Research subject Slavic linguistics

Linguistic research in Slavic languages ​​is conducted at the department, which includes both individual languages ​​(Polish, Russian and Czech), and typological and contrastive comparisons between the Slavic languages ​​and other languages.

Research areas

Research orientations are shown in the following list of research areas:

• Grammatical and lexical semantics: Russian functional grammar (Nadezjda Zorikhina Nilsson) and Russian lexical semantics (Ludmila Pöppel); Polish Cognitive Linguistics (Ewa Teodorowicz Hellman).
• Grammatical typology: especially verb categories, aspect and taxis in Slavic languages, especially Russian (Nadezjda Zorikhina Nilsson); aspect and case in Slavic languages, especially Czech (Milan Bílý).
• Contrastive studies: grammatical and lexical semantics in Slavic languages ​​in comparison with Swedish (Russian, Nadezjda Zorikhina Nilsson, Ludmila Pöppel, Irina Malaxos; Czech, Tora Hedin).
• Corpus linguistics: semantic co-occurrences in vocatives (Irina Malaxos), prefixes in Russian online newspapers (Thomas Samuelsson), co-occurrences of subjective adjectives and nouns in Czech, modern newspaper text (Irene Elmerot)
• Lexicography: Russian-Russian and Swedish-Russian (Ludmila Pöppel, Nadezjda Zorikhina Nilsson).
• Mass media language: Russian political language (Ludmila Pöppel); totalitarian language in Czech media, language and gender in Czech TV discourse (Tora Hedin); word formation in Russian media (Thomas Samuelsson); stereotypes in Czech newspaper language 1990–2020 (Irene Elmerot)
• Bilingualism in Swedish-Russian children, language development and language learning. Language contact, the Russian language in Sweden, linguistic socialization in Russian-Swedish families (Natalia Ringblom).

Cross-cutting areas include medieval studies and translation studies, which are interdisciplinary in nature:

• Medieval studies: language history, text edition, description of medieval Slavic manuscripts in Swedish archives (Old Church Slavonic, Russian: Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath, Larisa Korobenko).
• Translation science: Polish (Ewa Teodorowicz Hellman, Lisa Mendoza Åsberg); Czech (Tora Hedin); Russian (Nadezjda Zorikhina Nilsson).

Contrastive and translation studies have begun to occupy a larger share of the department's research, as whell as corpus linguistic methods, which have increasingly become part of our research profile.