Ekaterina APLONOVA 
Research Assistant
Discourse Reporting in African Storytelling
Research expertise
verb morphology – typology and language description – Mande Languages
Research projects
Discourse Reporting in African Storytelling – https://sites.google.com/view/speechreporting/home
Keywords
lexical semantics, typology, discourse
Publications
• Aplonova E. Dictionnaire Goo. Mandenkan 63, 2020.
• Aplonova E. Morphologie verbale de goo // Mandenkan 58, 2018.
• Aplonova E. Nominal marking in Bashkir // Acta Linguistica Petropolitana (in
Russian: Аплонова Е.С. Субстантивное число в башкирском языке // Acta
Linguistica Petropolitana, XIII(1), 2017. С. 17-51)
• Aplonova E., Tayers F.M. Towards a dependency annotated treebank for Bambara //In Proceedings of 16th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, 2018.
Education
MA in Linguistics — 2017–2019
National Research Institute Higher School of Economics, School of Linguistics, Moscow
BA in African Studies — 2013–2017
Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Saint-Petersburg
Work experience
• Lecturer, INALCO, Paris – 2019
• Laboratory assistant, Institute of Linguistics; Moscow, Russia — 2018–2019
• Teaching assistant, Higher School of Economics, School of Linguistics — 2017–2018
• School teacher, Gymnasium 642; Saint-Petersburg, Russia — 2014–2017
Talks
• 2021: Contrastive study of two reported speech constructions in Bashkir,
ConCALL-4.
• 2020: Reported speech at the intersection of grammar and style: The speech-
introducing function of interjections, SLE 2020. (Avec Tatiana Nikitina)
• 2019 : Towards description of reported discourse in Bambara (on the sample of
Bambara Treebank) // Workshop on Reported Discourse across Languages &
Cultures,, Villejuif.
• 2018 : Integration of a Bambara treebank to a Bamabara reference corpus // Web
Corpora as a Language Training Tool (ARANEA 2018), Bratislava.
• 2018 : Treebanks for Mande languages // Workshop on Soninke Corpus, Hamburg.
November 14-15.
• 2017 : Towards a dependency annotated treebank for Bambara // 16th International
Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Prague.
• 2016 : Verbal constructions in Goo (finite forms) // 2nd Symposium on West African
Languages (SyWAL2016), Institut für Afrikawissenschaften Universität Wien.