Nina Radkevich
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

Nina Radkevich is a morpho-syntactician who currently works on the LANGELIN project 'Meeting Darwin's last challenge: toward a global tree of human languages and genes' investigating the structure of nominals. Outside the LANGELIN project, she works on syntax and morphology of case and agreement in Nakh-Dagestanian, locality in morphology, null categories.

Career

• University of York
  2013-present
  Post-Doctoral Researcher
• Harvard University
  2012-2013
  Post-Doctoral Researcher
• Harvard University
  2010-2012
  College Fellow
• University of Connecticut
  Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2010
  "On Location: the structure of case and adpositions"

Departmental roles

• Post-Doc Representative

Research

Overview

I am currently working on the following research projects:

• LANGELIN
• Locality in portmanteaus and allomorphy
• Nominal allomorphy in Lak (Nakh-Dagestanian)
• Case and agreement in Archi (Nakh-Dagestanian)
• Gapping in Lak
• Nominalizations in Archi
• Split ergativity in Lak
• Ergative as structural case in Nakh-Dagestanian

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Morphology (L20I)