Prof. Dr. Irina Nevskaya
Privatdozentin at the Institute of Turcology of the Freie Universität Berlin
Associate professor at the Kuzbass State Pedagogical Academy, Novokuzneck, Russia
Researcher at the Institute of Linguistics (Comparative Linguistics) and lecturer at the Institute of the Oriental and East-Asian Philology (Turcology) of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Office address:Goethe-Universität
Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft
Senckenberganlage 31, 11. Stock, Raum 1118
60325 Frankfurt a/M
Tel.: +49-69-798-22859
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 03.02.1958 in Novokuzneck, Russian Federation. Married (23.06.2001); 1 child (born 16.12.1982). Citizen of Russia.
Diplomas and degrees
1980 – Diploma of Higher Education with Honors, Germanic languages and Pedagogy, Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute (State examinations: Philosophy – excellent, Pedagogy and Methods of Teaching – excellent, English – excellent, German – excellent)
1990 – Candidate of Philology (equivalent to the Doctor of Philology), Turkic languages, Institute of Linguistics of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences (Candidate examinations: Philosophy – excellent, General Linguistics – excellent, German – excellent, Turkology – excellent); Doctoral dissertation: Sostav i funkcii deepric(astij v šorskom jazyke (The inventory and functions of converbs in the Shor language).
1997 – Doctor of Philology (equivalent to the German Habilitation), Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation, Institute of Linguistics, the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Habilitationsdissertation: Tipologija lokativnyx konstrukcij v tjurkskix jazykax Južnoj Sibiri (na materiale šorskogo jazyka). (A Typology of spatial constructions in South Siberian Turkic languages).
2008 – Umhabilitierung und Lehrbefugnis für das Fach Turkologie an der Freie Universität Berlin
Scientific interests (keywords)
Turkic languages (Old Turkic, Shor, Khakas, Altay, Tuvan, Tofan, Yakut, Turkish, Tatar, Kazakh etc.); Germanic language (English, German, Old and Middle English); Russian; indigenous languages of Siberia, Caucasian languages
language documentation, field linguistics
typology, morphology, syntax, language contacts, areal linguistics, dialectology, language history
electronic text corpora, automatic morphological analysis, computer lexicons, standards for language documentation
Formal Education
1965-1975 – general secondary school, Novokuzneck, Russia (finished with a gold medal)
1975-1985 – Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute (Germanic languages and Pedagogy), Novokuzneck (Diploma with Honors)
1986-1989 – aspirantura: doctoral student at the Institute of Linguistics of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
1993-1996 – doctorantura: postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
Postgraduate training
1985 – computer science (three months), Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk
1988, 1989 - workshops Turkic Areas of Siberia and Morphological Characteristics of Turkic Languages at the Institute of Philology, Novosibirsk
1990 – seminar on methods of second language teaching in Saint-Petersburg
1993 – Turkish language course (three months), Istanbul, Turkey
1998 – German language course (two months) at the Goethe-Institute, Mannheim, Germany
1998 – Summer Typological School at the Mainz University
1988-1990 – seminars on methods of second language teaching at the Novosibirsk Institute of Linguistics, the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2004 – Summer Typological school on language documentation at the Frankfurt University
2006 – Seminar on the Photoshop-program at the Frankfurt University
2008 – Seminar on the Citavi-program at the Frankfurt University
2010 – D-Spin Summer School „Sprachressourcen für die Geisteswissenschaften“ (Lexus, Vicos, Annex, Elan)
Employment
1980-1986 – lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages at the Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute (at present the Kuzbass State Pedagogical Academy, Novokuzneck, Russia)
1986-1989 – aspirant (doctoral student) at the Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy
1989-1993 – senior lecturer (docent) of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute
1993-1996 – postdoctoral researcher (doctorant) at the Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy
1997-till present – associate professor of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Kusbass State Pedagogical Academy, Novokuzneck (former Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute)
1999-2002 – researcher at the Institute of Turcology of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, a participant and the coordinator of the DFG-Projekt VATEC.
2003-till present – chief researcher at the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2003-till present – lecturer at the Institute of Turcology, Frankfurt University
2006-2008 – researcher at the German Institute of Oriental Studies, Istanbul Department
2008-till present – Privatdozentin at the Institute of Turcology of the Freie Universität Berlin
2008-2009 – researcher at the Institute of Turcology of the Freie Universität Berlin
2009-till present – researcher at the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of the Frankfurt University
Grants, stipends and scientific projects
1985-1996 – took part in the program Turkic areas of Siberia headed by the Department of Siberian Languages at the Institute of Philology, the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1990-1992 – took part in the program Training a Shor Language Circle Leader (sponsored by the Department of Public Education of the Kemerovo Region) at the Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute
1991-1994 – participated in the program A Computer Database of the Shor language and SHAMAN: Shor Automatic Morphological Analysis (sponsored by the Department of Public Education of the Kemerovo region and by the Department of Culture of the Novokuzneck City Council) at the Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute
1996-1997 – head of the project Typology of locative constructions in Siberian languages which received a grant of the Russian Foundation for Scientific Research in Humanities, the Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute
1997 – took part in the project Structure and semantics of the simple sentence in the languages of Siberia(sponsored by the Russian Foundation for Scientific Research in Humanities) at the Institute of Philology, the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
01.01.1997 - 30.06.1997 – stipend recipient of the Conference of the German Academy of Sciences (the project Circumstantial constructions in Shor) at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Mainz University
01.04.1998-30.06.1999 – stipend recipient of A. von-Humboldt Foundation (the project: Clause combining in Shor) at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Mainz University
1999-2001 – participant of the project Shor epic poems: ethnological and linguistic analysis(supported by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research) at the Institute of Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
1999-2001 – coordinator andparticipant of the project Shorica: a computer corpus of the Shor language: documentation of the published and oral texts of the endangered Shor language and their linguistic analysis (supported by the German Research Society and by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research) at the Institute of Turkology of the Frankfurt University and at the Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute
1999-2003 – coordinator andparticipant of the project VATEC (Pre-Islamic Old Turkic Texts: a computer corpus) at the Institute of Turkology of the Frankfurt University(supported by the German Research Society)
2003-till present – participation in the program of the Government of the Altay Republic “Altay Runic inscriptions”
2004-2008 – coordinator andparticipant of the project Chalkan: a computer corpus of the Chalkan language (supported by the German Research Society and by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research) at the Institute of Turkology of the Frankfurt University and at the Institute of Philology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
2004-2006 – participant of the project Extension of the possibilities for indigenous peoples of Siberia in obtaining education of higher level funded by the European Community
2006-2009 – coordinator andparticipant of the international cooperation project Dyrenkova: Wiedergefundenes Erbeam Orientinstitut in Istanbul and at the Institute of Turcology of the Freie Universität Berlin.
2007-2009 – coordinator andparticipant of the international cooperation project Altairunen(supported by the German Research Society and by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research) at the Institute of Turkology of the Frankfurt University and at the Gorno-Altajsk State University.
2009-till present – participant of the international cooperation project RELISH (Rendering Endangered Lexicons Interoperable through Standards Harmonization) funded by the DFG and the NASA (http://www.mpi.nl/RELISH).
Conference talks
1980 – Students' Regional Conference at the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical Institute, Novosibirsk, lecture given: Translation of literary works from English into Russian and necessary linguistic transformations
1986 – Regional Conference devoted to the memory of A. P. Dulson at the Tomsk Pedagogical Institute, Tomsk, the lecture given: The Inventory of Shor gerunds
1988 –5th All-Union Turkological Conference, the Institute of Linguistics, the Kirgiz Academy of Sciences, Frunze; the lecture given: Subject valency of gerunds and the structure of gerundial clauses in Shor
1988, 1989, 1990 – Conferences devoted to the memory of V. M. Nadeljaev, the Institute of Philology, Novosibirsk; lectures given: Grammaticalization of gerundial forms of the verb of saying in Shor, Conditional sentences in Shor, Limitative gerunds in Turkic languages.
1989 – All-Union Conference on methods of teaching English as a second language, the lecture: Intensive methods of English grammar teaching
1989 – International Conference "120th Anniversary of "An Altay Grammar", the Gorno-Altajsk Research Institute of History, Language and Literature, Gorno-Altajsk, lecture given: The History of Shor alphabets
1990 –1st All-Union Conference "Turkic Phonetics - 90" at the Institute of Linguistics, Kazakh Academy of Sciences, Alma-Ata, lecture given: On the new Shor alphabet
1991, 1993 – Conferences devoted to the memory of Y. I. Ubrjatova and V. M. Nadeljaev at the Institute of Philology, Novosibirsk
1992 – The International Turkological Conference, at the Institute of Linguistics, the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, Kazan’, lecture given: A Computer data base of Shor
1993 – 2nd Regional Science and Practice Conference devoted to Shoriya's problems, organized by the Kemerovo University, held in Tashtagol, lecture given: The Orthography of Shor infinitive constructions
1993 – All-Russian Conference on Indigenous Peoples' Languages in Irkutsk, organized by the Institute of Russia's Peoples Languages (Moscow) Problems of creating textbooks for Shor
1993 – International Conference The 100th Anniversary of the Deciphering of the Turkic Runic Inscriptions, the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences and the Khakas Research Institute of History, Language and Literature, Abakan, lecture given: The converb --(I)p: polysemy or indefiniteness
1994 – The 7th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Institute of Oriental Studies, Turcology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, lecture given: The Subject valency of Shor gerunds
1995 – International Conference Aborigines of Siberia: problems of study of threatened languages and cultures, June, 1995, the Institute of Philology, the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy, lecture given: A Typology of locative constructions
1996 – International Conference in Gorno-Altaiyk devoted to the 240th anniversary of Altay's joining Russia, lecture given: Lexico-semantic types of localizers and localized objects
1996 – 5th International Conference on Minority Languages in Gdansk, lecture given: A Recent attempt to revive the Shor written language
1996 – 8th International Conference on Turkic linguistics in Ankara, lecture given: Locative constructions in Turkic languages
1998 – 40th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Helsinki, Finland, lecture given: The Functional field of space in Turkic languages
1999 – International symposium on a new Kazakh script at the Frankfurt University, lecture given:: Shor phonology and Shor scripts: from economy to explicitness
1999 – Conference of German Linguists, Konstanz, Germany. Lecture given: Reflexive converbs in South Siberian Turkic: the rise of a new category
1999 – Colloquium on the Varying Marking of Nominal Groups in Oldenburg, Germany, lecture given: Varying marking of spatial arguments in South Siberian Turkic: a static Dative and a dynamic Locative
1999 – 4th Conference of German Turkologists, Hamburg, lecture given: A Typology of spatial predicates in Turkic languages
1999 – International conferenceLanguages in Contact, Groningen, lecture given: Shor-Russian contact features
1999 – International symposium in Leiden Languages of Siberian indigenous peoples, lecture given: Turkic spatial predicates
1999 – 3rd Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Amsterdam, lecture given: Reflexive converbs in Siberian Turkic
2000 - 10th International Conference on Turkic linguistics, Istanbul, Turkey, lecture given: Static dative as a Siberian areal feature in cooperation with Astrid Menz
2000 – 3rd International Turkological conference, Ismir, Turkey, lecture given: Evidentials in the Shor folklore
2001 – 28th Conference of German orientalists, lecture given: Die Struktur einer schorischen elektronischen Datenbank
2001 – International symposium on deictic systems and quantification in languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia. Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Udmurtia, May 22-25, 2001, lecture given: To be or not to be egocentric: deictic semantics of non-deictic spatial elements in South Siberian Turkic
2001 – International conference at the Siant-Petersburg Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Kategorii glagola i struktura predloženija (Verb categories and sentence structures), the lecture given: Correlation of evidentiality, mirativity and indirectivity in Shor
2001 – International symposium Das Schorische und sein Umfeld at the Institute of Turkology of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, lecture given: Problematische Fragen der türkischen Lexikologie
2002 – Winter Typological School, at the Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, lecture given: Funkcional’no-semantic(eskoe pole prostranstvennosti v tjurkskix jazykax v areal’noj i tipologic(eskoj perspective (The functional field of space in Turkic languages in an areal and typological perspective).
2002 – VATEC symposium at the Institute of Turkology of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, lecture given: The Old Turkic database in the Shoebox format and the Subject valency of Old Turkic converbs
2002 – Conference of German Turkologists at the Mainz University; lecture given: The category of exclusive and inclusive in Turkic languages
2002 – Typological symposium at the Frankfurt University, lecture given: Typology of prospective in Turkic languages
2003 – Symposium Historical, areal and typological aspects of Siberian Turkic at Institute of Turcology of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, lecture given: Structure and semantics of conditional clauses in Siberian Turkic
2003 – International Conference organised in the framework of the project “Extension of the possibilities for indigenous peoples of Siberia in obtaining education of higher level” at the Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, lecture given: Prospective in Turkic languages.
2004 – Moscow International Congress on Oriental Studies, lecture given: The Old Turkic texts of the Pre-Mongolian Period: a computer database.
2005 – International Symposium at the Orient Institute in Istanbul “Sociabilities in the Turkic World”, lecture given: Semantics and Pragmatics of the Imperative in Turkic languages.
2005 – International Conference organised in the framework of the project “Extension of the possibilities for indigenous peoples of Siberia in obtaining education of higher level” at the Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, and lecture given: Language documentation as a new interdisciplinary linguistic field of research and documentation of endangered languages of Siberia.
2005 – International conference of German Turcologists, the lectures given: The category of taxis in Siberian Turkic and The Runic inscriptions of the Altai Republic (the latter in cooperation with Dr. Tybykova)
2005 – International symposium “Turcology in Mainz” at the Oriental Institute of the Mainz University, the lecture given: Secondary predicates in Turkic languages
2006 – International conference on the indigenous languages of Siberia at the Novosibirsk State University, the lecture given: Secondary depictive predicates.
2006 – Tomsk international symposium on the complex sentence in the languages of Siberia, the lecture given: Subject hierarchy and reference tracking in adverbial clauses in Siberian Turkic.
2006 – International conference in Gorno-Altaisk on the Altai language, the lecture given: Typology of concessive and adversative constructions in Siberian Turkic.
2006 – International conference on Turkish Linguistics, Uppsala, the lecture given: Prospective and Avertive in Turkic languages.
2006 – The international symposium on voice diachrony, Turku, Finland, the lecture given: Voice affixes in Old Turkic.
2007 – International conference devoted to the memory of Ubrjatova in Novosibirsk, the lecture given: The category of inclusive and exclusive in Turkic languages.
2007 – International conference on the history of writing in Central Anatolia in Eski Sehir, Turkey, the lecture given; The runic inscriptions of Mountainous Altai, the history of their research.
2008 – 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, August 6-8 at the Ankara University, the lecture: Inclusive and exclusive forms in the Turkic imperative paradigm.
2008 – International symposium at the Mainz UniversityTranseurasian verbal morphology in a comparative perspective: genealogy, contact, chance. The lecture: Inclusive and exclusive in Altaic languages.
2009 – International symposium Turkic Runic inscriptions and the Altay corpus at the Gorno-Altajsk University; the lecture: Orthographic features of Altay Runic inscriptions
2009 – The international conference at the Novosibirsk State University; the lecture: Cooperative German-Russian research projects on Siberian Turkic
2009 – RELISH workshop at the Eastern Michigan University, USA, the lecture: Cooperative German-Russian documentation projects in Siberia
2010 – The International conference Tuvan orhography and research on script and orthographies of Siberia and Central Asia, Kyzyl, Tyva, Russia, the lecture: The history of writing in the Mountainous Altay (in cooperation with Larisa Tybykova)
2010 - Orhon yaz?tlar?n bulunus,undan 120 y?l sonra. III. Ulus,lararas? Türkiyat Aras,t?rmalar? Sempozyumu, 26–29. May?s 2010; the lecture: Altay Runik hareli yaz?tlar?n baz? paleografik ve ortografiköz özellikleri.
2010 - The 15th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. August 20-22, 2010. Szeged, Hungary, the lecture: Depictive predicates in Northwest Turkic(in cooperation with Saule Tazhibaeva)
2010 – International symposium at the Yildiz Teknik Universitesi, Istanbul From Ötüken to Istanbul, 1290 Years of Turkish (720-2010), lecture:Old Turkic Runic inscriptions in the vicinity of the village Tuekta, Altay Republic, Russian Federation (in cooperation with Larisa Tybykova)
2010 – DOT in Marburg, the lecture: The language of the Shor epics.
2010 – „D-Spin meets RELISH” workshop in Frankfurt, the lecture: The MDF- Lexus import and standardizing the lexicon structure using MLF: the Udi lexicon case
2010 – RELISH workshop in Nijmegen, the lecture: MDF and its applications (in cooperation with Sebastian Drude)
2011 – International conferenceSinxronnoe i diaxronnoe v sravnitel’no-istoric(eskom jazykoznanii at the Moscow State University; lecture: Depiktivnye vtorostepennye predikaty v tjurkskix jazykax
2011 – International Turcological symspoium Tjurkskij mir: istorija i sovremennost’ at the Eurasian University named after L. N. Gumiljev, Astana, lecture: K probleme vzyimodejstvija drevnetjurkskogo texta i graffiti v runic(eskix pamjatnikax Respubliki Altaj
2011 – XII congress of the Association of teachers of the Russian language and literature in Shangai, China Russkij jazyk i literatura vo vremeni i prostranstve, lecture: Formirovanie mežfrazovyx sredstv svjazi v resul’tate kompressii vyskazyvanija v jazykax raznyx system (na materiale russkogo i tjrukskix jazykov)(in cooperation with Saule Tazhibaeva)
Invited talks
2002 – lecture Functional field of space in Turkic at the Freie Universität Berlin
2002 – lecture VATEC database of Old Turkic and a tutorium on the Shoebox program at Munich University
2008 – Jarring lecture in Stockholm, organised by the Swedish Research Institute: Documentation of the Altay Runic inscriptions
2008 – lecture at the Finnish Academy of Sciences, Helsinki: Documentation and deciphering of the Altay Runic inscriptions
2010 – lecture at the Yildiz Teknik University in Istanbul: New discoveries in the Mountainous Altay
2010 – lecture at the Freie Universität Berlin: Sibirien als turkologisches Forschungsgebiet
Field work
1985-1992 – annual expeditions to Mountainous Shoriya with personal research program and with dialectological program under the supervision of Siberian Languages Department in the project "Turkic Areas of Siberia"
1995 – expedition to Mountainous Shoriya with a research program on locative constructions
1998 – organizer of an international complex expedition to Mountainous Shoriya
2003-2010 – organizeand participant of inter-disciplinary expeditions to Mountainous Altay
Organization of scientific conferences, public service activities
1986-1989 – secretary of the Conference of Young Scientists at the Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy, the USSR Academy
1990-1993 – head of the Shor Youth Club "OLGUDEK", an initiator of publishing of a youth magazine in the Shor language "ELIM" which was the first literary work published in Shor since 1942
1991 – member of the Attestation Commission of the Chair of Foreign Languages at the Novokuzneck State Pedagogical Institute
1993 – secretary of Regional Conference held at the Institute of Philology, Russian Academy
since 03.1994 – Shoriya representative of the magazine "Yesevi", published in Turkey
1995 – organizer of the International Conference Aborigines of Siberia: problems of study of threatened languages and cultures, June, 1995, the Institute of Philology, the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy
2001 – organizer of an international symposium The Shor language in the context of the neighboring languages: documentation and preservation of South Siberian Turkic languages at the Frankfurt University, the Institute of Turkology
2002 – organizer of an international VATEC symposium at the Frankfurt University, the Institute of Turkology
2002 till present – member of the Dissertation Commission at the Institute of Linguistics, Novosibirsk
2003 – organizer of an international symposiumHistorical, areal and typological aspects of Siberian Turkicat the Frankfurt University, the Institute of Turkology
2005 – organizer of the conference “Deutsche Turkologenkonferenz” at the Frankfurt University
2009 – organizer of the international scientific symposium Deciphering Old Turkic Runic and the Altay corpus funded by the DFG in Gorno-Altajsk, Russia
2010 – organizer of the „D-Spin meets RELISH” workshop in Frankfurt
Membership on scientific boards
2004 till present – member of the Dissertation Council at the Institute of Philology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2004 till present – member of the editorial board of the magazine Turkic languages
2009 till present – member of the editorial board of the magazine Rossijskaja tjurkologija
2009 till present – member of the advisory board of the journal Ural-Altaic studies
Language competence
Active language knowledge: Russian – mother tongue, English – very good, German – very good, Shor – good, Turkish – good, Tatar, Kazakh, Khakas, Altay, Tuvan, Tofan – sufficient
Scholarly language competence: Latin, Old and Middle English, Old Turkic, Udi