Johanna Nichols

Job title: 
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Affiliate Professor Emerita of Linguistics
Bio/CV: 

I am a historical typologist specializing in the languages of the western steppe periphery, especially Slavic and Nakh-Daghestanian (central Caucasus).  My work also deals with large-scale Eurasian and worldwide linguistic distributions and chronologically with the whole Quaternary.  I have an ongoing documentation program on Ingush and Chechen (Nakh-Daghestanian), have published dictionaries of both languages and a comprehensive grammar of Ingush, and am expanding and annotating very large spoken corpora of both languages.  Together with Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich) I co-developed and co-manage the Autotyp network of large typology databases.

See my CV, publications, and downloadables at https://berkeley.academia.edu/JohannaNichols

Education:

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Linguistics).


Professor Nichols has retired but remains actively involved in teaching and mentoring graduate students.

Teaching:

Distinguished Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Slavic linguistics (emeritus)

Affiliate Professor, Department of Lingustics, UC Berkeley  (emeritus)

Helsinki University Humanities Visiting Professor, 2017-2019

Research Supervisor, Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, Higher School of Education, Moscow, 2017-2019

Role: 

Publications

Thera Marie Crane; Johanna Nichols; Bastian Persohn
Research Article, 2021
Johanna Nichols
Book, 2011
Johanna Nichols; Arbi Vagapov; Ronald L. Sprouse
Book, 2004
Johanna Nichols; Ronald L. Sprouse
Book, 2004
Johanna Nichols; Vjaceslav V. Ivanov; Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze
Translated text, 1994
Johanna Nichols
Book, 1992
Johanna Nichols; Anthony C. Woodbury
Edited Volume, 1985