About me

I am a third-year graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. My primary interests are in syntax and semantics, in particular the mapping between the two. The topics I have been researching lately are semantics of bare arguments, differential subject marking, syntax and semantics of non-finite embedded clauses, and agreement systems. I also love doing fieldwork. I have been working with Uralic and Turkic languages spoken in Russia, namely, with Moksha and Erzya Mordvin, Hill Mari, Northern Khanty, and Chuvash. I also do some work on Russian.

I am an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Before going to Harvard, I received a BA from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State University and an MA in Linguistic Theory and Language Description from Higher School of Economics (Moscow).

My name is pronounced as [‘darʲjə ‘bʲikʲɪnə]. However, most Russians have full names used in “official” situations and nicknames used elsewhere, so I also go by Dasha. My pronouns are she/her.

You can reach me at dbikina at g dot harvard dot edu. Some of my work can also be found on my Github.