Hi, my name is Nikita Bezrukov. I am a Lecturer in Linguistics and Critical Writing at the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania where I teach seminars on language endangerment and fairness in machine learning as it relates to language. Before (re)joining Penn, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Program in Linguistics at Princeton University, where I worked with Laura Kalin.
My primary research interests lie at the intersection of syntactic and morphological theories, essentially the study of the building blocks of which words and sentences are composed — and how they get ordered, displaced, or copied by grammar. Before coming to Princeton, I earned my Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where I worked with David Embick, Rolf Noyer, and Martin Salzmann.
Another area of my research centers on the theory of writing systems and orthographic grammars, with a particular focus on the mapping of linguistic representations onto graphic elements. My current projects include formally modeling writing systems using theoretical linguistic tools, assessing the degree of featural representation in various writing systems, and formalizing the structure of the Egyptian writing system.
You can find more information about my work and interests on the Research page.
By the way, when I’m not doing linguistics, I’m listening to KayaKata.
nikitab[շնիկ]sas.upenn.edu/
bezrukov[շնիկ]uchicago.edu
Mailing address
The Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing
University of Pennsylvania
McNeil Building, Suite 110
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6121