Hi, my name is Nikita Bezrukov. I work at MIT where I teach linguistics and technical communication. Before MIT, I was a postdoc at Princeton University, where I worked with Laura Kalin, and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.
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. 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 scripts from the ancient Mediterranean.
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 or reflecting about life.
bezrukov[շնիկ]mit.edu/
nikitab[շնիկ]sas.upenn.edu
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Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
50 Ames Street, E18-228
Cambridge, MA 02139