Alna Aksnova

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Linguistics
SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376
B alena.aksenova@stonybrook.edu

Education
2015present PhD in Linguistics, Stony Brook University.
20102015 Specialist (MA) in Linguistics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Thesis title: Syntax of Negative Constructions in Buryat
Supervisor: Ekaterina A. Lyutikova

Other Institutions
Summer NY St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture,
2014 summer school in theoretical linguistics.
Summer NY St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture,
2013 summer school in theoretical linguistics.
20072010 CMC MSU Preparatory Courses, preparatory courses of the department
of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics in Lomonosov Moscow State
University.

Publications
2015 Nominal Partitive Constructions in Russian.
In Slavic Languages in the Perspective of Formal Grammar: Proceedings of FDSL
10.5, Brno 2014, Markta Zikov, Pavel Caha, Mojmr Doekal (eds.). Peter Lang AG,
Switzerland, 2015, pp. 918.

2015 Tolerance of underspecification in Karachai-Balkar, with Pavel Koval.

In Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis
(SinFonIJA 7), Andreas Blmel, Remus Gergel (eds). Grazer Linguistische Studien 83.

to appear Transcategorial Negative Marker: Evidence from Buryat.

In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in
Europe (ConSOLE XXIII). Leiden University, Netherlands.

to appear Diretra, a customizable direct translation system: first sketches, with

Marina Ermolaeva.
In Proceedings of Translata II. Peter Lang, Germany.

Talks & Posters

2015 Transcategorial negative marker in Buryat.
Poster presented at the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in
Europe (ConSOLE XXIII). Universit Paris Diderot, Paris, January 79.

2014 Nominal Quantifiers in Russian.

Talk given at the fourth halftime conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages
(FDSL 10.5). Masaryk University, Brno, December 46.

2014 Diretra, a customizable direct translation system: first sketches, with

Marina Ermolaeva.
Talk given at the Workshop And yet it Translates! Human-Machine Interaction in
Translation in the 21st Century at Translata II, the 2nd International Conference on
Translation and Interpreting Studies. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, October 30
November 1.

2014 Morfologieskij analizator Diretra: bole, em glossa [Morphological

analyzer Diretra: more than a gloss], with Marina Ermolaeva.
Talk given at the 201st NPMMvYa seminar. Moscow State University, Moscow, October
25.

2014 Transkategorialnoje otricanije v buryatskom yazike [Transcategorial

negation in Buryat].
Talk given at the 4th Conference on Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters (TMP2014). Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, Moscow, October
1517.

2014 Tolerance of underspecification in Karachai-Balkar, with Pavel Koval.

Poster presented at SinFonIJA 7. Karl-Franzes-University, Graz, September 2527.

2014 Imennyje partitivnyje i psevdopartitivnyje konstrukcii v russkom

yazike [Nominal partitive and pseudopartitive constructions in
Russian].
Talk given at the Workshop on Formal Approaches to Russian linguistics at the 5th International Congress of Russian Language Researchers Russian Language: its Historical
Destiny and Present State. Moscow State University, Moscow, March 1920.

2013 Izafetnyje konstrukciji v karaaevo-balkarskom yazike [Possessive constructions in Balkar].

Talk given at the 10th conference on typology and grammar for young researchers.
Institute for Linguistic Studies, Saint-Petersburg, November 2123.

2013 Imennyje partitivnyje i psevdopartitivnyje konstrukcii, sravnenije

russkogo i datskogo [Nominal partitive and pseudopartitive constructions: Russian vs. Danish].
Talk given at the 1st Conference on General, Nordic and Slavic linguistics for undergraduate and doctoral students (GeNSLing 2013). Sholokhov Moscow State University
for the Humanities, Moscow, October 1618.

2012 Fokusnyj operator gena i klitizacija priimennyh modifikatorov v

miarskom dialekte tatarskogo yazika [Focal operator gena and clitization of nominal modifiers in Mishar dialect of Tatar], with Pavel
Koval.
Talk given at the 2nd Conference on Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters (TMP2012). Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, Moscow, November
1416.

Awards
2014 Prize for the best presentation by PhD student(s) at Translata II,
with Marina Ermolaeva.
Translata II. Innsbruck, November 1.

Projects
2014 Expedition for Uralic and Altaic linguistic data collecting, executor.
Principle investigator: Ariadna I. Kuznetsova. Russian Foundation for Humanities
(RFH), #14-04-18043e.

2013-2014 Research in morphosyntactic parameters of interlingual variation in

Uralic and Altaic languages, executor.
Principle investigator: Ariadna I. Kuznetsova. Russian Foundation for Basic Research
(RFBR), #13-06-00884a.

2013-2014 Expedition for Turkic and Altaic linguistic data collecting, executor.
Principle investigator: Sergei G. Tatevosov. Foundation for Fundamental Linguistic
Research (FFLR), #a42-2013.

2013 Predicative structure in NP: formal grammar and model-theoretic

analysis, executor.
Principle investigator: Sergei G. Tatevosov. Russian Foundation for Basic Research
(RFBR), #11-06-00489a.

2012 Expedition for Uralic and Altaic linguistic data collecting, executor.
Principle investigator: Alexander E. Kibrik. Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH),
#12-04-18024e.

Fieldwork
Summer Barguzin dialect of Buryat, village Baraghan, Buryatia.
2014 Topic: Negative constructions
Summer erek dialect of Balkar, aul Ullu Malkar, Kabardino-Balkaria, North
2013 Caucasus.
Topic: Possessive constructions

Winter 2013 Miar dialect of Tatar, aul Rbia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
Topic: Focal operators

Summer Miar dialect of Tatar, aul Rbia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

2012 Topic: Focal operators
Summer Vologda dialect of Russian, Kimengskij gorodok, Vologda Oblast.
2011 Topic: Reflexes of *

Languages
Natural Russian (native); English (C1); German (B2); French (B1); Norwegian
(A2); Italian (A1); Old Slavonic, Tatar, Balkar, Buryat and Turkish (linguistic
knowledge).
Formal Python, LATEX; C#, HTML, R (basic).