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
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- 2022
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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
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- 2023
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Эвиденциальный перфект в шугнанском языке [Evidential Perfect in Shughni]
M. Melenchenko
Voprosy Jazykoznanija (6)
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- 2023
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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)
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- 2024
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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)
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- 2025
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Плюсквамперфект в шугнанском и других памирских языках [Pluperfect in Shughni and other Pamir languages]
M. Melenchenko
Indo-Iranian Languages 1(1)
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- 2025
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What we do in the shadows of the pear tree: Tense switching in Shughni Pear Stories
M. Melenchenko
Indo-Iranian Languages (to appear)