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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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Linguistics and Philology
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

Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2014 by De Gruyter Mouton

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

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

Objects and Information Structure

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

A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir

Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2006 by De Gruyter Mouton

Possessors in switch-reference

András Bárány and Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2019 by Glossa

Denominal adjectives as mixed categories

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

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

Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2015 by Lingua

Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir

Irina Nikolaeva and Dejan Matic - Published in 2014 by Lingua

Typology of Finiteness

Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2010 by Language and Linguistics Compass

Between nouns and adjectives: A constructional view

Irina Nikolaeva - Published in 2008 by Lingua

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Greco-Roman antiquity and its legacy in the East

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Professor Jennifer Smith FBA

Jennifer Smith's research investigates speech patterns across time, space and the social system, uncovering the mechanisms which drive language variation and change.

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