Dr Alexander Krasovitsky
Lector in Russian
Address: 47 Wellington Square, OX1 2JF, Oxford, Great Britain
Email: alexander.krasovitsky@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270491
Research
Dr Krasovitsky's reasearch interests are in the following areas:
- Russian linguistics
- Language variation and change
- Morphosyntax
- Phonology and phonetics
- Contact linguistics
- Corpus studies
- Field linguistics
Recently completed projects
Russian regional corpus: acoustic database with discourse annotation. Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a project carried out in 2009-2011 at the University of Bochum, Technical University of Bochum and the University of Surrey (Surrey Morphology Group). Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Sound change in progress: Case of a North Russian dialect. July-September 2009, University of Bochum, Germany. Research fellowship by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Short-term morphosyntactic change. Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a project carried out in 2004-2008 by the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, and funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Russian in Siberia: acoustic database and contact phenomena. 2003-2004, University of Bochum, Germany. Research fellowship by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
PhD supervision
The evolution of a vowel system from a syhchronic perspective. (2011 - present)
Tatiana Korobejnikova, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Current visiting position
Visiting Research Fellow, Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey
Courses taught in 2011-2012
In 2011 - 2012 Dr Krasovitsky is teaching Russian ab initio, Russian conversation, Russian essay and English-Russian translation.
Publications
Books
2004. (with Christian Sappok). Russkoye Ust´e. Bulletin des phonetischen Fonds der russischen Sprache. Supplementband 14. Bochum. 104 pp. (In Russian)
1999. (with L.L. Kasatkin, R.F. Kasatkina, D.M. Savinov, E.V. Shigel). Russian Dialects. South Russian variety. Moscow. Nauka. 207pp. (In Russian)
Edited volume
2004. Studies in Language Interference (European Russia, Siberia, Far East). Book and audio CD. Bulletin des phonetischen Fonds der russischen Sprache, No 9. Bochum. (In Russian)
Electronic resources
(with Ch. Sappok and L. Paschen) Database Russian regional corpus: acoustic database with discourse annotation (under construction).
(with G. Corbett, M. Baerman, D. Brown and A. Long) Database Short-term morphosyntactic change http://www3.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/STMC
Selected articles
2012 Articullacionnyj sdvig i razvitie nejtralizacii glasnyh. To appear in: Materialy i issledovanija po russkoj dialektologii. "Nauka", Moscow (in Russian).
2010 (with Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett, Peter Williams). Predicate agreement in Russian: A corpus-base approach. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. Sonderband 74. pp.109-121.
2010 (with Dunstan Brown, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett). Changing semantic factors in case selection: Russian evidence from the last two centuries. Morphology (Online First).
2009. (with Dunstan Brown, Carole Tiberius, Marina Chumakina and Greville G. Corbett). Databases designed for investigating specific phenomena. In: Martin Evereart and Simon Musgrave (eds.) Linguistic Databases. Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2008. (with Alison Long, Dunstan Brown, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett). Predicate nouns in Russian. Russian Linguistics 32, 2008. 99-113.
2006. Russian in Kamchatka: prominent features in the view of linguists and speakers. In: Dieter Stern & Christian Voss (eds.), Marginal Linguistic Identities. Studies in Slavic contact and borderland varieties, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Publishers. Eurolinguistische Arbeiten, vol. 2.
2004. On sentence prominence in the speech of Russian Old Settlers in East Siberia and Kamchatka. In: Studies in Language Interference (European Russian, Siberia, Far East). Bulletin des phonetischen Fonds, No 9. Bochum. 79-86.