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I am interested in different fields of linguistics.
For five years I have been studying Russian specialising in historical linguistics. I wrote my diploma thesis on the grammaticalization of passive, and it was a detailed study of a number of medieval Old Russian hagiographical texts from the XVIth century. I have also participated in a group project at the Department of Applied Linguistics on the creating of the historical on-line corpus of Old Church Slavic hagiographical texts (SCAT).
In 2008, I have graduated from the Department of the Russian Language (St. Petersburg State University) with the degree of a specialist.
I am currently working on my MA project at the Department of English studies at St.Petersburg State University specialising in Linguistics and Germanic languages (English, German, and Norwegian).
Last summer, I had a great time being a student at New York Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies hold in St.Petersburg. I took courses on word-formation by Edvin Williams (Princeton University), Generative Grammar by John Bailyn and Carlos de Cuba ( Stony Brook University), on Phonology and variation of English by Patrick Honeybone and some others.
This year, I have won a scholarship to come to the University of Tromsų to study Contemporary Russian Cognitive Linguistics taking the course by Laura Janda and Tore Nesset. Thanks to this semester, I have learned a lot on how to conduct a good empirical study using corpus data and statistics. Being at Tromsų University, I also took 3 more MA advanced courses on Syntax (by May Tungseth), Phonology (by Martin Kraemer and Ove Lorentz), and Language Change (by Toril Swan). I enjoyed my time there very much and have learned a lot! I have also participated in Tromsų Symposium on Linguistic Categorisation (April 23 - 24, 2009), where I gave a paper on some peculiarities of Russian passive and how they could be accounted for.
I am very interested in Generative approach and also in L1 acquisition and neirolinguistics. Being this summer at the EGG school is very important for me since I don't have any opportunity to study generativism and Optimality theory back at home. However, this is exactly what I want to work on in future after I finish my MA and when apply for PhD. I also think that I have a good background to participate and contribute to the discussion at the seminars. |