CV

Scientific Education

• 11/2011
  Habilitation and teaching authority for "Language Acquisition", Humboldt-University of Berlin, Philosophical Faculty II
• 04/2009
  Habilitation (roughly tenure track in the US system). Habilitation title: First language acquisition of verb categories in Russian (in Russian). Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg (teaching authority for "Russian Language")
  
• 06/1997
  Ph.D., Dissertation title: Aspectual semantics and functions of aspect in Russian child language (in Russian). Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg
• 07/1987
  M.A. Specialization: Russian language and literature. Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg
• 09/1983-07/1987
  Studies of Literature, Linguistics, Russian, Education and Old Slavic Languages. Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg.

Academic employment

• since 01/2012
  PI1 (Principal Investigator 1) in GIF project How can a teacher tell if a bilingual child has language impairment: A study of the language of Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German migrant children in preschool and school years
• since 01/2012 coordination of discourse field
• since 11/2011
  Senate of Berlin Foundation Berliner Interdisziplinärer Verbund zum Mehrsprachigkeit (BIVEM)
• 2007-2010
  Leadership of BMBF project Language Acquisition as a precondition for social integration of Russian-speaking children with a migration background in Germany and Israel
  
• since 2011
  PB2 coordination
• 1999 – 2011
  Scientific staff member, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin in the following BMBF and DFG-Projects:
  • 2008 - present
    BMBF-Project area Discourse-cohesive means in language acquisition - intersentential anaphoric relations
  • 2006 - 2007
    DFG-Project: Acquisition and disambiguation of intersentential pronominal reference
  • 2003 - 2005
    DFG-Project: Acquisition of grammatical forms that denote +/- Boundedness
  • 2000 - 2002
    DFG-Project: Syntactic sequences of the acquisition of morphology
  • 1999
    DFG-Project: Processes of categorisation in language acquisition
• 1998 – 1999
  Scientific staff member, Institute for German Language and Literature, Humboldt University, Berlin
• 1997 – 1998
  Guest Researcher, Institute for General and Applied Linguistics, Vienna University
• 1991 – 1997
  Assistant Researcher, Institute for Psychology and Pedagogy, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg
• 1987 – 1991
  School teacher (incl. maternity leave from November 1989), St. Petersburg

Fellowships and awards (selection)

• 2012
  How Can a Teacher Tell If a Bilingual Child Has Language Impairment (Tellimp) German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
• 2011
  Berliner Interdisziplinärer Verbund zum Mehrsprachigkeit (BIVEM) (Senat-Förderung, Summe ca. 431.000,- Euro; Dauer 3 Jahre)
• 2007-2010
  BMBF Grant for the project Spracherwerb als Voraussetzung zur sozialen Integration von russischsprachigen Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland und Israel (in cooperation with the Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
• 1999-2010
  Various DFG and BMBF (see academic employment) Grants
• 1998
  Janineum Grant for Research at the Vienna University
• 1997-1998
  Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for Research at the Institute for Linguistics, Vienna University (Head of the Institute: Prof. Dr. W. U. Dressler)
• 1996
  Grant of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences to attend the Nordic Summer School on Tense and Aspect (Vatnahalsen, Norway)
• 1995
  Soros Grant for outstanding young researchers, St. Petersburg

Recent service and administration

• 2010
  Activities related to the selection of the candidates for Berlin School of Mind and Brain
• 2009 - present
  Member of the examination boards of MA- and BA-programmes, Institute of Slavonic Languages, University of Hamburg
• 2009
  Coordinator of the Working Group on Narrative and Discourse in the European project Language impairment in a multilingual society: Linguistic patterns and the road to assessment (together with Prof Dr Joel Walters)
• 2009
  Management Committee member - representative of Germany in the European COST project Crosslinguistically Robust Stages of Children's Linguistic Performance
• 1998 - present
  Coordinator of the European project Verb inflection beyond protomorphology, part of the Pre- and Protomorphology project (PI: W.U. Dressler, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• 1998 - 1999
  Administrative activities related to the EU-Project INTAS-UA (participating countries: Austria, Belgium and Ukraine)
• 1991 - 1992
  Co-founder of the Russian child language database, Chair of Language Acquisition, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg

Editorial and review tasks

• Ab verba liberorum: Linguistics, Pedagogy and Psychology. Member of the Editorial Board
• Reviewer for books and scientific series, among others: Theoretical Psycholinguists, Studies on Language Acquisition by John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, Springer
• Reviewer for journals, among others: Folia Linguistica, Journal of Child Language, Linguistics, Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung
• Reviewer for Research Grant Organizations: ISF (Israel National Science Foundation)
• Reviewer for International conferences, among others: International Association of the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Slavic Linguistic Society, Slavic Cognitive Linguistic Association

Conferences and activities organized (selection)

• 05/2012
  COST Action IS0804 (biSLI): Sixth MC & WGs Meeting. Berlin.
• 09/2011
  Brainstorming workshop: Storyretelling and storytelling: cross-linguistically and cross-culturally robust narratives. Berlin.
• 02/2011
  Brainstorming workshop: Storyretelling and storytelling: cross-linguistically and cross-culturally robust narratives. Berlin.
• 02/2011
  Textkohärenz und Textverstehen bei Erwachsenen und Kindern (AG2 zusammen mit Angelika Becker, Dagmar Bittner, Nadja Kühn, Milena Kuehnast, Renate Musan) 33. Jahrestagung der DGfS, Göttingen. 23.-25. Februar 2011
• 2010
  Annual conference of the German Linguistic Society: Lehrinfotag Mehr Information über Sprache vor und in der Schule”, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
• 2009
  Workshop Production and comprehension of aspect, ZAS Berlin, COST Action 33
• 2009
  Training School in Language Acquisition Methods, ZAS Berlin, COST Action 33
• 2008
  Workshop Experimental investigation of aspect comprehension, ZAS Berlin, COST Action 33
• 2007
  IInd Congress of the Slavic Linguistic Society, ZAS Berlin
• 2006
  Conference on Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language, ZAS Berlin
• 2005
  Tenth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), FU Berlin
• 2005
  Symposium: Input as an invitation to language. X. International Congress for the Study of Child Language, FU Berlin
• 2005
  Workshop on Frequency effects in language acquisition, Annual conference of the German Linguistic Society, Köln
• 2003
  Conference on the Acquisition of Aspect, ZAS Berlin
• 2001
  Conference on Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments, ZAS Berlin
• 1998
• Workshop on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition, Institute for Linguistics, Vienna University