Vladimir
Buskin M.A.
Research Assistant
Building
Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek
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Room: UA-212
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
Monday, 3:30-5:00 pm and upon request. For methodological inquiries, please send me a brief description of your project along with any relevant files (e.g., datasets, scripts, etc.) via email, if possible.
Monday, 3:30-5:00 pm and upon request. For methodological inquiries, please send me a brief description of your project along with any relevant files (e.g., datasets, scripts, etc.) via email, if possible.
Research interests
- Argument omission and argument structure
- Syntax and information structure of World Englishes
- Usage-based Construction Grammar
- Quantitative corpus linguistics and machine learning
Academic CV
- October 2023 – February 2024: Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute for Machine Learning and Data Science (with Jun.-Prof. Dominik Stöger; KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- since 2021: Research assistant und lecturer at the Department of English Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- 2020–2023: M.A. English and German Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). Thesis title: A Construction Grammar Approach to Null Subjects in Singapore English, Hong Kong English and British English.
- 2019–2020: Student assistant at the Department of English Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- 2017–2021: B.A. English and German Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). Thesis title: Left- and Right Dislocation in Singapore English: A Corpus-based Analysis.
Additional training in research methods and statistics
- September 2023: Corpus Linguistics Summer School, Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham (Measuring keyness, topic modelling, computational modelling of corpus data)
- July 2024: Methods in Language Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium (Multivariate data analysis)
- September 2024: Research Methods Summer School, University of Reading (Bayesian mixed-effects modelling)
Teaching and course materials
- Introduction to English Linguistics (BA)
- English Phonetics and Phonology (BA)
- Language Variation: Varieties of English around the World (BA)
- Language Variation: Empirical Approaches to Varieties of English around the World (BA)
- Statistics for Linguistics (MA)
The course materials for “Empirical Approaches” and “Statistics for Linguistics” are accessible via my GitHub repository.
Workshops
Buskin, Vladimir, Philippa Adolf and Simon Dampfhofer: “Statistics Workshop“, University of Vienna, Department of Romance Studies (with Ass.-Prof. Albert Wall), October 16–17, 2024. OSF
Conference presentations
“A quantitative account of the Understood Object Alternation in English". International Argument Alternation Workshop, Kōbe University, Japan. July 16, 2025.
"Modelling ordinal data“, Statistics Workshop, University of Vienna, 17. Oktober 2024. [Invited talk]
“Why can we eat Ø but not *devour Ø? Harnessing NLP and machine learning to explain the Understood Object Alternation”. FJUEL24, University of Bamberg. October 11, 2024.
“Modelling argument omission: A cognitive and multivariate study of object null instantiation in English(es)”. ICAME45, Vigo, Spain. June 19, 2024.
“Null subjects in Singapore English, Hong Kong English and British English: A Usage-based Construction Grammar Approach”. FJUEL23, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. 29 September 2023.
Publications
Buskin, Vladimir. Modelling object omission availability in English transitive verbs with corpus and psycholinguistic data. (Under review)
Buskin, Vladimir. Is FrameNet usage-based? Predicting argument coreness with information theory and gradient boosting. (Under review)
Buskin, Vladimir. 2025. Definite Null Instantiation in English(es): A Usage-based Construction Grammar approach. Constructions and Frames. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.24007.bus