Alexandra Yurievna "Sasha" Aikhenvald is an Australian-Brazilian linguist specialising in linguistic typology and the Arawak language family of the Brazilian Amazon basin.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald is a professorial research fellow at Central Queensland University.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald was born to a grandson of Yuly Aykhenvald; Natalia Shvedova was her paternal aunt.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald 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.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald studied Sanskrit, Akkadian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, Italian and Ancient Greek.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald published the first Russian grammar of modern Hebrew in 1985.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald mastered Yiddish, the language of her grandparents, which was never spoken at home.
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Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald established the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at Australian National University in Canberra.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald has published work on Berber languages, Modern and Classical Hebrew, Ndu languages, alongside a number of articles and monographs on various aspects of linguistic typology.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald has worked on language contact, with reference to the multilingual area of the Vaupes River Basin.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald has established a typology of classifiers and worked out parameters for the typology of evidentials as grammatical markers of information sources.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999.
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Alexandra Aikhenvald was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2021.