Nadia Takhtaganova
My doctoral research involves documenting the formal properties of the spatial inventory of Huasteca Nahuatl, a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Northeastern Mexico. More generally, I am interested in evidence for the diachronic emergence of case markers and prepositions from spatial nouns in languages of the Mesoamerican Sprachbund, including Mayan languages, such as Itza', TĂ©nek, and Kaqchikel. In parallel, I am working on a cross-linguistic typology of verbal di- and tritransitive structures, as well as the morphosemantics of prepositions and case marking in Western Romance.
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Language Revitalization and Documentary Linguistics
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Mesoamerican Sprachbund
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Romance languages
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Morphosyntax: minimalism, argument structure, adpositions, case, nominal morphology
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Semantic typology: adpositions, spatial nouns, positional and posture predicates
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Historical/Diachronic Linguistics