Olena Shcherbakova

I am a doctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution. I use phylogenetic methods, spatiophylogenetic modelling, and causal inference to answer big-picture questions about large-scale typological patterns and language change. Currently, I am working on my PhD dissertation that will encompass three projects testing hypotheses about the changes in grammatical structures conditioned by linguistic factors and sociolinguistic environment on a global scale.