I am an applied linguist working on innovative digital resources for language learning and research. I have rich professional experience in second and foreign language teaching. 

My primary areas of expertise are: Construction Grammar, multi-word constructions in Russian and Norwegian, derivational morphology and aspect. Ealier I worked a lot on semantics of Russian aspectual prefixes, allomorphy, and statistical modeling of linguistic data.

I work at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where I hold a position of Research Professor in linguistics in research group CLEAR. 

My scholarly results are registered in the Norwegian database Cristin (Current Research Information System In Norway). For more details visit my profile page at UiT The Arctic Univesity of Norway (see also LinkedIn , ResearchGate , Academia.edu, Google scholar).

In 2018-2022, I worked on the postdoctoral project entitled “Constructional Landscape of Russian Syntax: Modeling native speakers’ knowledge for second language learners” (CLARUS). The CLARUS project focused on the syntactic level of the Russian grammar and took a constructionist usage-based approach to syntax. The main objective was to build and calibrate the Russian Constructicon, a free open-access electronic resource that offers a searchable database of Russian constructions accompanied with descriptions of their properties. 

In 2022, I led a project on building a new educational resource called Construxercise! for students and instructors of L2 Russian and co-organized an international advanced PhD course on constructicon-building  “Constructicography: Advanced Topics in Construction Grammar” at UiT (HIF-8040, held digitally in 2023).

In 2023, I worked on building a constructicon for Ukrainian, started Tromsø Constructicon Lab, and completed a research stay at the University of Birmingham, UK (4 months).

My doctoral dissertation "Non-Standard Allomorphy in Russian Prefixes: Corpus, Experimental, and Statistical Exploration" (http://hdl.handle.net/10037/7098 was defended at UiT in 2015. It was part of the research project “Neat Theories, Messy Realities: How to apply absolute definitions to gradient phenomena” funded by the Research Council of Norway and led by professors Laura A. Janda and Tore Nesset in 2011-2014. 

In 2015-2016, I worked at UiT as an associate professor teaching parts of various courses in linguistics. In 2014, I worked as a cognitive debriefer and contributed to linguistic validation of medical questionnaires for cancer patients at Language Scientific (USA). In 2012-2013, I spent eleven months in the USA as a visiting scholar at CSEEES (Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, in 2011-2012, I collaborated in the project “Time is Space: Unconscious Models and Conscious Acts” led by Tore Nesset and Laura A. Janda at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo. In 2009-2010, I contributed to the project “Exploring Emptiness: Russian derivational morphology in cognitive linguistics” that resulted in the on-line database of the Russian aspectual pairs and a book accompanied with various on-line materials. In this project, I worked on the semantic modelling of Russian "small" prefixes.