This course is a research seminar where participants will develop knowledge and skills both in respect to Slavic linguistics and digital humanities methods in philology in general.
In this course we will cover the basics of dialectal variation in the East Slavic languages Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian as well as the issue of mixed Russian-Belarusian and Russian-Ukrainian speech.
We will look in more detail at how variation is studied using corpora of naturally occurring speech in the framework of variational linguistics. We will then move to field work methods and how data of dialects are collected and dialect corpora are constructed. Here we will use our own corpora, such as The Usty River Basin Corpus (www.parasolcorpus.org/Pushkino) as well as data from an ongoing corpus project on Ukrainian dialects that we are conducting together with the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. We also ask how we can use smart phone apps phone to collect and AI methods such as automatic transcription to process and analyze data.
This seminar will be taught in English, German or Russian depending on the language skills and preferences of the participants. |
