Natalia A. Zevakhina, Ph.D.

Yerevan, Armenia

ORCID: 0000-0002-1187-0680

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Research Interests

My primary interests cover experimental and formal semantics and pragmatics. I am also interested in philosophy of language, corpus linguistics, linguistic typology, and cognitive science.

Degrees and Education

Doctoral dissertation in Linguistics (2024), HSE University.
Thesis: Experimental and Corpus Studies of Linguistic Pragmatics: Informativity, Illocutionary Sentence Types, and Metalinguistic Comparison.
Opponents: Valentina Apresjan, Elena Dragalina-Chernaya, Nina Kazanina, Galina Kustova, Olga Pekelis. Defense: June 7, 2024.

Doctoral dissertation in Linguistics (2012), Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Thesis: Syntax of exclamatives.
Supervisor: Ekaterina Ljutikova. Opponents: Timur Maisak, Vera Podlesskaya. Defense: November 14, 2012.

Specialist (MA equivalent) in Linguistics (2004–2009), Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Thesis: Adverbial modification of gradable adjectives in Russian. Supervisor: Sergey Tatevosov.

Internship in Linguistics (2007–2008), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Extra courses: ESSLLI (2011, 2009), Netherlands Linguistics Research School (2010), Current Topics in Formal Semantics (by Barbara H. Partee; 2007), New York — Saint-Petersburg Summer Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies (2006, 2007).

Employment History

2015–2024: Associate professor, HSE University, School of Linguistics.

2018–2023: Senior research fellow, HSE University, International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy.

2012–2015: Lecturer, HSE University, Faculty of Linguistics and Literature.

2010–2011: Research fellow, Radboud University (Nijmegen), Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy of Cognition and Language.

2008–2010: Linguist-developer in semantic technologies, Avicomp Services.

Skills

Languages: English (Advanced: CAE, 2012; IELTS, 2022), German (Advanced: Certificate Mittelstufe, 2008), French (Intermediate), Russian (Native).

Statistics: R, Excel, SPSS.

Typesetting: LaTeX, HTML, Word.

Selected Research Grants

2022–2024: Russian Science Foundation, grant #23-18-00695, Logical and Cognitive Approach to Reasoning: Modeling the Interplay between the Normative and the Descriptive.
2020–2022: HSE University, project Experiments at the interface of linguistics and logic, project leader.
2013–2017: HSE University, grants on the development of corpus technologies in linguistic and multidisciplinary studies.
2015–2016: HSE University, individual grant #15-01-0026, Exclamative and embedded exclamative constructions: syntax and semantics.
2012–2015: Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant #12-06-00337, Electrophysiology of speech comprehension: processing of speech levels in healthy and aphasic patients according to the data of evoked potentials.
2010–2011: Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Quantity matters: Building a theory of Q-implicature. Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bart Geurts.

Editorial Role and Reviewing

Area editor in semantics and pragmatics: Linguistics Vanguard.

Reviewing for: Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Communication, Frontiers in Psychology, Glossa, Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique, Functions of Language, Journal of Historical Syntax, Acta Linguistica Academica, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, Acta Linguistica Petropolitana, Rhema.