Slavic Linguistics

Traditionally, graduate students in Slavic linguistics take a series of courses on Old Church Slavonic, an introduction to the Slavic languages, the historical development of Russian, and Russian morphology and phonology. In REESC, these courses are not offered every year, so the student hoping to concentrate in linguistics is advised to take any Slavic course offered that year, and at the same time to complement specific studies in Slavic linguistics with general linguistics courses, as well as the electives in Russian and East European area studies that are a required component of the program. After taking Old Church Slavonic,

Faculty

Cynthia Vakareliyska, Associate Professor of Linguistics. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1990. Author of The Missing Folia from the Banica Gospel: Equivalent Passages from the Curzon Gospel, with Annotations. Polata knigopis’naja, vol. 30: 50-177 (1996), and of numerous scholarly articles. Editor of Bulgarian language entries and etymological annotations in Indo-European Languages: a Computer Database (ed. Mary Ritchie Key). Research areas include medieval Bulgarian, Serbian, and East Slavic liturgical manuscripts; sociolinguistics, particularly multiple linguistic and cultural self-identities within multilingual ethnic/confessional minorities (case study of the Russian Germans of Poland and Lithuania); and modern Bulgarian syntax. Teaching areas: Slavic and Baltic linguistics (historical linguistics and phonology); gender linguistics; language disorders.