From rusric at erols.com  Mon Mar  1 02:30:09 1999
From: rusric at erols.com (Emerging Market Investment Center, USA)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:30:09 EST
Subject: RUSSIAN CINEMA CLUB CREATED
Message-ID: <SUN.28.FEB.1999.213009.EST.>

PRESS RELEASE

RUSSIAN-AMERICAN CINEMA CLUB STARTS WORKING IN Washington, DC

Russian Art Center (Washington DC) jointly with the Russian Cultural
Center, finally established the first Russian-American Cinema Club in the
USA.  This club will work as a non-profit organization, promoting Russian
films, culture and art in the US and American films in Russian provinces.
The club plans to provide interested companies and individuals with the
latest or the most well known and famous Russian movies.

The Club has direct access to over 15,000 Soviet, Russian and foreign
movies and other films in Russian. In addition to modern music the Club has
a unique collection of operas, ballet and theatrical performances as well
as documentaries, studying films, films about Russian regions and CD-ROMs.

Currently all movies, films and studying programs are available on VHS
tapes and CD-ROMs.  In the nearest future many movies will be available in
a DVD format.

The Club is also planning to translate movies in English using direct voice
recording technique for the interested libraries, universities and
individuals.

All movies from our unique collection will be available for renting or
purchasing for a subsidized prices.

For additional information, Please contact our Washington DC office.

Russian-American Cinema Club USA
P.O Box 15343
Washington, DC 20003
rusric at erols.com


From mld at prin.edu  Mon Mar  1 02:24:20 1999
From: mld at prin.edu (Megan Dixon)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:24:20 -0500
Subject: verbs of motion
In-Reply-To: <143de61d.36d736a1@aol.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.28.FEB.1999.212420.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangs,

Last year I saw a new textbook on verbs of motion reviewed in SEEJ.  Now I
can't find the issue with the review, just when I want to consider it for a
class!  Does anyone remember this book, or have a recommendation on a text
for this subject?
I will post the results if I receive replies off-list.  Thanks in advance
for any help,

Megan Dixon
Principia College


From sergerogosin at yahoo.com  Mon Mar  1 04:28:46 1999
From: sergerogosin at yahoo.com (serge rogosin)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:28:46 -0800
Subject: Institut russkogo iazyka
Message-ID: <SUN.28.FEB.1999.202846.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone know a person at the Institut russkogo iazyka in Moscow
who might be willing to look up a word for me in their lexical card
catalog of the Russian language?

Any information or advice would be much appreciated.

Serge Rogosin
________________
93-49 222 Street
Queens Village, NY 11428
tel. & fax (718)479-2881
e-mail: sergerogosin at yahoo.com
sergerogosin at hotmail.com
srogosin at netzero.net
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From rusric at erols.com  Mon Mar  1 02:30:09 1999
From: rusric at erols.com (Emerging Market Investment Center, USA)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:30:09 EST
Subject: RUSSIAN CINEMA CLUB CREATED
Message-ID: <SUN.28.FEB.1999.213009.EST.>

PRESS RELEASE

RUSSIAN-AMERICAN CINEMA CLUB STARTS WORKING IN Washington, DC

Russian Art Center (Washington DC) jointly with the Russian Cultural
Center, finally established the first Russian-American Cinema Club in the
USA.  This club will work as a non-profit organization, promoting Russian
films, culture and art in the US and American films in Russian provinces.
The club plans to provide interested companies and individuals with the
latest or the most well known and famous Russian movies.

The Club has direct access to over 15,000 Soviet, Russian and foreign
movies and other films in Russian. In addition to modern music the Club has
a unique collection of operas, ballet and theatrical performances as well
as documentaries, studying films, films about Russian regions and CD-ROMs.

Currently all movies, films and studying programs are available on VHS
tapes and CD-ROMs.  In the nearest future many movies will be available in
a DVD format.

The Club is also planning to translate movies in English using direct voice
recording technique for the interested libraries, universities and
individuals.

All movies from our unique collection will be available for renting or
purchasing for a subsidized prices.

For additional information, Please contact our Washington DC office.

Russian-American Cinema Club USA
P.O Box 15343
Washington, DC 20003
rusric at erols.com


From mld at prin.edu  Mon Mar  1 02:24:20 1999
From: mld at prin.edu (Megan Dixon)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:24:20 -0500
Subject: verbs of motion
In-Reply-To: <143de61d.36d736a1@aol.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.28.FEB.1999.212420.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangs,

Last year I saw a new textbook on verbs of motion reviewed in SEEJ.  Now I
can't find the issue with the review, just when I want to consider it for a
class!  Does anyone remember this book, or have a recommendation on a text
for this subject?
I will post the results if I receive replies off-list.  Thanks in advance
for any help,

Megan Dixon
Principia College


From sergerogosin at yahoo.com  Mon Mar  1 04:28:46 1999
From: sergerogosin at yahoo.com (serge rogosin)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:28:46 -0800
Subject: Institut russkogo iazyka
Message-ID: <SUN.28.FEB.1999.202846.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone know a person at the Institut russkogo iazyka in Moscow
who might be willing to look up a word for me in their lexical card
catalog of the Russian language?

Any information or advice would be much appreciated.

Serge Rogosin
________________
93-49 222 Street
Queens Village, NY 11428
tel. & fax (718)479-2881
e-mail: sergerogosin at yahoo.com
sergerogosin at hotmail.com
srogosin at netzero.net
_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com



From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Mon Mar  1 04:18:26 1999
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:18:26 -0500
Subject: Broadcast.com audios and videos
Message-ID: <SUN.28.FEB.1999.231826.0500.>

Dear Colleagues:

While we owe a debt of gratitude to Broadcast.com for broadcasting
a number of fineRussian vidoes and audios, it is impossible to know
from one to the next what they will have available and where. I have
therefore decided not to try to pinpoint exactly what they have and
the address. Instead, I would advise you to do a simple search on
their site, typing in the word "Russia" in the Broadcast.com search
box (make sure it's their box and not Amazon's or somebody
else's). The offerings are listed in sets of ten, so be sure to flip
through all of them (currently there are 150-200 listings). You'll
quickly discover what's available. I also suggest that you search
their site by categories. And, if you have broadband (anything, more
or less, over 56k), then check the Video, Broadband section, too.


In the future, I'll add resources sites for videos or audios as I find
them, e.g. the Cato Institute has a number of panel discussions on
audio and video focussing on domestic and foreign policy. I've
added the Cato Institute for your benefit.

Yours,

Benjamin
Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Web and Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/


From a.jameson at dial.pipex.com  Mon Mar  1 11:29:48 1999
From: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com (Andrew Jameson)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:29:48 -0000
Subject: Olomouc Russian Language Conference
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.112948.0000.>

Dear Andy,
Thank you for pointing out my carelessness in rendering the name of the
Palacky University as "Palach University". Apologies to all Bohemianists
amongst you.
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

----------
> From: Andy Hicks <ah69 at columbia.edu>
> To: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com
> Subject: Re: Olomouc Russian Language Conference
> Date: 27 February 1999 17:59
>
> Just a brief note to let you know that the university in Olomouc is
> named after Frantisek Palacky, who was a nineteenth century historian
> and central figure of the Czech Awakening.  Jan Palach was the student
> who burned himself to death in January 1969 to protest the Soviet
> invasion.  The fact that the original message was in Russian probably
> made it easy to confuse the two.
>


From msc at slav.su.se  Mon Mar  1 14:00:56 1999
From: msc at slav.su.se (Morena Schmidt)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:00:56 +0100
Subject: research: reading russian as a foreign language
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.150056.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello everybody!

I have a question to put out to all of you on this list. The answers should
be returned to me personally and not to the list.
I need to find out about any published research done on
reading/understanding russian as a foreign laguage. Preferably the
publications should be available   in Europe (from libraries or
publishers). And just to make myself very clear:
I'm NOT intrested in research done on teaching russian as a foreign/second
language.
Thanks!

Morena Schmidt
Department of Slavonic Languages/IITS
University of Stockholm
S-106 91 Stockholm
tel. + 46-8-674 75 76
e-mail: msc at slav.su.se


From yastrem at bucknell.edu  Mon Mar  1 14:56:02 1999
From: yastrem at bucknell.edu (Slava Yastremski)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:56:02 -0500
Subject: new publication series
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.095602.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW PUBLICATION SERIES

The Departments of Modern Languages and English of Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, PA, USA and the Department of Literary Theory of the Tver State
University, Tver, Russia announce a joint Russian-American publication
series Russian-American Studies in Literary and Critical Theory.  The
series will consist of two collections of articles a year, with the Tver
State University publishing its collection in Russian with resumes of all
articles in English and Bucknell publishing its collection in English with
resumes of articles in Russian.
        Each volume will consist of 10 to 20 articles (equally divided
between Russian and American contributors).  Articles are expected to be 10
- 15 pages in length.  Each volume will be refereed by a leading Russian or
American literary theory scholar. The first two volumes of the series are
due this year. The deadline for submitting articles for this year
publications is March 22, 1999.  The editors of the series are Professor
Igor Fomenko, Tver State University and Slava I. Yastremski, Bucknell
University.  Submissions from Russian scholars should be addressed to
Professor Fomenko, submissions from American scholars - to Professor
Yastremski, Dept. of Modern Languages, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
17837.
The goal of the series is to initiate an active dialogue between Russian
and American scholars interested in applying literary and critical theory
to the analysis of artistic texts.  At the time of total reevaluation of
old criteria, literary theory becomes an important tool for investigation
of new, emerging values discussed in contemporary artistic texts.  The
joint publication will be an enriching experience for both the Russian and
American scholars.  The former will receive an access to the latest
developments in Western literary and critical theory, and the latter will
have an opportunity to look at Russian and Western literature and culture
from a new, original perspective.
If you are interested in submitting an article or want more information,
please contact Professor Slava I. Yastremski, Dept. of Modern Languages,
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837; tel. (717) 524-1746; e-mail:
yastrem at bucknell.edu.


******************************************************************************
Slava I. Yastremski
Associate Professor of Russian
Director of the Russian Program
Department of Modern Languages,
Literatures, and Linguistics
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
tel: (717) 524-1746
fax: (717) 524-3760
e-mail: yastrem at bucknell.edu


From ldutkova at sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu  Mon Mar  1 16:51:43 1999
From: ldutkova at sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu (Ludmila Dutkova)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:51:43 -0600
Subject: Olomouc Russian Language Conference
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%1999030106275715@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.105143.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Perhaps also to 'Moravianists' - remember, Olomouc is in Moravia :-)
This is an interesting problem anyway - how we should refer to theorists
who are working on language and literature coming from both regions of the
Czech Republic (I know you are using an established term, yet I wonder,
being from Moravian myself)

Lida

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Andrew Jameson wrote:

> Dear Andy,
> Thank you for pointing out my carelessness in rendering the name of the
> Palacky University as "Palach University". Apologies to all Bohemianists
> amongst you.
> Andrew Jameson
> Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
> Languages and Professional Development
> 1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
> Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)
>
> ----------
> > From: Andy Hicks <ah69 at columbia.edu>
> > To: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com
> > Subject: Re: Olomouc Russian Language Conference
> > Date: 27 February 1999 17:59
> >
> > Just a brief note to let you know that the university in Olomouc is
> > named after Frantisek Palacky, who was a nineteenth century historian
> > and central figure of the Czech Awakening.  Jan Palach was the student
> > who burned himself to death in January 1969 to protest the Soviet
> > invasion.  The fact that the original message was in Russian probably
> > made it easy to confuse the two.
> >
>


From armstron at AC.GRIN.EDU  Mon Mar  1 22:19:16 1999
From: armstron at AC.GRIN.EDU (todd armstrong)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:19:16 -0600
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.161916.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Kollegi,

We are currently in the process of redesigning our departmental website,
and would like to include more cyrillic and other Slavic fonts (Polish and
Czech).  We are interested in software and font solutions for designing
webpages in these languages on the MAC.  Any advice SEELANGers can share
would be much appreciated.  Please feel free to respond either on or off
list.

Vsego dobrogo,

Todd Armstrong
Grinnell College
www.grinnell.edu/russian


From lschultz at ix.netcom.com  Mon Mar  1 23:29:51 1999
From: lschultz at ix.netcom.com (laurel schultz)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:29:51 -0800
Subject: Reading Group on Women in Slavic Cultures and Literatures
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.152951.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Announcing the Women in Slavic Cultures and Literatures Discussion Group
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 6-17 July 1999.

The reading group is held in conjunction with the University of Illinois
Summer Research lab, which offers an opportunity to work with U.I.'s
 first-rate Slavic collection. The discussion group meets for an hour each
morning. Participants may present papers, give informal talks on recent
work or work-in-progress, or listen in. Participants come from a wide range
of backgrounds and disciplines, so it's a chance both to talk to people
working in areas close to your own, and also to see how the Women's Studies
in Slavic are faring in the wider world.

Support: All Summer Associates receive visiting faculty privileges and full
library privileges. Dissertation-level students are eligible for up to 28
day of housing in the Illini Tower, a student dormitory; faculty and
independent scholars are eligible for up to 10 days of housing. A limited
number of housing awards will be given to non-U.S. citizens who apply
before April 1.

To request an application or further details contact:

Russian and East European Center
University of Illinois
104 International Studies Building
910 S. Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Tel: (217) 333-1244
Fax: (217) 333-1582
E-mail: reec at uiuc.edu

With questions about Women in Slavic Culture's Reading Group contact:

Laurel Schultz
622 10th Ave. E
Seattle WA 98102
(206) 328-4094
lschultz at ix.netcom.com


From jdriscoll at mediaone.net  Tue Mar  2 01:14:04 1999
From: jdriscoll at mediaone.net (James Driscoll)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:14:04 -0500
Subject: Petersburg Apt. needed Summer 1999
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.201404.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello,

Two graduate students require apartment in St. Petersburg for summer 1999.
Please reply offlist with any leads to jdriscoll at mediaone.net.

Thanks!

Jim Driscoll
Harvard University


From marder at magicnet.mn  Tue Mar  2 12:30:32 1999
From: marder at magicnet.mn (Steve Marder)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:30:32 +0800
Subject: Viewing Russian Web pages on a Mac: Solution
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAR.1999.203032.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

On Feb. 28, I posed the following questions:

> What must I do in order to be able to read Russian Web pages in the
> original Russian? What fonts do I need? Where do I go to get them? What
> "secrets," if any, must I be aware of in order to read Russian Web
> pages?

I went on to say that I'm using Macintosh OS 8.1 and my browser is
"Netscape Communicator 4.5".

Your response was overwhelming -- as I pretty much knew it would be! I
have tried to thank personally everyone who replied, although I beg your
indulgence if I have unwittingly overlooked any of you. I would
especially like to offer my deep appreciation to George Fowler and
Timothy Pogacar for their most helpful advice.

Let me summarize the method which works best for me and the options I
choose to make this possible:

Go to Preferences... on the Edit menu:
  1. Fonts
  2. For the Encoding: Western [Don't try to set this to "Cyrillic"
since it won't stay set; it keeps coming "unstuck"!]
  3. Variable Width Font: [Choose one of the six fonts freely
available from Apple's set of Cyrillic fonts or any other proportional
Cyrillic font which uses the standard Cyrillic coding.]
  4. Fixed Width Font: [Choose any monospaced font which uses the
standard Cyrillic coding.]
  5. It is VERY important to specify in the lower half of the Font
Preferences window the following option: "Use my fonts, overriding
page-specified fonts".

Essentially, that's the groundwork. Depending on the specific Russian
Web page you are viewing, in some cases you may not need to do ANYTHING
more. However, in many (most?) cases you will now have to go to the View
menu and select one of the following under "Character Set":
Cyrillic (KOI8-R)
Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)
Cyrillic (Windows-1251)
Cyrillic (MacCyrillic)

Another possibility, though, is just to leave the character set on
"Western (ISO-8859-1)"! Given the specifics of a given Russian Web page,
a certain amount of experimentation is required to get the display
exactly the way it should be. Each time you change the character set,
the Web page is re-displayed.

I don't recall a single instance when I had to select one of the
following options offered on a particular Web page in order to get the
page to display properly: "KOI"  "WIN"  "MAC"

Clearly, different browsers require different solutions to get Russian
Web pages to display Cyrillic properly, and even different versions of
the SAME browser may require this. Consequently, a healthy amount of
experimentation is to be expected.

One final point: There are certain elements displayed on a Web page
which are non-dynamic and in the form of graphics. None of the above
description applies to such elements since they are not controlled by a
user's settings.

Once again, many thanks to all who responded to my plea.

Steve Marder


From william.mozdzierz at zg.tel.hr  Mon Mar  1 14:55:10 1999
From: william.mozdzierz at zg.tel.hr (Bill and Barbara Mozdzierz)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:55:10 +0100
Subject: verbs of motion
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.155510.0100.>

Megan,

I believe the book on verbs of motion you are refering to is WIlliam J.
Mahota's book on motion verbs. It was published by Yale UP.

Regards,
Barbara Mozdzierz


From jdingley at YorkU.CA  Tue Mar  2 17:01:06 1999
From: jdingley at YorkU.CA (John Dingley)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:01:06 -0500
Subject: internet-based
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAR.1999.120106.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hi,

I have a student who is interested in taking an internet-
based 2nd Year Russian language course over this coming
summer. If you have any relevant information, please
contact the student in question directly:
Lilia Borshiov <yu215822 at yorku.ca>

Thanks in advance.
John Dingley

-----------
http://dlll.yorku.ca/jding.html


From S.Brouwer at let.rug.nl  Wed Mar  3 08:00:27 1999
From: S.Brouwer at let.rug.nl (S. Brouwer)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:00:27 +0200
Subject: Unicode problems
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.100027.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,

When I import a plain text (.txt) file with Cyrillic into Word 97
(8.0) and apply a unicode font like Times New Roman or Courier
New to that text, no Cyrillic appears. Only non-unicode ER fonts show
Cyrillic.

I understand that this is because in Word 97, there is no way to tell
the text that its higher ASCII-values belong to the Cyrillic subset,
and not to Latin-1.

As far as I know, the only thing one can do is save the file as Word
6.0/95, open it in Word 95 (7.0), apply the Times New Roman Cyrillic
font (in Word 95, the subsets of Unicode fonts appear as different
fonts), save the change, and reopen the file under Word 97. But that
amounts to not using Word 97 at all and work under Word 95, which is
actually what I do. Still - k chemu besplodno sporit' s vekom? - in a
while we will somehow all be forced to work with Word 97, so I'd like
to solve the problem now.

Who has any soobrazheniya on this? (besides the obvious
you-should-have-bought-yourself-a-Mac-in-the-first-place).

Thanks in advance,
Sander Brouwer

Dr.S.Brouwer  Assistant Professor
Slavic Dept.  University of Groningen
Postbus 716   9700 AS Groningen   The Netherlands
tel: +31 50 3636062            home: +31 50 3119769
fax: +31 50 3635821      www.oprit.rug.nl/brouwer02

Izuchenie russkoy istorii mozhet portit' samye luchshie umy
                                   T.Granovskii


From renyxa at redline.ru  Mon Mar  1 13:56:19 1999
From: renyxa at redline.ru (Tver InterContact Group)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:56:19 +0300
Subject: Professional Programs in Tver
Message-ID: <MON.1.MAR.1999.165619.0300.>

THE 1999 PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS
IN JOURNALISM, LAW, AND TRANSLATION STUDIES

Dates: August 30 - September 25, 1999
Location: Tver, Russia

The International Institute of Russian Language and Culture (IIRLC),
together with several public and private partner organizations, proudly
announce the opening of enrollment for the 1999 Professional Programs in
Journalism, Law, and Translation Studies. These programs are intended
for students of various aspects of Russian, Slavic, and social studies,
as well as professionals who would like to gain greater insight into
their fields through intensive study of current practices and
developments in Russia. Each four-week program offers participants the
opportunity to study and participate in several aspects of a vibrant
field while sharpening their language skills or learning introductory
conversational Russian. The programs also offer a unique chance to make
connections and share experiences with both Russian and foreign
colleagues.

The Journalism, Political Science, and Societal Studies Practicum:
Although it is tailored primarily for professional journalists and
political analysts, the Practicum can accommodate anyone interested in
Russian life, language, and culture. College students majoring in
Russian, journalism, political science, and sociology are encouraged to
participate. The 1999 Practicum will focus on three issues in current
Russian politics: economic change in the provinces, privatization and
its influence on Russian life, and Russia's information policy as
reflected in the media. The Practicum offers the perfect balance of
classroom instruction and field work: participants will take Russian
language classes while attending seminars in mass communications,
political science, and sociology. They will also take trips and
excursions and meet with experts, professionals, and colleagues.

The Summer School of Russian Legal Studies: Unlike most legal study
abroad programs, which emphasize study of established legal systems,
participants in the Summer School of Russian Legal Studies will observe
the birth of the rule of law, studying it as it evolves and analyzing
developments which have already occurred. The Russian legal system
offers a fascinating array of aspects for study. New laws governing the
federal executive, legislative, and judicial branches have continuously
modified the Federal Constitution, which was framed in 1993. The current
dichotomy of the Communist Party's resurgent domination in the State
Duma and the democrats' tenuous hold on the Presidency and the
Ministers' Council, with the Constitutional Court caught in the middle,
foreshadow continued changes in the months and years to come. Come and
observe the governing system as it struggles to adapt itself to the rule
of law. Attend court trials, which after 80 years are reviving the
system of trial by jury. Learn the language of law used in courts and in
international business law. This is a fascinating time, and we offer you
the chance to both study and experience it first hand.

The Russian Translation and Communication Studies Program: The third
annual Translation and Communication Studies Program will be conducted
by two of Tver's leading educational institutions: the International
Institute of Russian Language and Culture under the auspices of the Tver
InterContact Group and Tver State University. The Program is intended
for professionals and students in departments of Slavic Languages and
Studies, and offers extensive opportunities for linguistic and
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From yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp  Wed Mar  3 11:04:33 1999
From: yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp (Yoshimasa Tsuji)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:04:33 +0900
Subject: Unicode problems
In-Reply-To: <2AA450D6031@let1.let.rug.nl> (S.Brouwer@let.rug.nl)
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.200433.0900.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear S. Brouwer,
  This may sound too obvious to you, but you need to obtain
a special converter for your MS Word to understand Cyrillic
founts. If your colleague happens to own a Russian version
of the MS Word (97 or later), ask her to read your file
and save it in Word97 format. The resultant file should
contain the Russian langugage environment information.
  I am writing this way because I haven't had time to find
out which converter exactly does the job of converting
Russian text to Word97 format. It must be one of the files
contained inside the Russian Word97 or Office97(or later).
  Anyway, it is irrelevant to think of the matter just as
one of switching founts.

with best wishes,

Tsuji

------
I once copied all the file converters of Russian MS Word to
the Japanese MS Word and have had bizarre experiences. Well
advised if you don't waste time trying to use Latin-1
MS Word for the Russian language. (But once in Word97 format,
any Word97 will read the file correctly as the internal code is
in unicode).


From j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk  Wed Mar  3 11:56:54 1999
From: j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk (J.M. Andrew)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:56:54 +0000
Subject: Pushkin 1999
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.115654.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

        TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN

        A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE
        to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999
        under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle

        Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK

We are pleased to announce this conference.  About thirty papers will be
delivered at the conference, organised by the Neo-Formalist Circle to
celebrate the bicentenary in 1999 of the birth of Russia's national - and
greatest - writer.  These papers  will offer new readings of most of
Pushkin's key works.  At the same time they will seek to locate him both
within the later traditions of Russian literature, by means of a series of
comparative discussions, and the broader European context, with examinations
of his influence on, or parallels with non-Russian writers.  In keeping with
the traditons of the Neo-Formalist Circle, which celebrates its own more
modest, thirtieth anniversary in 2000, all the papers will be informed with
the latest thinking and approaches in literary theory and practice.

The following are the proposed papers, all confirmed at the present time.
For further information contact Joe Andrew or Robert Reid at
j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk or r.e.reid at lang.keele.ac.uk.  Further details
of the precise programme, booking forms etc will be available in June.

1.  Robin Aizlewood (SSEES): The 'Stone Guest' and the 'Alter Ego': Doubling
and Redoubling Germann in The Queen of Spades

2.  Joe Andrew (Keele):  [She] was brought up on French novels and,
consequently, was in love': Russian Writers Reading and Writing Pushkin

3.  David Baguley (Durham): Pushkin and Merimee: the French Connection

4.  David Bethea (Wisconsin):  A Higher Audacity': How to Read Pushkin's
Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest

5.  Sander Brouwer (Groningen): Love in the Russian World: Erotic and Social
Unproductivity from Pushkin to Turgenev

6.  Diana L.  Burgin (Massachusetts): Tsvetaeva's Three Pushkins

7.  Leon Burnett (Essex): Sovereign Rapture:  The Enigma of Pushkin's
Cleopatra

8.  J.  Douglas Clayton (Ottawa): Word Order in Russian Poetry: Evgenii
Onegin between Poetry and Prose

9.  Neil Cornwell (Bristol): Pushkin and Henry James

10.  Jusin Doherty (Trinity College, Dublin):  Pechal' moia svetla': The
Pushkin Contexts of Georgy Ivanov's Raspad atoma

11.  Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh):  Casting and Recasting the Caucasian
Captive

12.  Eric de Haard (Amsterdam): Verse Insertions in Pushkin's Prose

13.  Andre G.F. van Holk (Groningen): Don-Juanism and Stylistic Code in
Pushkin's The Stone Guest

14.  Samantha Johnson (Keele):  Pushkin at Keele: Grand Duke Michael and
Countess Torby at Keele, 1901-1910.

15.  Mike Kirkwood (Glasgow): Pushkin as Neo-Formalist: Domik v Kolomne

16.  Lyubov Kiseleva (Tartu, Estonia): Pushkin and Shakhovskoi: the problem
of creative contacts

17.  Monica Lebron (Goldsmiths, University of London): French Perspectives
on Pushkin's Don Juan

18.  Angela Livingstone (Essex):  The Grammar of Poetry': Semantics of Case
in Poems by Pushkin

19.  Barbara Lonnqvist (Abo, Finland): The Pushkin Text in Anna Karenina

20.  Arnold Mcmillin (SSEES): Gilding the Lily: Pushkin's Lyrics in the
Hands of Russian Composers

21.  Marguerite Palmer (Keele): Pushkin's Beatrice: the Process of
Beatification in Eugene Onegin

22.  Valentina Polukhina (Keele):  Pushkin and Brodsky:  the Art of
Self-deprecation.

23.  Robert Reid (Keele): 'A Hundred Years Have Passed...': A Dilthean
Approach to Time in Pushkin

24.  Alastair Renfrew (Strathclyde): Making a National Poet: Pushkin and
Burns

25.  Olga Sedakova (Moscow): Pushkin's Christian Roots

26.  Savely Senderovich and Yelena Shvarts (Cornell): From Pushkin to
Nabokov:The Vicissitudes of One Exegetic Tradition

27.  Alexandra Smith (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): Revisiting
Pushkin's Poetic Image of Imperial Petersburg

28.  William Mills Todd III (Harvard): Pushkin's Istoriia Pugacheva and the
Experience of History

29.  Christoph Veldhues (Bochum): Love and Death in Nabokov's Death and
Pushkin's The Stone Guest

30.  Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam): Pushkin between Classicism, Romanticism
and Realism

31.  Jekaterina Young (Manchester): Dovlatov's  Sanctuary and Pushkin


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Wed Mar  3 20:47:49 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert DeLossa)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:47:49 -0500
Subject: Unicode problems
In-Reply-To: <199903030901.EAA02898@smtp3.fas.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.154749.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I'm not sure the Mac enthusiasts can crow here. As fate would have it, I've
just started using Word 98 for Mac (approx. = 97 for Windows) and got a
unicode document from Kyiv. Most of it came out okay in Word 98, except
that several characters don't show on the screen. They print okay, but you
cannot read it on the screen, since these characters default to a
microspace (thus you cannot de visu tell from your screen display that they
are not there)... The text displays properly in Word 6.0 for Mac (=95 for
Windows), so the problem must be integral and similar to what is going on
with Brouwer's text in Word for Windows 97. However, the "fix" he describes
didn't help my situation. This is not completely surprising, since Windows
Word '97 was upgraded and recompiled for Mac '98, but I suspect that there
still is a similar basic higher ASCII problem here.

Thus, any solutions out there would be equally welcome for the Mac side as
for the Windows side.

Robert DeLossa

p.s. Because of precisely these sorts of bugs, I keep Word 5.1, 6.01, and
'98 on my machine. I've found it is the only way to be fully compatible
with everything that comes into my office (being a publisher, I get a great
variety of versions from bost East and West). Microsoft has added nice
bells and whistles along the way, but also new headaches with each new
feature. They also have an extremely annoying habit of "retiring" useful
converters and features from one version's full install to the next (though
I've found some older resources to be compatible with new versions). My
experience with MS tech support is that none seems to have a handle on the
program they are responsible for. I suspect that all of MS' products have
become so unwieldy and bloated, code-wise, that they are unknowable for
tech support and these sorts of unintended problems are unavoidable.
Perhaps this is the spiritual revenge of the Edsel on us all.


>Dear Seelangers,
>
>When I import a plain text (.txt) file with Cyrillic into Word 97
>(8.0) and apply a unicode font like Times New Roman or Courier
>New to that text, no Cyrillic appears. Only non-unicode ER fonts show
>Cyrillic.
>
>I understand that this is because in Word 97, there is no way to tell
>the text that its higher ASCII-values belong to the Cyrillic subset,
>and not to Latin-1.
>
>As far as I know, the only thing one can do is save the file as Word
>6.0/95, open it in Word 95 (7.0), apply the Times New Roman Cyrillic
>font (in Word 95, the subsets of Unicode fonts appear as different
>fonts), save the change, and reopen the file under Word 97. But that
>amounts to not using Word 97 at all and work under Word 95, which is
>actually what I do. Still - k chemu besplodno sporit' s vekom? - in a
>while we will somehow all be forced to work with Word 97, so I'd like
>to solve the problem now.
>
>Who has any soobrazheniya on this? (besides the obvious
>you-should-have-bought-yourself-a-Mac-in-the-first-place).
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Sander Brouwer
>
>Dr.S.Brouwer  Assistant Professor
>Slavic Dept.  University of Groningen
>Postbus 716   9700 AS Groningen   The Netherlands
>tel: +31 50 3636062            home: +31 50 3119769
>fax: +31 50 3635821      www.oprit.rug.nl/brouwer02
>
>Izuchenie russkoy istorii mozhet portit' samye luchshie umy
>                                   T.Granovskii


____________________________________________________
Robert DeLossa
Director of Publications
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8768; fax. 617-495-8097
reply to: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu
http://www.sabre.org/huri


From bobick at accessone.com  Wed Mar  3 22:17:13 1999
From: bobick at accessone.com (Stephen Bobick)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:17:13 -0800
Subject: Unicode problems
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.141713.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dobryj den'!

  Pan Brouwer napysav:
  >When I import a plain text (.txt) file with Cyrillic into Word 97
  >(8.0) and apply a unicode font like Times New Roman or Courier
  >New to that text, no Cyrillic appears. Only non-unicode ER fonts show
  >Cyrillic.
  >
  >I understand that this is because in Word 97, there is no way to tell
  >the text that its higher ASCII-values belong to the Cyrillic subset,
  >and not to Latin-1.

Here is a workaround:  it is inconvenient, but it works.  And in the end
you only need to use one version of Word.

1) Fire up WordPad
2) Open the plain text file with Cyrillic.
3) Edit->Select All
4) Format->Font ; under Script select Cyrillic
5) Save the file as a Word document
6) Fire up Word
7) Open the file saved in step 5

Vs'oho najkrashchoho,

-- Stepan


From simmonsc at bc.edu  Wed Mar  3 22:20:33 1999
From: simmonsc at bc.edu (Cynthia SImmons)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:20:33 -0500
Subject: 4TH GRADUATE DOSTOEVSKIJ SUMMER PROGRAM IN ST. PETERSBURG
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.172033.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

4th Graduate Dostoevskij Summer Program in St. Petersburg 1999
14 June - 23 July 1999

For the summer of 1999 the Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages at
Boston College is presenting its fourth graduate-level summer session on the
works and era of Dostoevskij at the Dostoevskij Museum in St. Petersburg
(Literaturno-memorial'nyj muzej F.M. Dostoevskogo) in conjunction with the
Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Sciences (Pushkinskij
dom).

The summer session is designed for post-AB American students with at least
three to four years of Russian-language study who are working on PhD or MA
degrees in Russian or Comparative Literature or who intend to enter such a
program.

Leading literary specialists from the Institute of Russian Literature of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg University, the Gercen
Institute, and the Dostoevskij Museum conduct the courses and seminars for
the program and provide consultation on research and dissertation topics. A
team of faculty members from American and Russian universities coordinates
the program and supervises the academic offerings.



All lectures in the program are conducted in Russian. Assistants from the
Dostoevskij Museum work one-on-one with students to help them adjust to
Russian academic life and to access and get the most from the collections
and archives at the Museum, Pushkinskij Dom, and the Russian National
Library.

Housing is arranged with Russian families, usually with the staff of the
museum.

All-inclusive cost
       Travel (BOS/JFK-StPetersburg-return, FinnAir via Helsinki), visa,
tuition (6 credits [90+ hours]) & graduate
       registration, private room & board in a Russian family, full cultural
program)
       $3925 est

Program application available at
       http://fmwww.bc.edu/sl/KP-PbgAppl.pdf
 
For additional information on the program contact:

        Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages
       Boston College / Lyons 210
       attn Prof Cynthia Simmons
       Chestnut Hill MA 02467-3804 (USA)

       voice: 617/ 552-3914
       fax: 617/ 552-2286

World-Wide Web posting at:
       http://fmwww.bc.edu/sl/kp-Dost.html

E-mail: SimmonsC at bc.edu


From bobick at accessone.com  Wed Mar  3 22:39:41 1999
From: bobick at accessone.com (Stephen Bobick)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:39:41 -0800
Subject: Unicode problems
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.143941.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Sorry for the shameless self follow-up, but I omitted one important detail.

  >1) Fire up WordPad
  >2) Open the plain text file with Cyrillic.

Before performing step 3, make sure you have selected a Cyrillic
keyboard (using the icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen
under Windows' Multiple Language Support).

  >3) Edit->Select All
  >4) Format->Font ; under Script select Cyrillic
  >5) Save the file as a Word document
  >6) Fire up Word
  >7) Open the file saved in step 5

Vs'oho najkrashchoho,

-- Stepan


From goscilo+ at pitt.edu  Thu Mar  4 02:35:51 1999
From: goscilo+ at pitt.edu (Helena Goscilo)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:35:51 -0500
Subject: Panel at 1999 MLA Conf. in Chicago
In-Reply-To: <199903032239.OAA04420@accessone.com>
Message-ID: <WED.3.MAR.1999.213551.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

For those stout of heart (cf. Sorokin's SERDTSA CHETYREKH) and prepared to
tackle Windy City:

An MLA panel receptive to proposals for papers (approx. 15 mins. in
length):

PANEL TITLE:   BORDERS

DESCRIPTION:  This panel addresses issues of geographical, social,
political, generic, and bodily borders.  Porousness, invasion and
expulsion, lability of "separate spheres," and transportations in the
various categories may be analyzed in literature, film, music, art, and
dance.  ("Life" also applies here as a contingent mode.)

Please send abstracts to <goscilo+ at pitt.edu>

Helena Goscilo


From eagen.1 at osu.edu  Thu Mar  4 19:41:53 1999
From: eagen.1 at osu.edu (Jeffrey S. Eagen)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:41:53 -0500
Subject: Need help
Message-ID: <THU.4.MAR.1999.144153.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Seelangtsy,

In English a witch's black cat is often referred to as her "familiar".
Does anyone know if such a term exists in Russian as well?  Or is there
some other expression used in referring to a black cat that is specifically
connected with a witch or witchcraft?
Jeffrey S Eagen
Center for Slavic and East European Studies &
Department of Slavic and E. European Languages & Literatures
The Ohio State University
eagen.1 at osu.edu


From paulkla at pressenter.com  Fri Mar  5 03:27:35 1999
From: paulkla at pressenter.com (Paul Klanderud)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:27:35 -0600
Subject: Panel at 1999 MLA Conf. in Chicago
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.990303212930.6327A-100000@unixs4.cis.pitt.e du>
Message-ID: <THU.4.MAR.1999.212735.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I've been away for awhile.

Can someone provide a translation?


>An MLA panel receptive to proposals for papers (approx. 15 mins. in
>length):
>
>PANEL TITLE:   BORDERS
>
>DESCRIPTION:  This panel addresses issues of geographical, social,
>political, generic, and bodily borders.  Porousness, invasion and
>expulsion, lability of "separate spheres," and transportations in the
>various categories may be analyzed in literature, film, music, art, and
>dance.  ("Life" also applies here as a contingent mode.)
>


From N20JACK at aol.com  Fri Mar  5 04:53:07 1999
From: N20JACK at aol.com (Franke Jack)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:53:07 EST
Subject: Black Cat
Message-ID: <THU.4.MAR.1999.235307.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Jeffrey, in Russia a black cat is seen as the embodiment of evil. There is a
Russian proverb which goes, "mezhdu Vami chornaya koshka pobezhala" when two
individuals or sides are fighting with one another.

Hope this helps.

**************************
Dr. Jack Franke
Associate Professor - Russian
School of Russian Language I
Defense Language Institute
Foreign Language Center
Monterey, CA


From dc247 at columbia.edu  Fri Mar  5 15:23:49 1999
From: dc247 at columbia.edu (David L. Cooper)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:23:49 -0500
Subject: Slavic and East European Folklore
Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.102349.0500.>

Dear Professor Bailey,

Your message on the Seelangs listserv concerning SEEFA has sat in my
inbox since late October, but I am only now responding. I would be
interested in presenting at the SEEFA conference this year, if I'm not
too late with my inquiry. I am working on a translation of Slovak
folktales by Pavol Dobsinky which may soon be picked up by M.E. Sharpe,
and I could present on any number of aspects of Dobsinsky's folkloric
work. In particular, I would be interested in exploring the relationship
of mythology and Christian doctrine in Dobsinsky's considerable
theoretical writings on folklore.

Please let me know if this is still a possibility.

Thanks,

Dave


From emboyle at u.washington.edu  Fri Mar  5 15:41:44 1999
From: emboyle at u.washington.edu (E. Boyle)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:41:44 -0800
Subject: Counting seconds
Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.074144.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Do the Russians have anything equivalent to our "One Mississippi, two
Mississippi" when we are counting off seconds?

Thanks,
Eloise

***************
Eloise M. Boyle
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Washington
Box 353580
Seattle, WA  98195

(206) 543-7580 (office)
(425) 483-4130 (home)
e-mail: emboyle at u.washington.edu


From dc247 at columbia.edu  Fri Mar  5 16:03:33 1999
From: dc247 at columbia.edu (David L. Cooper)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:03:33 -0500
Subject: Slavic and East European Folklore
Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.110333.0500.>

Seelangers,

Sorry to bother with my private inquiry. It seems that "reply to sender"
doesn't always mean what it says . . .

Dave Cooper


From sforres1 at swarthmore.edu  Fri Mar  5 15:21:46 1999
From: sforres1 at swarthmore.edu (Sibelan Forrester)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:21:46 -0400
Subject: 1999 Heldt Prizes
Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.112146.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From: christine ruane <ruanechr at utulsa.edu>
Date: March 04, 1999=20

 1999 Heldt Prizes
Request for Nominations

The Association for Women In Slavic Studies (AWSS) will award the 1999
Heldt Prizes during its annual meeting at the AAASS National Convention in
November.  Nominations are invited in the following categories:

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies;
Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian studies;
Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies.

You may nominate material in more than one category, and you may nominate
more than one item within a category.  Books or articles published from 31
May 1998 to 31 May 1999 are eligible for =
consideration, unless submitted in previous Heldt Prize competitions.
NOMINATIONS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 1 JUNE 1999.  To nominate a book or an
article in any category, please send or request the publisher to send one
copy to each member of the prize committee:

Professor Christine Ruane, Chair, Department of History, University of
Tulsa, Tulsa, OK  74104

Professor Jane Costlow, Department of Foreign Languages, Bates College,
Lewiston, ME  04240

Professor Susanne Fusso, Department of Russian, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT  06459

Professor Denise Youngblood, Department of  History, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT  05405


From cn29 at columbia.edu  Fri Mar  5 16:34:40 1999
From: cn29 at columbia.edu (Catharine Nepomnyashchy)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:34:40 -0500
Subject: MLA panel
Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.113440.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Call for papers for the following panel to be held at the MLA National
Conventional in Chicago in December 1999:

Politics of Citation.  Papers should address critically the issue of why
we cite certain texts regularly in our scholarly writings and why we might
avoid citing others.  Questions that might be considered:  Are there
pressures to cite certain scholars/sources in order to get published?  Is
there a theoretical canon by which our scholarship is judged as much as it
is by the quality of our scholarship? Are there different canons operative
in different subdivisions of our discipline?  What are the implications of
the current move to discourage footnotes among some university presses?
Papers that address these concerns as they relate to Slavic in a
comparative context are especially desirable.  Abstracts should be sent to
Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Slavic Dept., 226B Milbank Hall, Barnard College,
New York, NY 10027 or, by email, cn29 at columbia.edu, by March 20.


From daper at umich.edu  Fri Mar  5 19:51:52 1999
From: daper at umich.edu (Dawn Adele Pointer)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:51:52 -0700
Subject: Black Cat
Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.125152.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello all,
When I was living in Voronezh some friends and I found a tiny black kitten
who obviously needed to be cared for.  My Russian roommate, in the process
of rationalizing our adoption of this kitten, said that it was only
*chuzhie* chornye koshki that are bad luck, but that owning one of your own
was actually good luck.  Has anyone else heard this?    Dawn.

>Jeffrey, in Russia a black cat is seen as the embodiment of evil. There is a
>Russian proverb which goes, "mezhdu Vami chornaya koshka pobezhala" when two
>individuals or sides are fighting with one another.


**********

...it's a wonderous world of rediculous things, but nothing so rare as the
love that it brings in the silence of a smile that understands...
                                                        -patty griffin


From nfriedbe at chass.utoronto.ca  Fri Mar  5 23:36:54 1999
From: nfriedbe at chass.utoronto.ca (Nila Friedberg)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:36:54 -0500
Subject: CALLS:Generative metrics
In-Reply-To: <v01530500b305e50303d1@[198.110.22.173]>
Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.183654.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GENERATIVE METRICS
                         October 8-9, 1999
                 University of Toronto, Canada
         Invited speaker: Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)

 Generative metrics is a branch of generative phonology which focuses on
the formulation of rules or constraints operative in verse, and thus aims
to explain poets' intuitions about metrical well-formedness. There have
been many developments in the field since the publication of Kiparsky and
 Youman's (1989) book, 'Rhythm and Meter'. Particularly, following the
 emergence of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993), there have
 appeared many analyses of verse employing constraints. Constraints
 have also been used to model statistical tendencies in verse (Hayes and
 MacEachern 1998).

 We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks dealing with any aspect of the
 field of generative metrics. Possible issues include, but are not limited
 to, the following:

 - Should generative metrics model statistical preferences, and what is
the
 best way of capturing them?
 - What are the limitations of the model, and what unique insights does it
 offer to the analysis of verse?

 Submit a one page abstract, preferably by e-mail to

                 metrics at chass.utoronto.ca

 If you would like to submit by regular mail, please send 5 anonymous
copies of an abstract to:

                 Nila Friedberg
                 Dept. of Linguistics
                 University of Toronto
                 130 St.George Street, Room 6076
                 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H1

 On a separate card indicate your name,affiliation, address, e-mail
address, and title of the talk. Also, please indicate if you are a graduate
student.

 DEADLINE for receit of abstracts:       June 25, 1999

 We plan to publish selected papers from the conference in an edited
volume.

 If you have any questions, please contact:

 Nila Friedberg  <nfriedbe at chass.utoronto.ca>
 Michael Getty   <mgetty at utoronto.ca>
 Elan Dresher    <dresher at chass.utoronto.ca>


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Mon Mar  8 14:51:53 1999
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:51:53 -0600
Subject: skorogovorki
Message-ID: <MON.8.MAR.1999.085153.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

I am looking to purchase a small collection of Russian skorogovorki to use
in class for phonetics exercises. I would appreciate recommendations of
titles you like and where I might be able to buy them (nothing out of print,
please!)

Please respond off list.

Thank you.

Ben Rifkin

////////////////////////////////////////

Benjamin Rifkin

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706  USA

voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814
e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\


From nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu  Mon Mar  8 17:00:41 1999
From: nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu (Natalie O. Kononenko)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 12:00:41 -0500
Subject: Black cats and witches
In-Reply-To: <199903041943.OAA01291@mail1.uts.ohio-state.edu> from "Jeffrey S.
 Eagen" at Mar 4, 99 02:41:53 pm
Message-ID: <MON.8.MAR.1999.120041.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangysty and Mr. Eagan,
        Russian and Ukrainian (with which I am more familiar --
pardon the pun) is very different from Western witchcraft.
There is no notion of an animal familiar.  A witch may
shape-shift into an animal, but does not regularly have a
companion animal -- the familiar of Western witchcraft.  You
might want to see Russell Zguta's article on witchcraft.  Mine
on Ukrainian witches should be coming out soon in Canadian
Folklore/Folklore Canadien.  It has an actual tally of animal
transformations.  Also, I hear Christine Worobec's book on
witchcraft accusations should be out soon.

Natalie Kononenko

PS -- In the meantime, you might try such traditional sources
as Maksimov, Zabylin, Zelenin, Pomerantseva, i t.d.  If you are
not familiar with these, contact me off list and I will start
you on some readings.


From madonna at socrates.berkeley.edu  Mon Mar  8 21:00:30 1999
From: madonna at socrates.berkeley.edu (Sylvia Swift)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:00:30 -0800
Subject: Soviet Studio Conference 3/12-3/13
Message-ID: <MON.8.MAR.1999.130030.0800.>

The Graduate Film Studies Group at the University of California presents
another in a series of conferences:

The Genius of the System:  The Rise and Fall of the Major Soviet Studios
March 12 and 13, 1999
Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, CA

Sponsored by The Townsend Center for the Humanities, The Center for Slavic
and East European Studies, The Film Studies Program, the Departments
Slavic and Comparative Literature

For Further Information:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~madonna
email:  madonna at socrates.berkeley.edu

Schedule for Friday, March 12
All screenings in 117 Dwinelle hall--Level D

4:10 _Volga-Volga_ (Alexandrov, 1938--Russian with subtitles)
        _Stenka Razin_ (Drankov, 1908--Russian/English intertitles)
        clips of _east side story_ (ranga/horn--various langs/subtitles)

6:10 _Voice_ (Averbakh, 1980--Russian with subtitles)
        clips from _East Side Story_ (Ranga/Horn 1997--German/Russian
        with subtitles)

8:00 _Pharoah_ (Kawalerowicz, 1966--Polish with subtitles)

Schedule for Saturday, March 13:
All events in 370 and 371 Dwinelle Hall--Level G

9:00-9:30       Coffee

9:30-9:40       "You, Kandinsky" (Opening Remarks)
                Sylvia Swift
                UC Berkeley

9:40-10:20      "Lenfilm:  Yesterday, Today and Perhaps Tomorrow"
                Alexander Pozdniakov
                Lenfilm Studios

10:20-10:30     Coffee

10:30-11:10     "VUFKU:  An Attempt to Build Ukrainian National Cinema"
                Bohdan Nebesio
                University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:10-11:50     "Investing in Entertainment and Ideology:  The Production
                Strategies of the Mezhrabpom Studio."
                Panayiota Mini
                University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:50-1:20      Lunch
                (our treat)

1:20-2:00       "Two Turning Points in the Development of Soviet Film
                Production:  The Late 1920's and Late 1950's"
                Oksana Bulgakowa
                Berlin/Stanford University

2:00-2:40       "Mosfilm in 1937:  On the Screen and Beyond"
                Maya Turovskaya
                VNIIK

NOTE:  We are very sorry to announce that Maya will not be joining us at
the conference, due to illness.  Her paper will be read by Lilya
Kaganovsky.


2:40-2:50       Coffee

2:50-3:30       "Ivan Pyr'ev:  Cultural Production Between High Culture
                and Mass Entertainment"
                Alexander Prokhorov
                University of Pittsburgh

3:40-4:10       "Boyana, Buftea, Jadran, Koliba, and Others Revisited"
                Dina Iordanova
                University of Leicester

4:10-5:00       "What Genius?  What System?" (Roundtable Discussion)

                Peter Kenez (UC Santa Cruz), Anne Nesbet (UC Berkeley), and
                earlier presenters

5:00-6:00       Reception


From retaylor at usc.edu  Tue Mar  9 03:34:49 1999
From: retaylor at usc.edu (Romy Taylor)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:34:49 EST
Subject: translation question
In-Reply-To: <41c1be7e.36df6333@aol.com>
Message-ID: <MON.8.MAR.1999.223449.EST.>

Dear Seelangers,

A friend called tonight with a question on early childhood education terms:

How would "rote counting" and "meaningful counting" be rendered in Russian?

Please respond to me at retaylor at usc.edu.

Yours gratefully,
Romy Taylor


From myadroff at indiana.edu  Tue Mar  9 07:02:10 1999
From: myadroff at indiana.edu (Michael Yadroff)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:02:10 -0500
Subject: Preposition doubling
In-Reply-To: <199903090503.AAA20368@snorkel.uits.indiana.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.020210.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

In Colloquial Russian (as well as in Old/Middle Russian and Russian Dialects),
there is a phenomenon of preposition doubling (tripling, etc.) in definite
NPs with a head N moved to a front of the NP and modifier(s) left behind,
like in the following Russian examples:

(i)     Voshel on _v_ dom _v_ tot _v_ zakoldovannyj (Fairy tale narration)
        entered he into house into that into haunted
        'He entered that haunted house'

(ii)    Rasskazhi-ka popodrobnee _o_ brate _o_ svoem. (Coll. Rus.)
        tell in more detail about brother about self
        'Tell me about your brother in more detail'

I'm wondering (I'm really wondering) if there is a similar phenomenon in other
Slavic languages. I would really appreciate any data about this phenomenon
from as many Slavic languages as possible.

BTW, first I wanted to start with "In the ES languages ..." I've read the
Belorussian dialects has this feature. What about Colloquial Belorussian?
And how about Colloquial Ukrainian?

Best,
Misha

************************************************************************
Michael Yadroff
Linguistics Department and Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Memorial Hall 322           Ballantine Hall 502
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
myadroff at indiana.edu
************************************************************************


From swan+ at pitt.edu  Tue Mar  9 13:48:30 1999
From: swan+ at pitt.edu (Oscar E Swan)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:48:30 -0500
Subject: Preposition doubling
In-Reply-To: <v03130300b30a6a5c03b9@[156.56.123.177]>
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.084830.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

In Polish, ad-hoc nominalization is common with pronominal adjectives, as
in Kup mi tamten. 'Buy me that other one.' The ad hoc nominalization of
adjectives, which is what, in my opinion, you are seeing in Russian, is
much less common, but see the folk song, Szla dzieweczka do
laseczka do zielonego, do zielonego, do zielonego... (a usage which I
believe comes across as naive and amusing).

I would guess that the phenomenon would correlate strongly with the ease
of forming adjectival nouns of the sort bulocnaja, stolovaja, borzaja,
sampanskoe, and so on. This word-formative strategy is also not
extensively exploited in Polish. It is as though the pronominal adjective
j-, historically part of the Russian adjectival endings, were still
latently there and can be activated more or less at will.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oscar E. Swan   Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures
1417 Cathedral of Learning   Univ. of Pittsburgh  15260
412-624-5707      swan+ at pitt.edu
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From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Tue Mar  9 15:09:26 1999
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:09:26 -0500
Subject: Seeking K.K.King
In-Reply-To: <v03110701b30032157809@[128.135.228.135]>
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.100926.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Has anybody got an e-mail address (or physical address) for Katerina
Krivinkova King,
of South Hadley, Mass. or environs? An old student of hers needs to get in
touch.
Please write (off-list) to:


Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Mar  9 16:26:22 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert DeLossa)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:26:22 -0500
Subject: new book on Esther from Harvard
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.112622.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

New Book Announcement
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications

==============================

The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis, Problems
of Translation.

Horace G. Lunt and Moshe Taube

The Old Testament Book of Esther in Slavonic Translation is known from East
Slavic manuscripts of the late fourteenth to late sixteenth centuries.
Working from the Masoretic Hebrew texts and Greek translations, Lunt and
Taube examine textological clues to the circumstances of Esther's
translation, sources, and redactions. This study creates a solid basis from
which scholars can now discuss the particulars of this important
translation, the nature of East Slavic biblical translating activity, and
the relationship of old East Slavic bookmen to Hebrew and Greek. This book
will be of interest to philologists and cultural religious historians
alike. The edition contains a full redaction with variants, a word index,
grammatical analysis, verse-by-verse commentary, and discussion of
vocabulary of selected semantic fields, not only of the Book of Esther, but
of comparable texts.

324 pp., illus.; ISBN 0-916458-80-6 (hardcover) LC 98-19993. $39.95.
Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies.

Available from:
Harvard University Press
79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. 1-800-448-2242; fax. 1-800-962-4983 (from the U.S. and Canada)
tel. 01-617-495-2480; fax. 01-617-495-8924 (international)
Harvard University Book Code: LUNSLA

INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS should contact Harvard University Press for local
sales representatives.

==================================================


From grabowic at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Mar  9 16:46:43 1999
From: grabowic at fas.harvard.edu (George G. Grabowicz)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:46:43 -0500
Subject: Preposition doubling
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.114643.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

This phenomenon certainly exists in Ukrainian, but it's not so much (and
mowadays hardly at all) a colloquial feature as a marked poetic one. Thus
Shevchenko begins a poem with
        U nedilen'ku u svjatuju
        U dosvitnjuju hodynu...

or (in "Irzhavec'"):
        Ne stremily b spysy v strisi
        U Petra u svata...

or Tychyna's "...v serci u mojim..."  The folkloric echo is perceptible in
each case, to be sure.


From billings at uni-leipzig.de  Tue Mar  9 16:33:32 1999
From: billings at uni-leipzig.de (Loren A. BILLINGS)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:33:32 -0600
Subject: Seeking K.K.King
In-Reply-To: <v03110700b30ae9cbb6a2@[128.253.71.97]>
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.103332.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Wayles,

She goes by Katerina _P._ King (for _Prchalov'a_, another family surname,
in order to avoid the KKK initials).  Her addresses:

kpking at mtholyoke.edu

77 College St.
S. Hadley, MA 01075

Best,  --Loren



At 9:09 -0600 3/9/99, Wayles Browne wrote:
>Has anybody got an e-mail address (or physical address) for Katerina
>Krivinkova King,
>of South Hadley, Mass. or environs? An old student of hers needs to get in
>touch.
>Please write (off-list) to:
>
>
>Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
>Department of Linguistics
>Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
>Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
>
>tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
>fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
>e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu



5520 Helen St, Apt 818
Austin, TX 78751 USA

(512) 451-8099

billings at uni-leipzig.de


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Tue Mar  9 19:16:10 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:16:10 -0500
Subject: ISO HS teachers opinions re: tech & students
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.141610.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hi all!  This is not FL related, but it is tech related.  I'm being asked
my opinion on what type of tech knowledge high school students are going
into college with these days.  I'm trying to give this question a lot of
thought.  My first reaction was that high school students are coming in
with *superior* tech know-how.  But more and more I'm questioning if this
really is "most" or just "some" (and if it's some, how many?).

In our schools, the kids who *typically* have computers at home and know
their way somewhat around the internet are kids who:

A)  have fairly affluent families
B)  are in the gifted program
C)  both of the above

So I'm starting to wonder if technology is just further separating the
"have's" and "have not's" of our society.

I would greatly appreciate collecting your thoughts on this subject.
Please email me directly at dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

I imagine it will take a while to read through the interesting responses.
But when I finally sum it all up for the people asking me the question,
I'll be happy to share it with the group if anyone is interested.

Thanks in advance!

Devin

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From sforres1 at swarthmore.edu  Tue Mar  9 20:52:06 1999
From: sforres1 at swarthmore.edu (Sibelan Forrester)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:52:06 -0400
Subject: Books for review in SEEJ
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.165206.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The list of books available for review in the Slavic and East European
Journal has been updated (new items are at the bottom of each section).
Check the link from the main AATSEEL web page
(<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel>) or go directly to
<http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/sforres1/seej/>.
There are some particularly interesting offerings in Romanian and Ukrainian
literature, as well as these items in the area of history and culture:

Paul Lendvai, BLACKLISTED:  A JOURNALIST'S LIFE IN CENTRAL EUROPE (I. B.
Tauris, 1998)

Andrew Donskov, ed., SERGEY TOLSTOY AND THE DOUKHOBORS:  A JOURNEY TO
CANADA (U of Ottawa and the L. N. Tolstoy Museum, 1998)

Janine R. Wedel, COLLISION AND COLLUSION:  THE STRANGE CASE OF WESTERN AID
TO EASTERN EUROPE, 1989-1998 (St. Martin's Press, 1998)

Catherine Evtuhov et al., eds., KAZAN, MOSCOW, ST. PETERSBURG:  MULTIPLE
FACES OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE (Moscow:  O.G.I, 1997)

Claire Wallace and Sijka Kovatcheva, YOUTH IN SOCIETY:  THE CONSTRUCTION
AND DECONSTRUCTION OF YOUTH IN EAST AND WEST EUROPE (St. Martin's Press,
1999)


Pplease direct all questions and suggestions to Sibelan Forrester at
<SFORRES1 at swarthmore.edu>.

Thank you for your attention!

Sibelan


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Tue Mar  9 22:19:46 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:19:46 -0800
Subject: Counting seconds
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.141946.0800.>

Maybe, but I don't know of it. I'll ask! gg
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

2134 E. Interlaken  Bl.                 Tel. 206/329-0053
Seattle, WA  98112                      ggerhart at wolfenet.com


From JMERRILL at DREW.EDU  Wed Mar 10 01:01:25 1999
From: JMERRILL at DREW.EDU (MERRILL, JASON)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:01:25 -0500
Subject: Lubki
Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.200125.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,
        Can anyone suggest a source with good reproductions of Russian
lubki, especially those dealing with Peter the Great?  I have the book
Russkii risovannyi lubok (M 1992), but it doesn't really have any on that
topic.  Please reply off-list to jmerrill at drew.edu.

Thanks for your help,

Jason Merrill


From ursula.doleschal at wu-wien.ac.at  Wed Mar 10 14:13:03 1999
From: ursula.doleschal at wu-wien.ac.at (Ursula Doleschal)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:13:03 +0100
Subject: Preposition doubling
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.151303.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I remember that this phenomenon is quite common typologically speaking, as well as the doubling of the article (as in Ancient Greek) , unfortunately I cannot come up with any relevant literature at the moment.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Michael Yadroff <myadroff at indiana.edu>
An: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Datum: Mittwoch, 10. März 1999 00:22
Betreff: Preposition doubling


    Dear SEELANGers,
    
    In Colloquial Russian (as well as in Old/Middle Russian and Russian Dialects),
    there is a phenomenon of preposition doubling (tripling, etc.) in definite
    NPs with a head N moved to a front of the NP and modifier(s) left behind,
    like in the following Russian examples:
    
    (i)     Voshel on _v_ dom _v_ tot _v_ zakoldovannyj (Fairy tale narration)
            entered he into house into that into haunted
            'He entered that haunted house'
    
    (ii)    Rasskazhi-ka popodrobnee _o_ brate _o_ svoem. (Coll. Rus.)
            tell in more detail about brother about self
            'Tell me about your brother in more detail'
    
    I'm wondering (I'm really wondering) if there is a similar phenomenon in other
    Slavic languages. I would really appreciate any data about this phenomenon
    from as many Slavic languages as possible.
    
    BTW, first I wanted to start with "In the ES languages ..." I've read the
    Belorussian dialects has this feature. What about Colloquial Belorussian?
    And how about Colloquial Ukrainian?
    
    Best,
    Misha
    
    ************************************************************************
    Michael Yadroff
    Linguistics Department and Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
    Memorial Hall 322           Ballantine Hall 502
    Indiana University
    Bloomington, IN 47405
    myadroff at indiana.edu
    ************************************************************************


From kpking at MtHolyoke.edu  Wed Mar 10 14:43:12 1999
From: kpking at MtHolyoke.edu (Katerina P. King)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:43:12 -0500
Subject: Preposition doubling
In-Reply-To: <v03130300b30a6a5c03b9@[156.56.123.177]>
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.094312.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

You do know about Emily Klenin's article on "prep rep"?

Katya King


On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Michael Yadroff wrote:

> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:02:10 -0500
> From: Michael Yadroff <myadroff at indiana.edu>
> Reply-To: "SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list"
     <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Preposition doubling
>
> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> In Colloquial Russian (as well as in Old/Middle Russian and Russian Dialects),
> there is a phenomenon of preposition doubling (tripling, etc.) in definite
> NPs with a head N moved to a front of the NP and modifier(s) left behind,
> like in the following Russian examples:
>
> (i)     Voshel on _v_ dom _v_ tot _v_ zakoldovannyj (Fairy tale narration)
>         entered he into house into that into haunted
>         'He entered that haunted house'
>
> (ii)    Rasskazhi-ka popodrobnee _o_ brate _o_ svoem. (Coll. Rus.)
>         tell in more detail about brother about self
>         'Tell me about your brother in more detail'
>
> I'm wondering (I'm really wondering) if there is a similar phenomenon in other
> Slavic languages. I would really appreciate any data about this phenomenon
> from as many Slavic languages as possible.
>
> BTW, first I wanted to start with "In the ES languages ..." I've read the
> Belorussian dialects has this feature. What about Colloquial Belorussian?
> And how about Colloquial Ukrainian?
>
> Best,
> Misha
>
> ************************************************************************
> Michael Yadroff
> Linguistics Department and Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
> Memorial Hall 322           Ballantine Hall 502
> Indiana University
> Bloomington, IN 47405
> myadroff at indiana.edu
> ************************************************************************
>


From richardk at wins.uva.nl  Wed Mar 10 14:47:05 1999
From: richardk at wins.uva.nl (Richard Kellermann)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:47:05 +0100
Subject: skorogovorki
In-Reply-To: <199903081448.IAA77358@mail1.doit.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.154705.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hi Ben,

Have you seen the Tongue Twisters Page?

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/

Maybe you can find something interesting there.

Regards,
Richard


From Rebecca.E.Matveyev at lawrence.edu  Wed Mar 10 15:39:43 1999
From: Rebecca.E.Matveyev at lawrence.edu (Rebecca Matveyev)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:39:43 -0600
Subject: Seeking Gary David Roy
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.093943.0600.>

Does anyone know how to get in touch with Gary David Roy, formerly of the
University of Kansas?  A student of mine would like to ask him about his work
on Yuri Trifonov.  If anyone has information, please send email directly to
the student:


lindsay.w.shaw at lawrence.edu


Thanks,
Rebecca


From rbeard at bucknell.edu  Wed Mar 10 16:38:56 1999
From: rbeard at bucknell.edu (Robert Beard)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:38:56 -0500
Subject: Preposition doubling
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.113856.0500.>

If you are interested in knowing why preposition doubling occurs, you might find
some clues in chapters 10-12 of "Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology" by an obscure
morphologist with an unusual if not unfortunate background in Slavic philology.
I think SUNY publishes it at a very reasonable price but copies have been
reported sporadically in well-stocked libraries.

The claim is that prepositions are a type of free variants  in a class with case
endings which do not form a lexical category at all!  Moreover, they are simply
grammatical morphemes in a class with case endings, hence subject to the
grammatically insignificant redundancy which characterizes all morphological
objects and processes.  The brutal evidence for this position also clarifies the
rarity of P-stranding, the absence of Ps in derivation and compounding, the fact
that Ps form a closed class, as well as their ubiquitous 'transposition' with
conjunctions, adverbs and adjectives, and many other of those systematically
ignored properties of 'P' which demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt that it
cannot be a bird of the same feature as Ns, Vs, and As.

--RB

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Beard, Director                               rbeard at bucknell.edu
Russian & Linguistics Programs                              717-524-1336
Bucknell University http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Lewisburg, PA 17837          http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian


From VLK960 at cj.aubg.bg  Wed Mar 10 16:49:25 1999
From: VLK960 at cj.aubg.bg (Uladzimir Katkouski)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:49:25 +200
Subject: Preposition doubling
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.184925.200.>

Here is what one Belarusian wrote...

U.K.

------- Forwarded Message Follows -------

Date sent:      Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:31:34 -0500 (EST)
From:           "E R" <nutts74 at hotmail.com>
Subject:        Re: Preposition doubling


I can't recall this phenomenon in Belarusian, but I can't speak for all
the dialects, though. As far as Russian is concerned, I suspect that
this phenomenon is caused by the fact that in Russian the object and its
describing adjective or pronoun are usually interchangeable without a
change in sense (E.g. Sizhy na sinem divane OR sizhu na divane sinem).
So, in the colloquial speech, a speaker can sometimes add adjectives
after objects, just because he has thought of them after the sentence is
said (Rasskazhi mne o brate... o svoem, o starshem), and additional
prepositions are simply links to the previous phrase. I personally
believe this phenomenon is used primarily in poetry for the sake of
rhymes, since you can just add prepositions to maintain the rhythm.

Auhien


From swan+ at pitt.edu  Wed Mar 10 16:58:55 1999
From: swan+ at pitt.edu (Oscar E Swan)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:58:55 -0500
Subject: Preposition doubling
In-Reply-To: <82A873E23@cj.aubg.bg>
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.115855.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

In seeming refutation of the association between preposition doubling and
adjective/noun placement:

Polish employs adjective/noun reversal much more often and
systematically than Russian, yet preposition doubling is much less often
encountered. In Polish, the adjective after the noun tends to make the
adjective into a 'type' adjective: wymagajacy dyrektor 'a demanding
director' vs. dyrektor wymagajacy 'a demanding sort of director'.


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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Uladzimir Katkouski wrote:

> Here is what one Belarusian wrote...
>
> U.K.
>
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>
> Date sent:      Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:31:34 -0500 (EST)
> From:           "E R" <nutts74 at hotmail.com>
> Subject:        Re: Preposition doubling
>
>
> I can't recall this phenomenon in Belarusian, but I can't speak for all
> the dialects, though. As far as Russian is concerned, I suspect that
> this phenomenon is caused by the fact that in Russian the object and its
> describing adjective or pronoun are usually interchangeable without a
> change in sense (E.g. Sizhy na sinem divane OR sizhu na divane sinem).
> So, in the colloquial speech, a speaker can sometimes add adjectives
> after objects, just because he has thought of them after the sentence is
> said (Rasskazhi mne o brate... o svoem, o starshem), and additional
> prepositions are simply links to the previous phrase. I personally
> believe this phenomenon is used primarily in poetry for the sake of
> rhymes, since you can just add prepositions to maintain the rhythm.
>
> Auhien
>


From klenin at ucla.edu  Wed Mar 10 17:32:58 1999
From: klenin at ucla.edu (EMILY KLENIN)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:32:58 -0800
Subject: Preposition doubling (Katerina King ref.)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.990310094149.3473A-100000@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.093258.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The article is in Russian Linguistics 13 (1989).185-206. "On preposition
repetition:  a study in the history of syntactic government in Old
Russian". It contains references to important earlier work by Worth,
Zalizniak. EK.

************************

Emily Klenin
Department of Slavic Languages
115 Kinsey Hall
Box 951502
Los Angeles, CA 90095-5263

fax 310 206 5263

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Katerina P. King wrote:

> You do know about Emily Klenin's article on "prep rep"?
>
> Katya King
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Michael Yadroff wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:02:10 -0500
> > From: Michael Yadroff <myadroff at indiana.edu>
> > Reply-To: "SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list"
>      <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
> > To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> > Subject: Preposition doubling
> >
> > Dear SEELANGers,
> >
> > In Colloquial Russian (as well as in Old/Middle Russian and Russian
 Dialects),
> > there is a phenomenon of preposition doubling (tripling, etc.) in definite
> > NPs with a head N moved to a front of the NP and modifier(s) left behind,
> > like in the following Russian examples:
> >
> > (i)     Voshel on _v_ dom _v_ tot _v_ zakoldovannyj (Fairy tale narration)
> >         entered he into house into that into haunted
> >         'He entered that haunted house'
> >
> > (ii)    Rasskazhi-ka popodrobnee _o_ brate _o_ svoem. (Coll. Rus.)
> >         tell in more detail about brother about self
> >         'Tell me about your brother in more detail'
> >
> > I'm wondering (I'm really wondering) if there is a similar phenomenon in
 other
> > Slavic languages. I would really appreciate any data about this phenomenon
> > from as many Slavic languages as possible.
> >
> > BTW, first I wanted to start with "In the ES languages ..." I've read the
> > Belorussian dialects has this feature. What about Colloquial Belorussian?
> > And how about Colloquial Ukrainian?
> >
> > Best,
> > Misha
> >
> > ************************************************************************
> > Michael Yadroff
> > Linguistics Department and Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
> > Memorial Hall 322           Ballantine Hall 502
> > Indiana University
> > Bloomington, IN 47405
> > myadroff at indiana.edu
> > ************************************************************************
> >
>


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Wed Mar 10 22:12:46 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:12:46 -0800
Subject: Counting seconds
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.141246.0800.>

E. Boyle wrote:

> Do the Russians have anything equivalent to our "One Mississippi, two
> Mississippi" when we are counting off seconds?

According to a St. Petersburg source, to count off seconds, simply
repeat the number "dvadtsat' odin", and with each repetition curl up one
finger into its fist (i.e., as finger-counting is usually done).

Resident English speaker says "Thousand" instead of "Mississippi".

This helps?  gg


From myadroff at indiana.edu  Thu Mar 11 07:31:31 1999
From: myadroff at indiana.edu (Michael Yadroff)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:31:31 -0500
Subject: Preposition doubling
In-Reply-To: <199903110503.AAA32243@mask.uits.indiana.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.023131.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I greatly appreciate your responses.

Many thanks to Katja King and Emily Klenin. Shame on me,
I didn't even know about the article  "On preposition
repetition:  a study in the history of syntactic government in Old
Russian".  Tomorrow (I mean today) I'm going to read it in our
library. I have gathered a lot of data about "prep rep" in Old and
Middle Russian, so I hope the article contains data from the other
Slavic languages.

Many thanks to Oscar Swan and Tom Priestly (about Polish and Slovenian)
who were first with their responses off list.

Hi, Ursula:  yes, I'm aware of it, though I wouldn't say it's a widespread
phenomena. I've got interested in Slavic prep doubling exactly because it
resembles article/determiner doubling in various languages:
Ancient and Modern Greek (Adams, 1972), Arabic (Fassi Fehri, 1976), Hebrew
(Shlonsky, 1997; Siloni, 1997), Rumanian (Cornilescu, 1993), Albanian
(Morgan,
1972). If you can point out to some other references, I'd be happy.

I'm thankful to Robert Beard: certainly, I'll look through your book (our
library has it).

I appreciate responses from George Grabowicz and Uladzimir Katkouski
with clues about Ukrainian and Belorusian.

However, I need more data about prep doubling (or its absense) from various
Slavic languages (or references to the papers about it): Czeck, Slovak,
Serbian,
Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, etc. (my guess B. and M.
don't have this phenomenon). Please, native linguists!


Thanks a lot,

Misha


************************************************************************
Michael Yadroff
Linguistics Department and Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Memorial Hall 322           Ballantine Hall 502
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
myadroff at indiana.edu
************************************************************************


From kpking at MtHolyoke.edu  Thu Mar 11 17:09:09 1999
From: kpking at MtHolyoke.edu (Katerina P. King)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:09:09 -0500
Subject: Preposition doubling--Czech
In-Reply-To: <v03130302b30d0e06aa94@[156.56.126.124]>
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.120909.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

OK, here come a couple of examples from colloquial Czech:

De^la' to pro na's pro oba. "He is doing it for (the) both of us."

Mluvili jsme o va's o vs^ech. "We spoke about all of you."

Beware that prep rep is VERY restricted in Cz. I am pretty sure that there
are folkloric examples such as those mentioned here for Ukrainian &
Polish, but I don't know enough songs etc. to do a mental computer
search...

All the best,
Katya


From h.khan at wayne.edu  Thu Mar 11 18:24:24 1999
From: h.khan at wayne.edu (Halimur Khan)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:24:24 -0500
Subject: please rank the following journals
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.132424.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Could someone please give me an approximate ranking of the following
journals in the area of Russian studies. Since there are no official
rankings of Russian/Slavic journals that I am aware of, please indicate how
many US journals regularly publish scholarly material on Russian literature
and how the following journals rank compare to them, and how would the
European journal (RUSSIAN LITERATURE) compare in US and European standard:

1. SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL


2. RUSSIAN LITERATURE


3. CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS


4. TOLSTOY STUDIES JOURNAL


5. RUSSIAN LANGUAGE JOURNAL


6. DOSTOEVSKY STUDIES



Thank you. Sincerely,


Halimur Khan
Asst. Professor
German and Slavic


From langston at arches.uga.edu  Thu Mar 11 21:13:03 1999
From: langston at arches.uga.edu (Keith Langston)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:13:03 -0500
Subject: Apple Cyrillic fonts and Microsoft Office 98
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.161303.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,

The Apple Standard Cyrillic fonts together with George Fowler's
Cyrillic keyboards work fine with Microsoft Office 95 on my computer
(running OS 8.1), but when I installed these on the new Macs in our
departmental lab, I can't get the cyrillic to work with the 1998
version of Microsoft Word. The font names show up in cyrillic on the
font menu, but when you try to select one of them nothing happens.
However, if you type something in another font, highlight it and then
select one of the cyrillic fonts it *does* work, but then if you
position the cursor somewhere in the word and attempt to type, the font
for the whole word switches back to the default setting. I tried
changing the default font to cyrillic and that doesn't work either. Has
anyone else encountered this problem? Any ideas?

Thanks,

Keith

******************************
Keith Langston
University of Georgia
Germanic and Slavic Languages
Athens, GA 30602
(706) 542-2448


From gfowler at indiana.edu  Thu Mar 11 21:34:46 1999
From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:34:46 -0500
Subject: Apple Cyrillic fonts and Microsoft Office 98
In-Reply-To: <199903112110.QAA30683@fins.uits.indiana.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.163446.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings!

> The Apple Standard Cyrillic fonts together with George Fowler's
> Cyrillic keyboards work fine with Microsoft Office 95 on my computer
> (running OS 8.1), but when I installed these on the new Macs in our
> departmental lab, I can't get the cyrillic to work with the 1998
> version of Microsoft Word. The font names show up in cyrillic on the
> font menu, but when you try to select one of them nothing happens.
> However, if you type something in another font, highlight it and then
> select one of the cyrillic fonts it *does* work, but then if you
> position the cursor somewhere in the word and attempt to type, the font
> for the whole word switches back to the default setting. I tried
> changing the default font to cyrillic and that doesn't work either. Has
> anyone else encountered this problem? Any ideas?

I do not have this problem in Word 98. I suspect it has something to
do with the keyboard being linked to the font. (The same thing
happens in Word Perfect 3.5/Mac, where keyboard and font are linked.)
My keyboard GF Cyrillic CAPS has an ID number which does not match
what the OS expects for a Cyrillic font, and the result can be that
selecting that keyboard deselects any standard font. This is
frustrating, and there is some built-in way to fix it. However, I
just opened Word 98 and couldn't find the solution. I tried
Tools/Language and Tools/Preferences/various tabs, but didn't see it.
If some SEELangs reader knows the answer, please post it!

BTW, there is a bug with Word98 (acknowledged by MS, miracle of
miracles; but not corrected [yet]) which renders lower-case Cyrillic
"zh" (ascii 230, I believe this is uppercase E-circumflex from French
in standard Western fonts) a blank space IF you have checked the box
for displaying spaces as a tiny dot in Preferences/View. It is really
frustrating to run into this problem!

George Fowler
************************************************************************
George Fowler                                [Email] gfowler at indiana.edu
Dept. of Slavic Languages        [dept. tel.] 1-812-855-9906/-2608/-2624
Ballantine 502                                [dept. fax] 1-812-855-2107
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.               [home tel./fax] 1-317-726-1482/-1642
Indiana University               [Slavica tel./fax] 1-812-856-4186/-4187
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 USA         [Slavica toll-free] 1-877-SLAVICA
************************************************************************


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Thu Mar 11 21:37:03 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert DeLossa)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:37:03 -0500
Subject: Apple Cyrillic fonts and Microsoft Office 98
In-Reply-To: <199903112110.QAA31436@smtp4.fas.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.163703.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Do you have Cyrillic support installed on your lab machines? It could be
that you do not have the correct keyboards/support for the font switching.
I have exactly what you describe ('98, system 8.1), with Cyrillic, Hebrew,
and Arabic support; Word '98 senses all three and switches correctly (with
the problem of a character that doesn't display, as I indicated in an
earlier post).

Robert DeLossa


>---------------------- Information from the mail header
>-----------------------
>Sender:       "SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list"
>              <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
>Poster:       Keith Langston <langston at arches.uga.edu>
>Subject:      Apple Cyrillic fonts and Microsoft Office 98
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Dear Seelangers,
>
>The Apple Standard Cyrillic fonts together with George Fowler's
>Cyrillic keyboards work fine with Microsoft Office 95 on my computer
>(running OS 8.1), but when I installed these on the new Macs in our
>departmental lab, I can't get the cyrillic to work with the 1998
>version of Microsoft Word. The font names show up in cyrillic on the
>font menu, but when you try to select one of them nothing happens.
>However, if you type something in another font, highlight it and then
>select one of the cyrillic fonts it *does* work, but then if you
>position the cursor somewhere in the word and attempt to type, the font
>for the whole word switches back to the default setting. I tried
>changing the default font to cyrillic and that doesn't work either. Has
>anyone else encountered this problem? Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Keith
>
>******************************
>Keith Langston
>University of Georgia
>Germanic and Slavic Languages
>Athens, GA 30602
>(706) 542-2448


____________________________________________________
Robert DeLossa
Director of Publications
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8768; fax. 617-495-8097
reply to: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu
http://www.sabre.org/huri


From lisa.mc at mail.utexas.edu  Fri Mar 12 00:13:29 1999
From: lisa.mc at mail.utexas.edu (Mary Elizabeth McLendon)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:13:29 -0500
Subject: Books for review in SEEJ
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.191329.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Sibelan,
If no one has claimed this book yet, I'd like to review it.  No other
qualifications for this one other than I love to cook and read about food!
S002. Classic Russian Cooking. Elena Molokhovets' A Gift to Young
Housewives. Trans. and intro. by Joyce Toomre. Bloomington & Indianapolis:
Indiana University Press, 1998.
Thanks,
Lisa

Mary Elizabeth (Lisa) McLendon
Doctoral Candidate, Slavic Languages
The University of Texas at Austin


From emboyle at u.washington.edu  Fri Mar 12 04:50:17 1999
From: emboyle at u.washington.edu (E. Boyle)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:50:17 -0800
Subject: Counting seconds
In-Reply-To: <36E6EE5E.65F8@wolfenet.com>
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.205017.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Yes, that helps.  Thanks!

Eloise

***************
Eloise M. Boyle
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Washington
Box 353580
Seattle, WA  98195

(206) 543-7580 (office)
(425) 483-4130 (home)
e-mail: emboyle at u.washington.edu


From N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk  Fri Mar 12 12:46:42 1999
From: N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk (Neil Bermel)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:46:42 +0000
Subject: Graduate study at Sheffield, 1999-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.12.MAR.1999.124642.0000.>

THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN & SLAVONIC STUDIES

The Department welcomes applications for:

Postgraduate taught courses in
* Russian Literary and Cultural Studies
* Slavonic Languages

Postgraduate research supervision in
* Russian literature, drama and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries
* Critical theory and Bakhtin studies
* Slavonic languages and linguistics, esp. Russian, Czech, Polish
* Applied linguistics (teaching methods, translation) and Slavonic
languages

Funding opportunities at the University of Sheffield include:
* Fee waivers for UK/EU students on taught courses (MA);
* Fee waivers and bursaries for UK/EU students on research
programmes (MPhil, PhD).

Deadline for application:  9 April 1999

For more information, please contact:
Professor W J Leatherbarrow
w.leatherbarrow at sheffield.ac.uk

Further information can also be found on the web at:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/rss/
(Russian & Slavonic Studies Department, taught programmes) and

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~gradsch/research.shtml
(Graduate School research programmes search engine) and

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~gradsch/howtoapp.shtml
(Application information)

*******************************************
Neil Bermel
Sheffield University
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Arts Tower, Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN United Kingdom
telephone (+44) (0)114 222 7405
fax (+44) (0)114 222 7416
n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk


From K.R.Hauge at easteur-orient.uio.no  Fri Mar 12 13:26:26 1999
From: K.R.Hauge at easteur-orient.uio.no (Kjetil Ra Hauge)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:26:26 +0100
Subject: Apple Cyrillic fonts and Microsoft Office 98
In-Reply-To: <v04104408b30de48babfe@[134.68.241.153]>
Message-ID: <FRI.12.MAR.1999.142626.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>My keyboard GF Cyrillic CAPS has an ID number which does not match
>what the OS expects for a Cyrillic font, and the result can be that
>selecting that keyboard deselects any standard font. This is
>frustrating, and there is some built-in way to fix it. However, I
>just opened Word 98 and couldn't find the solution. I tried
>Tools/Language and Tools/Preferences/various tabs, but didn't see it.
>If some SEELangs reader knows the answer, please post it!
[...]
>George Fowler

The resource ID for the keyboard (KCHR) resource should be in the range
from 19456 to 19967 for a WorldScript-savvy application to link Cyrillic
fonts with keyboard layouts, see
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Text/Text-534.html

--- Kjetil Ra Hauge, U. of Oslo.
--- Tel. +47/22 85 67 10, fax +47/22 85 41 40


From adrozd at bama.ua.edu  Fri Mar 12 14:55:52 1999
From: adrozd at bama.ua.edu (Andrew M. Drozd)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:55:52 -0600
Subject: Unicode Fonts for Win 95/98
Message-ID: <FRI.12.MAR.1999.085552.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers: Many have contacted me about Unicode fonts and I am happy
to report that there is a site with 18 different freeware Unicode fonts for
Win 95/98. Each font supports the following: CE, Cyr, Baltic, Greek, Tur. I
will get direct links to each of these on the AATSEEL fonts and keyboard
pages as soon as possible. In the meantime, the URL is:

http://www.odinet.de/slovo/unifonts.htm


Andrew M. Drozd
adrozd at bama.ua.edu

Dept. of Modern Languages and Classics
Box 870246
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

tel (205) 348-5720
fax (205) 348-2042


From hanya at brama.com  Fri Mar 12 20:59:14 1999
From: hanya at brama.com (Hanya Krill)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:59:14 -0500
Subject: Traditional Ukrainian Wedding Rituals
Message-ID: <FRI.12.MAR.1999.155914.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

In anticipation of her upcoming book, Brama is pleased to present a new
webpage "Traditional Ukrainian Wedding Rituals," collections from Central
Ukraine (1998) by Natalie Kononenko.

Feast your eyes on a contemporary wedding celebration with traditional
rituals accompanied by descriptive text.  You can find these eye feasts and
read the colorful description at:

http://www.brama.com/art/wedding.html

If you're planning a traditional Ukrainian wedding, wonder about symbolism
in Ukrainian folklore, or want information on an obscure ritual, you can
"ask pani Natalka" by posting your questions to the bulletin board provided
on the site:

http://www.brama.com/art/traditions/traditionsbb.html

Natalie Kononenko is professor of Slavic Languages, Literatures, and
Folklore at the University of Virginia. Her publications include studies of
Turkish and Ukrainian minstrelsy and collections of Ukrainian folktales and
epics. Her most recent book, Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing,
won the Kovaliv prize for 1997. She is currently collecting field and
archival materials for her next book, a study of Ukrainian rituals of
marriage, birth, and death. E-mail: nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu

Enjoy!
- Hanya Krill
hanya at brama.com


From elenalev at ix.netcom.com  Sat Mar 13 04:45:35 1999
From: elenalev at ix.netcom.com (Elena Levintova)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:45:35 -0800
Subject: reimbursement of travel
Message-ID: <FRI.12.MAR.1999.204535.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I heard that money can sometimes be found in American sources for reimbursement
of Russian faculty's traveling expenses to go to a conference. I wonder if
anybody on this list can give me any tips as to how to find such funds, so I
could help my Russian colleagues.
sPASIBO ZARANEE! (Spasibo zaraneye!)


From VLK960 at cj.aubg.bg  Sat Mar 13 16:44:12 1999
From: VLK960 at cj.aubg.bg (Uladzimir Katkouski)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:44:12 +200
Subject: Belarus, Albania, Moldova
Message-ID: <SAT.13.MAR.1999.184412.200.>

Dear SEELANGers!

If you are interested in Eastern Europe, I invite you to stop by my
new web-site that features the following info:

- Albanian and Moldovan links;
- Tons of info about Belarus
  - basic phrases;
  - mini phrase book;
  - searchable database (demo as of now)
  - Lukashenko dossier (50+ cartoons and jokes)
  - and much more...

Looking forward to your comments,
U.K.

P.S. The URL:  http://www.aubg.bg/cj/~vlk960/


From andersen at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU  Sat Mar 13 19:07:39 1999
From: andersen at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU (Henning Andersen)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:07:39 -0800
Subject: preposition iteration
Message-ID: <SAT.13.MAR.1999.110739.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Robert Beard's note on preposition iteration--or prep rep(etition), as it
is sometimes called--reminds me of another obscure morphologist who has
touched on this matter in print.

The Common Slavic, but especially East Slavic, iteration of prepositions
was interpreted as a variety of case agreement in a review I published in
Language 47.949-954 (1971). There I suggested that it developed in response
to (substratum) contact with Finnic or (Finnicized) Baltoid languages
having a rich inventory of local cases. The several local cases in Old
Lithuanian, largely lost in the modern language, bear witness to a slightly
different, but in principle analogous response to the same contact pressure
in Baltic. It is closer to the Finnic model in that it involves the use of
postpositions.

H

|||||||   Henning Andersen
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|||||||   University of California
|||||||   P.O. Box 951502
|||||||   LOS ANGELES CA 90095-1502

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From sergerogosin at yahoo.com  Sat Mar 13 20:01:40 1999
From: sergerogosin at yahoo.com (serge rogosin)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 12:01:40 -0800
Subject: pushkin statues in the us
Message-ID: <SAT.13.MAR.1999.120140.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone know of any busts or statues of Pushkin in the United
States?  I am aware of the Pushkin memorial at ROVA Farms in Jackson,
NJ, which was partly paid for by Jaroff s Don Cossacks in the early
1940 s, and the bust at Arrow Park near Harrison, NY.

Are there any others?  I am especially interested in a bust by
Dmitrieff which was supposedly in Chicago in the 1940s.  Does anyone
know anything about it or its fate?

Any leads would be very much appreciated.

Serge Rogosin
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From hlmurav at ucdavis.edu  Sun Mar 14 03:06:49 1999
From: hlmurav at ucdavis.edu (Harriet Murav)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 19:06:49 -0800
Subject: G. I. Bogrov
Message-ID: <SAT.13.MAR.1999.190649.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I am interested in references to and information about G. I. Bogrov, the
19th century Russian Jewish writer who published a novel, ZAPISKI EVREIA in
Otechestvennye zapiski in the early 1870s. I seem to have read somewhere
that he committed forgery (?).  Please answer off-list.  Thanks in advance
for any leads.

Harriet Murav
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
   email: hlmurav at ucdavis.edu
Office Phone: (916) 752-1971


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Sun Mar 14 03:30:33 1999
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:30:33 -0600
Subject: OPI Workshop in Russian
Message-ID: <SAT.13.MAR.1999.213033.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

ACTFL (the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and
Middlebury College will be sponsoring an Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop
(with a section in Russian if enrollment warrants it) this summer on the
campus of Middlebury College.

The workshop wil be held July 22-25, 1999.  Since the workshop will occur
during the summer session of the Russian School, there will be plenty of
students at different levels to volunteer to be tested by those learning how
to administer the oral proficiency interview.

The deadline to register for the workshop is June 3, 1999.

For more information about the workshop, including costs and how to
register, please contact ACTFL directly:

Grace Oyekan
e-mail:  GOACTFL at aol.com

ACTFL's web site is:  www.actfl.org

I would appreciate it if you would pass this information on to colleagues
who may not subscribe to SEELANGs.

Once again, please direct your queries to Grace Oyekan.

With best regards,

Ben Rifkin

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof. of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623; fax:  608/265-2814
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


From BBRIKER at UCIS.VILL.EDU  Sun Mar 14 14:25:00 1999
From: BBRIKER at UCIS.VILL.EDU (Boris Briker)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:25:00 EST
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 12 Mar 1999 to 13 Mar 1999 (#1999-66)
Message-ID: <SUN.14.MAR.1999.092500.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Friends,  I would like to announce that Vasily Aksyonov will give
a talk, "A Novelist at the University," at Villanova University on
Wednesday, March 17 at 3:30 PM in St. Augustine Center, Room 300.
His talk will be in English.  As you know, Aksyonov is one of the
most prominent Russian writers living today.  For directions, you
can call: 610-519-4640. You can also call me at: 610-519-6952.
Boris Briker


From mitrege at mail.auburn.edu  Sun Mar 14 16:47:14 1999
From: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu (George Mitrevski)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:47:14 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: Dialect of ?]
Message-ID: <SUN.14.MAR.1999.114714.0500.>

Please reply directly to original sender.
--
***************************************************************
Dr. George Mitrevski            office: 334-844-6376
Foreign Languages                  fax: 334-844-6378
6030 Haley Center               e-mail: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5204

List of my WWW pages: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/index.html
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From kpking at MtHolyoke.edu  Sun Mar 14 16:55:17 1999
From: kpking at MtHolyoke.edu (Katerina P. King)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:55:17 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: Dialect of ?] (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.990314115009.27836B-100000@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.14.MAR.1999.115517.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Jeremy King wrote:

> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:50:12 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jeremy King <jking at MtHolyoke.edu>
> To: "Katerina P. King" <kpking at mtholyoke.edu>
> Subject: Dialect

> The dialect in question might be from the Hungarian town of "Gran," known
> today as "Esztergom."  At the turn of the century, residents of the town
> would have known Hungarian, German, and/or Slovak, in various combinations
> and permutations.  Today, Esztergom is located just across the Danube
> River from Slovakia, in Hungarian territory not far upstream from
> Budapest.
>
> Jeremy King
> Mount Holyoke College
>
> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Katerina P. King wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:43:44 -0500 (EST)
> > From: "Katerina P. King" <kpking at MtHolyoke.edu>
> > To: jeremy king <jking at mtholyoke.edu>
> > Subject: [Fwd: Dialect of ?] (fwd)
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:47:14 -0500
> > From: George Mitrevski <mitrege at mail.auburn.edu>
> > To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> > Subject: [Fwd: Dialect of ?]
> >
> > Please reply directly to original sender.
> > --
> > ***************************************************************
> > Dr. George Mitrevski            office: 334-844-6376
> > Foreign Languages                  fax: 334-844-6378
> > 6030 Haley Center               e-mail: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu
> > Auburn University
> > Auburn, AL 36849-5204
> >
> > List of my WWW pages: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/index.html
> > ***************************************************************
> >
>
>


From tom.priestly at ualberta.ca  Sun Mar 14 17:43:41 1999
From: tom.priestly at ualberta.ca (Tom Priestly)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:43:41 -0700
Subject: Grahner
In-Reply-To: <199903141655.JAA06576@pilsener.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Message-ID: <SUN.14.MAR.1999.104341.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

One possible meaning of GRAHNER: someone from Central/Western Slovenia.

The form "Grainer" was very common in the Eastern U.S.A., in states settled
by Slovene immigrants (e.g., Pennsylvania), in reference to themselves - or
in reference to Central Slovenes by non-Central Slovenes. Most of the
Slovene immigrants to this area were from the coal-mining areas of Slovenia
and worked in that and allied industries in the U.S.A.
The word "Grainer" was a corruption of "Krainer," namely, someone from
"Krain" - the German form of Carniola = Central/Western Slovenia - (e.g.,
Oberkrain = Gorenjsko, area to the NW of Ljubljana; Unterkrain = Dolenjsko,
area to the SE of Ljubljana).
There was an article on this by Joe Kess, a linguist at the University of
Victoria, B.C., Canada, several decades ago in a journal devoted to
American Onomastics (was it *American Naming*?)

Tom Priestly

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
*  Tom Priestly
*  President, Society for Slovene Studies
*  Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
*  University of Alberta
*  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
--------------------------------------------------------------
!!! NOTE NEW AREA CODE!!!

*  telephone:   780 - 492 - 0789
*  fax:                780 - 492 - 9106

*  email:           tom.priestly at ualberta.ca
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


From mitrege at mail.auburn.edu  Sun Mar 14 18:20:18 1999
From: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu (George Mitrevski)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:20:18 -0500
Subject: [Repin Painting]
Message-ID: <SUN.14.MAR.1999.132018.0500.>

Please reply directly to original sender.

George.
--
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Dr. George Mitrevski            office: 334-844-6376
Foreign Languages                  fax: 334-844-6378
6030 Haley Center               e-mail: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5204

List of my WWW pages: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/index.html
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From yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp  Mon Mar 15 03:31:04 1999
From: yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp (Yoshimasa Tsuji)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:31:04 +0900
Subject: full text retrieval system
Message-ID: <MON.15.MAR.1999.123104.0900.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello,
  I have been using unix's "grep" command to search particular
words in my text archive which is not terrribly large. But they
say if my archive becomes a little larger (say, several gigabytes)
I won't be able to cope.
  It is suggested that I should use some kind of FullTextRetrieval
system that internet browser users are familiar with whenever they
call some net search services. The thing is that the systems I know
use key word index that are created by scanning the whole of the text
so that the word search won't require scanning the text thereafter, but
the "key word" are usually obscure words like proper names and not,
for example, definite article or similar words that appear very often.
  The query I would like to put to you is that whether or not there is
a need to do the FullTextRetrieval in order to obtain word usages (which
is the sole objective of mine). And is there a need to search derivatives
as well?
  I am asking this because I am thinking of buying a product by bitsoft
that does that kind of job (they say it will find "finds", "found", "finding",
etc. upon input of "find"). They sell a product that sets <idesh'> under
<idti> index, which is interesting.

  If you have experience on this matter, let me know.

Cheers,
Tsuji

-------
The "grep" command, if slightly hacked", seems to be sufficient
if the volume of text is less than 600 MB (the Chekhov's full
30 volumes is much, much less). The matter will be completely
different if my machine is to serve anonymous enquirers all over
the world, of course.


From sforres1 at swarthmore.edu  Mon Mar 15 14:47:23 1999
From: sforres1 at swarthmore.edu (Sibelan Forrester)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:47:23 -0400
Subject: Reminder:  AATSEEL Web Award nominations
Message-ID: <MON.15.MAR.1999.104723.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

This is to remind everyone who is interested in the development of web
sites in the field that nominations are due soon for the new AATSEEL Prize
for best web site in the field of Slavic and East European studies.

Web sites may be nominated by any member of AATSEEL; authors (at least one
responsible author, for collective sites) must be members in good standing
of AATSEEL.  Entries will be evaluated by the Ad Hoc Technology Committee
of the AATSEEL Executive Council, in consultation with the Publications
Committee.  Members of the Committee will visit all nominated sites between
April 15 and May 1, 1999; the winner will be notified some time in early
fall of 1999 and will receive the award at the 1999 conference in Chicago.
Members of the Ad Hoc Technology Committee and Publications Committee of
the AATSEEL Executive Council are not eligible to enter this competition,
though they are invited to nominate sites authored by others.

Entries will be evaluated both according to content and to effectiveness of
presentation.  This includes validity of html code; "bells and whistles,"
if any, that enhance presentation rather than distracting; minimal loss of
meaning and effect when viewed with various browsers; integrity of links;
common sense and good taste.

Please direct questions and nominations to:

        Joan Chevalier
        115 Kinsey Hall
        Slavic Languages and Literatures
        UCLA
        405 Hilgard Ave.
        Los Angeles, CA  90024

        fax (310) 206-5263
        <Yerdle at compuserve.com>

All nominations must be received by April 15, 1999.

Thank you for your attention!  Please pass this message along to any
friends or colleagues who paradoxically do not combine interest in the web
with regular reading of SEELANGS.

Sibelan Forrester
Chair, AATSEEL Ad Hoc Technology Committee


From Lesley.Milne at nottingham.ac.uk  Mon Mar 15 16:27:03 1999
From: Lesley.Milne at nottingham.ac.uk (LESLEY MILNE)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:27:03 EST
Subject: Graduate study at Nottingham, 1999 entry
Message-ID: <MON.15.MAR.1999.112703.EST.>

UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS IN
MODERN LANGUAGES:MA & PhD

The School of Modern Languages, University of Nottingham, has
pleasure in announcing an extension of its recently publicised
scheme of fully funded (ie fees and maintenance) studentships
available for graduate students wishing to pursue either: a) MA by
research or taught MA, where appropriate; PhD by research.

It is a condition of the scheme that, where eligible, candidates
should also apply for an equivalent studentship of the AHRB (Arts
& Humanities Research Board). The deadline for application for the
University of Nottingham Graduate Studentships is 31 March 1999.
Candidates will subsequently be invited to a Graduate Studies
Interview Day when they will have the opportunity to meet staff and
currently-registered Masters and Doctoral candidates.

Candidates are invited to contact the Director of Research in the
Department of Slavonic Studies for further information
(lesley.milne at nottingham.ac.uk: tel. 0115-9515832). All enquiries
or correspondence concerning the Studentships should be directed
in the first instance to: Professor Roger Woods, Head of the
School of Modern Languages, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham NG7 2RD. Telephone:0115 9515813. Fax: 0115
9515812. email: Roger.Woods at nottingham.ac.uk
Dr Lesley Milne
Department of Slavonic Studies
The University of Nottingham
Phone: (0115) 951 5832


From hwdkettering at erols.com  Mon Mar 15 19:26:36 1999
From: hwdkettering at erols.com (Karen L. Kettering)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:26:36 -0500
Subject: Symposium on Russian Modernism, Washington, D.C. April 9-10
Message-ID: <MON.15.MAR.1999.142636.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

 Russian Modernism:  Methods and Meanings in the Post-Soviet
Era,  April 9-10,
1999, is the first in a series of symposia planned by the Society
of Historians
of East European and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA), and is

co-sponsored by the Kennan Institute for the Advanced Russian
Studies
of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the
Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of
Maryland,
College Park.

GOAL: The event s aim is to assess the critical issues and the
state of
current research in the field.  It is organized around questions
of methodology
in response to shifts in the study of Russian modernism in the
visual arts
and design practices that have followed the recent political
changes in the
former USSR.  The themes proposed by the speakers reconsider the
debates and practices of Russian modernism through the prism of
its historiography.

Speakers will include Catherine Cooke, Grigorii Sternin, Jane
Sharp,
Blair Ruble, Lauren O Connell, Pamela Kachurin, Elizabeth
English,
Anna Sokolina, Greg Castillo, Christina Kiaer, Alla Efimova,
Roann Barris, Konstantin Akinsha, Aleksandra Shatskikh, Charlotte

Douglas, Erika Wolf, and Jennifer Cahn.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, AGENDA, MAPS, etc.:  Please see

http://wwics.si.edu/FORTHCOM/rusmod.htm

and

http://www.inform.umd.edu/arth/events/symposium.html

You may also contact Allison Abrams of the Kennan Institute at
202/691-4236 or ABRAMSAL at wwic.si.edu

--
Karen L. Kettering
Associate Curator of Russian Art
Hillwood Museum
4155 Linnean Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20008 USA
TEL: 202/686-8500 x8533
FAX: 202/966-7846
E-mail: hwdkettering at erols.com
http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org


From jdclayt at uottawa.ca  Mon Mar 15 21:49:14 1999
From: jdclayt at uottawa.ca (J. Douglas Clayton)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:49:14 -0500
Subject: ISO Alla
In-Reply-To: <v03020905b30de5d42122@[140.247.202.66]>
Message-ID: <MON.15.MAR.1999.164914.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGovtsy:

Can any kind soul tell me where on the net I can find the words to Alla
Pugacheva's hit "Mal-po-malu"?

Spasibo zaranee!

Da-glas

**********************************************************************
J. Douglas Clayton                 Tel. 613-562-5800 Ext. 3765 (office)
Professor                               613-241-1782 (home)
Modern Languages & Literatures     Fax  613-562-5138
University of Ottawa
Box 450 Stn A
Ottawa ON K1N 6N5
Canada                      http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~jdclayt/index.html

            "Life is far too tragic to be taken seriously"


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Tue Mar 16 02:52:32 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:52:32 -0500
Subject: ISO: Russian lang programs in Springfield, Missouri
Message-ID: <MON.15.MAR.1999.215232.0500.DPBROWNE@PITT.EDU>

Greetings all!  There's a teacher in Springfield, Missouri who is
interested in learning some Russian -- her elementary students are having
an email exchange w/Russian students, and she would like to learn some
Russian during this process.  She needs to stay in the area because of her
13 year old child, so local programs are what's necessary.  Anyone
familiar with *any* Russian programs in her area?  Formal (university),
informal (non-credit, conversational, etc.), summer, etc?  If so, please
contact me or Jean Pacheco at the following email address:
jpacheco44 at hotmail.com

Spassibo bol'shoe!

Devin / Divan

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From dgoldfar at barnard.edu  Tue Mar 16 16:53:24 1999
From: dgoldfar at barnard.edu (David Goldfarb)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:53:24 -0500
Subject: CFP:  East European Theory
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.115324.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Call for Papers--1999 MLA Convention in Chicago

EAST EUROPEAN THEORY

Organized by the Slavic Cultures Discussion Group

Open panel on Literary and Cultural Theory in Eastern Europe.  Possible
topics include, but are not limited to:

--The legacies of pre-war schools of literary theory in Eastern Europe
--Ingarden and phenomenological criticism in Poland
--Prague Structuralism and its influence
--Lacanians in Ljubljana
--Feminist theory in Eastern Europe
--Lukacs
--Post-Communist Marxism

Please send an abstract of 1-2 pages and a brief CV by email as a text
file (ascii) attachment or in an email message to
dgoldfarb at barnard.columbia.edu, by fax to 212-854-8266, or by conventional
mail to:

        David A. Goldfarb
        Slavic Department
        Barnard College
        Columbia University
        3009 Broadway
        New York, NY  10027-6598

Abstracts must be received by 1 April 1999, and selected participants must
be current members of the Modern Language Association.

For more information on the converence, visit the MLA website at
www.mla.org.

David A. Goldfarb
Department of Slavic Languages
Barnard College
Columbia University
________________________________________
e-mail:  DGoldfarb at barnard.columbia.edu
WWW:  http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb
________________________________________


From holdeman.2 at osu.edu  Tue Mar 16 17:25:00 1999
From: holdeman.2 at osu.edu (Jeff Holdeman)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:25:00 -0500
Subject: Fwd: New release of Mac russification
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.122500.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The Mac enthusiasts on the list might find this informative.  I haven't
downloaded it yet, but I thought I would pass it on.  Has anyone had
experience with this?

Jeff Holdeman
The Ohio State University

*****************

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:06:57 +0300
From: Macintosh in Russia <feedback at macintosh.ru>
Subject: cRussify Mac! 2.5 released
To: feedback at macintosh.ru
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0404)

Dear friends,

you receive this mailing because you asked us to notify you of new releases
of cRussify Mac, a russificator for Mac OS.

cRussify Mac 2.5 has been released today, and is available from the
following link:

http://www.macintosh.ru/download/crussify

The new version is compatible with Mac OS 8.5 (and later).


Best wishes,
"Macintosh in Russia" team.


From omalley at hawaii.edu  Tue Mar 16 21:32:21 1999
From: omalley at hawaii.edu (Lurana OMalley)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:32:21 -1000
Subject: Catherine the Great Comedies available
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.113221.1000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Please excuse cross-posting of this information to several lists.

I am pleased to remind you of the publication of the following edition,
and hope you will consider these plays for fall course adoptions, for
purchase by your libraries, and for your own reading and research.

******************************

TWO COMEDIES BY CATHERINE THE GREAT, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman

Translated and edited by Lurana Donnels O'Malley, Associate Professor of
Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaii, USA

Catherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas,
but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been
available to an English- speaking readership.

Oh, These Times! (1772) is a satirical attack on many vices Catherine
wished to root out from her society: religious hypocrisy, superstition and
slander. The main character, Mrs. Sanctimonious, is a superficially
religious old woman who resembles Moliere's Tartuffe.

Catherine again sets her sights on superstition in The Siberian Shaman
(1786), this time by satirizing shamanism as a deceitful profession which
preys on the gullible. This play was part of a group of three plays usually
known as Catherine's "anti-masonic" trilogy, written as a warning against
the growing influence of the freemasons.

In a comprehensive introduction, Lurana Donnels O'Malley relates the plays
to Catherine's status and philosophy.

Readership: Theatre professionals, academics, historians and scholars,
particularly those with a keen interest in Russian Studies.

1998
111pp, 1 colour illustration
Paperback ISBN: 90-5755-023-7
US$22.50 / 15 / ECU19

Cloth ISBN 90-5755-022-9
US$45 / 30 / ECU37


Russian Theatre Archive, Volume 15
Harwood Academic Publishers
Gordon and Breach Publishing Group

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*****************

to contact the author:


Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Associate Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance
1770 East-West Road
University of Hawai'i
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
Tel. 808-956-9609
Fax  808-956-4234
omalley at hawaii.edu
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~omalley/


From gfowler at indiana.edu  Wed Mar 17 01:39:50 1999
From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:39:50 -0500
Subject: Apple Cyrillic fonts and Microsoft Office 98
In-Reply-To: <199903112110.QAA30683@fins.uits.indiana.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.203950.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 4:13 PM -0500 3/11/99, Keith Langston wrote:

> The Apple Standard Cyrillic fonts together with George Fowler's
> Cyrillic keyboards work fine with Microsoft Office 95 on my computer
> (running OS 8.1), but when I installed these on the new Macs in our
> departmental lab, I can't get the cyrillic to work with the 1998
> version of Microsoft Word. The font names show up in cyrillic on the
> font menu, but when you try to select one of them nothing happens.
> However, if you type something in another font, highlight it and then
> select one of the cyrillic fonts it *does* work, but then if you
> position the cursor somewhere in the word and attempt to type, the font
> for the whole word switches back to the default setting. I tried
> changing the default font to cyrillic and that doesn't work either. Has
> anyone else encountered this problem? Any ideas?

There were several follow-up postings, including one speculative one
from me, but no definitive answer. I have solved the problem now, and
wanted to pass this along to Keith and everyone else interested in
fine-tuning their Macs!

First, a prediction: though Keith doesn't say so, I'd wager a
substantial sum that the lab Macs are running OS 8.5 or 8.5.1 (should
be the latter!).

Second, background to the problem: the issue involves synchronization
between the system "dialect", or language behavior, and the
fonts/keyboards in use. If your Mac thinks you are using it for
Russian purposes, it may link Russian fonts (which are identifiable
to the system; that's how a utility like Adobe Type Reunion can unify
all standard Cyrillic fonts at the bottom of the font menu in many
applications, for example) and Russian keyboards (which the system
thinks should be used when you are using a Russian font). Most of my
keyboards are old enough that I wasn't aware of this linkage when I
made them up, and they were generally cobbled together to begin with,
rather than designed in any consistent fashion. (But see below.)

Logically, of course, one could use any keyboard with any font; the
only purpose of a keyboard is to make sure that you can type the
characters you want. But the linking of keyboard and font is intended
to be *helpful* rather than a burden. One might as well get in line
with these requirements, rather than butting one's head against the
wall.

Therefore, there ought to be two solutions: 1) delink the font and
keyboard; or 2) ensure that the keyboard you want to use is in synch
with the linkage.

Solution #1: To delink the keyboard and font, go to the Keyboard
control panel, click Options, and uncheck the font/keyboard linkage
checkbox. (I was wrong in my earlier posting in ascribing this
linkage to Word; it is OS 8.5.x behavior.) I have done this on my
machine, and it does NOT delink the font and keyboard, as Keith
describes. I cannot understand this! Perhaps Kjetil Ra Hauge (who
posted some very useful information in this thread) or someone else
can explain why that isn't enough to delink them!

Solution #2: So, let's quit beating our heads against the wall.
Instead, just install a new copy of GF Cyrillic CAPS keyboard (KCHR
resource) which has been altered so that the keyboard ID number is
appropriate for the linkage. What, you don't have one? I do: I just
made it up. I changed the name to GF Cyrillic CAPS.2 and the keyboard
ID number from 1945 to 19548 (now within the range identified by
Kjetil), and lo and behold, this actually works. Open Word 98, select
a Cyrillic font, select the GF Cyrillic CAPS.2 keyboard, and you type
English in that font. Hit CAPS LOCK and you type Cyrillic according
to the AATSEEL Student keyboard (most convenient for non-natives like
myself).

While I was tinkering with the KCHR file for this keyboard, I took
the liberty of fixing a couple of problems that have long irritated
me, mainly the accidental remapping of Option+Command+Key
combinations to ridiculous arbitrary values, both with and without
CAPS LOCK depressed. These now work according to the standard US
keyboard.

Where can you get this keyboard? I am not ready to distribute it via
the Internet, i.e., replacing the older one on the AATSEEL www page,
for example. But you can get a "beta" copy by emailing me, and if you
find any problems, please let me know, and I'll fix them and
eventually post a replacement. I'll do a Russian National keyboard
the same way (I have one now, but it has the same problems). In the
meantime, the damn thing is only 2K, so I am going to paste in a
binhexed copy below. If you don't want it (or if you are a PC user,
boo hiss), ignore it, and it will do no harm. If you *want* to try
it, save that portion of this message as a text file (without my
signature lines), then do the usual thing of running it through
Stuff-It Expander or the equivalent. You should be able to leave in
the old GF Cyrillic CAPS alongside the new one, to see more clearly
what the differences are.

Before closing, let me pass along two more snippets of information.
First, a positive fringe benefit of fixing your font/keyboard habits
to accord with Apple's WorldScript is that if you are typing in
Cyrillic in Word 98 and switch to a program that doesn't support
Cyrillic (e.g., any version of Telnet), then you will automatically
switch back to the US keyboard. That's not a bad thing!

Second, there's a brand new, OS 8.5-savvy version of cRussify out,
and I just installed it about one hour ago. It is free from
http://www.macintosh.ru, about a 1 MB download. It seems to be
effective and stable. If, like me, you want a basically US system,
but with Cyrillic-savvy behavior, install the secondary Cyrillic
script. Add my keyboard, and you're ready to go! The Finder will
display Cyrillic, sort in Cyrillic order if required, and so on and
so forth. Best of all, I can't find any detrimental side effects!
Unlike other Russification software (Dialect, Russificator, Universal
Cyrillic Script, Apple Cyrillic Language Kit), it doesn't forcibly
modify the way numbers, dates, and times are displayed, and I haven't
been able to make anything crash as a result! (Dialect always makes
Eudora Pro crash for me, for example.) So I heartily recommend that
you check out this free software.

George Fowler

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George Fowler                                [Email] gfowler at indiana.edu
Dept. of Slavic Languages        [dept. tel.] 1-812-855-9906/-2608/-2624
Ballantine 502                                [dept. fax] 1-812-855-2107
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.               [home tel./fax] 1-317-726-1482/-1642
Indiana University               [Slavica tel./fax] 1-812-856-4186/-4187
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 USA         [Slavica toll-free] 1-877-SLAVICA
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From gfowler at indiana.edu  Wed Mar 17 01:57:29 1999
From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:57:29 -0500
Subject: 2K mea culpa
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.205729.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings!

I included a 2K binhexed copy of a KCHR resource as text inside the
posting I just sent to SEELangs, but when I received the distributed
copy, it had gotten converted into an attachment. I didn't want that
to happen; it litters up the hard disk. Mea culpa!

George
************************************************************************
George Fowler                                [Email] gfowler at indiana.edu
Dept. of Slavic Languages        [dept. tel.] 1-812-855-9906/-2608/-2624
Ballantine 502                                [dept. fax] 1-812-855-2107
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.               [home tel./fax] 1-317-726-1482/-1642
Indiana University               [Slavica tel./fax] 1-812-856-4186/-4187
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 USA         [Slavica toll-free] 1-877-SLAVICA
************************************************************************


From akalpt at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 17 21:28:25 1999
From: akalpt at hotmail.com (lindsey taxman)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:28:25 PST
Subject: Job Opening -- Washington, DC
Message-ID: <WED.17.MAR.1999.132825.PST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Please post in university departments and forward to any interested
candidates.

Spasibo Bolshoe,
Lindsey Paige Taxman
UCSJ National Outreach Coordinator

POSITION AVAILABLE

Office Manager
Office Manager needed for non-profit Jewish, human rights organization
dealing with the former Soviet Union.  Requirements:  Must have college
degree, at least 1 year administrative experience, very strong
organizational skills, and full proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word,
Access, and Excel), Pagemaker, and network administration.  Russian
language skills a plus.  Salary low twenties, plus great benefits.  Send
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From akalpt at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 17 21:29:13 1999
From: akalpt at hotmail.com (lindsey taxman)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:29:13 PST
Subject: Job Opening -- Washington, DC
Message-ID: <WED.17.MAR.1999.132913.PST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Please post in university departments and forward to any interested
candidates.

Spasibo Bolshoe,
Lindsey Paige Taxman
UCSJ National Outreach Coordinator

Union of Councils (UCSJ)
POSITION AVAILABLE

Office Manager
Office Manager needed for non-profit Jewish, human rights organization
dealing with the former Soviet Union.  Requirements:  Must have college
degree, at least 1 year administrative experience, very strong
organizational skills, and full proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word,
Access, and Excel), Pagemaker, and network administration.  Russian
language skills a plus.  Salary low twenties, plus great benefits.  Send
resume & cover letter to:  Search Committee, UCSJ, 1819 H St., NW #230,
Washington, DC 20006; fax 202/775-9776; Email:  ucsj at ucsj.com

Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com


From K.R.Hauge at easteur-orient.uio.no  Thu Mar 18 09:04:13 1999
From: K.R.Hauge at easteur-orient.uio.no (Kjetil Ra Hauge)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:04:13 +0100
Subject: Apple Cyrillic fonts and Microsoft Office 98
In-Reply-To: <v04104800b31499f49079@[134.68.239.24]>
Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.100413.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>George Fowler <gfowler at indiana.edu> wrote:

>Solution #1: To delink the keyboard and font, go to the Keyboard
>control panel, click Options, and uncheck the font/keyboard linkage
>checkbox. (I was wrong in my earlier posting in ascribing this
>linkage to Word; it is OS 8.5.x behavior.) I have done this on my
>machine, and it does NOT delink the font and keyboard, as Keith
>describes. I cannot understand this! Perhaps Kjetil Ra Hauge (who
>posted some very useful information in this thread) or someone else
>can explain why that isn't enough to delink them!

I have little first-hand experience with the programs involved, as I have
not upgraded to System 8 and use Word 98 only when I have no other coice,
but could it be that you  have at some time defined Word 98 as Cyrillic
with the Cyrillic Language Register program? In that case, it seems, the
program will still show menus in English, but will muster whatever
WorldScript-friendliness it has, regardless of the setting of the Text
control panel.


From cinkhars at pol.com  Thu Mar 18 19:50:02 1999
From: cinkhars at pol.com (David Paul Brokaw)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:50:02 -0500
Subject: Thanks for the suggestions
Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.145002.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGERS,

I am offering my much belated thanks to Natalia Pylypiuk, Stephen Bobick,
Robert DeLossa, Vera Andrushkiw, Michael Flier, and others who I have
undoubtedly overlooked.  You were all willing to take time out of your busy
schedules to give me advice on English-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-English
Dictionaries.

My excuse for not thanking you earlier is that in January the
Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister City Project was applying for an extension to its
USIA Community Connections grant for 1999-2000, and in February and March we
have hosted ten USIA Community Connections business interns from Kharkiv,
Ukraine.  However, even with this busy schedule, I should have taken the
time to express my thanks.

With sincere appreciation,

David Brokaw, MBA, MA
CKSCP Office Manager


From Laura.J.Olson at colorado.edu  Fri Mar 19 00:07:09 1999
From: Laura.J.Olson at colorado.edu (Laura J. Olson)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:07:09 -0700
Subject: SUMMER SEMINAR IN COSSACK FOLK MUSIC
Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.170709.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANG-ovtsy,
        I am posting the following announcement for acquaintances at the Moscow
Conservatory. Please respond to the address at the end of the letter, not
to me. However, I'd be glad to answer questions about the organizers of
this seminar, the trip and the regions they are visiting, since I have
personal knowledge of them. I think it should be a very interesting
seminar, and the music is fantastic.
        --Laura Olson
        U. of Colorado

SUMMER SEMINAR IN COSSACK FOLK MUSIC AT MOSCOW STATE CONSERVATORY - August,
12-26,1999
        The Folk Music Department of the Moscow State Conservatory announces its
second summer seminar, The Singing and Instrumental Traditions of the Don
Cossacks, to take place August 12-26. The seminar will include 6
days of workshops and courses at the Moscow Conservatory, and a 7-day
field expedition to Cossack villages in the Volgograd region of Russia.
Participants will live in home-stay situations. In Moscow, they will be
housed with members of the Moscow State Conservatory Folklore Ensemble;
in the Volgograd area, they will live in Cossack homes. Ethnomusicologist
Natalia Giliarova, Dean of the Theoretical Faculty of the Conservatory and
director of the Folklore Ensemble, will conduct the seminar.
The specific hours of study included in the Moscow portion of the trip
are:
        -Basic genres of Russian folklore                  (4 hours)
        -Singing traditions of the Don Cossacks            (4 hours)
        -The wedding ritual                                (2 hours)
        -Instrumental traditions of the Don Cossacks       (2 hours)
        -Workshops in singing, instruments, and traditional
         dances and games, together with the Moscow Conservatory

         Folklore Ensemble. Includes group field trips to museums and

         parks in Moscow area                              (12 hours)
Lectures, classes, and all songs taught will be translated into English
for those who do not know Russian.  In living situations, every effort will
be made to match non-Russian speakers with English-speaking hosts and/or
roommates.
        In Volgograd, participants will acquaint themselves with the
traditions of the Don Cossacks directly from members of local amateur
ensembles, and will have a chance to observe firsthand how traditions
are carried out today. The Don Cossacks are Russian-speaking people who
settled in the borderlands of Russia during the 16th century. They
evolved particular traditions drawn from their unusual lifestyles and
proximity to non-Russian peoples; their music has been made popular in
Russia through the efforts of numerous revivalist groups, such as the
Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, which has extensively toured the US.
        Both in Moscow and in Volgograd, participants will have ample
opportunity to learn and practice songs and dances outside of scheduled
classes. The seminar will be conducted informally with plenty of
individual attention, so that those with particular interests can pursue
them within the context of the seminar. All skill levels are welcome.
        Cost of the entire seminar, including all living expenses,
transportation within Russia, and classes, is $1370 if there is a total
of 7-10 participants, and $1230 if there are 10-15 participants.
Supplementary cultural programs such as visits to specific museums or
monuments in Moscow can be organized at the wish of the participants for
modest extra cost.
        Those who wish to take part in the seminar should send a letter
by May 1,1999 with the following information, which is
necessary for the issuance of the visa: Full name, date of birth,
address, place of work or study, number of passport, its expiration date
and date and place of issuance, and the desired dates for entry and exit
of Russia, telephone number, and E-mail.
        The letter should be sent by mail, fax or E-mail to:
Dr. Oxana Levko - director of the Seminar
4400 Massachusetts Ave
American University,
Department of Performing Arts
Kreeger Building.#200
Washington D.C., 20016.
tel. (202)885-3438,
fax. (202)885-1092,
E-mail:o_levko at hotmail.com


Laura J. Olson
home:
1830 W. Centennial Dr. #205A
Louisville, CO 80027
(303) 926-7948

work:
Department of Germanic and Slavic
        Languages and Literatures
Campus Box 276
Univ. of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0276

(303) 492-7404 main office
(303) 492-5376 fax


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Fri Mar 19 22:53:58 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:53:58 -0500
Subject: West Point, anyone?
In-Reply-To: <6849a827.36f241dd@aol.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAR.1999.175358.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Below is a message from another list.  If anyone out there can help this
woman, please drop her an email.

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 SmithDarln at aol.com wrote:

> I teach a high school Russian class in central PA.
> I have a student who is interested in continuing Russian in college and his
> first choice would be West Point.
> Are there any colleagues out there who teach at West Point?
>
> Darlene Smith
>


From bigjim at u.washington.edu  Sat Mar 20 01:29:28 1999
From: bigjim at u.washington.edu (James Augerot)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:29:28 -0800
Subject: Summer Quarter Intensive Slavic Language Program (fwd)
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAR.1999.172928.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Although many know of our intensive summer program in Russian and Czech,
we are proud to be able to add Ukrainian on what we hope to be a regular
basis both in the intensive summer variant and as a regular part of our
academic year program. All courses meet 3-4 hours a day and confer 15
Quarter/hour credits.


UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON INTENSIVE CZECH/RUSSIAN/UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE
PROGRAM - JUNE 21 - AUGUST 20, 1999

Earn a year's worth of language credit in 9 weeks and pay in-state tuition
rates.  The 1999 tuition rates for each intensive language course will be
$1,125 for undergraduates and $1,603 for graduate students, plus an
additional $35 application fee. See HOUSING AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS for
information on housing and meals.

ELEMENTARY CZECH

Emphasizes conversation and basics of Czech grammar and vocabulary.
Students develop a certain fluency in expressing themselves in everyday
situations.

ELEMENTARY UKRAINIAN

Introduction to elementary Ukrainian grammar and vocabulary with practice
in basic conversation.

1ST YEAR RUSSIAN

Introduction to Russian.  Emphasis on oral communication with limited
vocabulary.  Short readings and writing exercises.  Basic grammar.
Conducted mostly in Russian.

2ND YEAR RUSSIAN

Comprehensive review of Russian grammar with continuing oral practice and
elementary composition.  Conducted mostly in Russian.

3RD YEAR RUSSIAN

Extensive practice in spoken and written Russian based on a variety of
prose readings.  Intensive review and supplementation of strategic
grammatical concepts.  Conducted mostly in Russian.

4TH YEAR RUSSIAN

Class discussion, oral presentations, and composition, based on reading a
variety of texts, both literary and non-literary.  Advanced grammar.
Conducted entirely in Russian.

HOUSING AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Students who wish to live in a Russian-speaking environment may apply to
live in the Russian House, located just across the street from the
campus.  The Russian House has its own modern kitchen facility, and
residents may opt to prepare their own meals or to buy a meal plan.  The
Russian House is a focal point for extracurricular events, which may
include  singalongs, folkdancing, plays, poetry readings,
lectures, films, weekend bike rides, and hiking trips.  The Russian House
may also host  visitors in the fields of art, science, business,
etc.  Priority to live in the House is given to those with the strongest
Russian language background.  All students in the summer program are
welcome to participate in activities held at the Russian House or just to
visit.  (Applications for the Russian House are due by April 26, 1998.)

Housing is also available on a special floor of the main dormitory,
where Slavic Department students will be grouped together.  Applications
for the Russian House are available through the Slavic Department: (206)
543-6848.  Applications for housing in the dorm will be available in April
through Housing and Food Services:  (206) 543-4059.  Be sure to indicate
RUSSIAN on your housing application.

SCHOLARSHIP

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will offer one
full-tuition scholarship this summer to an undergraduate returning to the
UW for the Summer Russian Program.

APPLYING AND REGISTERING

Call (800) 543-2320 to request a Summer Quarter Bulletin.

Telephone registration begins late April.  Applications by mail accepted
through June 1.  Later applications accepted in person only.  No
transcripts or letters of recommendation necessary.

Application materials should be sent to Admissions Office, University of
Washington, Box 355840, Seattle, WA 98195-5840.  Course fees billed in
early July.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For further information on course offerings or the Russian House,
contact:  Shosh Westen
          Slavic Department
          University of Washington
          Box 353580
          Seattle, WA 98195-3580
          (206) 543-6848
          fax: (206) 543-6009
          e-mail: shoshw at u.washington.edu.


From AMandelker at aol.com  Sat Mar 20 14:29:57 1999
From: AMandelker at aol.com (Amy Mandelker)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 09:29:57 EST
Subject: West Point, anyone?
Message-ID: <SAT.20.MAR.1999.092957.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

In answer to the question, Larry Mansour, Brown Ph.D. in Slavic, is teaching
at West Point.


From editor at k-punkt.com  Sun Mar 21 01:14:06 1999
From: editor at k-punkt.com (Mikhail Volodin)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:14:06 EST
Subject: Kontrapunkt literary magazine
Message-ID: <SAT.20.MAR.1999.201406.EST.>

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am the editor of a new Russian literary magazine  Kontrapunkt . This
is the only monthly* Russian-language literary magazine which is
currently being published in the United States.  The first issue
containing 192 pages came out in January of 1999 with an initial
circulation of 3,000 copies. The second one is released yesterday.
Its mission is to give the splintered Russian writers a venue
to publish their works under one aegis. It helps to inform about new
trends in Russian literature in Diaspora countries and especially in
Russia and former Soviet Republics, and also to present an overview of
contemporary world of Russian literature.
Kontrapunkt includes staple sections such as prose, poetry, essay,
criticism, reviews of books and cultural events, ratings of bestsellers
of the month. One can find works by famous authors together with
writings of talented beginners, and traditional literature along side
the avant-garde.
The magazine is aimed at amateur avid readers as well as specialists in
Russian literature.
I look forward to seeing you among the subscribers, readers and
contributors of this new creative endeavor.
You may find additional information about Kontrapunkt at
http://www.k-punkt.com
I will be happy to answer any questions via e-mail editor at k-punkt.com or

by phone 617-232 4366.

Yours,
Mikhail Volodin,
Editor-in-Chief



* There will be 9 issues published during the first year (three in the
first six months).


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Mon Mar 22 08:12:33 1999
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 03:12:33 -0500
Subject: Sher's Russian Lit -- new, permanent home
Message-ID: <MON.22.MAR.1999.031233.0500.>

Dear Colleagues:

I am happy to announce a new, permanent home on the web for
Sher's Russian Lit, including SRW, the Index and Sher Publishers.

I just got tired of constantly being on the run, always trying to stay
one step ahead of thos ugly banners on the free sites. Hope this
helps all around.

Benjamin
Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Lit
http://www.websher.net


From renyxa at redline.ru  Tue Mar 23 08:01:47 1999
From: renyxa at redline.ru (Tver InterContact Group)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:01:47 +0300
Subject: The Russian Studies Summer School in Tver
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAR.1999.110147.0300.>

THE 1999 SUMMER SCHOOL OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES

Dates: JUNE 21 - SEPTEMBER 6, 1999
Location: TVER, RUSSIA

 Study Russian in Russia's Friendliest City!

The International Institute of Russian Language and Culture and Tver
State University, with support from the Tver InterContact Group, an
independent educational and consulting organization, proudly announce
the opening of enrollment for the fifth annual Summer School of Russian
Language and Area Studies in Tver. The program features intensive
training in Russian language and area studies complemented by an
extensive excursion program, the opportunity to intern at a local
company, a unique opportunity to live with a hospitable Russian family,
and the chance to meet Russian peers. Program participants are sure to
fondly remember their visit to the heart of Russia.

In addition to the core classroom program, comprised of courses in
Russian language and communication and lectures and seminars on
literature, philosophy, history, and geography, participants will have
the opportunity to visit workshops and studios where they will study
Russian folk art, songs, and traditional dances. Weekends feature
excursions to area museums and sightseeing trips to Moscow, St.
Petersburg, and the ancient cities of Sergiev Posad, Torzhok, and
Ostashkov.

The Summer School is held in Tver, an ancient city on the Volga River.
The city is located directly between Moscow (170 km) and St. Petersburg
(600 km). The numerous and convenient transportation routes to Russia's
southern and northern capitals make Tver an ideal place to learn about
Russian culture, both that of the capitals and that of the provinces.
Tver itself, with nearly 500,000 residents, has everything necessary for
an interesting and active sojourn: museums, galleries, theaters, concert
halls, sports facilities, and night clubs.

The Summer School is open to everyone: students and teachers,
professionals and amateurs, and tourists and experts of all ages and
interests from around the world. Do not make the mistake of seeing
Russia through a tour bus window. Russia can only be understood by
living it!  The Summer School offers education, entertainment, and
memories that will last a lifetime.

For more information or to request an application, please contact
Dr. Marina Oborina, Academic Programs Director
Monica M. White, International Admissions Director

International Institute of Russian Language and Culture
c/o Tver InterContact Group
P.O. Box 0565, Central Post Office
Tver 170000, Russia

Tel:    +7.0822.425419 or .425439
Fax:    +7.0822.426210
E-mail: inforuss at postman.ru
              infodesk at postman.ru
web page: www.volga.net


From renyxa at redline.ru  Tue Mar 23 08:02:34 1999
From: renyxa at redline.ru (Tver InterContact Group)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:02:34 +0300
Subject: Professional Programs in Tver
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAR.1999.110234.0300.>

THE 1999 PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS
IN JOURNALISM, LAW, AND TRANSLATION STUDIES

Dates: August 30 - September 25, 1999
Location: Tver, Russia

The International Institute of Russian Language and Culture (IIRLC),
together with several public and private partner organizations, proudly
announce the opening of enrollment for the 1999 Professional Programs in
Journalism, Law, and Translation Studies. These programs are intended
for students of various aspects of Russian, Slavic, and social studies,
as well as professionals who would like to gain greater insight into
their fields through intensive study of current practices and
developments in Russia. Each four-week program offers participants the
opportunity to study and participate in several aspects of a vibrant
field while sharpening their language skills or learning introductory
conversational Russian. The programs also offer a unique chance to make
connections and share experiences with both Russian and foreign
colleagues.

The Journalism, Political Science, and Societal Studies Practicum:
Although it is tailored primarily for professional journalists and
political analysts, the Practicum can accommodate anyone interested in
Russian life, language, and culture. College students majoring in
Russian, journalism, political science, and sociology are encouraged to
participate. The 1999 Practicum will focus on three issues in current
Russian politics: economic change in the provinces, privatization and
its influence on Russian life, and Russia's information policy as
reflected in the media. The Practicum offers the perfect balance of
classroom instruction and field work: participants will take Russian
language classes while attending seminars in mass communications,
political science, and sociology. They will also take trips and
excursions and meet with experts, professionals, and colleagues.

The Summer School of Russian Legal Studies: Unlike most legal study
abroad programs, which emphasize study of established legal systems,
participants in the Summer School of Russian Legal Studies will observe
the birth of the rule of law, studying it as it evolves and analyzing
developments which have already occurred. The Russian legal system
offers a fascinating array of aspects for study. New laws governing the
federal executive, legislative, and judicial branches have continuously
modified the Federal Constitution, which was framed in 1993. The current
dichotomy of the Communist Party's resurgent domination in the State
Duma and the democrats' tenuous hold on the Presidency and the
Ministers' Council, with the Constitutional Court caught in the middle,
foreshadow continued changes in the months and years to come. Come and
observe the governing system as it struggles to adapt itself to the rule
of law. Attend court trials, which after 80 years are reviving the
system of trial by jury. Learn the language of law used in courts and in
international business law. This is a fascinating time, and we offer you
the chance to both study and experience it first hand.

The Russian Translation and Communication Studies Program: The third
annual Translation and Communication Studies Program will be conducted
by two of Tver's leading educational institutions: the International
Institute of Russian Language and Culture under the auspices of the Tver
InterContact Group and Tver State University. The Program is intended
for professionals and students in departments of Slavic Languages and
Studies, and offers extensive opportunities for linguistic and
professional enrichment. It includes language proficiency courses,
practical translation classes, seminars on the theory of communication
and text interpretation, and a comprehensive cultural enrichment
program.

The medium-sized city of Tver (population 500,000), located 170 km
north-west of Moscow on the main route between Moscow and St.
Petersburg, is an ideal vantage point from which to observe the social,
political, and economic processes in modern Russia. With its numerous
educational and cultural institutions, active political life,
flourishing media, and diversified industries, Tver offers the student
of contemporary Russia many opportunities for fruitful research.
Participants in the Professional Programs will learn first-hand about
topical issues in their respective fields by using Tver as a living
laboratory of current Russian professional practices.

For more information or to request an application, please contact:

Dr. Marina Oborina, Academic Programs Director
Monica M. White, International Admissions Director
International Institute of Russian Language and Culture
c/o Tver InterContact Group
P. O. Box 0565
Central Post Office
170000 Tver, Russia

Phone:   7.0822.425419 or .425439
Fax:        7.0822.426210
E-mail:   inforuss at postman.ru
        infodesk at postman.ru
web page: www.volga.net


From ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU  Wed Mar 24 06:41:48 1999
From: ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Yelaina Khripkov)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:41:48 -0800
Subject: Russian videos
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAR.1999.224148.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELangers,

I am looking for some Russian video to supplement 20th c. Russian
Literature course. I need any old or new film or theater videotaped version
of "Na dne" Gor'kogo, better with subtitles, or may be there exists an
American version? I will be happy to get anything about Maxim Gorkii as
well. If anybody knows anything on Zamiatin, Platonov, or Bulgakov or any
screen versions of their works, I will be very greatful for the
information. One of my students told me she watched "Master and Margarita"
in Moscow in the Fall, but she doesn't remember if it was a new or old
movie and what country's production it was.
I will appreciate if you respond to any of these inquiries to:
ykripkov at oregon.uoregon.edu

Thank you for your time,
Yelaina Kripkov

*****************************************************************************
Yelaina Kripkov                                 tel: (541) 346-4077 work
Dept. of Russian                                     (541) 345-9122 home
University of Oregon                            fax: (541) 346-1327
Eugene, OR 97403                                ykripkov at oregon.uoregon.edu


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Wed Mar 24 06:58:28 1999
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 01:58:28 -0500
Subject: My Index is alive and well!
Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.015828.0500.>

Dear Colleagues:

The direct address to the new, permanent home of Sher's Russian
Index is:

http://www.websher.net/srw/link.html

I have left a special "forwarding address" on my old Index site,
which will take you automatically to our new address.

Thank you so much.

Benjamin




Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Lit
http://www.websher.net


From KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com  Wed Mar 24 15:45:00 1999
From: KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com (UDUT, KENNETH)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:45:00 -0500
Subject: Russian tutoring wanted in Elizabeth NJ USA area
Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.104500.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Zdrastvuetye!

Hello SEElangers.  Thank you all once again for your help a few weeks
back in ideas for self-teaching of Russian (various books, ways to go
about learning Russian, multimedia presentations).  I still have a few
more things to pick up in this area.

My question for the day is: Does anybody know anybody in the Elizabeth
NJ area who tutors Russian?  I've called the local Russian Orthodox
Church, the Jewish Y, even some Russian friends, and so far, there are
no enterprising takers.  The books I'm working with are helping, but I'm
feeling somewhat disconnected and even simply use a coach, some feedback
of whether I'm speaking the words correctly, someone to give me a push
when I'm getting sluggish or despondant.

Best, of course, would be to find out that a college or university
around here has Russian courses, in which case I'd enroll in a
heartbeat.

Can anybody provide some help?  Thank you so much!


Minya zavoot Kenneth
kenneth.udut at spcorp.com


From cdtomei at frontiernet.net  Wed Mar 24 17:42:42 1999
From: cdtomei at frontiernet.net (Christine Tomei)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:42:42 -0500
Subject: Dostoevsky's mysteries
Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.124242.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

An American colleague in Moscow has asked for assistance with this question.
 Please respond directly to her:

MRiley at glasnet.ru

Thanks.

>is there one Western (perhaps American) critic who can
>be credited with labeling Dostoevsky as the Russian "writer of the >mysteries
 of the Russian soul"?


From acohens at socrates.berkeley.edu  Wed Mar 24 20:38:21 1999
From: acohens at socrates.berkeley.edu (acohens at socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:38:21 EST
Subject: Baltic Dictionaries
In-Reply-To: <36F74A6B.235D5AC4@redline.ru>
Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.153821.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,

Can anyone recommend what they think are the best Lithuanian, Estonian,
and Latvian dictionaries (into either English, German, or French)
currently in print?

Thanks in advance,

Adam

=================
adam cohen-siegel
department of linguistics
uc berkeley


From GL2187 at exmail.usma.army.mil  Wed Mar 24 20:50:52 1999
From: GL2187 at exmail.usma.army.mil (Mansour, L. DR DFL)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:50:52 EST
Subject: Sophia Petrovna
Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.155052.EST.>

Would anyone know where I might locate a copy of the made-for-TV film
version of Lydia Chukovskaia's "Sophia Petrovna"?  It seems, it's not
available through any of the usual video outlets or bookstores.
Please reply off-list. Thanks for any help.
Larry Mansour
USMA  -- Russian
GL2187 at exmail.usma.edu


From yoo.3 at osu.edu  Thu Mar 25 00:40:51 1999
From: yoo.3 at osu.edu (Syeng-Mann, Yoo)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:40:51 -0800
Subject: Slavophilia Updated.
Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.164051.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers.

        Slavophilia has been updated. New features include:

1. Classifieds: You can post your free ad and find others' advertisement.
2. Q & A: You can post your questions with regard to every aspect of Slavic
and East European countries. If any of you knows answers, you can post your
answers. It is a good place to ask questions and see others' interest areas.
3. More user friendly layout.
4. List of bookstores and publishers.
5. More links.

        I wish that Slavophilia will help you to locate the information that you
need, and that help you to get better understanding of Slavic and East
European countries.  Thank you.



Sincerely





Syeng-Mann Yoo

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232 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
(Tel)614-292-9827 (Office)
       614-688-0569 (Home)
(E-mail)yoo.3 at osu.edu

VISIT THE SLAVIC RESOURCES SITE "SLAVOPHILIA" AT
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From skritek1 at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 25 01:22:14 1999
From: skritek1 at yahoo.com (weiss)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:22:14 -0800
Subject: CFP:  East European Theory
Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.172214.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear David,
Iwoould be interested in giving a paper on the Czech
performance theory and practice (Prague linguistic
circle) I can send you more information. I am a member
of MLA but I think I would have to renew my membership.
Please, let me know whether my topic suits your pannel
and how to go about renewing my membership. Thanks.
Yours sincerely

--- David Goldfarb <dgoldfar at barnard.edu> wrote:
> Call for Papers--1999 MLA Convention in Chicago
>
> EAST EUROPEAN THEORY
>
> Organized by the Slavic Cultures Discussion Group
>
> Open panel on Literary and Cultural Theory in
Eastern
> Europe.  Possible
> topics include, but are not limited to:
>
> --The legacies of pre-war schools of literary theory
> in Eastern Europe
> --Ingarden and phenomenological criticism in Poland
> --Prague Structuralism and its influence
> --Lacanians in Ljubljana
> --Feminist theory in Eastern Europe
> --Lukacs
> --Post-Communist Marxism
>
> Please send an abstract of 1-2 pages and a brief CV
> by email as a text
> file (ascii) attachment or in an email message to
> dgoldfarb at barnard.columbia.edu, by fax to
> 212-854-8266, or by conventional
> mail to:
>
>         David A. Goldfarb
>         Slavic Department
>         Barnard College
>         Columbia University
>         3009 Broadway
>         New York, NY  10027-6598
>
> Abstracts must be received by 1 April 1999, and
> selected participants must
> be current members of the Modern Language
> Association.
>
> For more information on the converence, visit the
MLA
> website at
> www.mla.org.
>
> David A. Goldfarb
> Department of Slavic Languages
> Barnard College
> Columbia University
> ________________________________________
> e-mail:  DGoldfarb at barnard.columbia.edu
> WWW:  http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb
> ________________________________________
>

===

Veronika Ambros, Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
21 Sussex Ave
Toronto, ON CANADA M5S 1A1
Work Phone: 416-978-8717
_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Thu Mar 25 10:17:48 1999
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 05:17:48 -0500
Subject: Sher's Russian Index -- Correction
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.051748.0500.>

Dear Colleagues:

May I please call your attention to a CORRECTION in the address of
Sher's Russian Index. The correct address is:

http://www.websher.net/inx/link.html

Please note the "inx" in the middle of the address. You can always
find it in my SRWeb, the address of which is in the signature below:

My thanks.

Benjamin

Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net


From holdeman.2 at osu.edu  Thu Mar 25 11:25:58 1999
From: holdeman.2 at osu.edu (Jeff Holdeman)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:25:58 -0500
Subject: Nas malo...
In-Reply-To: <199903150331.MAA23383@tsuji.yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.062558.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Here is a request that-I hope-is sufficiently obscure to warrant a posting.

What is the width of the stripes on a Russian sailor's "tel'niashka" (in
millimeters or inches)?  Is there a border around the neck opening, and if
so is it dark blue or white?  Also, would anyone be willing to fax me
(614-688-3107) a sketch of the front of a sailor's middy [shirt]
("rubakha") with the tel'niashka showing?  (Note: Genevra, make sure you
include this in your third edition.)  It has been a while since I have seen
these up close.

Spasibo zaranee,

Jeff Holdeman
The Ohio State University


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Thu Mar 25 17:44:21 1999
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:44:21 -0600
Subject: workshop in Russia
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.114421.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

I am posting below information concerning a workshop on testing sponsored by
St. Petersburg University; after participating in the workshops,
participants take a qualifying examination and receive a state certificate
confirming they have passed a special course int esting for experts in
Russian as a foreign language.  The fee to participate in the workshop is
$180 and must be paid in cash upon arrival.  Below you'll find the schedule
for the workshop and information about registration and housing.

Please address any queries about the workshop directly to:

Dr. Evguene E. Yurkov at spfac at mail.wplus.net

Please note that I cannot recommend or endorse the workshop, but am merely
passing on this information to the community of Slavists.  I, myself, will
not be able to attend the workshop as it conflicts with my teaching schedule
this summer.

Ben RIfkin



SCHEDULE FOR WORKSHOP

Seminar on Linguistic-Didactic Testing
St. Peterburg, Russia, 7-18 June 1999

June 7
Registration 9-10 am
nab. Makarova 6, room 216
St. Petersburg
Testing center

Opening 10:30 - 15:00
Greetings from Rector of the University
Goals and Tasks of the Russian State System of Testing
Russian State System of Standardization and Certification of the Levels of
Mastery of Russian As a Foreign Language

8 June 9:20 - 15:00, break from 12:30 to 13:30
General Theoretical Problems of Testing
Scholarly Methodological Basis of Linguistic-Didactic Testing
Organization of the Work of the Testing Center

9 June 9:20 - 15:00, break from 12:30 to 13:30
State Standards for RFL:  Basic and First Certification Levels
Typical Test for Base Level
Typical Test for Level 1

10 June 9:20 - 15:00, break from 12:30 to 13:30
State Stnadards for RFL:  2nd Certification Level
Typical Test for 2nd Level, Subtests for Reading and Listening
Typical Test for 2nd Level, Subtests for Grammar and Lexicon

11 June 9:20 - 15:00, break from 12:30 to 13:30
Modular Tests for the 2nd Level:  Engineering-Technical, Medical-Biological,
and Humanities
Scores for the Results of Testing in the Writing Subtest for the 2nd Level
Scores for the Results of Testing in the Speaking Subtest for the 2nd Level

12-13 June
Cultural Program -- to be arranged in accordance with advance requests and
supplementary payment

14 June 9:20 - 15:00, break 12:30 to 13:30
State Standards for RFL:  3rd Certification Level
Typical Test for 3rd Level:  Subtests for Reading and Listening
Typical Test for 2nd - 3rd Levels:  Role Play in the Speaking Subtest:
Conducting the Role Play and Evaluating It

15 June 9:20 - 15:00, break 12:30 to 13:30
Interview Test in the Speaking Subtest for the 2nd Level:  Conducting and
Evaluating It
Interview Test in the Speaking Subtest for the 3rd Level:  Conducting and
Evaluating It
Scores for the Results of Testing in the Writing Subtest for the 3rd Level

16 June 9:20 - 15:00, break 12:30 to 13:30
State Standards for RFL:  4th Certification Level.  Tyipcal Test for 4th Level
Credit-Bearing Practical Exercises in Evaluating Writing and Speaking Subtests

17 June 9:20 - 15:00, break 12:30 to 13:30
General European System of Levels of Mastery of a Foreign Language As
Adopted by the Council of Europe
About the Work of the Consortium
Consultations

18 June 10:00 - 14:00
Closing of the Workshop
Roundtable
Distribution of Certificates
Closing Banquet

TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP AND ARRANGE FOR ACCOMODATIONS IN HOSTEL ROOM,
UNIVERSITY GUEST HOUSE (APARTMENT), OR HOMESTAY (WITH BREAKFAST AND DINNER),
CONTACT:

Dr. Evgueni E. Yurkov
SPSU Center of Russian Language Testing of Foreigners
Nab. Universitetskaia 11
St. Petersburg, Russia 199034
Fax +7 812 327 79-88
E-mail:  spfac at mail.wplus.net
web page:  http://www.spbu.ru/Education/Cetners/testing_center
        +++++++++++++++
Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof. of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623; fax:  608/265-2814
        +++++++++++++++


From jen.glass at mail.utexas.edu  Thu Mar 25 17:58:40 1999
From: jen.glass at mail.utexas.edu (Jen Glass)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:58:40 -0600
Subject: Sources on Ukrainian identity and language ideology
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.115840.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I am looking for assistance in locating useful sources on Ukrainian
language and identity, language ideology, and language maintenance and
shift, particularly related to Ukrainian speakers in the U.S. and Canada.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks very much,

Jen Glass
Linguistics Department
University of Texas at Austin


From tarn at chass.utoronto.ca  Thu Mar 25 18:31:25 1999
From: tarn at chass.utoronto.ca (Maxim Tarnawsky)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:31:25 -0500
Subject: Sources on Ukrainian identity and language ideology
In-Reply-To: <v04003a03b32028b33282@[128.83.254.54]>
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.133125.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Many of the works we consider in SLA 238, Literature of the Ukrainian
Canadian Experience deal with the subjects you are examining.
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~tarn/courses/238-98.html
You may also wish to peruse the Ukrainians in Canada section of the CIUS
Press catalog:
http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/HTMfiles/Ukrcan/ukrcan.htm


At 11:58 AM 03/25/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGers,
>
>I am looking for assistance in locating useful sources on Ukrainian
>language and identity, language ideology, and language maintenance and
>shift, particularly related to Ukrainian speakers in the U.S. and Canada.
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks very much,
>
>Jen Glass
>Linguistics Department
>University of Texas at Austin
>
>
_____________________________
Maxim Tarnawsky,  tarn at chass.utoronto.ca
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto,  21 Sussex Avenue.   Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1
tel: 416-978-8240;       FAX: 416-978-2672;       http://www.utoronto.ca/cius


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Thu Mar 25 20:27:06 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert DeLossa)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:27:06 -0500
Subject: Sources on Ukrainian identity and language ideology
In-Reply-To: <199903251757.MAA28728@smtp1.fas.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.152706.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

You can check our (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute) website
(http://www.sabre.org/huri/) for various aids. In the pubs catalog there is
an older book on Uk-Am demographic characteristics based on the '80 census
results (Oleh Wolowyna, Ethnicity and National Identity: Demographic and
Socioeconomic Characteristics of Persons with Ukrainian Mother Tongue in
the U.S.). There are bibliographic resources in the bibliography by Ksenya
Kiebuzinski (pubs site). There are multiple personal contacts in the field
of Ukr. language in the Handbook of Research Opportunities in North
America. You will find much more information on the Canadian side (e.g.,
Manoly Lupul's work on bilingual education and Francis Swyripa's
ethnographic/emigre studies...check the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian
Studies' pubs site at
http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/HTMfiles/Ukrcan/ukrcan.htm). If you are not up
to speed on emigre issues in North America and are not connected to the
emigre community, you might want to try Myron Kuropas' "The Ukrainian
Americans: Roots and Aspirations, 1884-1954" (Univ. of Toronto Press, '91).
It is at times distractingly tendentious, but worth a read. Also available
is Orest Subtelny's "The Ukrainians of North America: An Illustrated
History" (univ. of Toronto Press, '91). Another important resource is the
emigre-based journal Ridna shkola. You should also try to contact Ridna
shkola teachers and administrators--a lot of the information is available
only orally or in emigre publications that are not catalogued in any
university library.

With respect to language issues and Ukraine, Dominique Arel at Brown Univ.
has done the most work (including a dissertation and subsequent
publications). Laada Bilaniuk completed a dissertation on anthropological
issues surrounding surzhyk (I think she can be reached at U of WA).
Language issues are also treated (sometimes only tangentially, other times
more directly) in the works of Roman Szporluk (Harvard, contemp. history),
Alexander Motyl (Rutgers, contemp. history, poly sci), Taras Kuzio (Ukraine
Center, University of North London, contemp. history, poly sci), and Andrew
Wilson (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London,
contemp. history, poly sci, but caveat lector), among others. Demographics
in Ukraine have been treated by Wolowyna (now a private consultant) in
recent work.  The Ukrainian situation is a contentious and complicated
issue. Arel and Bilaniuk are the only ones I'm aware of to concentrate
solely on contemporary language issues in a social context. There is no
one, to my knowledge, with Western training in linguistics who has
published on sociolinguist trends in Ukraine (Arel's training is in
polysci, Bilaniuk's in social anthropology). There are a number of language
and literature people in the U.S. and Canada from whom you can get
anecdotal info. (Again, look at the list at our website.) Two good contacts
at the Institute of Ukrainian Language at the Academy of Sciences in
Ukraine for this sort of thing are Bohdan Azhniuk and Olena Bekh. A few
Ukraine Ukrainians have begun to look at emigre issues here. Bekh will be a
good guide on that. Beware that much of the native Ukraine-generated
socio-political material you find in newspapers is either statistically
worthless or politically motivated. For all of this material I would keep
in mind the fact that Ukraine has remained much more stable socially
(including over the language issue) than most expected.

A final thought--look at the last Ukrainian Weekly issue or the one before
that--Kuropas had an op-ed piece harranguing the Uk-Am community on its
attitudes toward language and the younger generations. Finally, two
listservs to be aware of: announce at infoukes.com--access to many
Ukie-oriented professionals and scholars; and Dominique Arel's Ukraine List
(modeled on Johnson's Russian List). For the former, send a request for
off-list help to that address or else subscribe to it by sending a message
to announce-request at infoukes.com. There are further lists for history,
politics, religion, business, etc. (history-request at infoukes.com,
religion-request at infoukes.com, etc.) It's a good way to connect with Ukie
community types throughout the U.S. and Canada. (Especially if you want to
get some field data from people who went to Ukrainian Catholic school,
Saturday schools, etc...) For Arel's list (which has news, reviews, and
debates, mainly on contemporary issues), send him a note to subscribe at
Dominique.Arel at brown.edu.

Contact me off list for e-mail addresses of any of the above.

Good luck, Robert DeLossa, HURI

p.s. I just checked our site and the link to the publications catalog seems
to be experiencing temporary problems displaying in IE 4.5, but is working
with earlier versions of Netscape. I've alerted our webmaster and apologize
to all those who might experience problems with it.

p.p.s. Ben Rifkin should be mentioned in this regard; he passed some
information to me regarding heritage learners that will be of use to you
(Jen). I'll send a separate note, so as not to overburden this shameless
HURI plug/community service notice that I'm sending to the entire list,
which always needs a little more about Ukraine. (Because, as the French
say, a day without something on Ukraine, is like a day without sunshine. Or
was that a day without cheese?)


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>Poster:       Jen Glass <jen.glass at mail.utexas.edu>
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>Dear SEELANGers,
>
>I am looking for assistance in locating useful sources on Ukrainian
>language and identity, language ideology, and language maintenance and
>shift, particularly related to Ukrainian speakers in the U.S. and Canada.
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks very much,
>
>Jen Glass
>Linguistics Department
>University of Texas at Austin


____________________________________________________
Robert DeLossa
Director of Publications
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8768; fax. 617-495-8097
reply to: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu
http://www.sabre.org/huri/


From jdclayt at uottawa.ca  Thu Mar 25 22:05:02 1999
From: jdclayt at uottawa.ca (J. Douglas Clayton)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:05:02 -0500
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
In-Reply-To: <v03020905b30de5d42122@[140.247.202.66]>
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.170502.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Can anyone explain why in the grammar explanations in these two textbooks
the second conjugation is placed before the first? (e.g., in Russian Stage
Two, Appendix XI, pp. 382-3). This seems like just another complexity to be
explained to students.

Thanks!

Doug


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J. Douglas Clayton                 Tel. 613-562-5800 Ext. 3765 (office)
Professor                               613-241-1782 (home)
Modern Languages & Literatures     Fax  613-562-5138
University of Ottawa
Box 450 Stn A
Ottawa ON K1N 6N5
Canada                      http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~jdclayt/index.html

            "Life is far too tragic to be taken seriously"


From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Thu Mar 25 23:36:04 1999
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:36:04 -0500
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
In-Reply-To: <l03110702b3201cf0fd66@[137.122.174.100]>
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.183604.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

And why are they called "first conjugation" and "second conjugation"
given that not all sources agree as to which is first and which is second
anyway? "i conjugation" and "e conjugation" are much more memorable
and clear.
Wayles Browne, Cornell U.

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, J. Douglas Clayton wrote:

> Can anyone explain why in the grammar explanations in these two textbooks
> the second conjugation is placed before the first? (e.g., in Russian Stage
> Two, Appendix XI, pp. 382-3). This seems like just another complexity to be
> explained to students.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Doug
>
>
> **********************************************************************
> J. Douglas Clayton                 Tel. 613-562-5800 Ext. 3765 (office)
> Professor                               613-241-1782 (home)
> Modern Languages & Literatures     Fax  613-562-5138
> University of Ottawa
> Box 450 Stn A
> Ottawa ON K1N 6N5
> Canada                      http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~jdclayt/index.html
>
>             "Life is far too tragic to be taken seriously"
>


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Thu Mar 25 23:45:08 1999
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:45:08 -0600
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.174508.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

As the author of a textbook (Grammatika v kontekste) in which second
conjugation verbs are presented before first conjugation verbs, I can tell
you that MY decision was pedagogical.  The terms "second conjugation" and
"first conjugation" are arbitrary anyway.  The reason that I presented the
verbs in this order is that there are fewer subtypes of the second
conjugation than there are of the first conjugation.  It is easier for the
students to master the second conjugation and then move on to the more
complex first conjugation.  The first conjugation may seem easier because it
includes verbs of the -aj- stem (such as chitat', for example), but the
conjugation variations in the first conjugation are much greater than in the
second conjugation (e.g., first conjugation verbs include pisat', skazat',
maxat', davat', tancevat', pit', otkryt', kolot', umeret', and more!)

I hope that this explanation is helpful for you.

I do not, however, make any representations on behalf of the authors of the
textbooks you mention, who may have been guided by the same principles as I
was, but who may well have been guided by other principles!

Ben Rifkin



At 05:05 PM 3/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Can anyone explain why in the grammar explanations in these two textbooks
>the second conjugation is placed before the first? (e.g., in Russian Stage
>Two, Appendix XI, pp. 382-3). This seems like just another complexity to be
>explained to students.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Doug
>
>
>**********************************************************************
>J. Douglas Clayton                 Tel. 613-562-5800 Ext. 3765 (office)
>Professor                               613-241-1782 (home)
>Modern Languages & Literatures     Fax  613-562-5138
>University of Ottawa
>Box 450 Stn A
>Ottawa ON K1N 6N5
>Canada                      http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~jdclayt/index.html
>
>            "Life is far too tragic to be taken seriously"
>
        +++++++++++++++
Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof. of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623; fax:  608/265-2814
        +++++++++++++++


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Thu Mar 25 23:12:50 1999
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:12:50 -0500
Subject: Russian Index -- a helpful note
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.181250.0500.>

Dear Colleagues:

My SRIndex now downloads much FASTER and much more
smoothly due to a suggested change by Prof. Glenn Thobe.

Yours,

Benjamin

Sher's Russian Index
http://www.websher.net/inx/link.html


From candide at mail.io.com  Fri Mar 26 02:46:59 1999
From: candide at mail.io.com (Pangloss Publishing)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:46:59 EST
Subject: Russian translations of poetry
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.214659.EST.>

Dear SEELANGERs,

Does anyone know where I could find translations into Russian of any of the
following poems? (One is all I need.)

Robert Frost:
        - The Pasture
        - Reluctance
        - The Death of the Hired Man
        - The Road Not Taken
        - Fire and Ice
        - Desert Places
T.S. Eliot:
        - Sweeney among the Nightingales
        - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
        - Burnt Norton

Many thanks for any help you can give (please respond off list).

Jane Chamberlain
University of Texas at Austin
candide at mail.io.com


From E.Mikhailik at unsw.edu.au  Fri Mar 26 08:14:04 1999
From: E.Mikhailik at unsw.edu.au (Elena Mikhailik)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:14:04 +1100
Subject: Nas malo...
In-Reply-To: <v04003a0cb31fc8e36427@[140.254.112.29]>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.191404.1100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 06:25 25/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
Dear Joe,

The width of stripes is 10 mm. The telnyashka I have has no border around
the neck opening but some I've seen in Odessa had a blue border around the
throat.
I hope I helps.

Sincerely yours,

Elena Mikhailik

>Here is a request that-I hope-is sufficiently obscure to warrant a posting.
>
>What is the width of the stripes on a Russian sailor's "tel'niashka" (in
>millimeters or inches)?  Is there a border around the neck opening, and if
>so is it dark blue or white?  Also, would anyone be willing to fax me
>(614-688-3107) a sketch of the front of a sailor's middy [shirt]
>("rubakha") with the tel'niashka showing?  (Note: Genevra, make sure you
>include this in your third edition.)  It has been a while since I have seen
>these up close.
>
>Spasibo zaranee,
>
>Jeff Holdeman
>The Ohio State University
>
>


From MishaGMCLA at aol.com  Fri Mar 26 08:15:15 1999
From: MishaGMCLA at aol.com (Misha Schutt)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 03:15:15 EST
Subject: Preposition doubling
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.031515.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Sorry to be so late in adding my two kopecks to an old discussion,
but I'm just catching up on my digests and this is a feature of
folksong texts I've always found charming.  Here are two
examples I hope you'll find interesting.

It does occur in Bulgarian, at least in the folksong "Polegnala
e Tudora" (which has been heard lately in a car commercial):

Polegnala e Tudora
pod d^urvo pod maslinovo
     Tudora lay down beneath an olive tree
(I'm using ^u for the schwa vowel)


There is also a nice Russian song which may be taking poetic
license, since it uses the construction so heavily:

Kak u sokola, kak u jasnogo
boljat krylyshki, boljat krylyshki,
nel'zja sokolu, nel'zja jasnomu
po sadam letat', po sadam letat'.

Kak u molodca razudalogo
golova bolit, golova bolit,
nel'zja molodcu razudalomu
v horovod hodit', v horovod hodit'.

A chem golovu, a chem bujnuju
polechit' jemu, polechit' jemu?
Svjazhem golovu, svjazhem bujnuju
golubym platkom, golubym platkom.

Ot platka kudry, ot platka rusy
zavivalisja, zavivalisja--
Krasote jego, krasote jego
divovalisja, divovalisja.


Misha Schutt
Burbank (Calif.) Public Library
(BA Russian, Middlebury College 1972, now Slavicist by avocation;
also took Bulgarian at Indiana U about 1974 from Chuck Gribble,
who I see on this list from time to time)


From minoura at fs.tufs.ac.jp  Fri Mar 26 08:48:16 1999
From: minoura at fs.tufs.ac.jp (Nobukatsu Minoura)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:48:16 +0900
Subject: Russian Sign Language
In-Reply-To: <774a32f.36fb4213@aol.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.174816.0900.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

I am a Japanese linguist who is studying Japanese Sign Language.  (In
 undergraduate, I majored in Russian.)

Does anybody here know if there is anybody who is studying Russian Sign Language
 (russkij jazyk nemyx-gluxix) in Russia?  (Or any other signed languages in
 other Slavic countries?)

I appreciate any pieces of information.

Sincerely yours,

Nobukatsu Minoura

-------------------------------------------------
Nobukatsu Minoura, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Nishigahara 4-51-21, Kita-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN   114-8580
Phone: +81-3-5974-3550 (wk), Fax: +81-3-5974-3637 (c/o Goken)
Phone/fax: +81-3-3377-3275 (hm)
mailto:minoura at fs.tufs.ac.jp (wk), mailto:nobum at gol.com (hm)


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Fri Mar 26 09:02:15 1999
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 04:02:15 -0500
Subject: Russian Sign Language
In-Reply-To: <199903260849.DAA02049@mail6.bellsouth.net>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.040215.0500.>

Dear Nobukatsu:

You will find Russian Sign Language on my Index under:

Dictionaries -- Kautz' Online Russian Sign Language.

You'll find Sher's Russian Index at the bottom of my signature
below.

Yours,

Benjamin


Sher's Russian Index
http://www.websher.net/inx/link.html


From gthomson at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca  Fri Mar 26 12:24:54 1999
From: gthomson at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Greg Thomson)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:24:54 +0300
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
In-Reply-To: <l03110702b3201cf0fd66@[137.122.174.100]>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.152454.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I was interested in the following interchange, in that it seems to imply a
surprisngly (to me) traditional philosophy of language learning.


At 17:05 -0500 03-25-1999, J. Douglas Clayton wrote:
>Can anyone explain why in the grammar explanations in these two textbooks
>the second conjugation is placed before the first? (e.g., in Russian Stage
>Two, Appendix XI, pp. 382-3). This seems like just another complexity to be
>explained to students.



At 17:45 -0600 03-25-1999, Benjamin Rifkin wrote:
>As the author of a textbook (Grammatika v kontekste) in which second
>conjugation verbs are presented before first conjugation verbs, I can tell
>you that MY decision was pedagogical.  The terms "second conjugation" and
>"first conjugation" are arbitrary anyway.  The reason that I presented the
>verbs in this order is that there are fewer subtypes of the second
>conjugation than there are of the first conjugation.  It is easier for the
>students to master the second conjugation and then move on to the more
>complex first conjugation.


At 18:36 -0500 03-25-1999, Wayles Browne wrote:
>And why are they called "first conjugation" and "second conjugation"
>given that not all sources agree as to which is first and which is second
>anyway? "i conjugation" and "e conjugation" are much more memorable
>and clear.

I find an idea such as "master the second conjugation and then move on to
the more complex first conjugation" surprising in 1999. Is such a
traditional philosophy of language learning widespread in American
university Russian programs?

Regards,
Greg

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Morning by morning new mercies I see
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Greg Thomson, Ph.D. Candidate (gthomson at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca)
SIL/Thomson, Westpost P.O. Box 109, FIN 53101,
Lappeenranta, FINLAND
Phone: 7-812-246-35-48 (in St. Petersburg, Russia)


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Fri Mar 26 13:24:24 1999
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:24:24 -0600
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.072424.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

My textbook is for the intermediate level, so my presentation assumes that
students are already familiar with (and use) many verbs in their speech and
writing and understand many verbs in their reading and listening.  The
textbook, Grammatika v kontekste, assumes at least one year of instruction
prior to its use.  The presentation of grammar in the textbook is designed
to help students systematize their understanding of the Russian grammar.
For that reason, the conjugation classes are presented in the order I
discussed below.  I do not assume that students are not using first
conjugation verbs while studying the chapter on 2nd conjugation verbs. (In
fact, each chapter includes communicative activities clustered around a
lexical topic and the first chapter's topic is "learning/studying/teaching:
the verbs included in this lexical cluster are, of course, from both
conjugations!)

I hope that this helps dispel the notion that American instructors are not
attending to communicative competence!

Ben Rifkin



At 03:24 PM 3/26/99 +0300, you wrote:
>I was interested in the following interchange, in that it seems to imply a
>surprisngly (to me) traditional philosophy of language learning.
>
>
>At 17:05 -0500 03-25-1999, J. Douglas Clayton wrote:
>>Can anyone explain why in the grammar explanations in these two textbooks
>>the second conjugation is placed before the first? (e.g., in Russian Stage
>>Two, Appendix XI, pp. 382-3). This seems like just another complexity to be
>>explained to students.
>
>
>
>At 17:45 -0600 03-25-1999, Benjamin Rifkin wrote:
>>As the author of a textbook (Grammatika v kontekste) in which second
>>conjugation verbs are presented before first conjugation verbs, I can tell
>>you that MY decision was pedagogical.  The terms "second conjugation" and
>>"first conjugation" are arbitrary anyway.  The reason that I presented the
>>verbs in this order is that there are fewer subtypes of the second
>>conjugation than there are of the first conjugation.  It is easier for the
>>students to master the second conjugation and then move on to the more
>>complex first conjugation.
>
>
>At 18:36 -0500 03-25-1999, Wayles Browne wrote:
>>And why are they called "first conjugation" and "second conjugation"
>>given that not all sources agree as to which is first and which is second
>>anyway? "i conjugation" and "e conjugation" are much more memorable
>>and clear.
>
>I find an idea such as "master the second conjugation and then move on to
>the more complex first conjugation" surprising in 1999. Is such a
>traditional philosophy of language learning widespread in American
>university Russian programs?
>
>Regards,
>Greg
>
>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>Morning by morning new mercies I see
>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>Greg Thomson, Ph.D. Candidate (gthomson at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca)
>SIL/Thomson, Westpost P.O. Box 109, FIN 53101,
>Lappeenranta, FINLAND
>Phone: 7-812-246-35-48 (in St. Petersburg, Russia)
>
        +++++++++++++++
Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof. of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623; fax:  608/265-2814
        +++++++++++++++


From rrobin at gwu.edu  Fri Mar 26 14:25:24 1999
From: rrobin at gwu.edu (Richard Robin)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:25:24 -0500
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.092524.0500.>

I too try to avoid "first" and "second" conjugation. Like Wayles I call them
e/jo-theme vowel verbs (=> -ut~jut) and i-theme vowel: (-jat). This is despite
the fact that Golosa also refers to 1st and 2nd conjugation.

Maybe we teachers of Russian can all agree to make the switch? Our students
 would
be thankful.

-Rich Robin
--
Richard Robin - http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~rrobin
Chair, German and Slavic Dept.
The George Washington University
WASHINGTON, DC 20052
Can read HTML mail.
~ITA@ PO-RUSSKI W L at BOJ KODIROWKE.
Chitayu po-russki v lyuboi kodirovke.


From swan+ at pitt.edu  Fri Mar 26 15:36:03 1999
From: swan+ at pitt.edu (Oscar E Swan)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:36:03 -0500
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
In-Reply-To: <36FB98D4.AD87DAD4@gwu.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.103603.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

since 1948 there is only one conjugation

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Oscar E. Swan   Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures
1417 Cathedral of Learning   Univ. of Pittsburgh  15260
412-624-5707      swan+ at pitt.edu
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From thebaron at interaccess.com  Fri Mar 26 17:15:46 1999
From: thebaron at interaccess.com (baron chivrin)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:15:46 -0600
Subject: social worker
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.111546.0600.>

dear seelangers,

help! can anyone please tell me what the accepted russian translation
(if one exists) for "social worker" and "master's degree in social work"
(MSW).

and, while we're on the subject, is there an accepted way of referring
to US academic degrees? is the preference to use "magister/doktor"  to
refer to the holder of the diploma or the diploma itself or both? you
may reply to me offline at: thebaron at interaccess.com.


spasibo zaranee

baron chivrin


From aimee.m.roebuck1 at jsc.nasa.gov  Fri Mar 26 17:19:45 1999
From: aimee.m.roebuck1 at jsc.nasa.gov (ROEBUCK, AIMEE M. (JSC-AH))
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:19:45 -0600
Subject: FW: social worker
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.111945.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Please respond to me as well on this.
Thanks-
Aimee Roebuck
aroebuck at ems.jsc.nasa.gov

----------
From:  baron chivrin[SMTP:thebaron at interaccess.com]
Sent:  Friday, March 26, 1999 11:16 AM
To:  SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject:  social worker

dear seelangers,

help! can anyone please tell me what the accepted russian translation
(if one exists) for "social worker" and "master's degree in social work"
(MSW).

and, while we're on the subject, is there an accepted way of referring
to US academic degrees? is the preference to use "magister/doktor"  to
refer to the holder of the diploma or the diploma itself or both? you
may reply to me offline at: thebaron at interaccess.com.


spasibo zaranee

baron chivrin


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Fri Mar 26 17:56:03 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:56:03 -0800
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.095603.0800.>

Well, in 1951 in Paris, the School of "Langues Orientales" taught that
there were four conjugations. gg
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

2134 E. Interlaken  Bl.                 Tel. 206/329-0053
Seattle, WA  98112                      ggerhart at wolfenet.com


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Fri Mar 26 18:11:09 1999
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:11:09 -0500
Subject: DON'T DOWNLOAD IE5 -- YET! Major screwup!
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.131109.0500.>

Dear Colleagues:

Very serious!

"IE5 Disagrees with Networking Protocol. "

Bottom line recommendation from experts: UNINSTALL IE5, go back
to 4.01 and wait for a Microsoft patch to resolve the contradiction.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/253466.asp#BODY

Benjamin
Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net


From sekerina at linc.cis.upenn.edu  Fri Mar 26 19:28:23 1999
From: sekerina at linc.cis.upenn.edu (Irina Sekerina)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:28:23 -0500
Subject: FASL8 Program
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.142823.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

FASL8 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MAY 21

SPECIAL SESSION I: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

1:30 - 2:10     Svetlana Sheremetyeva and Sergey Nirenburg (University
                of New Mexico) "Porting a Rapid Morphological Analyzer
                Across Slavic Languages"

2:10 - 2:50     Peter Chew (Oxford University, England) "A Comparative
                Computational Evaluation of 3 Theories of Russian
                Stress"

2:50 - 3:30     Nedzad Leko (University of Oslo, Norway) "Syntactic vs.
                Semantic Agreement in the Oslo Corpus of Bosnian Texts"

3:30 - 3:45    Coffee Break

SPECIAL SESSION II: RUSSIAN SENTENCE PROCESSING

3:45 - 4:25     Janet Nicol and Rachel Wilson (University of Arizona)
                "Agreement and Case-Marking in Russian: A Psycho-
                linguistic Investigation of Agreement Errors in
                Production"

4:25 - 5:05     Gerhild Zybatow and Grit Mehlhorn (University of
                Leipzig, Germany) "Topics and Focus Prosidy in Russian
                -- An Experiment"

5:05 - 5:45     Irina Sekerina (IRCS, University of Pennsylvania)
                "Wh-Movement vs. Scrambling in Russian Processing"

5:45 - 6:00    Coffee Break

SESSION III

6:00 - 7:00     Invited Talk: Greville Corbett (University of Surrey,
                England) "Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics"


SATURDAY, May 22

SESSION IV: RUSSIAN SYNTAX

8:45 - 9: 25    Leonard Babby (Princeton University) "Infinitival
                Existential Constructions in Russian"

9:25 - 10:05    Konstantin Kazenin (Moscow State University, Russia)
                "Complementation and Constraints on Pronominals in
                Russian"

10:05 - 10: 45  Elena Rudnitskaya (CUNY Graduate Center) "The Yes/No
                Question LI Clitic Placement in Russian"

10:45 - 11:00    Coffee Break

SESSION V: SERBIAN/CROATIAN SYNTAX

11:00 - 11:40   Mariana Lambova (University of Connecticut) "The
                Typology of Multiple Wh-Fronting in Slavic Revisited"

11:40 - 12:20   Cedric Boeckx and Sandra Stjepanovic (University of
                Connecticut) "The Clitic/Wh-Connection: Evidence for
                Unselective Attraction"

12:20 - 1:00    Andrew Caink (University of Wolverhampton, England)
                "Full Form Auxiliaries in Serbian/Croatian"

1:00 - 2:30    Lunch Break

SESSION VI: BULGARIAN SUNTAX

2:30 - 3:10     David Willis (University of Manchester, England)
                "Verb-Raising in Slavic Conditionals"

3:10 - 3:50     Galina Alexandrova (University of Ottawa, Canada) "Where
                Derivational Space and Time Meet, Clitics Have a Say"

3: 50 - 4: 05  Coffee Break

SESSION VII:    PHONOLOGY

4:05 - 4:45     Katherine Crosswhite (UCLA)"Vowel Lengthening and Length
                Neutralization in Orlec Serbo-Croatian"

4:45 - 5:25     Nila Friedberg (University of Toronto, Canada) "Russian
                Metrics and Stochastic Constraints: Determining Metrical
                Complexity" (to be confirmed)

5:25 - 5:40     Coffee Break

SESSION VIII

5:40 - 6:40     Invited Talk: Draga Zec (Cornell University)
                "Multiple Sonority Thresholds"


SUNDAY, MAY 23

SESSION IX: SYNTAX/MORPHOLOGY

8:45 - 9: 25    Larisa Zlatic (University of Texas)"The Syntactic
                Status  of Slavic  Possessives"

9:25 - 10: 05   Bozena Cetnarowska (University of
                Massachussetts) "The Unaccusativity of Verbs and
                Derivational Morphology in Polish"

10:05 - 10:45   Edit Jakab (Princeton University) "Nominative Object
                Constructions in Old Russian and Finnish"

10:45 - 11:00   Coffee Break

SESSION X: SEMANTICS

11:00 - 11:40   Masha Babyonyshev (Harvard University) "Missing Verb
                Clauses in Russian"

11:40 - 12: 20  Asya Pereltsvaig (McGill University, Canada) "On the
                Distribution of NPIs in Russian"

12:20 - 12:30   Coffee Break

SESSION XI

12:30 - 1:30    Invited Talk: Anthony Kroch (University of
                Pennsylvania) and Carolyne Heycock (University of
                Edinborough) "A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on
                Word-Order Variation in Copular Sentences"


ALTERNATES:

SPECIAL SESSION: Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg
                (University of New Mexico) "Slavic as Testing Grounds
                for a Linguistic Knowledge Elicitation System"

SYNTAX/SEMANTICS: Marija Brala (University of Cambridge, England)
                "Location in Motion: A Tentative Analysis of the
                Croatian Prefixed Verbs of Motion"

                Anna Kupsc (Polish Academy of Sciences and Universite
                Paris 7) "A Lexical Analysis of Polish Multifunctional
                Reflexive Marker"

PHONOLOGY:      Irina Milnes and Caroline Wiltshire (University of
                Florida) "Optimal Stress Patterns in Russian"


FASL8 Organizing Committee
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~fasl8


From douglas at speakeasy.org  Fri Mar 26 19:35:21 1999
From: douglas at speakeasy.org (Pay-Per-Jew, Bringing You the High Holy Days)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:35:21 -0800
Subject: DON'T DOWNLOAD IE5 -- YET! Major screwup!
In-Reply-To: <199903261918.OAA10303@mail.msy>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.113521.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> Very serious!

Actually, not very serious.

> "IE5 Disagrees with Networking Protocol. "
>
> Bottom line recommendation from experts: UNINSTALL IE5, go back
> to 4.01 and wait for a Microsoft patch to resolve the contradiction.

While the concern is a legitimate concern - I haven't tested
independently to verify whether this is actually the case on all setups
- the impact of PPTP/IE5.0 incompatibility is very small, in that it
only affects users who use virtual networks to log on to firewalled
corporate intranets/LANs.  The purported incompatibility does not affect
either Dial-Up Networking/RAS connections, nor direct LAN
connections, and would have minimal impact on the average user using
non-tunnel TCP/IP connections.

Lance Taylor
(425) 703-2255, x15634
Software Test Engineer

--
Vancouver, B.C. - While India and Pakistan did agree they want 'a
  Canada-U.S.type relationship' the death toll in fighting over who has
  to be Canada has risen to 32.


From yoo.3 at osu.edu  Fri Mar 26 23:24:23 1999
From: yoo.3 at osu.edu (Syeng-Mann, Yoo)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:24:23 -0800
Subject: Language situation in Bosnia&Herzegovina.
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.152423.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers.
        Can anyone tell me about the language situation in Bosnia? Is Bosnian a
language?  When Bosnians say "bosanski", is it refering to their own
language?  Thank you in advance.


Sincerely





Syeng-Mann Yoo

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Slavic Department, The Ohio State University
232 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
(Tel)614-292-9827 (Office)
       614-688-0569 (Home)
(E-mail)yoo.3 at osu.edu

VISIT THE SLAVIC RESOURCES SITE "SLAVOPHILIA" AT
http://slavic.ohio-state.edu/people/yoo/links/default.htm
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From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Fri Mar 26 21:18:57 1999
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:18:57 -0500
Subject: Language situation in Bosnia&Herzegovina.
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%1999032615391778@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.161857.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>Dear SEELANGers.
>        Can anyone tell me about the language situation in Bosnia? Is
>Bosnian a
>language?
Yes.
On the basis of language "raw material" which we can call Serbo-Croatian (since
we don't have a better name), more than one standard language has been formed.
In Croatia there is standard Croatian (no other name is acceptable to its
users).
In Serbia there is standard Serbian (most of its users call it this).
In Bosnia-Hercegovina there is standard Bosnian (it used to be a de-facto
standard,
but now it's a de jure standard too, since an official spelling book has been
published and adopted: Senahid Halilovic, Pravopis bosanskoga jezika, Sarajevo:
Preporod 1996).
The differences between the standard languages are not great, and mutual
intelligibility
is almost complete. Some users laugh at the idea of translating from one to
another, and make fun of the small differences, but to others these
are extremely important for their symbolic value.

>When Bosnians say "bosanski", is it refering to their own
>language?

Yes. Many Bosnians I know are no longer happy with the term
"Serbo-Croatian" because it carries the names of other peoples and other
countries, and say "Bosnian" (bosanski jezik), bosanski being the adjective
from Bosna. Some say bos^njac^ki jezik, this being the adjective from Bos^njak
(one of several terms for an inhabitant of Bosnia, and often suggesting
specifically a Moslem Bosnian as distinguished from other inhabitants).

When linguists count languages, they have to be careful. If we are interested
in historical linguistics, we can say "The Serbo-Croatian reflex of the Common
Slavic back nasal vowel is u." and we don't need to think of the differences
between the present-day standard languages. But when we want to teach our
students how to write and speak, it's not really possible to teach them Serbian
usage, Croatian usage, and Bosnian usage all at the same time, so we should
concentrate on one of the standard languages, and perhaps mention the
differences later on.


>Thank you in advance.
>
>
>Sincerely
>
>Syeng-Mann Yoo
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Slavic Department, The Ohio State University
>232 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Rd.
>Columbus, OH 43210
>(Tel)614-292-9827 (Office)
>       614-688-0569 (Home)
>(E-mail)yoo.3 at osu.edu
>
>VISIT THE SLAVIC RESOURCES SITE "SLAVOPHILIA" AT
>http://slavic.ohio-state.edu/people/yoo/links/default.htm
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


From jdclayt at uottawa.ca  Fri Mar 26 22:30:40 1999
From: jdclayt at uottawa.ca (J. Douglas Clayton)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:30:40 -0500
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
In-Reply-To: <l03102807b320e5980a5a@[195.242.1.95]>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.173040.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGERS:

Summing up the discussion so far, it seems that the "second" conjugation is
listed first because it is less complex than the "first". Altho' Davidson
has not responded, presumably the terms "first" and "second" were retained
for comparison purposes with other methods. The problem is that it adds
another level of mystification for students learning the language.
Genevra's four (!) conjugations studied in Paris in 1951 are presumably now
history.

Two interesting comments (because they seem to represent the opposite poles
of current approaches to the issue of language teaching) are those by Greg
Thomson (i.e. that the discussion reveals a "surprisingly traditional"
approach to language learning), and that by Oscar Swan that "since 1948
[i.e., since Roman Jakobson's famous article] there is only one
conjugation" - try explaining that to first-year students.

Personally, I tell my students that there are in my class to do two things:
*learn* the language, and *study* it. Learn because it's a useful skill and
a horizon-opener, and study, because there is an intellectual challenge in
understanding how the Russian language works, and in universities students
should have be confronted with intellectual challenges. The objective (in
my view) is to turn out philologists, i.e., people with an advanced
linguistic culture, not simply people who can speak the language.
Otherwise, I don't see how we can justify our presence in the university.
If Swan and Thomson represent one of the two poles, I feel it is incumbent
on me to help my students strike a balance between the acquisition of
communicative skills and the study of Russian grammar (understood, of
course, in a larger sense than simply learning morphological rules). If
that's old-fashioned - so be it.

Russian Stage One and Two, which I have used for some time, are an
interesting  attempt to combine communicative skills and grammatical
insights. The point I raised that began this discussion is one of the many
frustrations I have with the book - but I've learned to live with it (as we
must with any textbook).

This is far more than I intended to write, but it's Friday afternoon and
for some reason I felt a need to get on my soap-box.

Doug



**********************************************************************
J. Douglas Clayton                 Tel. 613-562-5800 Ext. 3765 (office)
Professor                               613-241-1782 (home)
Modern Languages & Literatures     Fax  613-562-5138
University of Ottawa
Box 450 Stn A
Ottawa ON K1N 6N5
Canada                      http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~jdclayt/index.html

            "Life is far too tragic to be taken seriously"


From d-powelstock at uchicago.edu  Sat Mar 27 00:31:17 1999
From: d-powelstock at uchicago.edu (David Powelstock)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:31:17 -0500
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
In-Reply-To: <l03110701b3216f5639ab@[137.122.174.100]>
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.193117.0500.>

Dear SEELANGers,
Although it's been a while since I've rolled up my sleeves and taught
Russian verb conjugation, and I am not familiar with the particular
textbooks under discussion, I thought I'd send a probe into the ether.  When
I learned Russian, it was according to the single-stem (right terminology?)
system suggested by Jakobson and developed by Charlie Townsend.  Perhaps as
a math-geek type from high-school years, I found this structural (rather
than paradigmatic) approach appealing.  (I've always been a sucker for
structuralist morphology.)  I'd be curious to know what the experienced
language pedagogues think about this approach.  Is it too "linguistic" for
beginning language students?  Does it appeal only to some, rather than all,
students?  When I was teaching Russian, I always found that students
responded very differently to different approaches.  In part out of an
awareness of this variety of learning styles-and since my own preference for
axiomatic systems was decidedly in the minority-I usually ended up
presenting the material in at least two ways simultaneously: paradigms, plus
morphological system, plus usage examples.  Almost every student could
respond to one of the alternatives.  My arcane structuralist handouts on
(e.g.) the formation of participles were received by some with enthusiasm,
and by others with puzzlement, but I always tried to provide more than one
pathway to "the correct form."  The students who thought my handouts were
crazy were free just to ignore them.  All that mattered was the
grammatically correct utterance, and different students got to it in
different ways.

I hope that the serious, credentialed language teachers out there won't jump
on me for putting forward my humble and uninformed comment (I am curious,
not critical), but what do you all thing about these matters?  Is it
conceivable that a multi-style approach could be incorporated into a single
textbook?  Perhaps it has been done already without my knowing?  Is it a
terrible idea?  Need communicative and structural-linguistic approaches to
language acquisition be considered mutually exclusive?

Well, that's my little meditation/provocation.  I'd be very curious to hear
what others think.

Best,
david


From feszczak at sas.upenn.edu  Sat Mar 27 03:47:03 1999
From: feszczak at sas.upenn.edu (Zenon M. Feszczak)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:47:03 -0500
Subject: Russian Mac Translator
Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.224703.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Found this on the web:

http://www.macobserver.com/news/99/march/990326/russianvandn.html


From gthomson at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca  Sat Mar 27 16:53:28 1999
From: gthomson at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Greg Thomson)
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:53:28 +0300
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
In-Reply-To: <l03110701b3216f5639ab@[137.122.174.100]>
Message-ID: <SAT.27.MAR.1999.195328.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 17:30 -0500 03-26-1999, J. Douglas Clayton wrote:

>Personally, I tell my students that there are in my class to do two things:
>*learn* the language, and *study* it. Learn because it's a useful skill and
>a horizon-opener, and study, because there is an intellectual challenge in
>understanding how the Russian language works, and in universities students
>should have be confronted with intellectual challenges. The objective (in
>my view) is to turn out philologists, i.e., people with an advanced
>linguistic culture, not simply people who can speak the language.
>Otherwise, I don't see how we can justify our presence in the university.
>If Swan and Thomson represent one of the two poles, I feel it is incumbent
>on me to help my students strike a balance between the acquisition of
>communicative skills and the study of Russian grammar (understood, of
>course, in a larger sense than simply learning morphological rules). If
>that's old-fashioned - so be it.

As a linguist and a Russian learner, I have no trouble with your two goals,
although I would wonder how often in undergraduate Russian courses grammar
is studied in the academic spirit that you talk about. I would think many
undergraduate learners might have a rather simple belief that someone
really knows "how Russian works", and might not enjoy having to grapple
with the strengths and weaknesses of competing hypotheses. I also
appreciated Ben Rifkin's clarification. His approach sounds similar to what
I've been exposed to here in Russia. In teaching grammar here at the lower
levels, many teachers seek ways to involve the learners in authentic,
personally relevant communication, related to topics or communicative
situations of immediate practical importance, but with a well-laid plan up
the teacher's sleeve for bringing in grammar points in a supportive rather
than dominating manner. Some of what I've seen here at the lower levels
seems to me to be somewhat in the spirit of Michael Long's idea of "Focus
on Form", though probably predating him. Of course there are also advanced
grammar courses here for philology majors, but not necessarily for foreign
engineering majors or foreign medical students, who must also learn Russian.

Regards,
Greg




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SIL/Thomson, Westpost P.O. Box 109, FIN 53101,
Lappeenranta, FINLAND
Phone: 7-812-246-35-48 (in St. Petersburg, Russia)


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Sat Mar 27 19:42:35 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:42:35 -0800
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
Message-ID: <SAT.27.MAR.1999.114235.0800.>

Language would seem to be a simpler problem (than linguistics). But if
this is so, why do linguists have such a hard time with it? When can we
announce the next AATSEEL meeting conducted in the language under
discussion? gg
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

2134 E. Interlaken  Bl.                 Tel. 206/329-0053
Seattle, WA  98112                      ggerhart at wolfenet.com


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Sun Mar 28 03:27:25 1999
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:27:25 -0500
Subject: "Melissa" Word Virus Infections Escalate on Net
Message-ID: <SAT.27.MAR.1999.222725.0500.>

Dear Colleagues:

Take my word for it. This is no joke. The Melissa email Word virus
has already attacked Microsoft, Intel and many other corporations.

Real all about it:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2233130,00.html

Yours,

Benjamin
Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net


From greenbrg at KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU  Mon Mar 29 03:14:08 1999
From: greenbrg at KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Marc L. Greenberg)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:14:08 -0600
Subject: Eng > Russ trans. question
Message-ID: <SUN.28.MAR.1999.211408.0600.>

Dear Seelangers,

Could a native or near-native Russian speaker please tell me how best
to translate the phrase: "The Rise and Fall of ..." (as in The Rise and
Fall of the Roman Empire)?

Many thanks in advance,

Marc L. Greenberg


=================================
Marc L. Greenberg, Associate
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies
Dept. of Slavic Languages
2134 Wescoe Hall
University of Kansas 66045-2174
USA

Tel. (785) 864-2349 (Office + voice mail)
Tel. (785) 864-3313 (Dept. secretary)
Fax: (785) 864-4298
E-mail: m-greenberg at ukans.edu


From greenbrg at KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU  Mon Mar 29 10:59:54 1999
From: greenbrg at KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Marc L. Greenberg)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 04:59:54 -0600
Subject: "Rise and fall of...."  in Russian
Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.045954.0600.>

The majority said that Rascvet i padenie (Rimskoj imperii) is the
best translation. Many thanks to: Denis Akhapkine, Genevra Gerhart,
Uladzimir Katkouski, Eugene Khayutin, and Natalia Samoilova, for
taking the time to respond.

Genevra Gerhart points out that Gibbon's work is translated as
Istorija upadka i razrushenija R. i.

Best regards,

Marc L. Greenberg
=================================
Marc L. Greenberg
Dept. of Slavic Languages
2134 Wescoe Hall
University of Kansas 66045-2174
USA

Tel. (785) 864-2349 (Office + voice mail)
Tel. (785) 864-3313 (Dept. secretary)
Fax: (785) 864-4298
E-mail: m-greenberg at ukans.edu
http://kuhub.cc.ukans.edu/~greenbrg


From rbeard at bucknell.edu  Mon Mar 29 12:47:32 1999
From: rbeard at bucknell.edu (Robert Beard)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 07:47:32 -0500
Subject: DON'T DOWNLOAD IE5 -- YET! Major screwup!
Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.074732.0500.>

I've been using MSIE 5.0 for about a year now on both a dial-up and LAN
connection without any problem.  By the way, it outperforms Netscape
Communicator 4.51 in Java interpretation, general speed, accessing the
dial-up connection although it does not interpret tables as well as
Communicator.

Far more bothersome, however, is the new virus that attacks the MSIE
mail client, Outlook Express.  If you are using this mail client and
receive an attached MS Word document from someone you don't know, you
might want to approach the attachment with caution.   Microsoft and
Intel have both had to close down their corporate e-mail for a day to
clear out this virus, which apparently does no greater harm than
propagating porno advertising to the top 50 people in your Outlook
Express address book.

--Bob

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Robert Beard                                         rbeard at bucknell.edu
Russian & Linguistics Programs                              717-524-1336
Bucknell University http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Lewisburg, PA 17837          http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian


From mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  Mon Mar 29 16:51:43 1999
From: mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:51:43 -0500
Subject: Novosibirsk
Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.115143.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

A student of mine is considering teaching English in Novosibirsk this
summer. Does anyone know about recent conditions--TB epidemics? Air
quality? Availability of food? And so on. Thanks a lot. Emily Tall


From Jerry_Ervin at compuserve.com  Mon Mar 29 23:03:34 1999
From: Jerry_Ervin at compuserve.com (AATSEEL Exec Director)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:03:34 EST
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.180334.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

In _Nachalo_ we call them the "-esh'" and the "-ish'" conjugations.  (In a
footnote we mention that other textbooks may refer to them as the first and
second conjugations, respectively.)  We happen to present the "-esh'" verbs
first because that type of verb crops up first in our ongoing soap opera;
but the "-ish'" verbs come immediately thereafter, and we make a point of
*not* suggesting any kind of abstract hierarchy.

When I was studying Spanish in high school (40 years ago!) our textbooks
referred  to "-ar, -er, -ir" conjugations (basically without hierarchy),
and referred to the phenomenon of stem-changing verbs (such as "-ie-" and
"-ue-" types) just that way, i.e., empirically.  No one worried about
underlying forms; instead we were learning to speak Spanish.  The empirical
terminology didn't change the language a whit, but surely helped make the
verbs and the references to them accessible for us high schoolers.

Subsequent to cutting my foreign language teeth on Spanish I encountered
German and French.  Practitioners of those languages, too, long ago found
ways to present their grammar without getting into forbidding abstractions.
 

For a variety of reasons it is doubtful that Russian will ever have the
popular appeal of Spanish, French and German.  But perhaps if we in Russian
who teach and write textbooks can move to a broadly accepted pedagogical
grammar, we can help dispel the notion (still held by far too many) that
Russian is a foreign language only for the elite.

Jerry Ervin


From khirvasa at rice.edu  Mon Mar 29 22:43:13 1999
From: khirvasa at rice.edu (Katya Hirvasaho)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:43:13 -0500
Subject: Verbs in Russian Stage One and Two
In-Reply-To: <199903291120_MC2-6FD1-20AD@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.174313.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Re: Russian conjugations:

While I would be the first to say that language is a far more powerful
weapon than most of us are aware of, yet, does it really make a difference
to the students whether the verbs are called "first," "second," or "-ish"
and "-esh" conjugations?  Do "first" and "second" necessarily imply a
vertical hierarchy?  These are the terms by which I learned the
conjugations (and refer to them), yet, in my mind the "first" translates
rather as "encountered first" than "first in importance."  Will students
learn them easier if we start calling them "-esh" and "-ish" verbs?  I
often do, but I doubt that it makes any difference.

Katya

---
Katya Hirvasaho * Rice University * Houston, Texas


From KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com  Tue Mar 30 15:08:00 1999
From: KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com (UDUT, KENNETH)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:08:00 -0500
Subject: Good Russian <-> English <-> Russian Dictionaries
Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.100800.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello again SEELANGers!

You have all been so incredibly helpful - I am still in awe!


A few days ago, I purchased an Oxford Russian/English dictionary - I
believe it said 180,000 translations in it (price was $55 US @ Barnes &
Noble).  I am happy with it, but am curious:

1) What are some good Russian/English dictionaries in book form?

2) What is a good portable electronic Russian/English translator?

3) What is a good computer-based Russian/English dictionary?


I am still learning very basic grammer, and a few words each day.  One
of my on-going projects is to try to jump in and translate word-by-word
little short stories, Scripture verses (I have the Online Bible's 1917
Synodal Russian edition on my computer at home, and I am quite amazed at
how exact the Scripture is compared with English versions - even the
word order, at least so far).  I even have a little Russian 1st level
primer on Grammer, that I purchased at Brighton Beach (my immeasurable
thanks to Igor, who is on this list, and walked me through Brighton
Beach), and will start working with, word by word.

I had taken tons of personality tests in the past, am insanely
introspective, and this seems to fit my learning style.  [i.e. - give me
a complex, insanely large project involving many possible values, allow
me infinite amounts of time to slowly go over it, piece by piece, and
let me make the mental connections between related things, while
providing reference tables as backup in case I get stuck, which I always
do].


My goal in learning Russian is not so much in speaking Russian, although
that will be a part of it, but in translation projects.



That reminds me: Final question for the moment:

-- Is anybody aware of decent Church Slavonik reference books, which
either: 1) Compare/contrast modern Russian and Church Slavonik (in
Russian, I would imagine) or better still 2) Assist an English-speaker
in learning Church Slavonik?

I suspect #1 will be more readily available, and will probably be more
advanced than I could possibly handle at this point in time, but it is
something that would be quite useful down the road.

#2 would be an amazing find, although I have my doubts that such a beast
exists :)


Thank you, one and all.  Is there a SEELANGS FAQ?  I'm sure that the
questions I've been asking over the past month are common enough.


-Kenneth
kenneth.udut at spcorp.com


From jfwhite at u.washington.edu  Tue Mar 30 16:36:17 1999
From: jfwhite at u.washington.edu (Jake White)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:36:17 -0800
Subject: Good Russian <-> English <-> Russian Dictionaries
Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.083617.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hi Kenneth,

A dictionary that I found extremely useful (and also great fun!) is the :
Russian learners' dictionary : 10,000 words in frequency order by Nicholas
J. Brown    (London ; New York : Routledge, 1996)  This is in print and
fairly easily obtained.  The dictionary takes you from the absolutely most
common words (in texts) to words that appear statistically only a few times
in a million words of common usage.  While I quibble somewhat with the exact
frequency rankings,  the layout of the dictionary makes it easy and fun to
test yourself,  and measure  learning progress from word 1 through 10,000.
I continue to find it useful for review and wish there was something similar
for Polish!

Best wishes,   Jake White  / UW Libraries, Seattle


----- Original Message -----
From: UDUT, KENNETH <KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 7:08 AM
Subject: Good Russian <-> English <-> Russian Dictionaries


> Hello again SEELANGers!
>
> You have all been so incredibly helpful - I am still in awe!
>
>
> A few days ago, I purchased an Oxford Russian/English dictionary - I
> believe it said 180,000 translations in it (price was $55 US @ Barnes &
> Noble).  I am happy with it, but am curious:
>
> 1) What are some good Russian/English dictionaries in book form?
>
> 2) What is a good portable electronic Russian/English translator?
>
> 3) What is a good computer-based Russian/English dictionary?
>
>
> I am still learning very basic grammer, and a few words each day.  One
> of my on-going projects is to try to jump in and translate word-by-word
> little short stories, Scripture verses (I have the Online Bible's 1917
> Synodal Russian edition on my computer at home, and I am quite amazed at
> how exact the Scripture is compared with English versions - even the
> word order, at least so far).  I even have a little Russian 1st level
> primer on Grammer, that I purchased at Brighton Beach (my immeasurable
> thanks to Igor, who is on this list, and walked me through Brighton
> Beach), and will start working with, word by word.
>
> I had taken tons of personality tests in the past, am insanely
> introspective, and this seems to fit my learning style.  [i.e. - give me
> a complex, insanely large project involving many possible values, allow
> me infinite amounts of time to slowly go over it, piece by piece, and
> let me make the mental connections between related things, while
> providing reference tables as backup in case I get stuck, which I always
> do].
>
>
> My goal in learning Russian is not so much in speaking Russian, although
> that will be a part of it, but in translation projects.
>
>
>
> That reminds me: Final question for the moment:
>
> -- Is anybody aware of decent Church Slavonik reference books, which
> either: 1) Compare/contrast modern Russian and Church Slavonik (in
> Russian, I would imagine) or better still 2) Assist an English-speaker
> in learning Church Slavonik?
>
> I suspect #1 will be more readily available, and will probably be more
> advanced than I could possibly handle at this point in time, but it is
> something that would be quite useful down the road.
>
> #2 would be an amazing find, although I have my doubts that such a beast
> exists :)
>
>
> Thank you, one and all.  Is there a SEELANGS FAQ?  I'm sure that the
> questions I've been asking over the past month are common enough.
>
>
> -Kenneth
> kenneth.udut at spcorp.com
>


From gfowler at indiana.edu  Tue Mar 30 18:01:26 1999
From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:01:26 -0500
Subject: Job announcement in Edinburgh
Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.130126.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From: "Lara Ryazanova-Clarke" <ruslrs at srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:53:16 +0000
Subject: job announcement: Lectureship in European Film (Russian)
X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Lara Ryazanova-Clarke" <ruslrs at srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk>

To the attention of specialists in Russian Film:

Applications are invited for a full-time Lectureship in European
Cinema with effect from 1 October 1999. Participation in language
teaching will be a firm requirement of the post and the successful
candidate will have a first degree and a completed PhD (ideally
related to the cinema of a European nation or to a pan-European
topic); native or near-native-speaker competence in one of the
languages of the School (Russian is one of the languages of the
School) and the ability to teach in culturally-based courses, not
necessarily related to film, will be an advantage. Post available for
a fixed term of five years. REF: 776209GU. Closing date: 16 April
1999. Contact the Edinburgh University Personnel Department. Tel 0131-
650 2511 http://www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm

Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Convener for Russian Studies
School of European Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
UK
************************************************************************
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From KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com  Tue Mar 30 16:59:00 1999
From: KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com (UDUT, KENNETH)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:59:00 -0500
Subject: Good Russian <-> English <-> Russian Dictionaries
Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.115900.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I have it!!!  It was one of the first books I purchased to learn Russian
and I absolutely love it!

Every day, I take 10 words, and try to memorize them.  I am not very good at

memorizing things (which might make one wonder why someone with a bad memory

would attempt to learn a language :) ), but one thing that helps me is when
I am
working out of one Russian learning book, and then, seeing the word appear
in
the Frequency text!

The more reiteration, the more I see something as 'familiar' and can
identify
it, the more competent I find myself, and able to move forward.


I wholeheartedly agree about it being fun!  The test sentences, I find them
easy
to use, and it is on a nice, simple, basic level that neophytes like me can
grasp.

I'm happy to hear that someone else is finding that dictionary useful -
sometimes I purchase something, then later on wonder, "heck, is this thing
worth
anything?"  I am glad to hear that it is a good text and is recommended!

Thanks Jake!



-Kenneth

______________________________ Reply Separator
_________________________________
Subject: Re: Good Russian <-> English <-> Russian Dictionaries
Author:  "Jake White" [SMTP:jfwhite at u.washington.edu] at S-P_EXHUB_AM
Date:    03/30/1999 11:36 AM


Hi Kenneth,

A dictionary that I found extremely useful (and also great fun!) is the :
Russian learners' dictionary : 10,000 words in frequency order by Nicholas
J. Brown    (London ; New York : Routledge, 1996)  This is in print and
fairly easily obtained.  The dictionary takes you from the absolutely most
common words (in texts) to words that appear statistically only a few times
in a million words of common usage.  While I quibble somewhat with the exact

frequency rankings,  the layout of the dictionary makes it easy and fun to
test yourself,  and measure  learning progress from word 1 through 10,000.
I continue to find it useful for review and wish there was something similar

for Polish!

Best wishes,   Jake White  / UW Libraries, Seattle


----- Original Message -----
From: UDUT, KENNETH <KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 7:08 AM
Subject: Good Russian <-> English <-> Russian Dictionaries


> Hello again SEELANGers!
>
> You have all been so incredibly helpful - I am still in awe!
>
>
> A few days ago, I purchased an Oxford Russian/English dictionary - I
> believe it said 180,000 translations in it (price was $55 US @ Barnes &
> Noble).  I am happy with it, but am curious:
>
> 1) What are some good Russian/English dictionaries in book form?
>
> 2) What is a good portable electronic Russian/English translator?
>
> 3) What is a good computer-based Russian/English dictionary?
>
>
> I am still learning very basic grammer, and a few words each day.  One
> of my on-going projects is to try to jump in and translate word-by-word
> little short stories, Scripture verses (I have the Online Bible's 1917
> Synodal Russian edition on my computer at home, and I am quite amazed at
> how exact the Scripture is compared with English versions - even the
> word order, at least so far).  I even have a little Russian 1st level
> primer on Grammer, that I purchased at Brighton Beach (my immeasurable
> thanks to Igor, who is on this list, and walked me through Brighton
> Beach), and will start working with, word by word.
>
> I had taken tons of personality tests in the past, am insanely
> introspective, and this seems to fit my learning style.  [i.e. - give me
> a complex, insanely large project involving many possible values, allow
> me infinite amounts of time to slowly go over it, piece by piece, and
> let me make the mental connections between related things, while
> providing reference tables as backup in case I get stuck, which I always
> do].
>
>
> My goal in learning Russian is not so much in speaking Russian, although
> that will be a part of it, but in translation projects.
>
>
>
> That reminds me: Final question for the moment:
>
> -- Is anybody aware of decent Church Slavonik reference books, which
> either: 1) Compare/contrast modern Russian and Church Slavonik (in
> Russian, I would imagine) or better still 2) Assist an English-speaker
> in learning Church Slavonik?
>
> I suspect #1 will be more readily available, and will probably be more
> advanced than I could possibly handle at this point in time, but it is
> something that would be quite useful down the road.
>
> #2 would be an amazing find, although I have my doubts that such a beast
> exists :)
>
>
> Thank you, one and all.  Is there a SEELANGS FAQ?  I'm sure that the
> questions I've been asking over the past month are common enough.
>
>
> -Kenneth
> kenneth.udut at spcorp.com
>


From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Tue Mar 30 18:26:10 1999
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:26:10 -0500
Subject: Polish frequency Dictionaries
In-Reply-To: <199903301813.NAA18048@sp2.spcorp.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.132610.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>While I quibble somewhat with the exact
>
>frequency rankings,  the layout of the dictionary makes it easy and fun to
>test yourself,  and measure  learning progress from word 1 through 10,000.
>I continue to find it useful for review and wish there was something similar
>
>for Polish!
>
How about these?

        TITLE:   A word-frequency dictionary of Polish journalistic texts /
                   F.E. Knowles.

  AUTHOR/NAME:   Knowles, F. E.

    PUBLISHED:   Birmingham : Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Aston,
                   1981.

  DESCRIPTION:   3 v. ; 30 cm.

     SUBJECTS:   Polish language--Word frequency--Dictionaries.
                 Polish language--Reverse indexes.

        NOTES:   Bibliography: v. 1, p. 182-190.

and:

        TITLE:   Frekwencja wyraz’ow w prasie: wiadomo’sci, komentarze,
                   reportaÁze.

  AUTHOR/NAME:   Pisarek, Walery.

      EDITION:   [Wyd. 1.]

    PUBLISHED:   Krak’ow, 1972.

  DESCRIPTION:   309 p. 24cm.

     SUBJECTS:   Polish language--Word frequency.
                 Press--Poland.

        NOTES:   With a summary in English and Russian.


Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


From c-cosner at uiuc.edu  Tue Mar 30 18:40:35 1999
From: c-cosner at uiuc.edu (Chris Cosner)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:40:35 -0600
Subject: new forum
Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.124035.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I would like to announce the formation of a discussion forum that may be
of interest to this members of this mailing list.

 Databases in the Humanities  is a forum for individual scholars
interested in using databases to enhance their research projects and
pedagogy. Topics may include database design, organization and analysis
of the fuzzy data typical of humanities inquiries (qualitative
analysis), development strategies, choice of software, data conversion
and storage, and posting databases online. The forum is divided into two
parts: 1) pedagogy, 2) research.

The forum can be reached by pointing your web browser to
http://www.dejanews.com/~databases_humanities

Membership in the forum is free, and you will be able to access it from
any computer that has a web browser.

Comments and suggestions on the forum are welcome.

Best regards,

Chris Cosner
c-cosner at uiuc.edu


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Tue Mar 30 19:37:14 1999
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:37:14 -0600
Subject: SEEJ Forum on Mickiewicz
Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.133714.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of my colleague Halina Filipowicz, I am posting an announcement
regarding a forum, in _The Slavic and East European Journal_, on
Mickiewicz.  Please direct any and all queries about the forum to Halina
Filipowicz:  hfilipow at facstaff.wisc.edu, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, University of Wisconsin,  1220 Linden Dr.,  Madison, WI
53706-1557

Thank you.

Ben Rifkin

********************************************************************************
***
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR FORUM "MICKIEWICZ:  EAST AND WEST"
TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE SLAVIC & EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL

I invite articles for a forum, "Mickiewicz: East and West," to be
considered for publication in +Slavic and East European Journal+.  Poised
between the bicentennial of Adam Mickiewicz's birth (in 1998) and the 150th
anniversary of his death (in 2005), the forum proposes to examine how
different constructions of Mickiewicz's "life/work" have affected our
understanding of Polish and Russian literatures. The subtopics listed below
are provided by way of example and suggestion only.

The purpose of the forum is to situate Mickiewicz studies within a vastly
broadened network of intertextual and cross-cultural relations, which
requires, for its interpretation and assessment, methods that are often
mixed, if not interdisciplinary.  I am particularly eager to encourage the
application of new critical methodologies.  At the same time, I propose to
foster a dialogue between different theoretical and methodological
approaches to Mickiewicz studies and thus to escape the narrow way in which
this field has traditionally been constituted.

Contributors may want to reexamine standard narratives of Mickiewicz as one
of Europe's leading literary celebrities; rites of inclusion and exclusion
in the Mickiewicz canon (both in the sense of Mickiewicz's texts and
Mickiewicz scholarship); communal myths and the construction of the
Mickiewicz cult; external propaganda; self-censorship, discipline, shaming,
and punishment in Mickiewicz studies.

Another possible approach is to consider what new subjects, issues, and
problems can be illuminated by specific critical  methodologies; what
impact new critical theories have had on inherited notions of the
aesthetic, the historical, and the cultural in Mickiewicz studies; and what
effect Mickiewicz studies has had on teaching Polish and Russian literatures.

Still another approach is to explore connections which Mickiewicz's texts
may have to texts by other writers, East or West, and to such concepts as
hegemony, orientalism, gender and sexuality, diaspora, hybridity, nomadism,
and performativity, and to theorize a new understanding of Mickiewicz that
would extend the recent remapping of literary studies, especially in terms
of multivalent, cross-cultural, and migratory subjectivities.

The deadline is 1 February 2000.  All articles will be refereed according
to +SEEJ+ usual procedures.

Please send articles and inquiries regarding this forum to:

Halina Filipowicz
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706-1557

e-mail: hfilipow at factaff.wisc.edu


From roman.laskowski at slav.gu.se  Wed Mar 31 09:45:49 1999
From: roman.laskowski at slav.gu.se (Roman Laskowski)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 11:45:49 +0200
Subject: Polish frequency Dictionaries
Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.114549.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The best and most extesive Poish word-frequency dictionary is: 

Kurcz, I.., Lewicki, A., Sambor, J., Szafran, K., Woronczak, J.: Slownik
frekwencyjny polszczyzny wspólczesnej. Vol. I - II. - Instytut Jezyka
Polskiego PAN, Krakow 1990. 

Roman Laskowski
Roman Laskowski
University of Gothenburg 
Department of Slavic Languages 
Box 200, 405 30 Göteborg, SWEDEN
tel.: +46-31-773 18 20
fax:  +46-31-773 19 21
e-mail: Roman.Laskowski at slav.gu.se
     


From mitrege at mail.auburn.edu  Wed Mar 31 13:55:33 1999
From: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu (George Mitrevski)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:55:33 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: need tutor]
Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.085533.0500.>

Please reply directly to the person requesting the information.

George.
--
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Foreign Languages                  fax: 334-844-6378
6030 Haley Center               e-mail: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu
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List of my WWW pages: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/index.html
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From KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com  Wed Mar 31 18:25:00 1999
From: KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com (UDUT, KENNETH)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:25:00 -0500
Subject: Quick grammer question - CASES
Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.132500.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello again SEELANGS!  I hope one day I will be able to actually
contribute something of merit to the list, but for now, I just have
questions here and there, about this and that.  You have all been quite
gracious with me so far - thank you for that!

I have been struggling over the past two days with cases.  I never did
well in English with this sort of thing, and trying learn it in Russian
has been forcing me to go back to basic English grammer texts, which has
helped in understanding of Russian cases quite a bit.

My question/request is:

Could someone provide a sentence, in English, then in Russian, which
contains all of the normal cases?  [nominative, genitive, dative,
accusative, instrumental, and prepositional/locative]

For example, I *think* a sentence which has nominative, dative and
accusative, might be:

I taught Joe math.

NOMINATIVE: [kto?] Who taught Joe math?  I.

DATIVE: ["kamOO"?] To whom was math taught?  Joe.

ACCUSATIVE: ["shto"?] I taught Joe what? [or What did I teach Joe?]
Math.


I might have this wrong [and *please* correct me if it is wrong], but in
case this is right, this is about as far as I have gotten in
comprehending cases.

I hope to be able to comprehend this soon, as the next couple of
chapters (I am using Living Language for the time being, and hopeful
that I will be able to take classes soon] look relatively easy.


I am grateful to everyone here who made it very very clear to me that
GRAMMER must come first and be mastered as much as is possible,
otherwise I almost certainly would have put grammer in 2nd place and
passed over these things until I regretted it later on.


So, does anybody have a sentence that contains each of these cases?
This way, I can keep asking the various questions to the sentence until
all of this case stuff starts to 'click in'.



Thank you so much!

-Kenneth
kenneth.udut at spcorp.com


From KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu  Wed Mar 31 19:29:15 1999
From: KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu (Judith Kalb)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:29:15 -0500
Subject: raw garlic
Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.142915.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,
One of my students is from a Ukrainian family and attends a Ukrainian
church in Pittsburgh.  He tells me that on all holidays, the church
attendees eat raw garlic and unleavened bread.  He's wondering where this
custom might come from.  Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Judith Kalb


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Assistant Professor of Russian
Director of the Russian Program
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian
  Languages and Literatures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone (803) 777-9615
Fax (803) 777-0132
KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu


From nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu  Wed Mar 31 19:48:00 1999
From: nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu (Natalie O. Kononenko)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:48:00 -0500
Subject: raw garlic
In-Reply-To: <l03010d09b327e30a9cf0@[129.252.6.2]> from "Judith Kalb" at Mar
 31, 99 02:29:15 pm
Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.144800.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I hope someone else can answer better than I because I find
this practice most curious and want to know myself where it
came from.  The bread may well be the bread of the Eucharist.
The unleavened version is one way of making it.  But the garlic
is strange indeed.  Why not ask the parish priest and pass the
answer on to the list serve?

Natalie Kononenko


From gthomson at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca  Wed Mar 31 19:29:34 1999
From: gthomson at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Greg Thomson)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:29:34 +0300
Subject: Zalevckaja book on SLA
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19990331113659.49475748@hum.gu.se>
Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.222934.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Does anybody know of a way to order

Voprocy teorii ovladenia inoctrannym jazykom,

 by A.A. Zalevckaja, Tver, 1996.

It seems that bookshops in St. Petersburg are unable to handle special
orders of this nature. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Greg


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