Victoria V. Kazakovskaya is a doctor of philological sciences, a professor of RAS, a leading researcher of the department of theoretical grammar of the Institute of Linguistic Studies (RAS) and a participant in the cross-linguistic project "Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition" (Austrian Academy of Sciences). She is a lecturer on first language acquisition at the Saint-Petersburg State University. Her research interests include dialogue, functional grammar, psycholinguistics, first language acquisition and child-directed speech. She has authored more than 180 publications.