Ph.D. candidate, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

I am a third-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, investigating agreement variation in Russian. I am also interested in nonfinite clauses, i.e. infinitives and nominalizations, and negative polarity items licensing. In my research I primarily use methods of experimental syntax with particular interest in linguistic variation.

With my supervisor Prof. Dr. Habil. Ekaterina Lyutikova I teach two courses on experimental syntax at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Lomonosov MSU).

  • syntax
  • variation
  • agreement
  • gender
  • NPI licensing
  • experimental syntax
  • acceptability judgments
  • Russian
Anastasia Gerasimova

Upcoming events:

April 2022 — Our team has won grant award from Russian Science Foundation on our new project «Parametric model of agreement in the light of experimental data» (RSF Project 22-18-00037 realized at Lomonosov Moscow State University). Learn more.

December 2021 — The volume “Russian islands in the light of experimental data” is published! This volume presents the first step in the full-scale study of island constraints in Russian. Together with E. Lyutikova I was an editor of this volume. Learn more.

Contact & Profiles:

PhD Project

Quantitative Methods of Investigating Grammar
(A Case Study of Agreement Variation in Russian)

For my dissertation, I am conducting a multifactorial study of binominal copular clauses in Russian. My goal is to define a set of parameters that determine agreement variation and investigate whether this set depends on grammatical profiles of individual speakers.

My supervisor is Prof. Dr. Habil. Ekaterina Lyutikova.

Academic background

2019 – now   Ph.D. candidate, Applied and Computational Linguistics,
2017 – 2019   M.A., Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (with honors)
2013 – 2017   B.A., Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (with honors)
                        Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 
                        Lomonosov Moscow State University

2021 – now    Junior Researcher, 
                        Research Computing Center at Lomonosov MSU
2019 – 2020   Research Assistant, 
                        Pushkin State Russian Language Institute
2016 – 2018   Research Assistant, 
                        Moscow Pedagogical State University

Anastasia Gerasimova