Konstantin Filatov

Research Assistant: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory
Senior Lecturer: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
Postgraduate Student: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies

Konstantin Filatov has been at HSE University since 2018.

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Responsibilities

Editing of Typological Atlas of Languages of Daghestan
Data analysis in Rutul Dialectological Atlas
Data collection and curation in "Swadesh lists with Village Granularity" project

Education

2022

Master's
St Petersburg State University

2020

Bachelor's
HSE University

Professional Interests

noun morphology Lezgic languages Andic languages morphophonology language documentation word-and-paradigm morphology grammatical typology philosophy of linguistics

Awards and Accomplishments

Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2023–2024)

Postgraduate Studies

3rd year of study
Approved topic of thesis: Diachrony of verbal inflectional systems (case study of Andic)
Academic Supervisor: Vladimir Plungian

Courses (2025/2026)

Grammatical Semantics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 4 module)Eng
Linguistic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research Seminar “Typological Approaches to Language Contact” (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
— Introduction to Comparative Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
— Introduction to Comparative Linguistics (Mago-Lego; Faculty of Humanities; 3 module)Eng
Past Courses

Courses (2024/2025)

Grammatical Semantics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 4 module)Eng
Linguistic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Courses (2023/2024)

Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Languages of the World (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Languages of the World (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Linguistic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research Seminar «New Testament translations and typology of grammatical categories» (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Courses (2022/2023)

Languages of the World (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Languages of the World (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3 module)Rus
Linguistic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Timetable for today

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Conferences

2021
К построению базы данных универсальных грамматических контекстов на материале параллельного корпуса переводов Нового Завета (Москва). Presentation: Контексты латива

2019
Лингвистический форум 2019: Коренные языки России и мира (Москва). Presentation: Рутульское субстантивное склонение: реализационный и инкрементальный подходы

2018
URBAN LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY (Москва). Presentation: On a Stress in Toponyms of Moscow Area

2017
Международная практическая конференция «Корпусные технологии. Digital Humanities и современное знание» (ConCort) (Москва). Presentation: Ни в коем случае: становление модальной конструкции

Employment history

2021–2022 Laboratory assistant at Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS

2018–2019 Teaching assistant at Digital literacy course (prof. E. Krotova)

Oct

2025

‘Our Task Is to Promote and Popularise Native Languages’

The Centre for the Study of Native Languages at Dagestan State University (DSU) is actively engaged in researching the many languages spoken by the peoples of Dagestan. The republic has 14 official state languages, many of which have their own dialects and varieties. Scholars from Dagestan plan to adopt corpus-based methods of linguistic research used at HSE University and intend to collaborate with HSE’s Linguistic Convergence Laboratory. The HSE News Service spoke with the centre’s Director, Prof. Marina Gasanova, who is currently undertaking a research placement at HSE University.

Sep

2025

HSE Doctoral Student Awarded for Best PhD Presentation at 58th Societas Linguistica Europaea Conference

From August 26–29, 2025, the largest annual linguistics conference, Societas Linguistica Europaea, took place in Bordeaux, France. Doctoral students and researchers from HSE University took part in the event. The paper ‘Lability Drift in Modern Aramaic languages’ by Elena Shvedova was highly praised by the expert community and took first place among PhD student presentations. In an interview with the HSE News Service, Elena Shvedova spoke about her research and the conference itself.