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Hi and welcome to my website! My name is Aleksandra Belkind (Александра Белькинд [ale´ksa:ndra ´belʲki:nd]), but most people call me Sasha ([´sa:ʃa]). I am a third year PhD student and a research fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in the IGRA graduate program at Leipzig University. My advisors are Maria Kouneli and Gereon Müller.

My main topic of research is argument structure and variation of case-marking, especially in applicative and causative constructions, as well as general theory of Case. I am also interested in prosody-driven postsyntactic movement.

Since 2019, I do fieldwork on Kazym dialect of Nothern Khanty (also known as Kazym Ostyak), a Uralic language, spoken in North-West Siberia.

Before coming into theoretical linguistics, I studied German philology, specifically the German mysticism of the 13th century. I also worked as a bibliographer at the department of rare books and manuscripts at the University library of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Here, you can find my full CV.