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Alexandra Yurievna ("Sasha") Aikhenvald (''Eichenwald'') (born September 1, 1957 in Moscow, Russian SFSR)〔(Dr. Aikhenvald's CV ) (at JCU site; accessed 20 December 2009)〕〔("Me and other languages" ) - A.Y. Aikhenvald's interview with ABC Radio National, 9 February 2008〕 is a linguist specialising in Linguistic typology and the Arawak language family (including Tariana) of Brazilian Amazonia. ==Biography== Alexandra Aikhenvald was born in an assimilated (Russian-speaking) Jewish family in Moscow. She was fascinated by languages from early childhood, picking up some Spanish from her parents' Spanish flatmate, and dreaming of majoring in Latin and Classical studies in university.〔 A friend taught her German during her high school years, and she also mastered French. Her Jewish surname created many difficulties for her in her pursuit of formal studies within the Soviet system. In an interview on an ABC program she commented:' ‘Jews will always remain second-class citizens in Russia, no matter how hard they work.’ Alexandra Aikhenvald earned her undergraduate degree from Moscow State University, with a thesis on Anatolian languages〔 (Hittite〔). She also studied Sanskrit, Akkadian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, Italian and Ancient Greek, Outside of her classes, she learned Estonian and Hebrew.〔 After graduation, she joined the research staff of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where she earned her Cand. Sc. degree (Soviet equivalent of Ph.D.) in 1984 with a thesis on the "Structural and Typological Classification of Berber Languages" (1984).〔 She published the first Russian grammar of modern Hebrew in 1985. She also mastered Yiddish, the language of her grandparents, which was, however, never spoken at home. In 1989-1992, Dr. Aikhenvald did research work in Brazil, where she mastered Portuguese, and learnt five Brazilian Indian languages, and wrote a grammar of Tariana. In 1993 she started her work in Australia, first at Australian National University, later at La Trobe University.〔 In 1996, the expert on Australian aboriginal languages R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald established the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at Australian National University in Canberra. On January 1, 2000, the center relocated to La Trobe University in Melbourne.〔(Research Centre for Linguistic Typology: Ten Years' Achievements ) (2006)〕 Dixon and Aikhenvald both resigned in May 2008.〔(RCLT Newsletter ), 2009〕 In January 2009, she became a professor at the James Cook University,〔https://secure.jcu.edu.au/app/contact/index.cfm?fuseaction=whoswho&groupid=67〕 where she and R. M. W. Dixon founded The Language and Culture Research Group.〔http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-138.html〕 She speaks Tok Pisin, and has written a grammar of the East Sepik language of Manambu, a language she occasionally dreams in.〔Alexandra Aikhenvald (Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea'' ) Oxford University Press, 2008 p.xvi.〕〔Maria Zijlstra (ed.) ('Me & other languages,' )'RN summer series, part 1: 9 February 2008:'When I travelled to New Guinea, I had to learn Tok Pisin -- the major language of Papua New Guinea, a really delightful enterprise. Manambu is my other favourite language, in which I dream every so often.'〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexandra Aikhenvald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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