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Teaching
I taught a basic course in Hill Mari language in the spring semester 2024.
Research
The working title of my doctoral thesis is “Perspective constructions formed by Mari retrospectivizing particles”.
My thesis investigates the usage and development of so-called retrospective shift markers, a typologically understudied group of temporal items that are found in Mari languages. My aim is to examine the temporal profile of the retrospection-based structures as well as their ability to express non-temporal meanings. Regarding data and methods, my work is mainly a synchronic corpus study.
A key concept in my research is “perspective”, which I study as a temporal, aspectual, modal and epistemic phenomenon. Hence, one of my main goals is to specify the relationships between different TAME-categories both functionally and in terms of grammatical change.