Olesya Khanina

Senior Researcher
Department of Typology

PhD: 2005 (Moscow State University), MA: 2002 (Moscow State University)

Department: Typology and areal linguistics

Rank: Senior Research Fellow

PhD: 2005 (Moscow State University), MA: 2002 (Moscow State University)

Key words: descriptive linguistics and language documentation, language contact, corpus linguistics, languages of Siberia, endangered languages, Enets, typology, sociolinguistics

Languages:  Uralic (Samoyedic, in particular), Turkic
 

I specialize in Uralic languages, languages of Siberia, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language contact, language documentation, and linguistic typology.

Since April 2017, I am leading a research group on language contact in the circumpolar region. Description of the project with a list of upcoming events can be found here.

Projects

Academic experience

  • 2015 – now: Senior research fellow
    Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
  • 2018 – 2019: EURIAS post-doctoral fellow
    Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
  • 2011 – 2013: Part-time support for Enets corpus development
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany)
  • 2008 – 2011: Post-doctoral fellow
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany)
  • 2007 – 2008: British Academy Visiting Fellow
    University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  • 2006 – 2007: Post-doctoral fellow
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany)
  • 2005 – 2005: Visiting PhD student
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany)
  • 2002 – 2005: Doctoral student
    Moscow State University, Philological Faculty, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Moscow, Russia)
  • (2011 – 2015 on maternity leave with two children)

Extended linguistic fieldwork

  • 2017: Enets, Nganasan (Uralic, Samoyedic), PI
  • 2005, 2008, 2010: Enets (Uralic, Samoyedic), PI
  • 2003, 2004, 2005: Tundra Nenets (Uralic, Samoyedic), Fieldwork Assistant
  • 2002, 2004: Balkar (Turkic), Fieldwork Assistant
  • 2001: Chuvash (Turkic), Fieldwork Assistant
  • 1999, 2000: Mishar Tatar (Turkic), Fieldwork Assistant

Scientific Profiles

Science Index

Selected publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

In English:
  1. How universal is wanting? Studies in Language 32-4. 2008, 818-865.
  2. Reply to Goddard and Wierzbicka. Studies in Language 34-1. 2010, 124–130.
  3. Choice of case in cross-reference markers: Forest Enets non-finite forms. Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen 37. 2013, 31-44. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  4. A rare type of benefactive construction: evidence from Enets. Linguistics 52-6. 2014, 1391-1431. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  5. Digital resources for Enets: a descriptive linguist’s view. Acta Linguistica Academica: an international journal of linguistics (Acta Linguistica Hungarica), 64 (3), 2017, 417-433. https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2017.64.3.6
  6. A case-study in historical sociolinguistics beyond Europe: reconstructing patterns of multilingualism in a linguistic community in Siberia. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 4(2), 2018, 221-251. (co-authored with Miriam Meyerhoff).
  7. Documenting a language with phonemic and phonetic variation: the case of Enets. Language documentation and conservation 12, 2018, 430-460.
  8. Enets in space and time: a case study in linguistic geography. Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen 42. 2018, 109-135. (co-authored with Yuri Koryakov and Andrey Shluinsky)
  9. Intransitive verbs in Enets: a contribution to the typology of split intransitivity. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 38, 2019, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2019-0001 (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  10. Competing ditransitive constructions in Enets. Functions of Language 27(3), 2020, 247-279. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
In Russian:
  1. Želanie: kognitivno-funkcionalnyj portret [Desire: a cognitive-functional portrait], Voprosy jazykoznanija 4. [Linguistic Inquiry 4]. 2004, 136-169.
  2. Odin tekst na tundrovom dialekte èneckogo jazyka i ego lingvističeskij razbor [One text in Tundra Enets and its linguistic analysis], in Natal’ja B. Koškareva (guest ed.), Naučnyj vestnik Jamalo-Neneckogo avtonomnogo okruga 6-58. Ural’skie jazyki Severa Sibiri [Working Papers of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area 6-58. Uralic languages of the North of Siberia]. Salexard 2008, 139-147.
  3. Imperativnye formy v èneckom jazyke [Enets imperative forms]. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana (Trudy Instituta lingvističeskih issledovanij RAN) XI-2. Jazykovoe raznoobrazie v Rossijskoj Federacii[Acta Linguistica Petropolitana (Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS) XI-2. Linguisticdiversity in Russian Federation]. 2015. 610-626. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  4. Sočinitel'nye strategii èneckogo jazyka [Coordination strategies in Enets]. Uralo-Altaic Studies 21, 2016, 131-148.
  5. Eneckij perfekt: diskursivnye upotreblenija u èvidencial’no-admirativnogo perfekta [Enets Perfect: discourse uses of an evidential-admirative perfect]. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana (Trudy Instituta lingvističeskih issledovanij RAN) XII-2. Issledovanija po teorii grammatiki. Vypusk 7: Tipologija perfekta. [Acta Linguistics Petropolitana (Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS) XII-2. Studies in Grammar Theory, Issue 7: Typology of pefect.]. 2016, 425-474. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  6. Vozmožnosti cifrovyh tehnologij: opisanie allofonov perednih glasnyh, gortannogo smyčnogo i objektnogo soglasovanija glagola v èneckom jazyke [Perspectives of digital technologies: a description of front vowel allophones, a glottal stop, and an object cross-reference in Enets], Uralo-Altaic Studies 3 (26), 2017, 186-207.
  7. Praktiki mnogojazychija v nizovjah Eniseja: opyt sociolingvisticheskogo opisanija situacii v proshlom [Multilingual practices in the lower Yenisei area: a sociolinguistic study of the past], Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology 23, 2019, 9-28.
  8. Sistema form s referenciej k buduschemu v eneckom jazyke [Future reference forms in Enets], Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology 23, 2019, 83-96. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)

Articles in edited volumes

In English:
  1. Intransitive split in Tundra Nenets, or how much semantics can hide behind syntactic alignment? in Wichmann, Søren and Donohue,Mark (eds.), The Typology of Semantic Alignment Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007, 162-196.
  2. Finite structures in Forest Enets subordination: a case study of language change under strong Russian influence, in Edward J. Vaida (ed.), Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2008, 63-75. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  3. The symbiosis of descriptive linguistics and typology: A case study of desideratives, in Epps, Patience and Arkhipov, Alexandre (eds.), New Challenges in Typology: Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2009, 199-220.
  4. Mapping the Enets speaking people and their languages // S. Drude, N. Ostler & M. Moser (eds.), Endangered languages and the land: Mapping landscapes of multilingualism, Proceedings of FEL XXII/2018 (Reykjavík, Iceland), 69–77. London: FEL & EL Publishing. 2018.(co-authored with Yuri Koryakov)
In Russian:
  1. Konstrukcii s grammatikalizovannym konverbom glagola reči [Constructions with grammaticalized converb of speech verb], in Lyutikova E.A., Kazenin K.I., Tatevosov S.G., Solovyev V.D. (eds.). Misharskij dialekt tatarskogo jazyka. Ocherki po sintaksisu i semantike. [Mishar dialect of Tatar. Essays on syntax and semantics]. Kazan. 2007, 126-140.
  2. Internet-sajty, posv’aš’ennye minoritarnym jazykam: zarubežnyj opyt [Web-sites devoted to minority languages: foreign experience], in Jazykovoe raznoobrazie v kiber-prostranstve: rossijskij i zarubežnyj opyt. (Rossijskij komitet programmy UNESCO “Informacija dl’a vsex”) [Linguistic diversity in ciber-space: Russian and foreign experience (Russian committee of the UNESCO program “Information for all”)]. Moscow: Mežrigionalnyj centr bibliotečnogo sotrudničestva. 2008, 96-103.
  3. Jadernye padeži suščestvitel'nyx v èneckom jazyke: v poiskax adekvatnogo opisanija [Core cases in Enets: a search for an appropriate description]. In: Agranat, Tatiana, et al. (eds.). Lingvističeskij bespredel – 2. [Festschrift for Ariadna Kuznecova]. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo universiteta. 2013, 76-94. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  4. Pr’amoj objekt v èneckom jazyke: objektnoe soglasovanie glagola [Direct object in Enets: verbal object cross-reference], in Lyutikova E.A., Zimmerling A.V., Konoshenko M.B. (eds.). Tipologija morfosintaksičeskih parametrov: materialy mezhdunarodnoj konferencii “Tipologija morfosintaksičeskih parametrov” [Typology of morphosyntactic parameters: materials of the international conference “Typology of morphosyntactic parameters”], Issue 2. Moscow, 2015, 392-410. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  5. Eneckij jazyk [The Enets language], in Mikhaljchenko V.Ju. (ed.). Jazyk i obščestvo. Enciklopedija [Language and society. Encyclopedia.]. Moscow: Azbukovnik. 2016, 588-593. (co-authored with Andrey Shluinsky)
  6. Čto proisxodit s jazykom, kogda na nem perestajut govorit'? (dannye nefinitnyx form lesnogo dialekta èneckogo jazyka) [What happens to a language when it is not used anymore? (evidence from Forest Enets nonfinite forms)]. Semenova K.P. (ed.). Malye jazyki v bol'šoj lingvistike. Sbornik trudov konferencii 2017 [Minor languages in major linguistics. Conference proceedings 2017]. Moscow: Buki-Vedi. 2018, 151-158. (co-authored with Maria Ovsjannikova)