Dr. Olga Pekelis

Department
Center for Linguistic Typology

Position
Senior Researcher

Academic degree
Ph. D. in Philology

Background

• Born in 1980 in Moscow.
• 2002 - graduated from the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of RSUH. Thesis “Subject of dependent infinitive in Russian and Italian languages ​​(control problem)”, academic supervisor Dr. Testelets.
• 2009 - Ph.D. dissertation “Coordination and subordination in the context of causal semantics”, academic supervisor Dr. Testelets.
• Since 2010 - works at the Center for Linguistic Typology of RSUH.

Academic and educational activity

Taught the following courses at RSUH: Linguistic anthropology, Coordination and subordination in Russian, Theories and methods of modern Russian studies, Typology of complex sentences, Russian corpus grammar, seminars “Russian syntax” and “Languages ​​of the world and language areas. Typology of languages".

Area of expertise

Syntax, semantics, grammar theory, information structure, corpus linguistics, Russian grammar.