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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

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 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom

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 Zanon听welcomes inquiries from potential听MPhil听and PhD students听with research interests relevant to听her 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 in听听Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2024)
  • Expletive Negation Revisited (forthcoming in听Journal of Slavic Linguistics)

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