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Education
2005–2011 PhD in General Linguistics, University of Leipzig 2002–2004 Postgraduate Studies, German as a Foreign Language. University of Leipzig
Employment history2023–present Lecturer, Department of General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Münster 2022–2023 Visiting scholar, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam 2021–2022 Postdoc in the project Exceptions rule! Lexical restrictions on grammatical structure, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam 2016–2020 Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, University of Kiel 2017–2020 Postdoc in the project A comprehensive bilingual talking Luruuli/Lunyara-English dictionary with a descriptive basic grammar for language revitalisation and enhancement of mother-tongue based education, University of Hannover and University of Kiel 2012–2016 Lecturer, General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Regensburg 2010–2012 Postdoc, Department for Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 04.2010-09.2010 Lecturer, Department of General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Münster Research Focus
Language documentation and description
Languages of the Caucasus and Bantu languages
Morphosyntax, TAME
Corpus linguistics
Publications
in press Molochieva, Zarina and Nichols, Johanna. Reported speech in Chechen and Ingush. Reported speech in Nakh-Daghestanian languages. Languages of the Caucasus. 2024a Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena, Saudah Namyalo, Anatol Kiriggwajjo and Zarina Molochieva. Ruuli DoReCo dataset. In Seifart, Frank, Ludger Paschen and Matthew Stave (eds.). Language Documentation Reference Corpus (DoReCo) 2.0. Lyon: Laboratoire Dynamique 2024b Molochieva, Zarina. Bivalent patterns in Chechen. In: Say, Sergey (ed.). BivalTyp: Typological database of bivalent verbs and their encoding frames. (Data first published on November 5, 2024; last revised on November 5, 2024.) Available online at https://www.bivaltyp.info 2022 Zarina Molochieva, Pegah Faghiri and Eva van Lier. Bi-absolutive constructions in Chechen. Folia Linguistica 2022; 56(2): 325–349 https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2022-2036 2021a Komen, Erwin, Molochieva, Zarina and Johanna Nichols. Chechen and Ingush. In Polinsky, Maria (ed.), The Oxford handbook of the languages of the Caucasus, 317–366. Oxford: OUP. 2021b Molochieva, Zarina, Namyalo, Saudah and Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena. Phasal Polarity in Ruuli. In Kramer, Raija L. (ed.), The expression of phasal polarity in African languages, 73–79. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110646290-005 2021c Namyalo, Saudah, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena, Kiriggwajjo, Anatole, Atuhairwe, Amos, Molochieva, Zarina, Mukama, Ruth, and Zellers, Margaret. A Ruruuli-Lunyala-English dictionary with a grammar sketch. Berlin: Language Science Press https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/326 2019 Molochieva, Zarina, Johanna Nichols. TAM and Evidentiality in Chechen and Ingush. In Forker, Diana & Maisak, Timur (eds.), The semantics of the verbal categories in Nakh-Daghestanian languages: Tense, aspect, evidentiality, mood and modality, 26–48. Leiden: Brill. 2012 Molochieva, Zarina. Covert Modality in Chechen. In Abraham, Werner and Leiss, Elisabeth (eds.), Patterns of modality, 267–280. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars. 2011a Molochieva, Zarina. Tense, aspect, and mood in Chechen. PhD Thesis University of Leipzig. 2011b Molochieva, Zarina. Aspect in Chechen. Linguistic Discovery. 9.2: 104–121. 2010 Molochieva, Zarina (with Michael Daniel and Zaira Khalilova). Ditransitive constructions in East Caucasian: a family overview. In Malchukov, Andrej, Haspelmath, Martin, and Comrie, Bernard (eds.), Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook. 277–316. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Lectures
Winter semester 2026/27
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