Junior Researcher, Department of Ural-Altaic Languages
Works at the Institute of Linguistics since 2011.
Education
In 2008, Maria Amelina graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2012, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Theses
Genetičeskaja xarakteristika leksiko-semantičeskogo polja «koldovstvo» v russkom jazyke [Genetic characterization of lexico-semantic field "witchcraft" in Russian", academic supervisor PhD, Dr.habil. Zhanna Varbot.
Research Interests
- the Tundra Nenets language
- Samouedic languages
- Nenets dialectology
- Russian dialectology
- phonetics and phonology
- etymology and comparative and historical linguistics
Fieldwork
- 2004 — participant of the expedition for the study of Don Cossacks folklore in Kumylzhenskaya stanitsa, Volgograd Oblast, Russia
- 2005 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Bronyevo village (Usachyevo), Kargopolsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
- 2006 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Sura village, Pinezhsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
- 2007 — leader of the dialectological expedition to Shegovary village, Shenkursky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
- 2008 — leader of the dialectological expedition to Moseevo village, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
- 2008–2009, 2010 — participant of dialectological expeditions to Tambei tundra and Seyakha village, Yamalsky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- 2011 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Oma village, Zapolyarny District, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- 2011 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Gyda village, Tazovsky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- 2012 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Krasnoe village, Zapolyarny District, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- 2012 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Halyasavey village, Purovsky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- 2013 — participant of the dialectological expeditions to Shugur and Bolchary villages, Kondinsky District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, Salym village, Nefteyugansky District Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- 2017 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Shugur village, Kondinsky District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- 2017 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Tukhard tundra and Tukhard village, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
- 2018 — participant of the dialectological expedition to Bugrino village, Kolguyev Island, Zapolyarny District, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Science Index
Selected publications
- Linguistic ideologies under language contact in the Lower Yenisey area in the XXth century // Language contact in the circumpolar world II: Abstracts. 25–27th October 2019, Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow. / Ed. by Valentin Gusev, Olga Kazakevich, Olesya Khanina, Andrej A. Kibrik. — pp. 10-12.