Asya Pereltsvaig (; born 1972 in

Leningrad, USSR Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

) is a Russian-American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, writer, and educator.

Life

Pereltsvaig has a PhD in Linguistics from

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

in 2001, with a dissertation entitled, "On the nature of intra-clausal relations: a study of copular sentences in Russian and Italian." She has taught in

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

Cornell Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson White in 1865. Since ...

, and

Stanford Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth governor of and th ...

universities, as well as the

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Continuing Education program. She has served as an academic coordinator for the

Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

society, ESF. Her research interests are theoretical syntax, cross-linguistic

typology A typology is a system of classification used to organize things according to similar or dissimilar characteristics. Groups of things within a typology are known as "types". Typologies are distinct from taxonomies in that they primarily address t ...

, Slavic linguistics, and

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

. She is an independent scholar whose recent books include: ''The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics'' (with Martin Lewis) and ''Languages of the World: An Introduction''. She has also published research articles in leading linguistics journals, such as '' Lingua,

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ''Natural Language & Linguistic Theory'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is pub ...

'', and ''

Language and Linguistics Compass ''Language and Linguistics Compass'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering linguistics. It was established in 2006 and publishes review articles. The editors-in-chief are Edwin Battistella (Southern Oregon University) and Natalie ...

''.

Selected works

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References

1972 births Linguists from Russia Living people 21st-century Russian non-fiction writers 21st-century Russian women writers Writers from Saint Petersburg Linguists of Slavic languages Russian women linguists McGill University alumni {{Russia-linguist-stub