Asya Pereltsvaig Explained

Asya Pereltsvaig
Native Name:	Ася Перельцвайг
Native Name Lang:	ru
Birth Place:	Leningrad, USSR
Alma Mater:	McGill University
Thesis Title:	On the Nature of Intra-Clausal Relations: A Study of Copular Sentences in Russian and Italian
Thesis Url:	https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/nc580p19w
Thesis Year:	2001
Doctoral Advisor:	Lisa Travis
Discipline:	Linguist

Asya Pereltsvaig (Russian: link=no|Ася Перельцвайг; born 1972 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian-American linguist, writer, and educator.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Life

Pereltsvaig has a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University in 2001, with a dissertation entitled, "On the nature of intra-clausal relations: a study of copular sentences in Russian and Italian."^[4] She has taught in Yale, Cornell, and Stanford universities, as well as the University of Utah Continuing Education program.^{[5] [6]} She has served as an academic coordinator for the Esperanto society, ESF.^[7]

Her research interests are theoretical syntax, cross-linguistic typology, Slavic linguistics, and historical linguistics. She is an independent scholar whose recent books include: The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (with Martin Lewis)^[8] and Languages of the World: An Introduction. She has also published research articles in leading linguistics journals, such as Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Language and Linguistics Compass.

Selected works

• Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2006. Small nominals. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24, 433-500.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2006. Head movement in Hebrew nominals: A reply to Shlonsky. Lingua 116, A1-A40.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2013. Noun Phrase Structure in Article-less Slavic Languages: DP or not DP? Language and Linguistics Compass 7, 201-219.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya & Martin Lewis. 2017. The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2020. Languages of the World: An Introduction. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Why Australia is home to one of the largest language families in the world . Michael . Erard . Michael Erard . 21 September 2016 . Science AAAS . 27 October 2020.
2. Web site: Asya Pereltsvaig . www.goodreads.com . 27 October 2020.
3. Web site: Here's why COVID-19 pandemic could help lower our health care costs . Michael Finney (journalist) . Michael . Finney . Randall . Yip . 18 September 2020 . . 27 October 2020.
4. Web site: Alumni . 2023-05-19 . Linguistics . en.
5. Web site: Asya Pereltsvaig – Instructor UCLA Extension . www.uclaextension.edu . 19 May 2023.
6. Web site: ASYA PERELTSVAIG - Continuing Education at the University of Utah . continue.utah.edu . 19 May 2023.
7. Web site: Asya Pereltsvaig – ESF . 2023-05-19 . www.esperantic.org.
8. Web site: Linguist List - Reviews Available for the Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20230519204911/https://old.linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=36119377 . dead . 19 May 2023 . 2023-05-19 . old.linguistlist.org.