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Irina Nikolaeva (linguist)

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Irina Alekseevna Nikolaeva FBA (b. 1962) is a linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the SOAS University of London.[1]

Biography

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Nikolaeva gained her PhD from the University of Leiden in 1999. She worked at the University of Konstanz and the University of Oxford before joining SOAS in 2007 as a Lecturer. She was appointed Professor of Linguistics in 2012 and Emeritus Professor in 2020.[2] She was awarded the Humanity Award at the 2008 Women of Discovery Awards.[3] She was elected as a fellow of the British Academy in 2019.[4]

Select publications

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  • Nikolaeva, I. 2020. Yukaghir morphology in a historical and comparative perspective. München: Lincom GmbH.
  • Nikolaeva, I. and Spencer, A. 2019. Mixed categories: The Morphosyntax of noun modification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nikolaeva, I. 2014. A grammar of Tundra Nenets. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Ackerman, F. and Nikolaeva, I. 2013. Descriptive typology and linguistics theory: a study in the morphosyntax of relative clauses. Stanford: CSLI.
  • Dalrymple, M.and *Nikolaeva, I. 2011. Objects and information structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Irina Nikolaeva". SOAS University of London. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  2. ^ "PROF. DR. IRINA NIKOLAEVA". University of Münster. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Irina Nikolaeva awarded WINGS WorldQuest 2008 Women of Discovery Award". SOAS University of London. February 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 30 March 2022.