Vladimir Buskin

Vladimir Buskin M.A.

Research Assistant

Phone +49 8421 93-21390
E-mail VBuskin@ku.de

Building Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek | Room: UA-212

Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt

Office hours
Upon request

Research interests

2025–2026: Research assistant in the DFG project “Constructional Competition – Preposition Stranding and Pied-piping in World Englishes”
October 2023 – February 2024: Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute for Machine Learning and Data Science (with Jun.-Prof. Dominik Stöger; KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
since 2023: PhD candidate at the Department of English Linguistics (Catholic University of 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.

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.

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

“Predicting obligatory and optional semantic roles with word vectors and information theory”. Quantitative Linguistics, University of Tübingen. June 26, 2026. [Invited talk]
“Predicting frame element coreness in FrameNet: A machine learning approach”. ICAME47, University of Koblenz. May 29, 2026.
“Is FrameNet usage-based? Predicting frame element types with information-theoretic measures. FJUEL25. University of Würzburg. October 10, 2025.
“A data-driven approach to object omission in English transitive verbs”. ISLE8. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. September 03, 2025.
“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.

with Jakob Horsch. Fixed in English, not (that) free in Slovak: A contrastive study of weight effects. (Under review). [Preprint]
Buskin, Vladimir. 2026. Modelling object omission availability in English transitive verbs with corpus and psycholinguistic data. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2025-0004.
Buskin, Vladimir. 2026. Is FrameNet usage-based? Predicting frame element coreness with information theory and gradient boosting. Language and Cognition 18, e30. 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2026.10076.
Buskin, Vladimir. 2025. Definite Null Instantiation in English(es): A Usage-based Construction Grammar approach. Constructions and Frames 17(2). 278–312. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.24007.bus