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Tatiana Nikitina (linguist)
Tatiana Nikitina is a Linguistics, linguist conducting research into semantics, historical-comparative linguistics, formal syntax and linguistic typology. She has made a salient contribution to the study of reported speech. From an areal point of view, her work bears on Mande languages, Turkic languages, and some languages of Europe (Latin, Ancient Greek, Slavic languages...). Nikitina was awarded the CNRS bronze medal in 2017 for her groundbreaking work in Theoretical linguistics, general linguistics. Career Nikitina studied West African languages and cultures at St Petersburg University, then pursued a PhD at Stanford University (graduating in 2008). She was then a post-doctoral researcher at the TOPOI excellence cluster at Humboldt University of Berlin, Humbold University of Berlin. Nikitina joined French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS in 2013 as a tenured researcher. She was a member of the Languages and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa, Language, langues et cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguistics is concerned with both the cognitive and social aspects of language. It is considered a scientific field as well as an academic discipline; it has been classified as a social science, natural science, cognitive science,Thagard, PaulCognitive Science, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). or part of the humanities. Traditional areas of linguistic analysis correspond to phenomena found in human linguistic systems, such as syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences); semantics (meaning); morphology (structure of words); phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages); phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language); and pragmatics (how social con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |