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Asya Pereltsvaig (Russian:Ася Перельцвайг; born 1972 inLeningrad, USSR) is a Russian-Americanlinguist, writer, and educator.^[1][2][3]

Pereltsvaig has a PhD in Linguistics fromMcGill University in 2001, with a dissertation entitled, "On the nature of intra-clausal relations: a study of copular sentences in Russian and Italian."^[4] She has taught inYale,Cornell, andStanford universities, as well as theUniversity of Utah Continuing Education program.^[5][6] She has served as an academic coordinator for theEsperanto society,ESF.^[7]

Her research interests are theoretical syntax, cross-linguistictypology,Slavic linguistics, andhistorical linguistics. She is an independent scholar whose recent books include:The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (with Martin Lewis)^[8] andLanguages of the World: An Introduction. She has also published research articles in leading linguistics journals, such asLingua,Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, andLanguage and Linguistics Compass.

• Pereltsvaig, Asya (May 2006)."Small Nominals".Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.24 (2):433–500.doi:10.1007/s11049-005-3820-z.ISSN 0167-806X.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya (August 2006)."Head movement in Hebrew nominals: A reply to Shlonsky".Lingua.116 (8):A1–A40.doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2005.11.001.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya (March 2013)."Noun Phrase Structure in Article-less Slavic Languages: DP or not DP?".Language and Linguistics Compass.7 (3):201–219.doi:10.1111/lnc3.12014.ISSN 1749-818X.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya; Lewis, Martin (2017).The Indo-European controversy: facts and fallacies in historical linguistics (First paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-1-107-66538-5.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya (2021).Languages of the world: an introduction (Third ed.). Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-1-108-74812-4.OCLC 1154423212.

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