Head of Department of African Languages
Employed at the Institute of Linguistics since November 2009.
Research interests: Mande, Dan, Kwa, Akebu; phonetics, phonology, lability and actancy, serial verb construction, incorporation.
PhD thesis "Grammatičeskij stroj jazyka kla-dan v tipologičeskom kontekste rodstvennyx jazykov [The grammatical system of Kla-Dan within the context of related languages typology]", Comparative Historical, Typological, and Contrastive Linguistics major. (see thesis abstract)
Science Index
Selected publications
- Makeeva, N. Préverbes en kla-dan // Mandenkan 50. 2013. P. 85–102.
- Makeeva, N. Conjonctions de taxis en kla-dan // Mandenkan 58. 2017. P. 47–67.
- Makeeva, N. & Shluinsky, A. 2018. Noun classes and class agreement in Akebu. Journal of West African Languages 45(1). P. 1–26.
- Makeeva, N. Marques rétrospectives en kla-dan // Mandenkan 60. 2018. P. 123–147.
- Makeeva, N. & Rjabova, I. “Infinitive” class 15 in Dabida // Language in Africa 1(4), 2020. P. 183–198.
- Makeeva, N. & Rjabova, I. Assimilation in Dabida // Language in Africa 1(2), 2020. P. 4-29.
- Makeeva, N. & Shluinsky, A. Ditransitive constructions in akebu // Studies in Language. — 2020. — Vol. 44, no. 4. — P. 964–994.
- Makeeva, N. & Shluinsky, A. Numerals in akebu // OPEN LINGUISTICS. — 2020. — Vol. 6, no. 1. — P. 344–356.
- Makeeva N. Floating low tone and consonant voicing in Akebu // Language in Africa 3(2), 2022. P. 272-288. DOI: 10.37892/2686-8946-2022-3-2-272-288
- Nadezhda Makeeva & Irina Ryabova. Noun Classes and Agreement in Dawida // Language Matters, 53:2, 2022. P. 37-67. DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2022.2069846