Research

Developer of the morphological analyzer, the orthography converter and keyboard layouts for the Shughni alphabet. Research assistant at the International Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE.

Research interests in Shughni: evidentiality, tense, aspect, modality, narratives, complex verbs, coordination, verbal morphology, syntax, writing system.

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Academic pathway

2019–2023

Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (BA), HSE, Moscow

2023–…

Linguistic Theory and Language Description (MA), HSE, Moscow

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Publications

• 2022

  Digital Resources for the Shughni Language
  Y. Makarov, M. Melenchenko & D. Novokshanov
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Marseille: European Language Resources Association

• 2023

  Эвиденциальный перфект в шугнанском языке [Evidential Perfect in Shughni]
  M. Melenchenko
  Voprosy Jazykoznanija (6)

• 2023

  Стандартизация шугнанского алфавита: теория и практика [Standardized alphabet for Shughni: Theory and practice]
  M. Melenchenko
  Вопросы изучения лексикографии и создание корпуса памирских языков [Problems in Pamir lexicography and corpus linguistics] (Khorugh)

• 2024

  Синтаксические свойства недостаточного глагола жӣwҷ ‘любить’ в шугнанском языке [Syntactic properties of the defective verb žīwǰ ‘love’ in Shughni]
  M. Melenchenko
  Типология морфосинтаксических параметров [Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters] 7(1)

• 2025

  Плюсквамперфект в шугнанском и других памирских языках [Pluperfect in Shughni and other Pamir languages]
  M. Melenchenko
  Indo-Iranian Languages 1(1)

• 2025

  What we do in the shadows of the pear tree: Tense switching in Shughni Pear Stories
  M. Melenchenko
  Indo-Iranian Languages (to appear)