Olena Shcherbakova
Abteilung für Sprach- und Kulturevolution
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 270
E-Mail: olena_shcherbakova@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am a doctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution. I use phylogenetic methods, spatiophylogenetic modelling, and causal inference to answer big-picture questions about large-scale typological patterns and language change. Currently, I am working on my PhD dissertation that will encompass three projects testing hypotheses about the changes in grammatical structures conditioned by linguistic factors and sociolinguistic environment on a global scale.
Curriculum Vitae
2017-2018 | MA in Philology, National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" |
2018 | Exchange Student, Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
2013-2017 | BA in Philology, National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" |
Publications
2022
Shcherbakova, O., Gast, V., Blasi, D. E., Skirgård, H., Gray, R. D., & Greenhill, S. J. (2022). A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking (advance online). Linguistics Vanguard. |
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Shcherbakova, O., Michaelis, S. M., Haynie, H. J., Greenhill, S. J., Blasi, D. E., Gray, R. D., Gast, V., & Skirgård, H. (2022). Grammatical complexity is only weakly influenced by the sociolinguistic envornment. In A. Ravignani, R. Asano, D. Valente, F. Ferretti, S. Hartmann, M. Hayashi, Y. Jadoul, M. Martins, Y. Oseki, E. D. Rodrigues, O. Vasileva, & S. Wacewicz (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) (pp. 669-671). 2666-917X: Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE). |
2020
Roberts, S. G., Killin, A., Deb, A., Sheard, C., Greenhill, S. J., Sinnemäki, K., Segovia-Martín, J., Nölle, J., Berdicevskis, A., Humphreys-Balkwill, A., Little, H., Opie, C., Jacques, G., Bromham, L., Tinits, P., Ross, R. M., Lee, S., Gasser, E., Calladine, J., Spike, M., Mann, S. F., Shcherbakova, O., Singer, R., Zhang, S., Benítez-Burraco, A., Kliesch, C., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Skirgard, H., Tamariz, M., Passmore, S., Pellard, T., & Jordan, F. (2020). CHIELD: The causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution, 5(2), 101-120. |
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Shcherbakova, O., Skirgard, H., & Greenhill, S. J. (2020). Phylogenetic exploration of language complexity in Austronesian, Bantu and Indoeuropean language families. In A. Ravignani, C. Barbieri, M. Flaherty, Y. Jadoul, E. Lattenkamp, H. Little, K. Mudd, & T. Verhoef (Eds.), The evolution of language: proceedings of the 13th International Conference (Evolang 13) (pp. 411-413). Nijmegen: The Evolution of Language Conferences. |