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