Daniel Miller received an ACTR Summer Russian Teachers’ Program at MGU this summer
CONFERENCE: Cognitive Linguistics in the Triangle: Slavic and Beyond
This conference is free and open to the public. All are welcome!
Location: Room 3009, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
Schedule
9:30-10:00 Svetlana Sokolova “Metaphorical Extensions and Secondary Imperfectives”
10:00-10:30 Tore Nesset & Julia Kuznetsova “Volkov bojat’sja – v les ne xodit’. Finding needles in the haystack of the Russian National Corpus"
10:30-11:00 Anastasia Makarova “Why attenuate? An experimental study of Russian attenuative verbs”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30- 12:00 Stephen M. Dickey “Smooth Talking: Imperfective Verbs of Communication in the History of Russian”
12:00-12:30 Laura A. Janda “Tense, Aspect, and Mood from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Anna Endresen “Where differences disappear: The Bermuda Triangle of the Russian prefix S-”
2:00-2:30 Julia Kuznetsova “Verbal hapax legomena in the Russian National Corpus”
2:30-3:00 Katya Pertsova “Lexical conservativity and paradigm gaps in Russian”
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Mark Turner “Speaking, Gesture, Bodily Stance: Studying Multimodal Communication in a Massive Dataset”
Sponsors: Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies