Russian linguist
Asya Pereltsvaig (Russian: Ася Перельцвайг; born 1972 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian-American linguist, writer, and educator.[1][2][3]
Life
Pereltsvaig has a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University in 2001, with a dissertation entitled, "On the nature of intra-clausal relations: a study of copular sentences in Russian and Italian."[4] She has taught in Yale, Cornell, and Stanford universities, as well as the University of Utah Continuing Education program.[5][6] She has served as an academic coordinator for the Esperanto society, ESF.[7]
Her research interests are theoretical syntax, cross-linguistic typology, Slavic linguistics, and historical linguistics. She is an independent scholar whose recent books include: The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (with Martin Lewis)[8] 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, and Language and Linguistics Compass.
Selected works
- Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2006. Small nominals. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24, 433-500. doi:10.1007/s11049-005-3820-z
- Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2006. Head movement in Hebrew nominals: A reply to Shlonsky. Lingua 116, A1-A40. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2005.11.001
- Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2013. Noun Phrase Structure in Article-less Slavic Languages: DP or not DP? Language and Linguistics Compass 7, 201-219. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12014
- Pereltsvaig, Asya & Martin Lewis. 2017. The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-66538-5
- Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2020. Languages of the World: An Introduction. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-74812-4
References
- ^ Erard, Michael (21 September 2016). "Why Australia is home to one of the largest language families in the world". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Asya Pereltsvaig". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Finney, Michael; Yip, Randall (18 September 2020). "Here's why COVID-19 pandemic could help lower our health care costs". ABC 7 San Francisco. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Alumni". Linguistics. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "Asya Pereltsvaig – Instructor | UCLA Extension". www.uclaextension.edu. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "ASYA PERELTSVAIG - Continuing Education at the University of Utah". continue.utah.edu. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "Asya Pereltsvaig – ESF". www.esperantic.org. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "Linguist List - Reviews Available for the Book". old.linguistlist.org. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
