Nadia Takhtaganova

Nadia Takhtaganova

First Name: 
Nadia
Last Name: 
Takhtaganova
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PhD Candidate
Biography : 

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.

 

Personal Website: 
https://www.nadiathelinguist.com/

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Language Revitalization and Documentary Linguistics

  • Mesoamerican Sprachbund

  • Romance languages

  • Morphosyntax: minimalism, argument structure, adpositions, case, nominal morphology

  • Semantic typology: adpositions, spatial nouns, positional and posture predicates

  • Historical/Diachronic Linguistics

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