University of Zagreb, Zagreb (May).
Kovač, Iva. 2024. ‘Know’ at the crossroads of evidentiality and iterativity. Poster at CHRONOS 15: 15th International Conference on Actionality, Tense, Aspect, Modality/Evidentiality, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès (May).
Kovač, Iva. 2023. When knowledge meets iterativity: The case of Croatian ‘know’. Talk at FDSL (Formal description of Slavic languages) 16, University of Graz, Graz (November).
Kovač, Iva. 2023. Dissecting habituality: The Croatian 'know' and its kin. Invited talk at the ComSyn lecture series, University of Leiden, Leiden (May). [link]
Bryant, Shannon, Iva Kovač & Susi Wurmbrand. 2023. Forward, Backward, Crossed: Voice restructuring and its semantics. Poster at NELS 53, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (January). [handout]
Kovač, Iva & Gert-Jan Schoenmakers. 2022. Dutch long passive was tried to reject. Talk at Linguistic Evidence 22, University of Paris, Paris (October).
Kovač, Iva & Gert-Jan Schoenmakers. 2022. Long Passive: Yet another construction Dutch has up its sleeve. Talk at the 31st Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 31), University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca (June).
Kovač, Iva. 2022. Implicit control, impersonal construals, and the role of PIMPs. Talk at WCCFL 40, Stanford University, virtual (May).
Lohninger, Magdalena, Iva Kovač & Susi Wurmbrand. 2022. The Prolepsis–Hyperraising scale: Evidence for a hierarchy of composite probes. Talk at GLOW 45, Queen Mary University of London (April).
Kovač, Iva. 2022. Agreeing to control. Invited talk at the Budapest Research Centre for Linguistic Theory (Eötvös Loránd University), Budapest (April). [slides]
Wurmbrand, Susi & Iva Kovač. 2022. Voice restructuring and control. Talk at the Syntax Interface Lectures, Institute of Linguistics of the Utrecht University, UiL-OTS, virtual (April).
Kovač, Iva. 2022. Implicit control and the features of PIMPs. Invited talk at the Grammar & Cognition Colloquium, Radboud University Centre for Language Studies, virtual (January). [handout]
Kovač, Iva. 2021. *What was it decided to control? Passives and the distribution of implicit control. Invited talk at the University of Southern California reading group S-Side Story, virtual (December).
Wurmbrand, Susi, Iva Kovač & Magdalena Lohninger. 2021. Voice restructuring cross-linguistically—evidence for a synthesis model of complementation. Invited plenary talk at the Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (PSST), virtual (April).
Kovač, Iva. 2021. Restricted Numbers and Stubborn Datives: A Fresh look at Long-Distance Agreement across Basque Nominalised Complements. Poster at ConSOLE 29, Leiden University, virtual (January).
Wurmbrand, Susi, Iva Kovač, Magdalena Lohninger, Caroline Pajančič & Neda Todorović. 2019. Finiteness in South Slavic complement clauses: Evidence for an implicational finiteness universal. Workshop on the Morphology of South Slavic languages (MMM), Ljubljana, Slovenia (June).