CASTL

HSL-fakultetet

Universitetet i Tromsø

NO-9037 Tromsø

Norway

+47 776 45079 (work)

+47 979 54926 (mobile)

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Pre-doctoral research fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), University of Tromsø, Norway

PhD project supervisor: Dr Bruce Morén-Duolljá

Project title: Representation and variation in substance-free phonology: a case study in Celtic

Research assistant to Dr Øystein Vangsnes, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), University of Tromsø, Norway

Work on Nordnorsk satt på kartet (Putting Northern Norwegian on the map)

Specialist (MA equivalent) with distinction in theoretical and applied linguistics

Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Faculty of Philology, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Thesis: Initial consonant mutations in the world’s languages: typology, theory, diachrony

Supervisor: Dr Vladimir Plungian

Thesis reader: Dr Sergei Knyazev

[pdf download] (undergraduate thesis; in Russian; caveat lector)

Vowel reduction in Russian: no phonetics in phonology. Forthcoming in Journal of Linguistics. [download preprint]

Teorija optimal’nosti: obzor osnovnoj literatury. In Russian: “Optimality Theory. A survey of the basic literature”. In Voprosy jazykoznanija, vol. 4/2008, pp. 104–121

Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world. In Michael Cysouw and Jan Wohlgemuth (eds.) Rethinking universals: How rarities affect linguistic theory. (Empirical approaches to language typology 45) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 105–138. [paid access to pdf]

Kassitskij jazyk [Cassite]. In N. N. Kazanskij, A. A. Kibrik and Yu. B. Koryakov (eds.) Jazyki mira. Drevnije reliktovyje jazyki Perednej Azii [Languages of world. Ancient relic languages of the Middle East]. Moscow: Academia (RAS Institute of Linguistics). Pp. 184–187.

Drevnerusskie ènklitiki [Enclitics in Old Russian]. Moscow: Jazyki slavyanskoj kul’tury. Voprosy jazykoznanija, vol. 5/2009, pp. 132–136 (in Russian)

Mattissen, Johanna, 2003. Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh: a Contribution to a Typology of Polysynthesis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Voprosy jazykoznanija, vol. 1/2005, pp. 135–140 (in Russian)

Articles for Bol’šaja rossijskaja ènciklopedija:
Vakaškije jazyki (Wakashan languages), Irlandskij jazyk (Irish [Gaelic]), Idoma, Yoruba, Idžoidnyje jazyki (Ijoid languages), Irokezskije jazyki (Iroquois languages), Kel’tskije jazyki (Celtic languages), Kornskij jazyk (Cornish)

“Pitch accent” and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: historical implications. 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Explaning licensing mismatches in Welsh. Old World Conference in Phonology 8, Marrakech, Morocco.
Click to view presentation or download [pdf handout]

On (some) dimensions of headship in phonology. The PJ Workshop, University of Tromsø/CASTL, Tromsø, Norway.

Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in the north of Italy: a representational approach. Going Romance 24, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Click to view presentation or download [pdf handout]

A bad case of excessive computation: the rôle of morphology in palatalization-related alternations in Russian. Workshop on Morphosyntax – Phonology Interface Theories, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Click to view presentation or download [pdf handout]

How good is the internal evidence for multiple-level phonological computation? A view from Russian. “What's in a word? Exploring the relationship between syntax and phonology”. University of Tromsø/CASTL, Tromsø, Norway.
Click to view presentation or download [pdf handout]

Incomplete neutralization and unorthodox markedness in Breton laryngeal phonology. 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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Feature geometry meets contrastive specification: incomplete neutralization reloaded. 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
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A good old-fashioned approach to Russian palatalization. Invited talk, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

(with Bruce Morén-Duolljá) Russian palatalization: the true(r) story. Old World Conference in Phonology 7, University of Nice, Nice, France
Click to view presentation or download [pdf slides]

Structure versus prominence: evidence from Munster Irish. Old World Conference in Phonology 7, University of Nice, Nice, France. [pdf poster] [pdf handout]

Cuique suum: vowel reduction in Russian. Formal Description of Slavic Languages 8, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. [pdf slides]

Tre problemer i russisk fonologi: vokaler, palatalisering og nivåer. Novemberseminaret i russisk, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Russian palatalization in substance-free phonology. CASTL Colloquium series, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Sandhi, mutation, and contrast: laryngeal phonology in Plougrescant Breton. Toronto – Tromsø Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Click to view presentation or download [pdf handout]

Russian vowel reduction without functional motivation. Third Scandinavian PhD Conference in Linguistics and Philology. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (see FDSL8 for newest slides)

Cuique suum: vowel reduction in Russian. Laboratory Phonology course workshop. University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Fonetikk versus fonologi: den ubehagelige sannheten om vokalreduksjon i russisk. Novemberseminaret i russisk, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway [pdf handout]

Too many levels, too few solutions: mutations and postlexical phonology in Breton. Manchester Phonology Meeting 16, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK [pdf handout]

All that glistens is not gold: against autosegmental approaches to initial consonant mutation. GLOW 31 Colloquium, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK [pdf handout]

Liquids and spirants: a phonological perspective. GLOW workshop on “Categorical phonology and gradient facts”, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK [pdf handout]

Against autosegmental approaches to initial consonant mutation. CASTL Colloquium series, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Initial consonant mutation and information flow in Mende. Old World Conference in Phonology 5, University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail, Toulouse, France [pdf handout]

Leksikalizovannyje vershiny v vallijskom sintaksise. In Russian: “Lexicalized heads in Welsh syntax”. Syntactic Structures 1, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia [pdf slides] (in Russian)

Phonological processes as lexical insertion: more evidence from Welsh and elsewhere. Old World Conference in Phonology 4, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece [pdf handout] (rather obsolete, partly superseded by GLOW 31 and mfm16)

Vallijskij jazyk i tipologija čeredovanij načal’nyx soglasnyx. In Russian: “Welsh and the typology of initial consonant mutations”. Third Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Researchers, Institute of Linguistic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg, Russia [pdf handout]

Brythonic “second lenition” revisited. Second Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica, Moscow State University & Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia [pdf handout]

Grammatikalizacija načal’nyx čeredovanij v vallijskom jazyke: nekotoryje nablyudenija. In Russian: “Some observations on the grammaticalization of Welsh initial consonant mutations”. Moscow Student Conference in Linguistics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia [pdf handout] (actually a quick English translation of the original Russian; rather obsolete)

Right at the left edge: Initial consonant mutations in the world’s languages. Rara & Rarissima: Collecting and interpreting unusual characteristics of human languages, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

K morfonologičeskoj tipologii: “reradikalizacija” v jazykax mira. In Russian: “On morphophonological typology: ‘reradicalization’ in the world’s languages”. Second Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Researchers, Institute of Linguistic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg, Russia

(with A. G. Pazel’skaya, M. A. Tsyurupa) Tipologičeski značimyje parametry glagol’noj leksiki: imperfektivirujuščije derivacii neneckogo jazyka. In Russian: “Typologically significant parameters in the verbal lexicon: the imperfectivising derivations in Nenets”. Given at the Fourth International School in Linguistic Typology and Anthropology, Yerevan, Armenia

Grant under the “Talented Youth Support” programme, National project “Education” (Education and Science Ministry of Russia)

“Some observations on the grammaticalization of initial consonant mutations in Welsh” recognized as “best talk in the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics section”, “Lomonosov” International Scientific Olympiad (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Winner of the Nationwide Competition in Russian language, Pskov, Russian Federation (1st place)

Winner of the Nationwide Competition in mathematical and computational linguistics, Ruse, Bulgaria (1st place)

Winner of the 32nd> Traditional Olympiad in linguistics and mathematics for high school students, Moscow State University & Russian State University for the Humanities (1st place)

Winner of the 31st Traditional Olympiad in linguistics and mathematics for high school students, Moscow State University & Russian State University for the Humanities (1st place)

(with Violeta Martínez-Paricio) LIN-1014 Historical Linguistics (introductory Bachelor course)

(with Ove Lorentz) EXF-0720, EXF-0723 Examen facultatum for the Humanities (introductory linguistics course)

(with Tore Nesset and Laura Janda) RUS-2040 Structures of Russian (intermediate Bachelor course)

(with Tore Nesset and Laura Janda) RUS-3010 Language and Literature of Ancient Russia (Masters course)

(with Dragana Šurkalović) LIN-1030 Phonetics (introductory Bachelor course)

(with Tore Nesset and Laura Janda) RUS-2040 Structures of Russian (intermediate Bachelor course)

Tundra Nenets (Nel’min Nos, Nenets Autonomous District, Russian Federation. Part of Moscow State University linguistic expedition, under the guidance of Sergei Tatevosov), 5 weeks total

Journals: Lingua

Abstracts: Moscow Student Conference in Linguistics

Proceedings: Formal Description of Slavic Languages, Going Romance

Typesetting support for Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa) journal

Website management for Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW), Saami Documentation and Revitalization Network

Substitute student representative on the CASTL Board

Linguistic Society of America

Societas Celtologica Europaea

Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW)

Kommersant publishing house, copy editor
Copy editing, fact checking

Sekret Firmy publishing house, copy editor
Copy editing, fact checking

Freelance translator and editor
Translation (experience with English to Russian, Italian to Russian, Russian to English), copy editing and fact checking

Native

Proficient

Advanced (Test i norsk—høyere nivå, bokmål: 650/700)

Advanced (9 semesters at university level)

Intermediate to advanced (7 semesters at university level)

Reading knowledge

Reading knowledge

Fair, extensive structural knowledge

Fair

Elementary, good structural knowledge

Elementary, good structural knowledge

Elementary

Elementary

Fieldwork experience

Latin (fair knowledge), Middle Welsh (fair knowledge), Old Russian (fair knowledge), Old Irish, Sanskrit, Old Church Slavic

Linux, L^AT_EX, HTML/CSS

Praat, SIL Shoebox, Xerox finite-state software (xfst, lexc), PC-KIMMO

Common Lisp, Python (fair knowledge); Haskell, Clojure, JavaScript (some knowledge); C, R, SQL, Ruby (elementary)

Ørnevegen 34, NO-9015, Tromsø, Norway

Russian citizen, Norwegian permanent residence permit

Born January 10, 1985 in Moscow, Russia

Married, one child

Available upon request