Members

Group leaders:

Tore Nesset

Professor of Russian Linguistics, Meritorious teacher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (from 2018); see Tore Nesset’s Teaching Portfolio
Editor of Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies
Member of editorial board of Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift and Slavica Bergensia
Member of the university board (see Tore’s presentation here in Norwegian)

Research interests: Russian morphosyntax and phonology, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics

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 Postdoctoral research fellow Homepage Research interests: Construction Grammar and Constructicography, Slavic languages, semantics of Russian aspectual prefixes, derivational morphology, experimental and corpus linguistics, non-standard allomorphy, statistical modeling of linguistic data
	Simon Devylder Postdoctoral researcher (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow) Homepage 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.
	Daria Kosheleva PhD student Research interests: Cognitive linguistics, aspect, future tense, Russian, Russian as a foreign language
	Elmira Zhamaletdinova PhD student 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 student Research interests: critical discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, media discourse, Russian language

Valentina Zhukova

PhD student

Research interests: Russian language, Construction Grammar and constructicography, the semantics of grammatical constructions, corpus linguistics

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

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