Asya Pereltsvaig
Russian linguist
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Asya Pereltsvaig (Russian: Ася Перельцвайг; born 1972 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian-American linguist, writer, and educator.[1][2][3]
Asya Pereltsvaig | |
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Ася Перельцвайг | |
| Born | 1972 (age 53–54) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Thesis | On the Nature of Intra-Clausal Relations: A Study of Copular Sentences in Russian and Italian (2001) |
| Lisa Travis | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
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| Website | asya.pereltsvaig.com |
Life
Pereltsvaig has a PhD in linguistics from McGill University in 2001, with a dissertation entitled, "On the nature of intra-clausal relations: a study of copular sentences in Russian and Italian."[4] She has taught in Yale, Cornell, and Stanford universities, as well as the University of Utah Continuing Education program.[5][6] She has served as an academic coordinator for the Esperanto society, ESF.[7]
Her research interests are theoretical syntax, cross-linguistic typology, Slavic linguistics, and historical linguistics. She is an independent scholar whose recent books include: The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (with Martin Lewis)[8] and Languages of the World: An Introduction. She has also published research articles in leading linguistics journals, such as Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Language and Linguistics Compass.
Selected works
- Pereltsvaig, Asya (May 2006). "Small Nominals". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 24 (2): 433–500. doi:10.1007/s11049-005-3820-z. ISSN 0167-806X.
- Pereltsvaig, Asya (August 2006). "Head movement in Hebrew nominals: A reply to Shlonsky". Lingua. 116 (8): A1–A40. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2005.11.001.
- Pereltsvaig, Asya (March 2013). "Noun Phrase Structure in Article-less Slavic Languages: DP or not DP?". Language and Linguistics Compass. 7 (3): 201–219. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12014. ISSN 1749-818X.
- Pereltsvaig, Asya; Lewis, Martin (2017). The Indo-European controversy: facts and fallacies in historical linguistics (First paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-66538-5.
- Pereltsvaig, Asya (2021). Languages of the world: an introduction (Third ed.). Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-74812-4. OCLC 1154423212.
