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Olena Shcherbakova

Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 270
e-mail: olena_shcherbakova@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

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About me

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The scores of two dimensions of grammatical complexity (fusion and informativity) on the global tree. Many related languages resemble each other in their scores of grammatical complexity. This suggests that languages tend to faithfully inherit fusion and informativity scores from their ancestors rather than that these dimensions of grammatical complexity adapt to rapidly changing sociolinguistic environments on a global scale.

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

2017-2018MA in Philology, National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
2018Exchange Student, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2013-2017BA in Philology, National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"

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