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Maks Melenchenko

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Research

Developer of the morphological analyzer, the orthography converter and keyboard layouts for the Shughni alphabet. Research assistant at the International Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE.

Research interests in Shughni: evidentiality, tense, aspect, modality, narratives, complex verbs, coordination, verbal morphology, syntax, writing system.


Academic pathway

2019–2023
Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (BA), HSE, Moscow
2023–…
Linguistic Theory and Language Description (MA), HSE, Moscow


Publications

  • 2022
    Digital Resources for the Shughni Language
    Y. Makarov, M. Melenchenko & D. Novokshanov
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Marseille: European Language Resources Association
  • 2023
    Эвиденциальный перфект в шугнанском языке [Evidential Perfect in Shughni]
    M. Melenchenko
    Voprosy Jazykoznanija (6)
  • 2023
    Стандартизация шугнанского алфавита: теория и практика [Standardized alphabet for Shughni: Theory and practice]
    M. Melenchenko
    Вопросы изучения лексикографии и создание корпуса памирских языков [Problems in Pamir lexicography and corpus linguistics] (Khorugh)
  • 2024
    Синтаксические свойства недостаточного глагола жӣwҷ ‘любить’ в шугнанском языке [Syntactic properties of the defective verb žīwǰ ‘love’ in Shughni]
    M. Melenchenko
    Типология морфосинтаксических параметров [Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters] 7(1)
  • 2025
    Плюсквамперфект в шугнанском и других памирских языках [Pluperfect in Shughni and other Pamir languages]
    M. Melenchenko
    Indo-Iranian Languages 1(1)
  • 2025
    What we do in the shadows of the pear tree: Tense switching in Shughni Pear Stories
    M. Melenchenko
    Indo-Iranian Languages (to appear)