The following working papers were published in the series ‘Linguistics’: 'Mehweb Verb Morphology' by Michael Daniel, 'General Converbs in Mehweb' by Marina Kustova, 'The Domain of Surface Texture' by Egor Kashkin and Olga Vinogradova, 'Specialized Converbs in Mehweb' by Maria Sheyanova, 'Nominal Morphology of Mehweb Dargwa' by Ilya Chechuro, 'Corpus-Based Profiles of Russian Nouns: From Grammatical Number to Lexical Semantics' by Olga Lyashevskaya.
Anna Vechkaeva and Anna Novosyolova, 4th-year students of the School of Linguisitcs, will take part in the international research conference ‘Approaches to the Editing of Slavonic Texts. Tradition and Innovation in Palaeoslavistic Ecdotics’ (ATTEST) that will be held at the University of Regensburg on December 11-12. The students will present the report ‘The Dictionary of the Russian Language of the 11th-17th cc. as a Database: Information Retrieval and Research Perspectives’. The report is co-authored by the School lecturers Marina Bobrik-Froemke, Roman Krivko and Boris Orekhov.
She gave a talk entitled "Russian experiencer verbs: Semantics-Syntax interface". She also delivered an invited lecture at the Center for Russian Studies at Harbin University on November 12.
The following working papers were published in the series ‘Linguistics’: ‘Distinguishing Logophoric Pronouns and Long-Distance Reflexives in Mehweb Dargwa’ by Alexandra Kozhukhar, ‘Quasi-Causative Constructions in Mehweb’ by Daria Barylnikova, and ‘Moods of Mehweb’ by Nina Dobrushina.
From November 14 - 24th a series of lectures on 'Diversity and Uniformity in Linguistic Sound Systems' by Ian Maddieson, Adjunct Research Professor at the University of New Mexico, Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of California was held at the HSE School of Linguistics. The course was dedicated to the phonetic diversity of languages and included eight lectures. During the series, Professor Maddieson talked to HSE English News Editor, Anna Chernyakhovskaya’s questions about his research into the relations between language and environment.
Bart Geurts, whose research interests cover formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics will deliver a lecture on October 29. The lecture is open to a wide audience.
On October 13-17 lectures by Hana Filip, Professor of Semantics at the Department of Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, took place at HSE. The event was organized by HSE School of Linguistics.
On October 7 a lecture on 'What Eye Movements Reveal About Quantifier-Spreading' by Irina Sekerina, College of Staten Island, the City University of New York, took place at HSE. The event was organised by the School of Linguistics.
Neige Rochant, a student at INALCO (Paris), speaks about her fieldwork during the HSE expedition to the Republic of Adygea
HSE’s School of Linguistics, along with Samsung and the Leo Tolstoy State Museum, has developed a mobile application called ‘Living Pages,’ which offers users a new way of reading Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace. The programme’s launch coincides with the Russia’s Year of Literature.
Grammar in Language Models: BERT Study
