Talks

2024

1. Invited plenary talk “Representation of multi-word constructions in a large-scale repository.” Presented at Workshop "Enhancing the theory of Phraseme Constructions: definition, classification, analysis" of the COST Action CA22115 project "A Multilingual Repository of Phraseme Constructions in Central and Eastern European Languages" (PhraConRep), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, March 8.

2. “Adapting a linguistic constructicon resource to L2 learners and instructors: a challenging endeavor”, co-authored with Laura A. Janda and Valentina Zhukova.  Presented at the international conference "Constructionist approaches to language pedagogy" (CALP 4), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, March 18-20. https://www.linguistics.phil.fau.eu/calp4/

3. “Construxercise!: Implementation of a construction-based approach to language pedagogy”, co-authored with Laura A. Janda and Valentina Zhukova.  Presented at the international conference "Constructionist approaches to language pedagogy" (CALP 4), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, March 18-20. https://www.linguistics.phil.fau.eu/calp4/

4. Invited plenary talk  “Digitale ressurser for konstruksjonsbasert undervisning i østslaviske språk” at the seminar meeting "Konstruksjonslæring og konstruktikoner i undervisning i skandinaviske språk", Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. May 28, 2024. 

5. “Construxercise!: Implementing a construction-based approach to teaching L2 Russian”, co-authored with Valentina Zhukova.  At the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. June 14-16.

6. “From form to meaning: a study of reduplicative constructions in a reduplication-unfriendly language ”, co-authored with Valentina Zhukova and Laura A. Janda.  At the Inaugural Conference of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America (CLANAC1), June 27–29, Montreal, Canada.

7. Invited talk "Construxercise! How we teach Russian constructions", co-authored with Valentina Zhukova. Workshop on teaching Russian phraseme constructions (COST PhraConRep CA22115 project "A Multilingual Repository of Phraseme Constructions in Central and Eastern European Languages"); September 18, 2024.

8. “Using ChatGPT for teaching Russian as a foreign language.” Invited talk at the Seminar at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. November 11, 2024.

9. “Major types of comparison revisited: How a network of 243 comparative constructions is organized in Russian” (co-authored with Valentina Zhukova and Daria Mordashova). Workshop with Prof. Greville Corbett, UiT The Arctic university of Norway, October 3, 2024.

2023

10. “Building a large-scale construct-i-con resource for Russian and Ukrainian: implications for language description and L2 learning.” Invited talk at the ELR seminar series, University of Birmingham, UK, Oct 25.

11. “Construction‑based approach to language pedagogy: resources "The Russian constructicon" and "Construxercise!" for teaching L2 Russian.” Invited talk at the meeting with the instructors of L2 Russian at the University of Birmingham, UK, Oct 10.

12. “Repeating ourselves: reduplication in Russian constructions”, invited talk co-authored with Laura A. Janda and Valentina Zhukova. Presented by Laura Janda at the workshop Contemporary approaches to Russian language: varieties and variability. Oct 17, 2023. Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.

13. “A Constructicon for Ukrainian: Objectives, Strategies, Results”, talk co-authored with Yuliia Palii, Zoia Butenko, Laura A. Janda. Presented at the 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 16), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, August 7-11, 2023, https://iclc16.phil.hhu.de

14. “Construxercise!: how to implement a construction-based approach to language pedagogy”, talk co-authored with Valentina Zhukova and Laura A. Janda. Presented at the 18th Conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA 2023), June 1-3, 2023, Harvard University (Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts).

15. “Reduplication in the ecosystem of Russian constructions”, talk co-authored with Laura A. Janda and Valentina Zhukova. Presented at the 18th Conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA 2023), June 1-3, 2023, Harvard University (Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts).

16. “Constructions within and beyond a single clause in the system of Russian reduplication”, talk co-authored with Valentina Zhukova and Laura A. Janda. Presented at the 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG 12), May 19-21, 2023, Prague.

17. “Representation of a structured inventory of constructions in a construct-i-con resource”, a guest lecture in the course LING305 “Modern Grammatical and Semantic Theory”, University of Bergen, Febr. 20, 2023.

2022

18. “Bridging the gap between a constructicon and L2 learners” (co-authored with Valentina Zhukova and Laura A. Janda), presented at the 3rd conference “Constructions in the Nordics” (CxCG). University of Kiel, Germany, Sept.  2022.

19. “Ресурс что надо: Det russiske konstruktikonet og undervisning i russisk”  [=The Russian constructicon and language pedagogy]. (co-authored with Valentina Zhukova, Laura A. Janda, and Tore Nesset), presented at the 22nd Nordic Congress of Slavists. Oslo, Aug. 2022.

20. “Organizing international thematic PhD courses at UiT The Arctic University of Norway”, presented at the “Citizen Journalism meeting: Presentation of UiT study programs”. UiT The Arctic University of Norway. December 6-7, 2022.

2021

21. “Prohibitive constructions in Russian: Families and clusters” (co-authored with Daria Mordashova, Valentina Zhukova, Laura A. Janda, and Ekaterina Rakhilina), forthcoming at 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11). University of Antwerp, Belgium, August 18, 2021. Video

22. “How to build a constructicon in five years: The Russian recipe” (co-authored with Laura A. Janda, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Valentina Zhukova, and Daria Mordashova), presented by Laura A. Janda at the 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11). University of Antwerp, Belgium, August, 2021.

23. “Det russiske konstruktikonet: Hvordan vi bygger en database med syntaktiske konstruksjoner” (co-authored with Laura A. Janda, and Tore Nesset) A talk presented digitally at NORKOG Sommerseminaret 2020/2021 (Summer Seminar of the Norwegian Cognitive Linguistics Association) June 10-11, 2021, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø.

24. “Launch of the Russian Constructicon” (co-authored with Valentina Zhukova, Daria Mordashova), presented digitally at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2020/2021), June 3, 2021. Video

25. “Semantic classification of constructions in the Russian Constructicon” (co-authored with Valentina Zhukova, Daria Mordashova, Ekaterina Rakhilina), presented digitally at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2020/2021), June 3, 2021. Video

26. “Našli razvlečenie! Patterns of Assessment and Attitude constructions in Russian” (co-authored with Laura A. Janda), presented digitally at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2020/2021), June 3, 2021. Video

2020

27. “Русский Конструктикон: Новый лингвистический ресурс, его устройство и специфика” [= The Russian Constructicon: A new linguistic resource, its design and key characteristics], (co-authored with Daria Mordashova, Valentina Zhukova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Olga Lyashevskaya), presented over internet at the digital conference “Dialogue 2020: 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies“, June 17, 2020, Moscow. Video

28. “Annotation of constructions in the light of strategies adopted in the Russian Constructicon: Challenges of accurate and user-friendly representations of semantic and syntactic properties.” Co-authored with Daria Mordashova, Valentina Zhukova, Laura A. Janda, Olga Lyashevskaya, Ekaterina Rakhilina. Presented virtually at The Construction Annotation Workshop 2020. Follow-up session organized by Tiago Torrent, Alexander Ziem, Benjamin Lyngfelt. November 3, 2020.

29. “Core grammar, non-compositional, and discourse organisation constructions in the full-text construction annotation task for Russian”. Co-authored by Lyashevskaya, Olga, Anna Endresen, Daria Mordashova, Valentina Zhukova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Laura A. Janda. Presented virtually at The Construction Annotation Workshop 2020.October 6 & 8, 2020. Abstract.

30. “Typer av grammatiske konstruksjoner i det russiske konstruktikonet” [= Types of grammatical constructions in the Russian Constructicon], Anna Endresen. Presented virtually at the November seminar (Novemberseminaret i russisk og russlandstudier 2020). November 19, 2020.

2019

31. “Building a Constructicon for Russian: How to identify families of constructions?” (co-authored with Anna Klezovich, Olga Lyashevskaya, Daria Mordashova, Maria Nordrum, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Francis Tyers and Valentina Zhukova). A talk at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15), Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan. August 6-11, 2019.

32. “The role of modality in Russian aspect: Evidence from an experimental study” (co-authored with Laura A. Janda and Robert Reynolds). A talk at the conference "Aspect in the Arctic". UiT The Arctic University of Norway, September 5-6, 2019.

33. “Ну работа и работа: Russian constructions with reduplication”. Talk given at November Seminar (Novemberseminaret i russisk 2019) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, November 29, 2019.

2018

34. “Acceptability judgment data and appropriate statistical modeling.” Invited talk at the lunch seminar of the LAVA (Language Acquisition, Variation and Attrition) research group. University of Tromsø. April 26, 2018.

35. “The CLARUS project. Constructional Landscape of Russian Syntax: Modeling native speakers' knowledge for second language learners.” Presentation at the CLEAR's seminar. University of Tromsø. September 11, 2018.

2015

36. “How to build a radial category - theory, prototypes and empirical evidence.” Trial lecture at the University of Tromsø. January 16, 2015.

37. “Non-Standard Allomorphy in Russian Prefixes: Corpus, Experimental, and Statistical Exploration.” Presentation of the doctoral dissertation at my defense. University of Tromsø. January 16, 2015.

38. “O- and OB- v russkom: pristavki na grani razvoda? Semantičeskoe rasxoždenie allomorfov, kognitivnyj analiz polisemii i eksperiment” (= O- and OB- in Russian: prefixes "about to divorce"? Semantic divergence of allomorphs, cognitive approach to polysemy and experiment). Invited lecture. Institute of Slavic Studies. University of Graz. Austria. June 16, 2015.

39. “Non-Standard Allomorphy: Old Concept, Big Data, New Model. Evidence from Russian Prefixes. Cognitive, experimental, and quantitative approach.” Invited lecture. Institute of Slavic Studies. University of Graz. Austria. June 17, 2015.

40. “Kak izmerit’  sxodstva semantiki? Russkie pristavki i ix cerkovnoslavjanskie ekvivalenty S-/SO-, VY-/IZ-, PERE-/PRE-, and VZ-/VOZ-.” (= How can we measure semantic similarities? Russian prefixes and their Slavonic counterparts S-/SO-, VY-/IZ-, PERE-/PRE-, and VZ-/VOZ-). Invited lecture. Institute of Slavic Studies. University of Graz. Austria. June 18, 2015.

41. “Experimental study of marginal change-of-state verbs in Russian and statistical modelling of multifactorial conditioning.” Invited lecture. Institute of Slavic Studies. University of Graz. Austria. June 19, 2015.

42. “Allomorphy: Old Concept, Big Data, New model. New methods of analysis for rival polysemous prefixes.” A poster presented at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. July 22, 2015. Pdf 

43. “Do “particles” deserve to be classified as a part of speech? A view from Russian.” A talk co-authored with Laura A. Janda, Francis M. Tyers and Robert Reynolds. Presented at the 5th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC V). Trondheim, Norway. August 19, 2015. Slides are available here.

2014

44. “Non-Standard Allomorphy: Corpus and Experimental Evidence from Russian Prefixes.” Talk given at the Phonology Seminar for PhD students. University of Tromsø. September 23, 2014.

45. “Marginal words in Russian: Transparent, but not acceptable.” Co-authored with Laura A. Janda. Presented by Laura A. Janda at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) at Harvard University, USA. February 17, 2014.

2013

46. “What is the problem with allomorphy? Allomorphy as a theoretical construct with structuralist "baggage". CLEAR group meeting. University of Tromsø. October 2013.

47. “Cognitive Linguistics and Typology: Comparing Polysemous Prefixes O- and OB- across Slavic”. (co-authored with Lj.Šarić, A.Będkowska-Kopczyk, S.Nedelcheva, L.Mitkovska, E.Bužarovska, W.Lewandowski). Poster presented at the 9th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Dubrovnik, Croatia. September 15-18, 2013.

48. “Prefikset s- og dets ikke-trivielle allomorfi: Fra gammelkirkeslavisk til moderne russisk” at det 19. nordiske slavistmøte i Bergen. August 7-11, 2013.

49. “Morphological Intensifiers Beyond Adjectives: Evidence from productive patterns of Russian prefixation” at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), June 23-28, 2013 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

50. “What is a possible word? Evidence from Russian factitive verbs” (joint talk with Laura A. Janda) at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), June 23-28, 2013 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  

51. “Where differences disappear: The Bermuda Triangle of the Russian prefix S-” at “Cognitive Linguistics in the Triangle: Slavic and Beyond” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 22, 2013, USA.

52. “The choice of morpheme in Russian factitive verbs” at Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL-2013), January 3-6, Boston, USA.

2012

53. “Russian factitive verbs: aspect and allomorphy” at the 12th Annual Conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLC-2012) in Zagreb, Croatia, September 27-29.

54. “Allomorphy via borrowing? The status of the prefixes PRE- and PERE- in Modern Russian” presented at 7th Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguistic Society, August 25-27, 2012, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas, USA.

55. “Non-prototypical Allomorphy: Corpus, Experimental, and Statistical Optimization.” A talk given at the 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kings College London.July 10-12, 2012.

56. “A case study of non-prototypical allomorphy: Russian aspectual prefixes O-, OB-, and OBO-”. A talk given at the Cognitive Summer Seminar at The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Oslo, Norway, June 10-11, 2012.

57. “PERE- and PRE- in Modern Russian: Walking through Random Forests”. At the seminar at Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo. May 8, 2012.

58. “Spatial Sources of Temporal Approximation: The Russian prepositions o(b) and okolo ‘about, around’”. Presented at the conference “Time and Space in St. Petersburg” at the Norwegian University Center in St. Petersburg. March 30, 2012.

59. “How HERE and NOW in English and Russian establish joint attention in TV news broadcasts.” (co-authored with Tore Nesset, Laura A. Janda and Anastasia Makarova) Presented at the conference “Time and Space in St. Petersburg” at the Norwegian University Center in St. Petersburg. March 29, 2012.

60. “Approximation in Time: The Competition between O(B) and OKOLO.” At “Leapday Seminar” at Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo. February 29, 2012.

2011

61. “What Russian VSTAT' is made of?” (co-authored with Vladimir Plungian) At seminar “Time is Space thus far” at Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo. November 23, 2011.

62. “O(b)/ About temporal adverbials: The study of temporal uses of the Russian prepositions O, OB, and OBO”. At seminar “Time is Space thus far” at Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo. November 23, 2011.

63. “A Case of Non-Trivial Evaluation in Russian Prefixes”. (co-authored with Svetlana Sokolova) Presented at SLE 2011, 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain. Sept 8-11, 2011.

64. “What Determines a Prototype? Frequency vs. Conceptual Salience”. (co-authored with Svetlana Sokolova) Presented at 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Language, Cognition, Context. Xi’an, China. July 11-17, 2011.

65. “The Role of Constructions in Defining Prefix Polysemy: A Corpus Study of Russian ZA-”. (co-authored with Svetlana Sokolova) Presented at International Conference “Constructional and Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian” at Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Linguistics, St. Petersburg, Russia. March 24-26, 2011.

66. “Russije pristavki O-, OB- i OBO-: raznye allomorfy ili morfemy? Eksperimental’noe issledovanie” (“The Russian Prefixes O-, OB-, and OBO-: Different Allomorphs or Morphemes? An Experimental Study”). Presented at the XL International Philological Conference at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. March 14-19, 2011.

2010

67. “Pristavki VZ- i VOZ- v russkom jazyke: "sed’maja voda na kisele" ili "dva v odnom"?” (co-authored with Svetlana Sokolova) Presented at Novemberseminaret om russisk språk og litteratur at University of Tromsø, Norway. November 24, 2010. 

68. “ZAJTI: ‘gå inn’ eller ‘stikke innom’? Interaksjon mellom konstruksjoner og semantikken til prefikser”. (co-authored with Svetlana Sokolova) Presented at Novemberseminaret om russisk språk og litteratur at University of Tromsø. November 24, 2010.

69. “Metafor og metonymi: tidsadverbialer i russisk”. (co-authored with Tore Nesset) Presented at Novemberseminaret om russisk språk og litteratur at the University of Tromsø. November 24, 2010.

2009

70. “To ganger ut”. (co-authored with Tore Nesset and Laura Janda) Presented at Novemberseminaret om russisk språk og litteratur at the University of Tromsø, Norway. November 25, 2009.

71. “Russian Passive Morphology as a Fuzzy Category”. At Symposium on linguistic categorization and the nature of linguistic categories at the University of Tromsø, Norway. April 24, 2009.