Стенин Иван Андреевич

Education and Degrees

2024

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University

2010

Degree in Philology
Lomonosov Moscow State University

* 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.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

September–December, 2007 — exchange student at the University of Tampere (Finland), Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Translation Studies

November, 2010 — October, 2013 — doctoral student at the Department of Typology, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

July, 2019 — participant at the 3rd Crete Summer School of Linguistics (Greece)

July, 2020 — participant at the Web Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (WeSSLLI)

July, 2020 — participant at the Virtual NYI Program (V-NYI, The New York — St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture)

January, 2022 — participant at the Virtual NYI Winter Session 2022 (V-NYI #4, The New York — St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture)

Professional Interests

semantics field linguistics valency change grammatical categories of the verb Uralic languages Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages languages of Russia Arctic

Awards and Accomplishments

Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2022, 2021
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers under 30" (2017–2018)

Fieldwork experience

2021–present — Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakut (Sakha) language

2016–present — Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Chukchi language

2014 — Kamchatka Krai, Itelmen language

2013–2017 — Republic of Mordovia, Moksha language

2010–2014 — Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky Disctrict, Krasnoyarsk Krai, (Izhma) Komi-Zyrian, Northern Khanty, Northern Mansi, Forest Nenets, Nganasan languages

2010–2011 — Leningrad Oblast, (Soikkola) Ingrian language

2009–2011, 2014 — Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tundra Nenets language

2007 — Vologda Oblast, Northern Russian dialects

Courses (2025/2026)

A Grammar of a non (Standard Average) European Language (Mago-Lego; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Eng
A Grammar of a non (Standard Average) European Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
A Grammar of a non (Standard Average) European Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Foreign Language (Finnish) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Languages of the Peoples of Russia and Neighbouring Countries (Minor; Faculty of Humanities)Rus
Languages of the World (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Models and methods in language description (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
The Art of Grammar: Grammatical Categories and Grammatical Systems of the World’s Languages (Mago-Lego; Faculty of Humanities; 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
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Valence-increasing Derivations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Dissertation for a Candidate of Sciences degree

2024
I. Stenin Актантная деривация в тундровом ненецком языке в типологической перспективе

Digital resources

Multimedia corpus of Amguema Chukchi (2018, ver. 0.1). Created by E. A. Garanina (Gerasimenko) and I. A. Stenin. Link.

Web site Chuklang (2018, ver. 0.1). Created by E. A. Garanina (Gerasimenko), developed by Moscow Chukchi team under the guidance of I. A. Stenin. Link.

Web site Languages and Cultures of the North in the materials of field research (2024). Created under the guidance of A. V. Vlakhov. Link.

Conferences

2024
10th Workshop on Samoyed(ic) languages and cultures (Szeged). Presentation: Passive verbs with the marker -ra / -rye in Tundra Nenets
Конференция «Социокультурные трансформации в сообществах Севера и Арктики» (Москва). Presentation: Чукотские личные имена: современные практики и представления
Четвертая конференция по уральским, алтайским и палеоазиатским языкам (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Сколько каузативных показателей в северносамодийских языках?
Первый Евразийский конгресс лингвистов (Москва). Presentation: Морфологический каузатив в чукотском языке

2022
Workshop ‘Language and Culture Contact in North-Eastern Siberia’ (Мюнстер). Presentation: Morphosyntactic complexities in (North-Eastern) Siberia: evidence for contact-induced convergence?

2018
7th International Conference on Samoyed Studies (Tartu). Presentation: Resultative in Tundra Nenets

2016
6th International Conference on Samoyedology (Москва). Presentation: Causativization and (a)telicity: A Northern Samoyedic perspective
Тринадцатая Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Some observations on Moksha passive

2015
Congressus Duodecimus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. (Оулу). Presentation: Morphosyntax and semantics of focus intraclitics in Tundra Nenets and beyond

2014
Одиннадцатая Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Ненецкие фокусные маркеры: два вида неожиданности

2013
Десятая Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Некаузативные эффекты каузативной морфологии северносамодийских языков
3-я конференция «Типология морфосинтаксических параметров» (Москва). Presentation: Имперфективирующие деривации и антипассивная конструкция в ненецком языке
Association for Linguistic Typology 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10) (Лейпциг). Presentation: ‘Direct’ and its synonyms: a case study on the grammaticalization in attributives

2012
4th International Conference on Samoyedology (Гамбург). Presentation: Средства детранзитивизации в ненецком языке
4th International Conference on Samoyedology (Гамбург). Presentation: Семантика глаголов колебательного движения в ненецком языке
III COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE TIPOLOGÍA LÉXICA (LEXT-III) (Международный коллоквиум по лексической типологии (LEXT-III) (Гранада). Presentation: Атрибутивы как источник грамматикализации: ‘прямой’ и ‘ровный’ в русском, немецком и финском языках

2011
Verba sonandi : Aspects Linguistique, Culturel et Cognitif (Экс-ан-Прованс). Presentation: Verbs of animal sounds in Finnish

2010
Седьмая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Простое деепричастие в тундровом диалекте ненецкого языка
Третья международная конференция по самодистике (Новосибирск). Presentation: Обстоятельственные предложения времени со значением следования в тундровом диалекте ненецкого языка
Проблемы лексико-семантической типологии (Воронеж). Presentation: «Животные звуки» и зоометафоры в мужевском говоре коми-зырянского языка

Grants

Russian Science Foundation, grant No. 24-78-10199 ‘Today’s Chukchi: a fieldwork-based comprehensive language description’

Russian Science Foundation, grant No. 22-28-01975 ‘Historical grammar of the Samoyedic languages’

Russian Science Foundation, grant No. 19-78-10139 ‘Argument structure, voice and valency-changing derivations in the languages of Western Siberia’

HSE Academic Fund, 17-05-0043 ‘Aspects of the Chukchi morphosyntax’ (Research and Study Group ‘Typological peculiarities of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages’)

Russian Science Foundation, grant No. 16-18-02081 ‘Four grammars of the languages of Russia as a multilingual state’

Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant No. 16-06-00536 ‘Syntax-semantics interface in Uralic and Altaic languages’

Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation, grant No. 16-04-18037 ‘Fieldwork on Uralic and Altaic languages’

Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation, grant No. 14-04-00496 ‘Etymological dialectal dictionary of the Northern Samoyedic languages (analysis and preparation for publication of the E. Helimski’s heritage)’

Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant No. 14-06-00271 ‘Development of a virtual computational laboratory for management and processing data for endangered languages’

Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant No. 13-06-00884 ‘Parameters of Uralic and Altaic morphosyntax’

Foundation for Fundamental Linguistic Research, grant A-19-2013 ‘Documentation of Itelmen’

Employment history

Has been at HSE since 2016.

2012–2013, 2015–2016 — Lecturer at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology, Department of Finno-Ugric Philology

2013, 2014 — Junior research fellow, Department of Uralic and Altaic languages, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

2011, 2012 — Junior research fellow, Department of Typology and Areal Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

2011–2016 — Copywriter/translator, CNET dFactory Sarl/CNET Content Solutions, Moscow, Russia

Ivan Stenin