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Members

Group leaders:

Tore Nesset
Laura A. Janda
  • Professor of Russian Linguistics
  • Meritorious teacher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (from 2017)
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (from 2018)
  • Laura Janda’s Teaching Portfolio and personal homepage
  • Research interests: Russian language, Slavic languages, Saami language, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics

On-site members:

Svetlana Sokolova
  • Associate Professor
  • Research interests: linguistic theory, Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, morphology, syntax-semantics interface, grammaticalization, lexicalization, word-formation, nominalizations, historical linguistics, Slavic linguistics, aspect, verbal prefixes, quantifiers and pronouns, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, pragmatics, semiotics
Anna Endresen
  • Research Professor (forsker I)
  • 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
Valentina Zhukova
  • PhD student
  • Research interests: Russian language, Construction Grammar and constructicography, the semantics of grammatical constructions, corpus linguistics
Yuliia Palii
  • Associate Professor in Ukrainian Linguistics
  • Research interests: creating educational resources for teaching and learning foreign languages (Ukrainian, Spanish, English), translation studies, and semantics.

Off-site (external) members:

Anastasia Makarova
  • Associate professor in Russian, University of Uppsala
  • Researcher profile in Cristin
  • Research interests: Cognitive Linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, Slavic languages, Russian as a foreign language
Hanne Eckhoff
  • Associate Professor in Russian Linguistics and Comparative Slavonic Philology (University of Oxford)
  • Fellow and Tutor in Russian and Linguistics, Lady Margaret Hall
  • Homepage
  • Research interests: historical Slavonic linguistics, diachronic text corpora (treebanks), computational linguistics, Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian, Ancient Greek, verbal aspect, definiteness marking, information structure
Robert Reynolds
  • 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
Olga Lyashevskaya
  • Professor at School of Linguistics,
  • Leading Research Fellow at Linguistic Convergence Laboratory (The Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow);
  • Senior Researcher at Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
  • Personal Homepage
  • 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
Aleksandrs Berdicevskis
  • Researcher (University of Gothenburg)
  • Homepage
  • Research interests: language evolution and change; quantitative typology; computational linguistics; linguistic complexity
Maria Nordrum
  • PhD graduate of March 2020
  • Research interests: Russian aspect, Cognitive Linguistics
James McDonald
  • MA student and former group assistant
  • Research interests: Slavic languages, Germanic languages, Romance languages, morphology, corpus data, syntax
Håkon Roald Sverdrupsen
  • MA student and former group assistant
  • Research interests: Russian language, politics, history
Daria Kosheleva
  • PhD graduate of June 2023
  • Research interests: Cognitive linguistics, aspect, future tense, Russian, Russian as a foreign language
Simon Devylder
  • Postdoctoral researcher (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow)
  • 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: teaching Russian as a foreign language, language pedagogy, philosophy
Anna Obukhova
  • PhD graduate of May 2024
  • Research interests: critical discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, media discourse, Russian language

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