Senior Researcher, Section of Areal Linguistics
Elena Markus has been working at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2007.
Research interests
Phonetics, phonology, morphonology, morphology, linguistic typology, areal linguistics, language contacts, field linguistics, documentation of endangered languages, Finno-Ugric languages, Finnic languages, Votic, Indrian.
Biography
From 1997 to 2002 Elena Markus studied at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the Moscow State Linguistic University.
From 2002 to 2005 studied in full-time postgraduate studies at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 2007 she was enrolled as a junior researcher in the group "Languages of the World" of the Department of Indo-European Languages. At the present time she is Senior Researcher of Section of Areal Linguistics.
Since 2001 she has carried out fieldwork on the study of the Votic language, since 2006 - the Indrian language. She participated in linguistic expeditions of MSU to study the Besermyan dialect of the Udmurt language (2002-2005), and the Shoksha dialect of the Mordovian language (2006).
Theses
- Diploma thesis (2002): "Morphonology of the Votic verb (system description and experience of the dictionary)".
- PhD thesis (2006): "Typology of morphemic variation (on the material of morphonological systems of dialects of the Votic language)", specialty 10.02.20 - comparative-historical, typological and comparative linguistics.
Projects
Investigator
- Hõimurahvaste programm, Isuri keele prosoodia ja ortograafia, 2020.
- Hõimurahvaste programm, Isuri keele õppesõnastik, 2017-2018.
- Estonian Science Foundation, Ingrian verbal morphophonology: the interaction of prosody and paradigmatics, 2009-2011.
- RHSF: 15-04-16504 d1, Пpreparation of the original layout and publication of the book "Languages of the World: Languages Mande", 2015–2016
- RHSF: 13-04-16029 d, Publication of the book "Languages of the World: Dravidian Languages" , 2013.
- RHSF: 12-04-00168 a, Morphological Dictionary Votic language and the formation of modern Vodskaya paradigmatics, 2012–2014
Participant
- Estonian Research Council, The grammar of discourse particles in Uralic, 2020-2025.
- Estonian Science Agency, Prosodic structure and language contact in the Finno-Ugric languages, 2013-2018.
- Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, Documentation of Ingrian: collecting and analyzing fieldwork data and digitizing legacy materials, 2011-2013.
- RHSF, 08-04-00172а, Endangered Finno-Ugric languages of Ingria - grammar, contacts, typology, 2008–2010.
- RHSF, 11-04-00153а, Cognitive foundations of linguistic structure and discursive phenomena: theory and practice, 2011–2013.
- Program "Organization and financing of the work of young scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences in priority areas of fundamental research" (within the framework of the Program of targeted expenditures of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Support for young scientists"), 2006-2009.
Selected publications
Monographs
- Elena Markus, Fyodor Rozhanskiy. 2011. Sovremennyi vodskii yazyk. Teksty i grammaticheskii ocherk. Tom I. Vodskie teksty. [Modern Votian. Texts and grammatical outline. Volume I. Vodsky texts.]. St. Petersburg: Publishing house of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Nestor-History", 336 p.
- Elena Markus, Fyodor Rozhanskiy. 2011. Sovremennyi vodskii yazyk. Teksty i grammaticheskii ocherk. Tom 2. Vodskie teksty. [Modern Votian. Texts and grammatical outline. Volume 2. Vodsky texts.]. St. Petersburg: Publishing house of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Nestor-History", 384 p.
- Elena Markus, Fyodor Rozhanskiy. 2017. Sovremennyi vodskii yazyk. Teksty i grammaticheskii ocherk. 2-e izdanie, ispravlennoe i dopolnennoe. [Modern Votian. Texts and grammatical outline. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged.]. Publishing house of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Nestor-History", 726 p.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals and publications included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission
- Markus E., Rozhanskiy F. The mystery of the Votic inessive // Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 10 (2), 2019, p. 125-150.
- Rozhanskiy F., Markus E. Negation in Soikkola Ingrian // Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen 41, 2017, p. 189-219.
- Rozhanskiy F., Markus E. On the mid and high non-labial vowels in Luuditsa Votic // Linguistica Uralica 53 (4), 2017, p. 241-255.
- Markus E., Rozhanskiy F. Dialectal variation in Votic: Jõgõperä vs. Luuditsa // Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 6 (1), 2015, p. 23-29.
- Markus E., Rozhanskiy F. Comitative and terminative in Votic and Lower Luga Ingrian // Linguistica Uralica 50 (4), 2014. p. 241-257.
- Markus, Elena; Rozhanskiy, Fedor. Correlation between social and linguistic parameters in modeling language contact: evidence from endangered Finnic varieties // International Journal of the Sociology of Language 221, 2013. p. 53-76.
- Markus, Elena; Rozhanskiy, Fedor. Folklore Texts as a Source of Linguistic Data: Evidence from Votic Folklore // Finnisch-ugrische Mitteilungen, Band 36, 2013. p. 75 - 91.
- Markus E. The phonetics and phonology of a disyllabic foot in Soikkola Ingrian // Linguistica Uralica 47 (2), 2011. p. 103-119.
- Markus E. Primary and secondary geminates in Ingrian // Linguistica Uralica 46 (1), 2010. p. 38-52.
Sections of collective monographs and scientific collections
- Rozhanskiy F., Markus E. A new resource for Finnic languages: the outcomes of the Ingrian documentation project // Sofia Björklöf & Santra Jantunen (eds), Plurilingual Finnic. Language change in a multilingual environment. Uralica Helsingiensia 14. Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society, 2019, p. 303-326.
- Markus E., Rozhanskiy F. Essive in Votic // Casper de Groot (ed.) Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2017, 91–112. [Typological Studies in Language 119].
- Markus E., Rozhanskiy F. Essive in Ingrian // Casper de Groot (ed.) Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2017, 113–129. [Typological Studies in Language 119].
- Kuznetsova N., Markus E., Muslimov M. Finno-Ugric minorities of Ingria: the current sociolinguistic situation and its background // H. Marten, M. Riessler, J. Saarikivi, R. Toivanen (eds.). Cultural and linguistic minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union. Berlin: Springer. 2015. P. 127-167. [Multilingual Education 13: Comparative studies on equality and diversity].
- Rozhanskiy F., Markus E. Negation in contemporary Votic // Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.). Negation in Uralic Languages. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2015. p. 487–516. [Typological Studies in Language, 108].
- Markus, Elena; Lippus, Pärtel; Pajusalu, Karl; Teras, Pire. Three-way opposition of consonant quantity in Finnic and Saamic languages. // Asu, Eva Liina; Lippus, Pärtel (Eds.). Nordic Prosody. Proceedings of the XIth conference. Tartu, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 2012. p. 225-234.