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Tatiana Nikitina (linguist)

Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) rather than just read about it. In short: Tatiana Nikitina is a 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.

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Reference excerpt

Tatiana Nikitina is a 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 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 Humbold University of Berlin. Nikitina joined CNRS in 2013 as a tenured researcher. She was a member of the Language, langues et cultures d'Afrique (fr) research centre, then of LACITO (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale). She passed her Habilitation in 2019. From 2018 to 2023, she was the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council project, "Discourse Reporting in African Storytelling", that "explores strategies of discourse reporting characteristic of traditional narratives in African languages, and compares them to discourse reporting strategies attested in a number of Turkic languages spoken in Russia".

Collective responsibilities and commitments From 2018 to 2023, Nikitina was a member of the Scientific Council of the Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (InSHS) of the CNRS. She is one of the signatories of an article published in 2019 about the organization of the CNRS in terms of recruitment and funding. Nikitina is a member of the editorial board ofTransactions of the Philological Society, Faits de Langues and Language in Africa, and a member of the Scientific committee of the Journal of African Languages and Literatures (JALaLit). From 2018 to 2021, she was Review Editor for Linguistic Typology.

Distinctions Nikitina received in 2017 the bronze medal of CNRS "in recognition of the diversity of approaches, languages and linguistic phenomena covered by her work".

Publications Source:

Tatiana Nikitina (2018). "Frames of reference in discourse: Spatial descriptions in Bashkir (Turkic)". Cognitive Linguistics. 29 (3): 495–544. doi:10.1515/cog-2016-0081. Stef Spronck; Tatiana Nikitina (2019). "Reported speech forms: a dedicated syntactic domain". Linguistic Typology. 23 (1): 119–159. doi:10.1515/lingty-2019-0005. hdl:10138/302557.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tatiana Nikitina (linguist)

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tatiana Nikitina (linguist)

In research: Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists, Linguists of Turkic languages, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tatiana Nikitina (linguist) outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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