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Maria Usacheva

М. Н. Усачёва

Senior Researcher, Group of Finno-Ugric Languages

PhD

employed at the Institute of Linguistics, RAS since 2018

Education

Moscow State University, Philological Faculty, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (2003–2011)

PhD-thesis

Local cases in groups with spatial meanings in Permic languages [Lokativnyje padezhi v sostave grupp s prostranstvennym znachenijem v permskikh jazykakh]

Research interests

  • Permic languages (Udmurt, Komi)
  • syntax of noun phrases
  • information structure
  • experiments in the field
  • field lexicography

Fieldwork

  • June – July 2004, June – July 2005 — Shamardan village, Yukamenskoe district, Udmurtia, Russia (Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language; participant)
  • July – August 2006, July – August 2007 — Shoksha village, Tengushevo district, Mordovia, Russia (Shoksha dialect of Erzya, participant)
  • June – July 2008, July – August 2009 — Muzhi village, Shuryshkary region, Yamal-Nenets autonomous district, Russia (Izhma dialect of Zyrian, participant)
  • June – July 2009 — Shamardan village, Yukamenskoe district, Udmurtia, Russia (Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language; participant)
  • January – February 2010; July – August 2010; August 2014; January, August 2015; January, July – August 2016 — Shamardan village, Yukamenskoe district, Udmurtia, Russia (Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language; participant)
  • July 2016 – Parshakova, Antipina, Vankova villages, Krasnovishersk district, Perm krai, Russia (Yazva Komi language; head)
  • October 2016 — Shamardan village, Yukamenskoe district, Udmurtia, Russia (Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language; participant)
  • January, July, November 2017 — Shamardan village, Yukamenskoe district, Udmurtia, Russia (Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language; participant)
  • August 2017 – Parshakova, Antipina, Vankova villages, Krasnovishersk district, Perm krai, Russia (Yazva Komi language; head)
  • January, July – August, October 2018 – Shamardan village, Yukamenskoe district, Udmurtia, Russia (Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language; head)
  • January, July – August, November 2019 – Shamardan village, Yukamenskoe district, Udmurtia, Russia (Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language; head)
  • January 2020 – Shamardan village, Yukamenskoe district, Udmurtia, Russia (Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language; head)

Selected publications

2020

  • (with T. Arkhangelskiy) Complex and simple postpositions: the split in Permic // Fagard, Benjamin, José Pinto de Lima, Dejan Stosic, and Elena Smirnova (eds.) Complex Adpositions in European Languages. A Micro-Typological Approach to Complex Nominal Relators. Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT], 65. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Pp. 335–365. (ISBN: 9783110676938)
  • Элицитированные экспериментальные тексты как источник данных для исследования широкого круга грамматических тем // ВАПросы языкознания: Мегасборник наностатей. Сб. ст. к юбилею В. А. Плунгяна / Ред. А. А. Кибрик, К. П. Семёнова, Д. Сичинава и др. Москва, 2020. С. 644–647. (ISBN: 978-5-4465-2882-0)

2019

  • (with N. Serdobolskaya and T. Arkhangelskiy) Grammaticalization of possessive markers in the Beserman dialect of Udmurt // Johanson L., Nevskaya I., Mazzitelli L.F. (eds.). Linguistic possession. New insights from the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia. (Studies in Language Companion Series). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2019. P. 291–311. (DOI:10.1075/SLCS.206.14SER)
  • Эксперименты в полевой лингвистике как метод сбора данных и проверки научных гипотез (на материале пермских языков // Ежегодник финно-угорских исследований. 2019. Т. 13, № 1. С. 149–160.

2018

  • (with T. Arkhangelskiy) Case Compounding in Beserman Udmurt // Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics. Vol. 9, №1. Estonia, 2018. P. 111–138.
  • Nomina loci in Beserman Udmurt: elicitation, corpus study, and experiments // SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. Vol. 15-2018. No. 3. 2018. Pp. 128–141.

2017

  • (with T. Arkhangelskiy) Grammaticalization of New Cases in Beserman Udmurt // Linguistica Uralica. Vol. 54 (1). Estonia, 2017. Pp. 27–48. (http://dx.doi.org/10.3176/lu.2017.1.03)
  • (with T. Arkhangelskiy, N. Serdobolskaya) Corpus-oriented lexicographic database for Beserman Udmurt // Acta Linguistica Academica. Vol. 64 (3). Hungary, 2017. Pp. 397–415. (DOI:10.1556/2062.2017.64.3.5)
  • Тезаурус бесермянского наречия. Имена и служебные части речи (говор деревни Шамардан) / М. Н. Усачёва, Т. А. Архангельский, О. Л. Бирюк и др. Москва: Издательские решения, 2017. 540 с.

2016

  • (with O. Biryuk) Russian in Beserman Oral Discourse: Code-mixing and Borrowing // Dialectologia. Vol. 17. 2016.
  • (with T. Arkhangelskiy) Case compounding in Beserman Udmurt: Syntax and information structure // BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 31 August – 3 September 2016. University of Naples Federico II Naples (Italy), 2016. P. 844–845.

2015

  • (with T. Arkhangelskiy) Syntactic and Morphosyntactic Properties of Postpositional Phrases in Beserman Udmurt as Part-of-Speech Criteria // Sky Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 28. Helsinki, 2015. Pp. 103–137. 
  • (совместно с Н. В. Сердобольской) Грамматикализация новой деепричастной формы на -оннига- в бесермянском удмуртском // Типология морфосинтаксических параметров. Материалы международной конференции «Типология морфосинтаксических параметров – 2015». Т. 2. 2015. С. 366–392.
  • (совместно с Н. В. Сердобольской) Опыт синхронизации корпуса с электронным словарем: специфика работы с малыми языками // Труды международной конференции «Корпусная лингвистика – 2015». 22–26 июня 2015 г., Санкт-Петербург. С.-Петербургский гос. университет. Филологический факультет СПб., 2015. С. 407–416. (ISBN 978-5-8465-1498-0.)

2012

  • (совместно с О. Л. Бирюк) Дискурсивные факторы, влияющие на выбор между послеложной и послеложно-падежной формой в бесермянском диалекте удмуртского языка // Финно-угорские языки: фрагменты грамматического описания. Формальный и функциональный подходы / Отв. ред. А. И. Кузнецова. Ред. Н. В. Сердобольская, С. Ю. Толдова, С. С. Сай, Е. Ю. Калинина / Под ред. А. И. Кузнецовой, С. Ю. Толдовой. Studia philologica. Москва: Рукописные памятники Древней Руси, 2012. С. 607–646.
  • Функции локативных падежей в пермских языках: группы с пространственным значением // Финно-угорские языки: фрагменты грамматического описания. Формальный и функциональный подходы / Отв. ред. А. И. Кузнецова. Ред. Н. В. Сердобольская, С. Ю. Толдова, С. С. Сай, Е. Ю. Калинина / Под ред. А. И. Кузнецовой, С. Ю. Толдовой. Studia philologica. Москва: Рукописные памятники Древней Руси, 2012. С. 147–217.

Popularization of science

  • «Experiments in field linguistics» – a lecture for NaukaPro project [in Russian] (19.09.2018).
  • «A Beserman expedition: who needs descriptions of indigenous languages?» A lecture for «Science in the field – 2018» [in Russian].
  • (with Natalia Serdobolskaya and Timofey Arkhangelskiy) «Udmurtskiy yazyk». A long-read for the «Languages of Russia» project [in Russian].

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Participation in past events

  • 5th workshop on languages of the Volga-Kama Sprachbund
  • Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous languages of Russia and beyond

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