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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Dr Ksenia Zanon

Dr Ksenia Zanon
Position(s): 
University Associate Professor
Fellow, DoS, Tutor Christ's College
Department/Section: 
Slavonic Studies
Contact details: 
College: 
Location: 

Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building º£½ÇÉçÇø Sidgwick Avenue º£½ÇÉçÇø CB3 9DA United Kingdom

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About: 

Ksenia holds a dual Ph.D. in Linguistics and East European Languages and Cultures from Indiana University. An adherent of the generative tradition, she is interested in the syntax of human language. She works on quantification, the interaction of interfaces, interrogatives, and information structure, drawing primarily from Slavic data.

Dr ZanonÌýwelcomes inquiries from potentialÌýMPhilÌýand PhD studentsÌýwith research interests relevant toÌýher interests.

Teaching interests: 
  • Syntax
  • Slavonic languages
  • Russian
  • Linguistic Theory
  • History of Slavonic
Research interests: 
  • Syntactic theory
  • Comparative syntax
  • East and South Slavic languages
  • Historical linguistics
Recent research projects: 
  • Narrative imperatives and adjacent phenomena (under review inÌýÌýAdvances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2024)
  • Wh-Indefinites in Russian (forthcoming in Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2023)
  • Expletive Negation Revisited (forthcoming inÌýJournal of Slavic Linguistics)