Asya Pereltsvaig (Russian: Ася Перельцвайг; born 1972 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian-American linguist, writer, and educator.[1][2][3]
Asya Pereltsvaig | |
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Ася Перельцвайг | |
Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
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Alma mater | McGill University |
Thesis | On the Nature of Intra-Clausal Relations: A Study of Copular Sentences in Russian and Italian (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Lisa Travis |
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Discipline | Linguist |
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Website | asya.pereltsvaig.com |
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.