Job description

I am a member of the CLEAR research group and Tromsø Constructicon lab. My PhD is a part of the THREAT-DEFUSER project. 

In Spring semester 2024 I had my research stay at Harvard University (USA), where I was affiliated as a visiting scholar with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies.

My research project aims to I investigate the notion of "threat" in Russian from a constructional perspective:

• What constitutes a threat in Russian? 
• How are the threats performed?
• How are the threats perceived?

 

I am actively participating in the building of the Russian Constructicon, a free open-access electronic resource that offers a searchable database of multiword grammatical constructions of Russian. 

I have also participated in creating two educational resources:

1. SMARTool
   A free web resource for L2 learners of Russian that implements findings of a learning simulation experiment and corpus research to optimize the acquisition of Russian vocabulary and morphology. The SMARTool provides the users with 1-3 most frequent wordforms for a basic vocabulary of 3000 nouns, adjectives, and verbs culled from major textbooks and other sources to represent levels A1, A2, B1, and B2 (CEFR scale). For each word form, there is a corpus-based example sentence instantiating typical use.  
   
   
2. Construxercise! Hands-on learning of Russian constructions
   A free web resource that offers learners and teachers of Russian over 150 exercises that significantly strengthen text production skills. The exercises target strategic sets of Russian constructions (prominent patterns of sentence and phrase structures) that organize the flow of speech and help to achieve native-like fluency in speaking and writing.