Position(s):
University Associate Professor
Fellow, DoS, Tutor Christ's College
Department/Section:
Slavonic Studies
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Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge 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 welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to 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 Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2024)
- Wh-Indefinites in Russian (forthcoming in Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2023)
- Expletive Negation Revisited (forthcoming in Journal of Slavic Linguistics)
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