Asya Pereltsvaig
Russian linguist
Asya Pereltsvaig (Russian: Ася Перельцвайг; born 1972 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian-American linguist, writer, and educator.
Life
Pereltsvaig has a PhD in linguistics from McGill University in 2001, with a dissertation entitled, "On the nature of intra-clausal relations: a study of copular sentences in Russian and Italian." She has taught in Yale, Cornell, and Stanford universities, as well as the University of Utah Continuing Education program. She has served as an academic coordinator for the Esperanto society, ESF.
Her research interests are theoretical syntax, cross-linguistic typology, Slavic linguistics, and historical linguistics. She is an independent scholar whose recent books include: The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (with Martin Lewis) and Languages of the World: An Introduction. She has also published research articles in leading linguistics journals, such as Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Language and Linguistics Compass.
Selected works
Pereltsvaig, Asya (May 2006). "Small Nominals". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 24 (2): 433–500. doi:10.1007/s11049-005-3820-z.
“Asya Pereltsvaig” enters the record as russian linguist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Asya, Pereltsvaig and Russian can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Asya Pereltsvaig” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Asya, Pereltsvaig and Russian provides the most credible route into that argument.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q100929577. VIAF identifies the subject as 22464028. The Library of Congress control number is no2007100797. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 2001, 2006 and 1007.
Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Asya Pereltsvaig”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Asya Pereltsvaig primary sources, Asya Pereltsvaig archive and Asya research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Asya Pereltsvaig”?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Asya Pereltsvaig” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.