Alexander Podobryaev
- Senior Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / Laboratory of Formal Models in Linguistics
- Assistant Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
- Alexander Podobryaev has been at HSE University since 2014.
Education and Degrees
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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
- Formal Semantics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
- Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Sematics-Syntax Interface" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Formal Semantics (Optional course (faculty); 1 module)Rus
- Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Sematics-Syntax Interface" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Formal Semantics (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3 module)Rus
- Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Sematics-Syntax Interface" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Quantification: Theory and Typology" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Theoretical Models and Methods in Language Description (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Formal Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Formal Semantics (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Optimality Theory" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2024, 2021
Conferences
- 2023
Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 17 (Улан-Батор). Presentation: Balkar particle ‘da’ and domain maximality
- 2021
Moscow-Brno Agreement Workshop (Москва). Presentation: Semantic number agreement in Balkar
- 2020
Sinn und Bedeutung 25 (Лондон). Presentation: Balkar particle ‘da’ and domain maximality
- 2019
Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics (Москва). Presentation: Number agreement and scope in Russian and beyond
Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (Москва). Presentation: Interpretable agreement in Uyghur and Buryat
- 2018
14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL14) (Кембридж, Массачусетс). Presentation: Number neutrality and the structure of DPs in Buriat
2nd HSE Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop (Москва). Presentation: Plurality in Buriat
- 2017
The 48th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 48) (Рейкьявик). Presentation: Preposition stranding in alternative questions
- 2015
TbiLLC (Тбилиси). Presentation: Maximize Presupposition as an Obligatory Principle
48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Лейден). Presentation: A non-superlative semantics for ordinals
- 2014
NELS 45 (Кембридж). Presentation: Syntax and semantics of person in coordinations
NELS 45 (Кембридж). Presentation: A non-superlative semantics for ordinals and the syntax of comparison classes
Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Тюбинген). Presentation: On the Interpretability of Person in Dream Reports
IGG 40 (Тренто). Presentation: Imposters and Other Monstrosities
WAFL 10 (Кембридж). Presentation: “Disagreement” effects in Mishar Tatar attitude reports
- 2013
NELS 44 (Сторрс). Presentation: Impostrous domains
CLS 49 (Чикаго). Presentation: Interpretation of agreement morphology in Mishar Tatar
SALT 23 (Санта-Круз). Presentation: Two kinds of indexicals, one kind of monster
The 2nd HSE Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
The 2nd HSE Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop was held on 4-5th September 2018, two years after the 1st HSE SemPrag Workshop. International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistic and Formal Philosophy was the organizer of the conference. Among the subjects of the conference were logical, linguistical and philosophical analysis of the problems of semantics and pragmatics of natural language.
The First HSE Semantics & Pragmatics Workshop was held on 30 September and 1 October 2016.
The First HSE Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics took place on September 30 and October 1 in Moscow. The first HSE Semantics and Pragmatics workshop was held on September 30 and October 1 in Moscow. The workshop was organized by a Research group “Formal Philosophy”, School of Philosophy and School of Linguistics.