Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is a prominent linguist known for her extensive work on Amazonian languages, language typology, and grammatical description.

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instanceOf linguist
person
typologist
awardReceived Australian Laureate Fellowship NERFINISHED
citizenship Australia
contributedTo cross-linguistic comparison of grammatical systems
descriptive linguistics
theoretical linguistics
educatedAt Moscow State University
fieldOfWork Amazonian languages
areal linguistics
grammatical description
language contact
language typology
linguistics
morphology
semantics
syntax
gender female
hasAcademicAdvisor A. E. Kibrik NERFINISHED
hasAcademicTitle Professor
hasResearchInterest grammaticalization
information structure in grammar
hasRole author of linguistic reference grammars
researcher
university professor
hasStudied Arawak languages NERFINISHED
languages of the Amazon basin
other indigenous South American languages
hasWritten edited volumes on linguistic typology
monographs on individual Amazonian languages
typological surveys
knownFor detailed grammatical descriptions of understudied languages
research on classifiers
research on evidentiality
research on serial verb constructions
work on Amazonian languages
work on language typology
languageOfWorkOrName English
nativeLanguage Russian
notableWork monograph on classifiers
monograph on evidentiality
monograph on serial verb constructions
researchFocus areal diffusion of grammatical features
documentation of endangered languages
grammatical categories across languages
language contact in Amazonia
workLocation Australia
Brazil NERFINISHED

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Tariana language researcher Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald