Pavel Rudnev
- Senior Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / Laboratory of Formal Models in Linguistics
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
- Pavel Rudnev has been at HSE University since 2017.
Education and Degrees
University of Groningen
Thesis Title: Dependency and discourse-configurationality: A study of Avar
Chelyabinsk State University
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2024, 2020–2021
Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses
- 1I. Netkachev The syntax of Indionesian NP
Courses (2024/2025)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Study of Language for Computer Scientists (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science; 4 year, 1 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Anaphora and Coreference" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2019
Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics 3 (Москва). Presentation: Towards an exhaustification analysis of plain disjunction in Russian
Cambridge Comparative Syntax 8 (Cambridge). Presentation: Dynamic phases, split ergativity and adposition agreement in Avar
- 2018
Surrey Morphology Group (Guildford). Presentation: Morphosyntactic duality of Avar negation
51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Таллинн). Presentation: Plain disjunction markers in Russian and positive polarity
Groningen Syntax Seminar. Presentation: Agreeing adpositions in Avar and theories of Agree
- 2017
33rd Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (Тель-Авив). Presentation: Disjunct size, positive polarity and the scope of disjunction in Russian
Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics (Москва). Presentation: Paths to positive polarity: The case of two plain PPI-disjunctions in Russian
Андийский семинар (Москва). Presentation: О природе ограничений на выражение отрицания в аварском языке
- 2016
Comparative Syntax Meetings (Leiden). Presentation: The syntactic side of positive polarity: PPI-disjunctions in Russian
TABU Dag 37 (Groningen). Presentation: Particles,disjunction and inquisitivity in Avar
De Grote Taaldag (Utrecht). Presentation: Core and peripheral disjunction strategies, and sentential negation in Russian
- 2015
Syntax Interface Lectures (Utrecht). Presentation: The interaction of negation and disjunction in Russian
"It depends..." Workshop (Groningen). Presentation: Dependency and discourse-configurationality: A study of Avar negation
TiN-Dag (Utrecht). Presentation: Locations and situations: On the interaction of negation and finiteness in Avar
Grants
RSF 24-28-01873 (2024–2025) "How (not) to be silent: unpronounced material in light of experimental data".
RFBR 20-512-26004 (2021–2023) "Morphology of agreement". PI: S. Toldova
RSF 18-78-10128 (2018–2021) "When the verb is not a verb: Non-finite constructions in the languages of Russia". PI: N. Zevakhina
18-05-0053 "Modality effects in the syntax of Russian Sign Language" (2018; PI: Natalia Slioussar)
Employment history
2015–2016: lecturer, University of Groningen
2010–2015: research fellow (assistent in opleiding) in linguistics, University of Groningen
Members of the Linguistic convergence laboratory participated in the SLE conference online
The 53rd SLE conference was held in an unconventional format for the first time in history. The Linguistic convergence laboratory was represented by a number of talks.
Welcome Aboard: Post-Doc Introductions
Every year, HSE hires post-doctoral researchers from all over the world. And in 2017-18, more than 30 of them started work at laboratories and research centres in a large range of fields and specializations. The HSE Lookis pleased to introduce this year’s international researchers, so that you can learn more about your colleagues and find out about opportunities for potential collaboration.