Masha Kyuseva

Dr Masha Kyuseva is a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey within the Surrey Morphology Group, working on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Declining Case: Inflectional Loss in Progress (2021-2024). Her research bridges spoken and sign languages, with a focus on typological analysis.

Education

• PhD in Linguistics (2020) - University of Melbourne & University of Birmingham
• MA in Computational Linguistics (2014) - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• BA in Linguistics (2012) - Moscow State University

Research Interests center on:

• Morphological typology (case systems, classifiers, locative affixes)
• Lexical typology across physical qualities, body parts, and motion events
• Sign language structure (russian sign language morphology, size/shape specifiers)
• Computational applications in distributional semantics and corpus studies
• Linguistic fieldwork on circassian languages

Publication Trends span multiple modalities: 2025 work on slavic case loss, 2022 studies of rsl physical qualities, 2020 morphological analysis of sign language classifiers, and earlier computational linguistics contributions.