{"id":93,"date":"2019-11-06T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:16:30","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Group leaders:<\/h3>\n<table style=\"height: 505px\" width=\"964\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/nesset-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=41533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tore Nesset<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor of Russian Linguistics,\u00a0Meritorious teacher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (from 2018); see\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit\">Tore Nesset&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmappe.uit.no\/tne000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teaching Portfolio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit\">Editor of <\/span><a style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/septentrio.uit.no\/index.php\/vestnik\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Member of editorial board\u00a0of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.novus.no\/index.php\/NLT\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit\">and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boap.uib.no\/books\/sb\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slavica Bergensia<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Member of the university board (see Tore&#8217;s presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/Content\/521029\/cache=20170106124311\/presentasjon_Tore_Nesset.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> in Norwegian)<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\">\u00a0Russian morphosyntax and phonology, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/janda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=41561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura A. Janda<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor of Russian Linguistics<\/li>\n<li>Meritorious teacher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (from 2017)<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (from 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Laura Janda&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmappe.uit.no\/lja001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teaching Portfolio<\/a>\u00a0and personal <a href=\"http:\/\/ansatte.uit.no\/laura.janda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homepage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests: <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\">Russian language, Slavic languages, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\">Saami language, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>On-site members:<\/h3>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/SvetlanaSokolova.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=67156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Svetlana Sokolova<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Professor<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\"> linguistic theory,\u00a0Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, morphology, syntax-semantics interface, grammaticalization, lexicalization, word-formation, nominalizations, historical linguistics,\u00a0Slavic linguistics, aspect, verbal prefixes, quantifiers and pronouns, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, pragmatics, semiotics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1277\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2021\/08\/AnnaEndresen-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2021\/08\/AnnaEndresen-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2021\/08\/AnnaEndresen-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2021\/08\/AnnaEndresen.jpeg 1938w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=585584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Endresen<\/a><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Research Professor (forsker I) and Language Instructor<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests: <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\">Construction Grammar, multi-word constructions in Slavic and 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<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-19-at-18.43.16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1585\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-19-at-18.43.16-875x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><strong>Reza Soltani<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Postdoctoral researcher<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\">Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Semantics, Metaphor, Polysemy, Construction Grammar, Usage-based Construction Grammar, Light Verbs, Motion Verbs, Language and Culture, Persian Linguistics, Philosophy of Language<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1276\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2021\/08\/photo-for-website-zhukova-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2021\/08\/photo-for-website-zhukova-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2021\/08\/photo-for-website-zhukova-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2021\/08\/photo-for-website-zhukova.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=750196&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valentina Zhukova<\/a><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">PhD graduate of March 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\">Russian language, Construction Grammar and constructicography, the semantics of grammatical constructions, corpus linguistics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"753\" height=\"919\" class=\"wp-image-1687\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/07\/Yuliia-Palii-foto-3-e1688845619755.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/07\/Yuliia-Palii-foto-3-e1688845619755.jpg 753w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/07\/Yuliia-Palii-foto-3-e1688845619755-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=801807&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit\">Yuliia Palii<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Professor in Ukrainian Linguistics<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests: <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\">creating educational resources for teaching and learning foreign languages (Ukrainian, Spanish, English), translation studies, and semantics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n<table style=\"height: 5px\" width=\"954\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=868265&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olaf Mikkelsen<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {\"placeholder\":\"Content\u2026\"} -->\n<p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Construction Grammar, constructicography, Norwegian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>University Lecturer of Norwegian as a Second Language<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Off-site (external) members:<\/h4>\n<table style=\"height: 1697px\" width=\"963\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/a_mak.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katalog.uu.se\/profile\/?id=N20-1741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anastasia Makarova<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate professor in Russian, University of Uppsala<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wo.cristin.no\/as\/WebObjects\/cristin.woa\/wa\/personVis?type=PERSON&amp;pnr=54700&amp;la=no&amp;instnr=186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Researcher profile in Cristin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Research interests:<\/strong>\u00a0Cognitive Linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, Slavic languages,\u00a0Russian as a foreign language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-520\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/eckhoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk\/people\/hanne-eckhoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanne Eckhoff<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Associate Professor in Russian Linguistics and Comparative Slavonic Philology (University of Oxford)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Fellow and Tutor in Russian and Linguistics, Lady Margaret Hall<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmh.ox.ac.uk\/our-academics\/fellows\/dr-hanne-eckhoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homepage<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Research interests:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0historical Slavonic linguistics, diachronic text corpora (treebanks), computational linguistics, Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian, Ancient Greek, verbal aspect, definiteness marking, information structure<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/ReynoldsRob_857x1200-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reynoldsnlp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reynolds<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Assistant Research Professor in\u00a0Digital Humanities\u00a0(Brigham Young University, USA)<\/li>\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Research interests:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\"> 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<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/bath2004_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.ru\/en\/staff\/olesar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olga Lyashevskaya<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor at School of Linguistics,<\/li>\n<li>Leading Research Fellow at Linguistic Convergence Laboratory (The Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow);<\/li>\n<li>Senior Researcher at Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/olesar.narod.ru\/en\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> \u00a0Lexical 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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/jku.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\">Julia Kuznetsova\n<ul>\n<li>Independent Researcher<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests:<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\"> natural language processing, neural networks, metrics, unaccusativity, modality, linguistic aptitude<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-360\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/sasha.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1409\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svenska.gu.se\/english\/about-us\/staff?languageId=100001&amp;userId=xbalek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aleksandrs Berdicevskis<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Researcher (University of Gothenburg)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/sasha-berdicevskis\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Research interests:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>language evolution and change; quantitative typology;\u00a0computational linguistics;\u00a0linguistic complexity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/ISKMariaNordrum.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=422165&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Nordrum<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD graduate of March 2020<\/li>\n<li><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Russian aspect, Cognitive Linguistics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/JamesMcDonald-e1580823990554.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=521346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James McDonald<\/a><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">MA student and former group assistant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Slavic languages, Germanic languages, Romance languages, morphology, corpus data, syntax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 486px\" width=\"957\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1091 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2020\/09\/IMG_0313-1-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2020\/09\/IMG_0313-1-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2020\/09\/IMG_0313-1-768x1035.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2020\/09\/IMG_0313-1-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2020\/09\/IMG_0313-1.jpg 1046w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"510\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=524736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H\u00e5kon Roald Sverdrupsen<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">MA student and former group assistant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Russian language, politics, history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-65\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/Kosheleva_D-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/Kosheleva_D-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/Kosheleva_D-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/Kosheleva_D-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/Kosheleva_D.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nmh.no\/kontakt-oss\/ansatte\/daria-kosheleva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daria Kosheleva<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">PhD graduate of June 2023<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Cognitive linguistics, aspect, future tense, Russian, Russian as a foreign language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1062\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2020\/09\/Simon-Devylder-picture-268x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2020\/09\/Simon-Devylder-picture-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2020\/09\/Simon-Devylder-picture.png 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit\">Simon Devylder<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Postdoctoral researcher (Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie\u00a0Fellow)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>North S\u00e1mi language, Paamese language,\u00a0gesture analysis,\u00a0semantic typology, field linguistics,\u00a0documentation &amp; revitalization\u00a0of indigenous languages, cognitive linguistics, cognitive semiotics, linguistic anthropology,\u00a0polysemiotic communication (&#8220;multimodality&#8221;),linguistic anthropology,\u00a0metaphors &amp; metonymy, body categorization, possessive constructions, Vanuatu sand drawings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-341\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/Elmira.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/Elmira.jpg 377w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/Elmira-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\">Elmira Zhamaletdinova\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">PhD graduate of February 2024<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;color: initial\">Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;color: initial\">Russian language, Slavic languages, modality, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, linguistic typology, second language acquisition, Romance linguistics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"height: 186px\" width=\"958\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62\" 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