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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, participating in two projects: "How prosody shapes word order: An integrated interface-based approach to the post-verbal domain in OV languages" and "Grammaticality, grammar and the minimal clause: New cross-linguistic evidence from colloquial registers". I am also affiliated with the DFG Scientific Network Applicative alternations across languages (AAAL). 

My research interests include syntax, syntax-prosody interface and morphology. My main interest concerns Case theory, in particular the syntactic mechanism of Case assignment, nominal licensing and the default case. I am also doing research on the internal structure of the DP, small nominals and differential case marking.
I have done research on case and agreement alignment alternation in applicative clauses, A/A'-scrambling, in particular short object scrambling, and rightward verb movement.
Another area of my interests include the correlation between (postsyntactic) movement on one side, and information structure and prosody on the other side. This block of research includes studies on clitic placement and post-verbal elements7extraposition in OV-languages.
Finally, I have done research on silent structure in colloquial discourse.

My thesis called "Inherent Case Features and Case Assignment in Double Object Constructions in Kazym Khanty" (supervisors: Maria Kouneli and Gereon Müller) can be found here. 

A big part of my work focuses on the Khanty language, a Uralic language, spoken in North-West Siberia. 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.

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, providing catalogue descriptions of the early European printed books.

Here, you can find my full CV.