Chiara Naccarato
- Research Fellow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
- Chiara Naccarato has been at HSE University since 2018.
- Language Proficiency
- Italian
- Russian
- English
- Contacts
- Phone:
15082 - Address: 21/4 Staraya Basmannaya Ulitsa, Building 5, room Б-421
- SPIN-RSCI: 8811-2270
- ORCID: 0000-0003-0017-6316
- ResearcherID: S-8273-2018
- Scopus AuthorID: 56737082300
- Google Scholar
- Office hours
- 9:30 - 18:30
- Blogs
- Academia.edu
- Supervisor
- G. Moroz
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Education and Degrees
University of Bergamo
Thesis Title: Compound agent nouns in Russian: A comparison of rival word-formation constructions
University of Milan
Courses (2025/2026)
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Mago-Lego; 2, 3 module)Eng
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Master field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Master field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Language Contacts (Mago-Lego)Rus
- Research Seminar «Introduction to Linguistics and Data Analisys» (Master field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar «Introduction to Linguistics and Data Analisys» (Master field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2024/2025)
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Non-transformational syntactic theories (Construction Grammar, HPSG, LFG) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar «Introduction to Linguistics and Data Analisys» (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2023/2024)
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Non-transformational syntactic theories (Construction Grammar, HPSG, LFG) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar «Introduction to Linguistics and Data Analisys» (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2022/2023)
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Formal and Functional Models in the Representation of Natural Language (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Introduction to Linguistics (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Eng
- Introduction to Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1 module)Eng
- Research and Design seminar "Linguistic projects" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Courses (2021/2022)
- A Grammar of a non (Standard Average) European Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2-4 module)Eng
- Introduction to Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Conferences
- 2024
57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Хельсинки). Presentation: Discourse in contact: an areal study of two formulas
- 2023
Языки России в контакте с русским языком (Москва). Presentation: Non-standard numeral constructions in L2 Russian: A corpus-based study
- 2021
Languages, Dialects and Isoglosses of Anatolia, the Caucasus and Iran (LACIM) webinar (Париж). Presentation: Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan
XVIII Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Predicative possession in East Caucasian languages
- 2020
Вторая научная конференция «Малые языки в большой лингвистике» (Москва). Presentation: Суффиксы направленности -ку и -ру в ботлихском языке
53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Presentation: Word-order flexibility in genitive noun phrases: A corpus-based investigation of contact varieties of Russian
17th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: The standard of comparison in the languages of Daghestan
- 2019
Восьмой междисциплинарный семинар «Анализ разговорной русской речи» (АР3-2019) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Посессивные конструкции с препозицией генитива в русском языке
21 Nordiska Slavistmötet (Йоэнсуу). Presentation: Compounds in Russian: Determining the productivity of rival constructions
Документирование языков и диалектов коренных малочисленных народов России (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Variation in two dictionaries of Botlikh
Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies (V-DOCS 2019) (Ustroń). Presentation: Contact-influenced word order in genitive noun phrases: A corpus-based investigation of Russian spoken in Daghestan
Caucasian Languages: Typology and Diachrony (Москва). Presentation: Towards a tentative origin of animacy markers in Botlikh
- 2018
Международная научная конференция «В поле и за компьютером: новые работы кафедры теоретической и прикладной лингвистики» (Москва). Presentation: Конкуренция моделей сложных слов в русском языке
VII Incontro di Linguistica slava (Венеция). Presentation: Окказиональное словосложение в русском языке: продуктивность и аналогия
The shaping of transitivity and argument structure: theoretical and empirical perspectives (Павия). Presentation: Transitivity and argument structure realization in Russian synthetic compounds
Языки народов России в контакте с русским языком: явления морфосинтаксической и семантической интерференции (Москва). Presentation: Нестандартный порядок слов в дагестанском русском: именные группы с генитивом
Winter Neurolinguistics School (Москва). Presentation: How bilingualism affects word order. Evidence from corpus-based investigations on spoken Russian
- 2017
The 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Тарту). Presentation: How to reconcile meanings: The prefix u- and the preposition u in Russian and other Slavic languages
The 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Цюрих). Presentation: Complex nominals denoting instruments: a contrastive perspective
14th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Encoding Purpose and Beneficiary in Slavic: A comparison of the prepositions dlja/dla and za
- 2016
49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Неаполь). Presentation: Parasynthetic Compounds with Agent Noun Suffixes in Russian: a Constructionist Perspective
IV Convegno di Linguistica slava (Прочида). Presentation: Il ruolo della metonimia nella formazione delle parole: il caso dei composti con suffissi d’agente in russo
4th Conference in General, Nordic and Slavic linguistics for graduate and doctoral students (Москва). Presentation: Multiple prefixation in Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian
Fraseologia contrastiva. Lingue e culture a confronto (Милан). Presentation: The role of metaphors and metonymies in phraseology: a contrastive analysis of Italian and Russian idioms of DEATH
- 2015
IV конференция "Русский язык: конструкционные и лексико-семантические подходы" (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Russian Compounds with Samo- as First Non-head Constituent
MaLT Symposium 2015 (Бамберг). Presentation: A Corpus-based Quantitative Approach to the Study of Morphological Productivity in Diachrony: The Case of Samo-compounds in Russian
14th annual conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association "Crossing boundaries: taking a cognitive scientific perspective on Slavic languages and linguistics" (Шеффилд, Оксфорд). Presentation: A Cognitive Approach to the Study of Russian Possessive Compounds
Grants
2024-2026 RSF [Russian Science Foundation] research grant No. 24-18-00879 "Principles of polysemy and colexification: the boundaries of what is possible"
2024-2025 RSF [Russian Science Foundation] research grant No. 24-28-01097 "Variation in spoken corpora of dialectal and regional varieties of Russian"
Employment history
Teaching assistant (Russian Language), University of Pavia, Italy (2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018)
Teaching assistant (General Linguistics), University of Pavia, Italy (2015/2016)
Teaching assistant (Italian Language), St. Joseph’s College, Lucan, Co. Dublin, Ireland (2013/2014)
Teaching assistant (Russian Language), University of Milan, Italy (2012/2013)
‘We Describe Unwritten Languages’
Chiara Naccarato, Research Fellow at the HSE Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, graduated from university in Italy and came to Russia to study the languages of Dahgestan and the speech patterns of bilingual speakers. She notes the friendly atmosphere of the laboratory and the hospitality of the people of Daghestan.
'Our Goal Is Not to Determine Which Version Is Correct but to Explore the Variability'
The International Linguistic Convergence Laboratory at the HSE Faculty of Humanities studies the processes of convergence among languages spoken in regions with mixed, multiethnic populations. Research conducted by linguists at HSE University contributes to understanding the history of language development and explores how languages are perceived and used in multilingual environments. George Moroz, head of the laboratory, shares more details in an interview with the HSE News Service.
HSE Linguists Study How Bilinguals Use Phrases with Numerals in Russian
Researchers at HSE University analysed over 4,000 examples of Russian spoken by bilinguals for whom Russian is a second language, collected from seven regions of Russia. They found that most non-standard numeral constructions are influenced not only by the speakers’ native languages but also by how frequently these expressions occur in everyday speech. For example, common phrases like 'two hours' or 'five kilometres’ almost always match the standard literary form, while less familiar expressions—especially those involving the numerals two to four or collective forms like dvoe and troe (used for referring to people)—often differ from the norm. The study has been published in Journal of Bilingualism.
TALD (Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan) v. 1.0.0 Now Public
The Linguistic Convergence Laboratory has released TALD: the Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan. This new resource provides information about linguistic structures that are characteristic of Daghestan, and offers different types of map visualizations to illustrate the geographical and genealogical distribution of features.
In 2021, members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory published three articles on the Russian language in Dagestan
Dagestan is a relatively new territory for the spread of the Russian language. At the end of the 19th century, very few people spoke Russian here. In addition to indigenous languages, which Dagestan is very rich in (linguists count more than forty languages in this small territory), local people spoke Azerbaijani, Georgian, Chechen and Arabic. But there has never been a language common for all residents of Dagestan (the language of interethnic communication or lingua franca). Russian became the first such language for Dagestan.
Members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory participated in the webinar “Languages, Dialects and Isoglosses of Anatolia, the Caucasus and Iran”
The sixth session of the webinar “Languages, Dialects and Isoglosses of Anatolia, the Caucasus and Iran” hosted a talk by Chiara Naccarato, Samira Verhees, Michael Daniel and Timofey Mukhin.
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.