Potsdam Slavic Variation Lab
Project “Database of Ukrainian dialects (DUD)”
- Description
The database is under development and has currently over 110.000 datapoints (primarily phonetics) from over 900 locations in Ukraine supplied with GPS. Preliminary collaboration with the Institute of the Ukrainian language (Kyiv). Currently funded by the Chair of Slavic Linguistics of U Potsdam.
Project “Perception verbs in Slavic”
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This is a corpus-based project that investigates the lexical distribution and grammatical behaviour of verbs of perception across different Slavic languages and branches. Funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Project “Documenting Russian Old Believers dialects of Latgalia”
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Documenting Russian dialects of Old Believers in Latgalia (Latvia); audio & video records and transcriptions. The corpus is to be created. Currently funded by the Chair of Slavic Linguistics of U Potsdam.
Project “Place names from Early East Slavic texts”
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This project is an independent part of the DFG-NCN project "Interdisciplinary Hillfort Studies at the Daugava River: Merging and Decoding Archaeological, Environmental and Linguistic Data”. The aim is to produce a large-scale interdisciplinary database with the accumulation of interdisciplinary results from palaeoenvironmental, archaeological and linguistic studies in order to reconstruct the prehistorical picture of the waterway along the river of Daugava. The project is funded by DFG.
Project “DOM in Macedonian dialects”
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The project focuses on the historical development of prepositional differential object marking in Macedonian dialects. Cooperation between members of the Chair of Slavic Linguistics of U Potsdam and Ss.Cyrill & Methodius University.
Project “Word order in Russian”
- Description
This project aims at identifying statistical preferences in Russian word order on the basis of automatically extracted data from Universal Dependencies corpus. Keywords: efficiency effects, definiteness & animacy. Funded by the Chair of Slavic Linguistics U Potsdam in cooperation with the Chair Slavic Linguistics of U Leipzig.