Pavel Rudnev

Senior Research Fellow:Faculty of Humanities / Laboratory of Formal Models in Linguistics
Associate Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics

Pavel Rudnev has been at HSE University since 2017.

Education and Degrees

2015
PhD in General linguistics
University of Groningen
Thesis Title: Dependency and discourse-configurationality: A study of Avar
2007
Degree
Chelyabinsk State University

Professional Interests

formal semantics formal syntax languages of the Caucasus linguistic typology disjunction negation Experimental Linguistics

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher – 2021, 2020

Courses (2023/2024)

Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Courses (2017/2018)

Academic writing (Postgraduate course’s programme; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
Formal Models in Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Theory in Language Description (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng

Publications¹⁸

Chapter Rudnev P. The Anaphor Agreement Effect as epiphenomenon, in: The many facets of agreement / Ed. by P. Caha, P. Rudnev, S. Toldova. Lincom Europa, 2023. Ch. 6. P. 111-144.
Book The many facets of agreement / Ed. by P. Caha, P. Rudnev, S. Toldova. Lincom Europa, 2023.
Article Rudnev P., Shikunova Alexandra. Idioms, NP position, and control: Evidence from Russian // Типология морфосинтаксических параметров. 2022. Vol. 5. No. 1. P. 91-106.
Article Shagal K., Rudnev P., Volkova A. A. Multifunctionality and syncretism in non-finite forms: an introduction // Folia Linguistica. 2022. Vol. 56. No. 3. P. 529-557. doi
Article Rudnev P. Against Upwards Agree // The Linguistic Review. 2021. Vol. 38. No. 1. P. 65-99. doi
Article Rudnev P., Anna Kuznetsova. Linearization constraints on sentential negation in Russian Sign Language are prosodic // Sign Language & Linguistics. 2021. Vol. 24. No. 2. P. 259-273. doi
Article Rudnev P. Agreeing adpositions in Avar and the directionality of valuation debate // Linguistic Inquiry. 2020. Vol. 51. No. 4. P. 829-844. doi
Article Rudnev P., Volkova A. A. Case marking in Russian eventive nominalisations revisited // Russian linguistics. 2020. Vol. 44. No. 2. P. 157-175. doi
Article Fyodor Baykov, Rudnev P. Not all obligatory control is movement // Journal of Linguistics. 2020. Vol. 56. No. 4. P. 893-906. doi
Article Rudnev P. The Anaphor Agreement Effect is not about featural deficiency: Evidence from Avar // Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2020. Vol. 5. No. 1. P. 1-19. doi
Preprint Moroz G., Plaskovitskaya A. A., Rudnev P. Automatic detection of natural phonological classes in Russian Sign Language / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2018. No. 74.
Article Rudnev P. Minimal pronouns, logophoricity and long-distance reflexivisation in Avar // Studia Linguistica. 2017. Vol. 71. No. 1-2. P. 154-177. doi
Book Rudnev, Pavel. Dependency and discourse-configurationality: A study of Avar. Groningen : Wohrmann Print Services, 2015.
Article Rudnev P. Events, locations and situations: On the interaction of negation and finiteness in Avar // Linguistics in the Netherlands. 2015. Vol. 32. P. 142-154. doi
Chapter Rudnev P. Kendisi revisited, in: Donum semanticum: Opera linguistica et logica in honorem Barbarae Partee a discipulis amicisque Rossicis oblata / Ed. by P. Arkadiev, I. Kapitonov, Yu. Lander, E. V. Rakhilina, S. Tatevosov. M. : Languages of Slavic culture, 2015. P. 263-271.
Article Rudnev P. Why Turkish kendisi is a pronominal // Ural-Altaic Studies. 2011. Vol. 4. No. 1. P. 76-92.
Article Руднев П. В. Рефлексивы в дагестанских языках и природа анафорических отношений // Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований. 2011. Т. VII. № 3. С. 184-188.
Article Rudnev P. Review of: Glyn Hicks. 2009. The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations (John Benjamins, Amsterdam) // Oslo studies in language. 2010. Vol. 2. No. 3. P. 651-661.

Conferences

2019
Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics 3 (Москва). Presentation: Towards an exhaustification analysis of plain disjunction in Russian
Cambridge Comparative Syntax 8 (Cambridge). Presentation: Dynamic phases, split ergativity and adposition agreement in Avar
2018
Surrey Morphology Group (Guildford). Presentation: Morphosyntactic duality of Avar negation
51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Таллинн). Presentation: Plain disjunction markers in Russian and positive polarity
Groningen Syntax Seminar. Presentation: Agreeing adpositions in Avar and theories of Agree
2017
33rd Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (Тель-Авив). Presentation: Disjunct size, positive polarity and the scope of disjunction in Russian
Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics (Москва). Presentation: Paths to positive polarity: The case of two plain PPI-disjunctions in Russian
Андийский семинар (Москва). Presentation: О природе ограничений на выражение отрицания в аварском языке
2016
Comparative Syntax Meetings (Leiden). Presentation: The syntactic side of positive polarity: PPI-disjunctions in Russian
TABU Dag 37 (Groningen). Presentation: Particles,disjunction and inquisitivity in Avar
De Grote Taaldag (Utrecht). Presentation: Core and peripheral disjunction strategies, and sentential negation in Russian
2015
Syntax Interface Lectures (Utrecht). Presentation: The interaction of negation and disjunction in Russian
"It depends..." Workshop (Groningen). Presentation: Dependency and discourse-configurationality: A study of Avar negation
TiN-Dag (Utrecht). Presentation: Locations and situations: On the interaction of negation and finiteness in Avar

Grants

RFBR 20-512-26004 (2021–2023) "Morphology of agreement". PI: S. Toldova

RSF 18-78-10128 (2018–2021) "When the verb is not a verb: Non-finite constructions in the languages of Russia". PI: N. Zevakhina

18-05-0053 "Modality effects in the syntax of Russian Sign Language" (2018; PI: Natalia Slioussar)

Employment history

2015–2016: lecturer, University of Groningen

2010–2015: research fellow (assistent in opleiding) in linguistics, University of Groningen

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Sep

2020

Members of the Linguistic convergence laboratory participated in the SLE conference online

The 53rd SLE conference was held in an unconventional format for the first time in history. The Linguistic convergence laboratory was represented by a number of talks.

Dec

2017

Welcome Aboard: Post-Doc Introductions

Every year, HSE hires post-doctoral researchers from all over the world. And in 2017-18, more than 30 of them started work at laboratories and research centres in a large range of fields and specializations. The HSE Lookis pleased to introduce this year’s international researchers, so that you can learn more about your colleagues and find out about opportunities for potential collaboration.