Dr. Tatiana Nikitina

Tatiana Nikitina is working on linguistic representation of spatial relations and motion events. Her current project focuses on the diachronic development of motion expressions in Ancient Greek, and in particular, on the gradual spread of specialized expressions for goals of motion attested in the period from Homer to Classical Greek. This development has parallels in other branches of Indo-European and provides important evidence for changes in the representation of spatial relations from ancient to modern Indo-European languages.
 

General Information

Group

Post-doctoral Fellow

01.08.2009 - 31.07.2011
 

Research Fields

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Projects

research project


 

Activities

talk

"Lexical meaning and context in the encoding of places, goals and sources of motion"
part of the Lecture Series Spatial Tuesday

 

Curriculum Vitae

from 09/2011

Researcher in the project “Pragmatic Resources in Old Indo-European Languages”, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo

2009-08/2011

postdoctoral fellow at TOPOI

2008-09

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation /American Council of Learned Societies Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship

2008

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford university Dissertation: “The mixing of syntactic properties and language change”

2006

M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University

2002

B.A. in Languages and Culture of West Africa, St. Petersburg University