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Hi and welcome to my website! My name is Aleksandra Belkind (Александра Белькинд [ɐlʲɪkˈsandrə ˈbʲelʲkʲɪnt]). I am a postdoc at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. Right now, I am participating in two projects: "How prosody shapes word order: An integrated interface-based approach to the post-verbal domain in OV languages" (led by Balázs Surányi) and "Grammaticality, grammar and the minimal clause: New cross-linguistic evidence from colloquial registers" (led by Tamás Halm).

My main research interests include theory of nominal licensing with respect to Case theory. I am particularly interested in case marking of small nominals and its relation to nominal licensing. My dissertation concerns variation in case and agreement alignments in applicative and causative constructions.  I am also interested in short A- and A'-scrambling and (object) agreement, primarily in Ob-Ugric languages. Another area of my interest is (postsyntactic) movement and its connection to information structure and prosody.

My thesis called "Inherent Case Features and Case Assignment in Double Object Constructions in Kazym Khanty" can be found here. It is written under supervision by Maria Kouneli, Gereon Müller and András Bárány.

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

Another area of my interests is the history of Germanic languages, in particlural, Middle and Early New High German and its dialects.

Before coming into theoretical linguistics, I studied German philology, with focus on a German mysticism tradition in 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.