University education
| September 2006-May 2010 | University of Leipzig: PhD student |
| 2001-2006 | University of Leipzig: MA program in Linguistics, English studies and German as a foreign language. Thesis: "Aspects of information structure in Richtersveld Nama" |
| 1996-2000 | Linguistic University of Minsk, Belarus: English studies |
Work experience
| April 2011-today | Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Zurich, project: Typological Variance in the Processing of Grammatical Relations |
| Juni 2010-March 2011 | Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Leipzig, project: Typological Variance in the Processing of Grammatical Relations (Leipzig Research Group on the Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments) |
| Mai 2006-Mai 2010 | Research assistant in the project Typological Variance in the Processing of Grammatical Relations (Leipzig Research Group on the Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments) |
| since October 2007 | Research assistant in the project "A text documentation of N|uu" (MPI-EVA, Leipzig) |
| 2004-2006 | Student assistant in the project Expression of Focus in Southern African Languages (ZAS, Berlin) under the supervision of Tom Güldemann: work on Richtersveld Nama (Central Khoisan), including language documentation, text collection, investigations in morphology, syntax and sociolinguistics |
| 2005-2006 | Work on the database of Proto-Iranian word roots under the supervision of Donald Stilo (MPI-EVA, Leipzig) |
| August 2003 | Internship under the supervision of Helma van den Berg (MPI-EVA, Leipzig): development of the database of loanwords in Dargi |
| 2002-2004 | Student assistant in AUTOTYP research program (work on following projects and topics: NP structures, negation, grammatical markers, word domains, typological maps); transcription, glossing and analysis of Pear Stories for the Chechen Narratives Project |
Linguistic fieldwork
| 2007 | Documentation of N|uu, Upington/Andriesvale (Northern Cape, South Africa), 10 weeks |
| 2005 | Documentation of Richtersveld Nama, Kuboes (Northern Cape, South Africa), 9 weeks |
| 2004 | Documentation of Richtersveld Nama, Kuboes (Northern Cape, South Africa), 12 weeks |
Workshop organization
| September 8-11, 2011 | Workshop at SLE 2011 on Referential Hierarchies in Alignment Typology (Logroño, with Balthasar Bickel and Anna Siewierska) |
| December 10-11, 2010 | Workshop on The Fine Structure of Grammatical Relations (University of Leipzig, with Petr Biskup) |
| August 28-29, 2010 | EuroBABEL Workshop on Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments (University of Leipzig, with Robert Schikowski) |
| March 2010 | Meeting of the EuroBABEL project Referential Hiararchies in Morphosyntax (University of Leipzig, with Balthasar Bickel and Robert Schikowski) |
| April 2007 | Workshop on Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments (University of Leipzig, with Gereon Müller and Andreas Opitz) |
| August 2006 | Conference on Historical linguistics and hunter-gatherer populations in global perspective (MPI-EVA Leipzig, with Tom Güldemann) |