Valentina Zhukova


PhD fellow in Russian linguistics

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.

  • Laura Alexis Janda, Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen :
    Typology of reduplication in Russian: constructions within and beyond a single clause
    De Gruyter Mouton 2024 FULLTEKST / DATA / DOI
  • Valentina Zhukova, Laura Alexis Janda :
    Russian grammar as a constructicon: beyond a list
    Russian Linguistics : International Journal for the Study of the Russian Language 2024 DOI
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    How to threaten in Russian: a constructionist approach
    Russian Linguistics : International Journal for the Study of the Russian Language 2023 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Laura Alexis Janda, Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina :
    From data to theory: An emergent semantic classification based on the large-scale Russian constructicon
    Constructions and Frames 2023 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Elena Bjørgve, Daria Demidova, Nataliya Kalanova, Zoia Butenko et al.:
    Construxercise!: Implementation of a construction-based approach to language pedagogy
    Russian Language Journal 2022 ARKIV
  • Ekaterina Rakhilina, Valentina Zhukova, Daria Demidova, Polina Kudryavtseva, Gloria Rozovskaya, Anna Endresen et al.:
    ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЯ В РАКУРСЕ «РУССКОГО КОНСТРУКТИКОНА»
    Trudy Instituta Russkogo Iazyka imeni V.V. Vinogradova 2022 FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Laura Alexis Janda, Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina :
    How to build a constructicon in five years: The Russian example
    Belgian Journal of Linguistics 2020 DOI
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Olga Lyashevskaya :
    Russkij Konstruktion: Novyj lingvističeskij resurs, ego ustrojstvo i specifika (=The Russian Constructicon: A new linguistic resource, its design and key characteristics)
    Komp'yuternaya Lingvistika i Intellektual'nye Tekhnologii 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda :
    From form to meaning: a study of reduplicative constructionsin a reduplication-unfriendly language
    2024
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    The Linguistics of Threats in Russian: A Cognitive Approach
    2024
  • Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda :
    Construxercise!: Implementing a Construction-Based Approach to Teaching L2 Russian
    2024
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Laura Alexis Janda :
    Adapting a linguistic constructicon resource to L2 learners and instructors: a challenging endeavor
    2024 ARKIV
  • Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Valentina Zhukova :
    Construxercise! A new digital resource with construction-based exercises for L2 Russian
    2024 ARKIV
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova :
    Invited talk "Construxercise! How we teach Russian constructions"
    2024
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Daria Mordashova :
    Types of comparison: Evidence from comparative constructions in Russian
    2024
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    Construxercise!: implementation of a construction‑based approach to language pedagogy
    2023
  • Valentina Zhukova, Daria Mordashova :
    Bottom-up approach to collecting data: blessing and curse for a large linguistic resource
    2023
  • Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen :
    Construxercise!: how to implement a construction-based approach to language pedagogy
    2023
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    Empty negation? Two competing contrastive constructions in Russian
    2023
  • Laura Alexis Janda, Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen :
    Reduplication in the ecosystem of Russian constructions
    2023
  • Tore Nesset, Valentina Zhukova, Anastasia Makarova :
    The linguistics of threats: a cognitive approach to political discourse
    2023
  • Yuliia Palii, Mark Stenersen, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Valentina Zhukova :
    Promo-video for the Ukrainian Constructicon resource
    2023 FULLTEKST
  • Yuliia Palii, Zoia Butenko, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Valentina Zhukova :
    The Ukrainian Constructicon
    2023 FULLTEKST
  • Yuliia Palii, Mark Stenersen, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Valentina Zhukova :
    Video introduction to the Ukrainian Constructicon: About the project
    2023 FULLTEKST
  • Valentina Zhukova, Laura Alexis Janda, Anna Endresen :
    Constructions within and beyond a single clause in the system of Russian reduplication
  • Laura Alexis Janda, Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen :
    Repeating ourselves: reduplication in Russian constructions
    2023
  • Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Olga Lyashevskaya :
    What happens if you try to build a constructicon for a whole language?
    2023
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Elena Bjørgve :
    Lansering av en ny pedagogisk ressurs "Construxercise! Hands-on learning of Russian constructions"
    2022 DATA / FULLTEKST
  • Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda :
    Bridging the gap between a constructicon and L2 learners
    2022
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    Towards constructicon alignment? Semantic classification in the Russian Constructicon
  • Valentina Zhukova, Ekaterina Rakhilina :
    Constructions built of constructions:on intensified comparatives
    2022
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    Verdens lengste vits
    Klassekampen 18. February 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    – Sanksjoner mot russisk akademia vil bare tjene Putin
    09. March 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    Russisk forsker mot krigen: — Dere må skille mellom forskere og myndighetene
    04. March 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Laura Alexis Janda, Elena Bjørgve, George Lonshakov, David Lavén et al.:
    Construxercise! Hands-on learning of Russian constructions
  • Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Radovan Bast, Valentina Zhukova :
    The database of the Russian Constructicon
    2022
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    Expressing Threats in Russian: a constructional perspective
    2022
  • Valentina Zhukova, Laura Alexis Janda, Tore Nesset, Anna Endresen :
    Ресурс что надо: Det russiske konstruktikonet og undervisning i russisk.
    2022
  • Laura Alexis Janda, Radovan Bast, Francis Morton Tyers, Svetlana Sokolova, Mikhail Kopotev, Ekaterina Rakhilina et al.:
    SMARTool: Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool
  • Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Valentina Alexandrovna Zhukova :
    Prohibitive constructions in Russian: Families and clusters
  • Laura Alexis Janda, Anna Endresen, Valentina Alexandrovna Zhukova, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina :
    How to build a constructicon in five years: The Russian recipe
    2021
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Alexandrovna Zhukova, Daria Mordashova :
    Instructional video in Russian for the Russian Constructicon resource
    2021 FULLTEKST
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Alexandrovna Zhukova :
    Youtube channel for the Russian Constructicon resource
    2021 DATA
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Alexandrovna Zhukova, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina :
    Semantic classification of constructions in the Russian Constructicon
    2021 FULLTEKST
  • Radovan Bast, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Marianne Cecilie Lund, Olga Lyashevskaya, Daria Mordashova et al.:
    The Russian Constructicon
    2021 FULLTEKST
  • Anna Endresen, Radovan Bast, Laura Alexis Janda, Valentina Alexandrovna Zhukova, Daria Mordashova :
    International Launch of the Russian Constructicon
    2021 DATA / FULLTEKST
  • Valentina Zhukova :
    Constructions denoting Threat in Russian based on data from the Russian constructicon
    2021
  • Anna Endresen, Valentina Zhukova, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Olga Lyashevskaya, Laura Alexis Janda :
    The Russian Constructicon: A new linguistic resource, its design and key characteristics (Русский Конструктикон: Новый лингвистический ресурс, его устройство и специфика)
    2020 ARKIV
  • Olga Lyashevskaya, Daria Mordashova, Valentina Zhukova, Anna Endresen, Laura Alexis Janda, Ekaterina Rakhilina :
    Core grammar, non-compositional, and discourse organisation constructions in the full-text construction annotation task for Russian
    2020
  • Anna Endresen, Daria Mordashova, Valentina Zhukova, Laura Alexis Janda, Olga Lyashevskaya, Ekaterina Rakhilina :
    Annotation of constructions in the light of strategies adopted in the Russian Constructicon: Challenges of accurate and user-friendly representations of semantic and syntactic properties
    2020

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    Research interests

    Russian language, Construction Grammar and constructicography, the semantics of grammatical constructions, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, construction-based approach to L2 teaching, language pedagogy

    Teaching

    Autumn 2022 RUS-3041 PRACTICAL RUSSIAN

    Spring 2022 SVH-8002 FORSKNINGSFORMIDLING [RESEARCH DISSEMINATION] (Lecture & workshop: Research dissemination in social media)

    Spring 2022 RUS-3030 Concepts and Categories: Contemporary Russian Cognitive Linguistics (Lecture: Family-based expansion of the Russian Constructicon)

    Autumn 2023 RUS-3041/3043 PRACTICAL RUSSIAN 

    Autumn 2023 SVH-8001 RESEARCH DISSEMINATION (Lecture: Research dissemination in social media)

    Spring 2024 RUS-3042/3044 PRACTICAL RUSSIAN

    Autumn 2024 RUS-3041/3043 PRACTICAL RUSSIAN