Research interests: Construction Grammar, multi-word constructions in Slavic languages and in Norwegian, building digital resources for language learning and research, AI, ChatGPT, language pedagogy, teaching Russian as a foreign language, teaching Norwegian as a foreign language, semantics of Russian aspectual prefixes, derivational morphology, experimental and corpus linguistics, non-standard allomorphy
Reza Soltani
Postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Semantics, Metaphor, Polysemy, Construction Grammar, Usage-based Construction Grammar, Light Verbs, Motion Verbs, Language and Culture, Persian Linguistics, Philosophy of Language
Research interests: creating educational resources for teaching and learning foreign languages (Ukrainian, Spanish, English), translation studies, and semantics.
Research interests: historical Slavonic linguistics, diachronic text corpora (treebanks), computational linguistics, Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian, Ancient Greek, verbal aspect, definiteness marking, information structure
Assistant Research Professor in Digital Humanities (Brigham Young University, USA)
Research interests: Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL): finite-state morphological analysis/disambiguation, automatic exercise generation in the context of authentic texts, linguistically intelligent web search, automatic readability/complexity analysis, automatic reading proficiency assessment on the basis of eye movement, automatic writing proficiency assessment; Structure of Russian: aspect, verbal prefixation
Research interests: Lexical and grammatical semantics (cognitive semantics, construction grammar, grammatical category of number, space and grammar, lexical classifications); Corpus linguistics (The Russian National Corpus, Russian FrameBank); Lexicography (corpus-based lexicography, Frequency dictionary of RNC, Grammatical dictionary of new words, Word-formation and morphemic dictionary); Computational linguistics (morphological and semantic annotation, word-sense disambiguation, frequency dictionary, construction learning); Russian
Julia Kuznetsova
Independent Researcher
Research interests: natural language processing, neural networks, metrics, unaccusativity, modality, linguistic aptitude
Research interests: North Sámi language, Paamese language, gesture analysis, semantic typology, field linguistics, documentation & revitalization of indigenous languages, cognitive linguistics, cognitive semiotics, linguistic anthropology, polysemiotic communication (“multimodality”),linguistic anthropology, metaphors & metonymy, body categorization, possessive constructions, Vanuatu sand drawings.
Elmira Zhamaletdinova
PhD graduate of February 2024
Research interests: Russian language, Slavic languages, modality, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, linguistic typology, second language acquisition, Romance linguistics
Elena Bjørgve
Lecturer
Research interests: teachingRussianasa foreign language, languagepedagogy, philosophy
Anna Obukhova
PhD graduate of May 2024
Research interests: critical discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, media discourse, Russian language