Dr. Olga Seesing
Dr. Olga Seesing completed a dissertation about the temporal adverbial constructions of contemporary Kalmyk (supervisor Prof. Dr. Elena Skribnik). In her postdoctoral study, she completed the first survey of the grammaticalized evidentiality system of Kalmyk, a grammatical category referring to information source. In the last project she was responsible for the analysis of the Kalmyk linguistic material.
Academic background
| 1997 – 2002 | Diploma in English and German studies, Linguistics at the State University of Kalmyk Republic, Russia |
| 2006 – 2010 | PhD studies in the International PhD Program in Linguistics, LMU Munich, supervisor Prof. Dr. Elena Skribnik |
Professional experiences
| 2002 – 2005 | Lecturer and research assistant at the Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication of the State University of Kalmyk Republic, Russia |
| 2010 – 2011 | Research fellow at the Institute of Finno-Ugric Studies of the LMU Munich, Post-doc project “Evidentiality and Mirativity in Kalmyk” |
| 2011 – 2014 | Research fellow on the project “Digital Construction of Three Mongolic Languages (Temporal Constructions)”, Institute of Finno-Ugric Studies, LMU Munich |
| 2014 – 2017 | Research fellow on the project “Constructions with Adverbial Clauses in Three Mongolic Languages”, Institute of Finno-Ugric Studies, LMU Munich |
Scholarships
| 2001 – 2002 | DAAD Scholarship for students of German studies, University of Essen-Duisburg |
| 2006 – 2009 | DAAD PhD scholarship for PhD studies in the International PhD program in Linguistics, LMU Munich, supervisor Prof. Dr. Elena Skribnik |
| 2010 – 2011 | Postdoctoral scholarship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, research project “Evidentiality and Mirativity in Kalmyk” (Az. 40.10.0.023) |
Publications
| 2012 | ‘Kalmückische analytische Verbalkonstruktionen mit dem Perfektpartizip: Evidentialis und Mirativ’ (with E. Skribnik) In: Festschrift für Prof. Juha Janhunen „Per Urales ad Orientem. Iter polyphonicum multilingue. Festskrift tillägnad Juha Janhunen på hans sextioårsdag den 12 februar 2012. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia = Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 264. Helsinki. 409-424. |
| 2012 | ‘K opisaniju evidenzial'nosti i mirativnosti v kalmyckom jazyke’. [Evidentialität und Mirativität im Kalmückischen]. Voprosy jazykoznanija 4. 39-72. |
| 2013 | ‘Subjektposition und Informationsstrukturierung in kalmückischen adverbialen Nebensätzen’. In: Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 94. 281-291. |
| 2013 | Die infiniten Temporalkonstruktionen im Kalmückischen. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden. |
| 2014 (2016²) | Evidentiality in Kalmyk (with E. Skribnik). In: The Grammar of knowledge: A cross-linguistic typology, A. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon (eds.), Oxford University Press, 148-171. |