Alexandra Aikhenvald

Alexandra Aikhenvald FAHA
Born	Alexandra Yurievna Aikhenvald (1957-09-01) September 1, 1957 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Australian, Brazilian
Spouse	R.M.W. Dixon
Awards	Australian Laureate Fellowship (2012)

Academic background
Alma mater	Moscow State University (BA, MA) Institute of Oriental Languages (PhD)
Thesis	Structural and Typological Classification of Berber Languages (1984)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Linguistic typology Arawakan languages
Institutions	La Trobe University Australian National University James Cook University Central Queensland University

Alexandra Yurievna "Sasha" Aikhenvald (Eichenwald) FAHA is an Australian-Brazilian linguist specialising in linguistic typology and the Arawak language family (including Tariana) of the Brazilian Amazon basin. She is a professorial research fellow at Central Queensland University