1961, 20.12
was born in Leningrad (St.-Petersburg)
1979 - 1984
studied at the Leningrad State University
1984, June
graduated from the Scandinavian department of the philological faculty (Faculty of Letters) of the Leningrad State University, having majored in the Germanic languages and linguistics
1990
defended a doctoral thesis on the "Struktura prostogo glagol'nogo prelozhenija v evenskom jazyke" (Verbal clause patterns in Even)
1990-1994
worked as a researcher at the Altaic department of the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences), specializing in Tungusic languages
from 1991 on
associated senior researcher at the Institute for the study of Northern minorities (Yakutsk)
from December 94 to June 96
Alexander von Humboldt fellow researcher at the Seminar fuer Orientkunde at the University of Mainz
from June 97 to October 97
Research scholarship (NWO-Besucherboerse) at the department of Comparative Linguistics in Leiden (Holland)
from February 01 to November 01
Post-doc scholarship at the department of Germanic and general linguistics of the University of Antwerp
from 1999 on
work as a senior scientific researcher at the Altaic department of the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
May 2002
defended a habilitation on "Sintaksis evenskogo jazyka: strukturnyje, semanticheskie, kommunikativnyje aspekty"
(Syntax of Even: structural, semantic, discourse-pragmatic aspects) St. Petersburg
2004
JSPS fellowship (post-doc) at the Kobe University. Research topic (together with A. Ogawa)
"Typology of impersonal constructions"
2005-April, 2006
Continued research in a PIONER project "Case cross-linguistically" at the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
From May 2006 on
A post-doc researcher in the DFG-funded project "Typology of ditransitive constructions" (together with Bernard Comrie and Martin Haspelmath) at Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig)
From May 2009 on
An affiliated researcher in the DFG-funded project “Typology of valency classes” (together with Bernard Comrie and Martin Haspelmath) at MPI EVA (Leipzig) (interrupted until July 2010; due to Visiting Professorship in Tokyo)
From January 2010 – July 2010
Visiting Professorship in Tokyo (NINJAL; The National Institute for the Japanese Language and Linguistics)
October 2010 onwards
Vertretungsprofessur (W3) at the department of English and General Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
