Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Institute
    • About the Institute
    • History
    • Directorate
    • Senate
    • Dissertation Councils
    • Trade Union
    • Young Scientists Council
    • Contact
  • Research
    • Research Departments
      • Department of African languages
      • Department of Applied Linguistics
      • Department of Asian and East Asian languages
      • Department of Caucasian Languages
      • Section of Comparative Linguistics
      • Department of experimental study of speech
      • Department of Indo-European languages
        • Section of Anatolian and Celtic languages
        • Section of Germanic languages
        • Section of Iranian languages
        • Section of Romance languages
      • Laboratory for study and preservation of minority languages
      • Laboratory for multichannel communication
      • Research center for national linguistic relations
      • Research center for the preservation, revitalization and documentation of the languages of Russia
      • Department of Theoretical Linguistics
      • Department of typology and areal linguistics
        • Section of typology
        • Section of areal linguistics
      • Department of Ural-Altaic languages
        • Group for Finno-Ugric languages
      • Yuri Stepanov Department for Theory and Practice of Communication
    • Researchers
    • Research projects
    • Popular science
    • Publications
    • Partnerships
    • Languages of Russia
  • Conferences
    • Upcoming Conferences
    • Linguistic Forum
      • Linguistic Forum 2022
      • Linguistic Forum 2021
      • Linguistic Forum 2020
      • Linguistic Forum 2019
  • Workshops
    • Discussion and Analytical Club on the Language Policy
    • Other workshops
  • Education
  • Publishing

logo

Mobile logo English

Natalia Serdobolskaya

Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Study and Preservation of Minority Languages

PhD

Member of the editorial board of the journal “Rhema”.
Member of Societas Linguistica Europaea

Research interests

  • Semantics of complementation
  • Typology of raising
  • Differential Object marking in Uralic and Altaic languages
  • Nominalizations

Current projects

  • Grammar of (Iron) Ossetic
  • Grammar of Adyghe
  • A multimedia lexicographic resource of the Besermyan Udmurt
  • Minicorpora of Komi-Zyrian, Udmurt, Erzya-Mordvin and Mari 

Curriculum Vitae

Current work

Senior Researcher, Minority Language Research and Preservation Lab, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Education

2001. M.A. in Linguistics: Moscow Lomonosov University. Padezhnoje markirovanije aktantov v nefinitnoj predikacii. (Arguments’ Case Marking in Non-finite Clauses)

2005. Ph.D. in Linguistics: Moscow Lomonosov University. Sintaksicheskij status aktantov zavisimoj nefinitnoj predikacii. (Syntax of core arguments in non-finite dependent clauses

Teaching

  • Typology of complementation
  • Differential Object Marking
  • Modern fieldwork methods
  • Cognitive typology
  • Language Technology
  • Syntax of Russian spontaneous speech
  • Syntax (workshops)
  • Syntax of Russian
  • General linguistics
  • Comparative morphology of Russian and English
  • Comparative typology of Russian and English
  • Comparative lexicology of Russian and English 

Fieldwork 

  • 2000–2001, 2004: Mari (Eastern)
  • 2002, 2003: Komi-Zyrian (Pechora dialect)
  • 2003–2005, 2009–2012: Udmurt (Besermjan dialect)
  • 2003–2008 – Adyghe
  • 2006: Erzya-Mordvin (Shoksha dialect)
  • 2007–2010, 2012 – Qunki, Xuduc, Ashty (Dargwa, Nakh-Dagestanian)
  • 2007, 2008: Kalmyk
  • 2010–2012: Ossetic (Iron dialect)

Scientific Profiles

Academia
ResearchGate

Science Index

Selected publications

Differential object marking 

  • Pseudoincorporation analysis of unmarked Direct Objects in Mari // B. Gehrke, O. Borik (eds.) Syntax and Semantics. In print. 
  • (with Toldova S.) Information structure at odds with discourse factors: evidence from Finno-Ugric differential object marking. Handout of the talk given at Categories of Information Structure across Languages, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 9.11.2012 – 10.11.2012.
  • Sootnosheniye diskursivnyx svojstv i informacionnoj struktury vyskazyvaniya (na material differencirovannogo markirovaniya pramogo dopolneniya) (The correlation of discourse properties and information structure of the sentence (based on differential object marking)). Handout of the talk given at the conference “Typology of morphosyntactic parameters 2”, 14–16.11.2012. 
  • (with Toldova S.) Differencirovannoe markirovanie pramogo dopolnenija v finno-ugorskix jazykax (Differential Object marking in Finno-Ugric languages) // Finno-ugorskie jazyki: fragmenty grammaticheskogo opisanija. Formalnyj i funkcionalnyj podxody (Finno-Ugric languages: fragments of grammatical description. Formal and functional approaches). Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kultur, 2012, pp. 59–142.
  • (with Toldova S.) Leksicheskije svojstva glagola i oformljenije prjamogo dopolnjenija v komi-zyrjanskom jazyke (pechorskij dialekt). (Lexical Semantics of Transitive Verbs and Direct Object Encoding in Komi-Zyrian (Pechora dialect)) Lingvisticheskij bespredel-2. Sbornik nauchnyx trudov k 80-letiyu A.I. Kuznetsovoj. Moscow: MSU, pp. 164–175. 
  • (with Toldova S.) Direct Object marking in Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages: Verb semantics and definiteness of direct object NP: Paper presented at the Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation, 13–15 October 2006, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
  • (with Toldova S.) Nekotoryje osobennosti oformlenija prjamogo dopolnenija v marijskom jazyke. (Some Pecularities of Direct Object Encoding in Mari) // Lingvisticheskij bespredel, Moscow: Moscow Lomonosov University, 2002, pp. 106–125. 
  • (with Toldova S.) Namerenija govorjaschego i referencialjnyje svojstva imennyh grupp. (The Speaker’s Intentions and the Referential Properties of Noun Phrases) Dialogue 2002: Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. International workshop proceedings (Protvino, 06.06. – 11.06.2002) Moscow: Nauka, pp. 508–523.

Complementation

  • K tipologii vyrazheniya znacheniya genericheskogo sobytiya v konstrukciyax s sentencialnymi aktantami. Handout of the talk given at the 8th International conference on typology and grammar, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, 17–19.11.2011. 
   Ossetic
  • Semantics of complementation in Ossetic. In P. Kehayov, K. Bøye (eds.) Complementation. Mouton de Gruyter. In print.
  • Semantika konstrukcij s sentencialnymi aktantami v osetinkom jazyke. In ACTA LINGUISTICA PETROPOLITANA / N.N. Kazanskij (ed.). Vol. X, part 2. Saint-Petersburg: Nauka. In print. 
   Adyghe
  • Semantics of complementation in Adyghe. In P. Kehayov, K. Bøye (eds.) Complementation. Mouton de Gruyter. In print. 
  • Oformleniye imennyx i sentencialnyx aktantov v adygejskom jazyke: semanticheskij sdvig v znachenii padezhnyx pokazatelej. In Redkiye javleniya na jazykovoj karte Rossii. ACTA LINGUICTICA PETROPOLITANA / N.N. Kazanskiy (ed.). Saint-Petersburg: Nauka. In print. 
  • (with Motlokhov A.V.) Semantika konstrukcij s sentencial’nymi aktantami v adygejskom jazyke // Testelec Ja.G. e.a. (eds.). Aspekty polisintetizma: ocherki po grammatike adygejskogo jazyka. Moscow: RSUH, 2009, pp. 498-559. 
  • (with A.V. Motlohov) Semantika glavnogo predikata i vybor oformlenija sentencialnogo aktanta v adygejskom jazyke // Polevyje issledovanija studentov RGGU. Etnologija. Foljkloristika. Lingvistika. Religiovedenije. Vol. II. / D.P. Bak (ed.). Moscow: RSUH, 2007, pp. 310-323. 
   Finno-Ugric
  • (with S.Ju. Toldova) Glagol rechi manaš v marijskom jazyke: osobennosti grammatikalizacii [The verb of speech manaš in Mari: the peculiarities of its grammaticalization]. In Voprosy jazykoznaniya, 2014, № 6, pp. 109-134.
  • (with Iljevskaya A.A., Minor S.A., Miteva P.S., Faynveyc A.V., Matveeva N.S.) Konstrukcii s sentencialnymi aktantami v finno-ugorskix jazykax // Finno-ugorskie jazyki: fragmenty grammaticheskogo opisanija. Formalnyj i funkcionalnyj podxody. Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kultur, 2012, pp. 382-476.
  • (with Toldova S.Ju.) Grammaticalization of the verb of speech in Finno-Ugric languages // Proceedings of the Congressus XI Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. Budapest: Reguly Társaság, 2011. 
  • (with L. Leisio) Konstrukcii s sentencialnymi aktantami v uralskix jazykax: sintaksis i semantika (Complementation in Uralic languages: Syntax and Semantics) // Proceedings of the XXXVIII International philological conference: Uralistics, March 16-21, 2009. Saint-Petersburg, 2009, pp. 58-67.
   Dargwa
  • Semantika konstrukcij s sentencial’nymi aktantami v kunkinskom variante darginskogo jazyka (Semantics of complementation in Qunqi Dargwa) (2009)  
   Russian
  • (with Toldova S.) Konstrukcii s ocenochnymi predikativami v russkom jazyke: uchastniki situacii ocenki i semantika ocenochnogo predikata (Constructions with evaluative predicates in Russian: participants encoding and semantics of the evaluative predicates). In Russkij jazyk: grammatika konstrukcij i leksiko-semanticheskiye podxody. ACTA LINGUISTICA PETROPOLITANA / N.N. Kazanskij (ed.). Saint-Petersburg: Nauka, 2014, pp. 442-478.
  • Discourse properties and semantics of mental verbs in subordinate constructions in Spoken Russian // Presentation at SCLC 2012, Zagreb 27-29 September 2012. 
  • (with S. Toldova) Ocenochnyje predikaty: tip ocenki i sintaksis konstrukcii (Evaluative verbs in complementation: the complement syntax and the semantics of evaluation) // Dialogue 2005: Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. International workshop proceedings (Zvenigorod, 01.06. — 06.06.2002). Moscow: Nauka, 2005, pp. 436-443. 
  • (with Letuchiy A.) Object or situation: the factors of expressing the arguments of mental verbs in Russian // East-West: Second Internation Conference in Meaning-Text Theory. Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskoj kuljtury, 2005, pp. 432-447. 

Nominalizations

  • Nominativ v nominalizacii: subject zavismoj predikacii ili imennoje zavisimoje // V.A. Plungian, S. Tatevosov (ed.) Issledovanija po glagolnoj derivacii. Moscow: Jazyki slavianskix kuljtur, 2008, pp. 314-348.
  • Faktory oformlenija subjekta pri nominalizacii v marijskom i komi-zyrjanskom jazykax // Tipologija argumentnoj struktury i sintaksicheskix otnoshenij. Trudy mezhdunarodnogo simpoziuma. Kazanj: KGU, 2008, pp. 64-77. 
  • (with D.A. Paperno) The polysemy of relativizing and nominalizing markers. Ms. 
  • (with Minor S. A.) Konstrukcii s nefinitnymi formami glagola v komi-zyrjanskom jazyke (pechorskij dialekt). (Non-finite clauses in Komi-Zyrian (Pechora dialect)) // Kibrik A. E. (ed.) Malyje jazyki: suschestvovanije na grani. Vol. 1: Lingvisticheskije problemy sohranenija i dokumentacii malyh jazykov. Moscow: Novoje izdatelstvo, 2005, pp. 145-175.

Raising

  • Towards the typology of raising: a functional approach // New Challenges in Typology, vol. 2 / A. Arkhipov, P. Epps (eds.). Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. С. 269-295. 
  • Raising in Altaic languages: syntactic criteria. Handout of the talk given at Syntax of World’s Languages 5, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1-4 October 2012.
  • Long-distance agreement in Qunqi and Xuduc Dargwa: raising or clause union. Handout of the talk given at the Workshop on Caucasian languages, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, May 13-15, 2011. 
  • Long-distance agreement in Qunqi and Xuduc Dargwa: raising or clause union. Handout of the talk given at the 7th International conference in typology and grammar, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, 4-6.11.2010. 
  • Akkuzativ subjekta v zavisimoj predikacii: za i protiv podjoma argumenta v kalmyckom jazyke // Issledovanija po grammatike kalmyckogo jazyka. N.N. Kazanskij ed. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana, v. IV, part 2. Saint-Petersburg: Nauka, 2009, pp. 581-622. 
  • Against Subject-to-Object Raising Analysis of Tuvinian nominalizations // Third Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics. WAFL-3. Moscow: Moscow State University, 2006, pp. 74-76. 
  • Sintaksicheskij status aktantov zavisimoj nefinitnoj predikacii (Non-finite verb’s arguments: case marking and syntactic position) Ph.D. diss., Moscow State University, Moscow. 2005.

Varia

  • Vtoroje buduscheje, infinitive, masdar i supin v adygejskom jazyke: argumenty za i protiv edinoj traktovki // Testelec Ja.G. e.a. (eds.). Aspekty polisintetizma: ocherki po grammatike adygejskogo jazyka. Moscow: RSUH, 2009, pp. 454-498.
  • (with Kuznecova Ju.L.) Dvojnoje padezhnoje markirovanie: unikal’nyj sluchaj adygejskogo jazyka // Testelec Ja.G. e.a. (eds.). Aspekty polisintetizma: ocherki po grammatike adygejskogo jazyka. Moscow: RSUH, pp. 166-201. 
  • (with Zimmerling A., Arkadjev P.) Proekt tipologicheskoj bazy dannyx po sintaksicheskim ogranichenijam na peredvizhenija // Dialogue 2010: Computer Linguistic and Intellectual Technologies (Bekassovo, May 26-30 2010). Vol. 9 (16). Moscow: RSUH, 2010, pp. 437-441.
  • Grammaticalization patterns of the Adyghe instrumental case // Languages and Cultures in the Caucasus. Papers from the International Conference “Current Advances in Caucasian Studies” Macerata, January 21-23, 2010. München – Berlin: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2011. P. 515–539. 
  • Glagoljnaja mnozhestvennost i aspect v udmurtskom besermjanskom: mnozhestvennost pokazatelej mnozhestvennosti // Issledovanija po teorii grammatiki, vol. 5. Saint-Petersburg: Nauka. 2012, pp. 735-785.  

Reviews

  • Ph.D. Thesis of Vydrin A.P. “Sistema modaljnosti osetinskogo jazyka v sopostavitelnom osveschenii”. May 31, 2011.
  • Ph.D. Thesis of Usacheva M.N. “Lokativnyje padezhi v sostave grupp s prostranstvennym znacheniem v permskix jazykax”. April 4, 2012.
  • The monograph by Rudnickaya E.L. “Spornyje voprosy korejskoj grammatiki: Teoreticheskije problemy i metody ix reshenija”. M.: Vostochnaja literatura, 2010. – 296 p. // Voprosy jazykoznanija. 2012, № 2. Moscow: Nauka, pp. 119–124. 
уральские языки
синтаксис

Choose Language

  • English
  • Русский

Participation in past events

  • Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous languages of Russia and beyond

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Natalia Serdobolskaya
  • English
  • Русский

User account menu

  • Log in

Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
1 bld. 1 Bolshoy Kislovsky Lane, 125009 Moscow, Russia (map)
Phone: (495) 690-35-85
Phone/Fax: (495) 690-05-28
E-mail: iling@iling-ran.ru
Twitter | YouTube
Map and contact information

© 2011–2022 Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Институт языкознания Российской академии наук