Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA

General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages

Elected 2019

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Subjects: Linguistics
Website: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31522.php

Current post

Professor of Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Publications

A Grammar of Tundra Nenets

by Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2014 by De Gruyter Mouton

Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory: A Study in the Morphosyntax of Relative Clauses

by Irina Nikolaeva and Farrell Ackerman - Published in 2013 by CSLI Publications

Objects and Information Structure

by Irina Nikolaeva and Mary Dalrymple - Published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press

A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir

by Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2006 by De Gruyter Mouton

Possessors in switch-reference

by András Bárány and Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2019 by Glossa

Denominal adjectives as mixed categories

by Irina Nikolaeva and Andrew Spencer - Published in 2017 by Word Structure

On the expression of TAM on nouns: Evidence from Tundra Nenets

by Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2015 by Lingua

Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir

by Irina Nikolaeva and Dejan Matic - Published in 2014 by Lingua

Typology of Finiteness

by Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2010 by Language and Linguistics Compass

Between nouns and adjectives: A constructional view

by Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2008 by Lingua

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