Alexander Letuchiy

Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics

Alexander Letuchiy has been at HSE University since 2011.

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Education and Degrees

2020

Doctor of Sciences*
HSE University

2006

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Comparative Historical, Typological and Contrastive Linguistics
Russian State University for the Humanities
Thesis Title: Typology of labile verbs: semantic and morphosyntactic aspects

2004

Degree in Theoretical and applied linguistics
Russian State University for the Humanities, Institute of Linguistics

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

* Doctor of Sciences
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2023, 2014
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2022
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2012–2013)

Courses (2024/2025)

Research Seminar “Typology of Clause Combining” (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Past Courses

Courses (2023/2024)

Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Research Seminar “Local and nonlocal processes in syntax” (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus

Courses (2022/2023)

Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Theory and Typology of Evidentiality" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus

Courses (2021/2022)

Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Arabic Language" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus

Courses (2020/2021)

Contemporary Russian Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Master Classes of Guest Experts (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Non-structural Properties in Syntax" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Conferences

2013
Workshop on verb valency change (Эрмосильо). Presentation: Arabic third stem: Does it denote valency change?
19-я Международная конференция по компьютерной лингвистике "Диалог". Presentation: Свойства нулевой связки в русском языке в сопоставлении со свойствами выраженного глагола

2012
Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects within and across Languages and Language Families: Stability, Variation and Change (Рейкьявик). Presentation: Two Russian reflexive constructions: does the expression of the base subject matter?

2011
Association for Linguistic Typology 9th Biennial Conference (ALT9) (Гонконг). Presentation: Ambitransitive verbs in American indigenous languages

Dissertation for a degree of Doctor of Science

2020
A. Letuchiy Конструкции с сентенциальными актантами в русском языке: семантика, синтаксис, сочетаемость

Employment history

2011 – present time – assistant professor, then professor at the School of Linguistics (formerly Faculty of Philology) of National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Courses taught (now or previously):

Russian syntax

Voice and valency change

Transitivity and lability

Arabic in typological perspective

Evidentiality: theory and typology

Russian morphology (participates in teaching with Olga Lyashevskaya, Ilya Itkin)

General syntax (participates in teaching with Tatiana Nikitina, Yuri Lander, Alexander Podobryaev)

General morphology (participates in teaching with Michael Daniel, Yuri Lander)

2006 – present time – leading research fellow (previously research fellow, senior research fellow) in Russian Language Institute, Moscow (Department of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Poetics)

2006 – 2012 – teacher of linguistic courses at the Russian State University for Humanities (courses “Arabic language”, “Bulgarian language”, “Transitivity and lability”, “Lexical markers of voice and valency change”)

2005 – 2007 – teacher of Arabic at the Academy of Diplomacy, Moscow

2005 – 2006 – worked at the Laboratory of Computer linguistics of Institute of Information Transmission Problems, Moscow (participated in compiling language entries for a computer dictionary of Russian)

Aug

2020

HSE Scholars to Participate in Creating a New Platform for Russian National Corpus

The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has announced the results of a grant competition for big research projects. One of the winners is a project with HSE University participation: the creation of a next generation computational linguistic platform to digitally record the Russian language.

Mar

2015

He, drunk and merry; she, in tears: null copula in Russian

On February 3 rd , Aleksandr Letuchiy presented a report on the syntactic properties of the null copula in Russian language.