ASK THE GLOBE

The Boston Globe;  August 3, 1994 ;     82 words ...Q. What is the origin of the Slavic languages? G.R., Acton A. Slavic languages are a subgroup of the Indo-European family...By the 10th century AD, today's individual Slavic languages had begun to emerge. There are now three main...

UW PROF: WE'RE STRETCHED THIN.(SATURDAY EXTRA)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  March 8, 2003 ;     223 words ......Times Benjamin Rifkin, professor of Slavic languages and literature and director of Russian...brink. Rifkin said the Department of Slavic Languages was asked to submit a reduced teaching...Like all university departments, Slavic Languages is facing difficult choices under...

Yale literature professor wins MLA award.

M2 Presswire;  December 12, 2005 ;     588 words ......Alexandrov, professor and chair of the Slavic Languages and Literatures department at Yale...linguistics or literatures of the Slavic languages, including Belarussian, Bulgarian...The B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Alexandrov received...

Brown U. report recommends suspension of grad school language programs

University Wire;  February 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ......graduate programs for the departments of Slavic Languages and Germanic Studies for three years...The faculty of the departments of Slavic Languages and Germanic Studies were not expecting...Levitsky, chair of the Department of Slavic Languages. "We didn't see ourselves as ...

Grant awarded to Indiana U. Slavic languages department

University Wire;  December 5, 2007 ;     482 words ......the Indiana University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently received...studies and courses. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures offers courses designed...University Indianapolis, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will also ...

Slavicist

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      30 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 Slav|i|cist (- sist) n. a student of or specialist in Slavic languages, cultures, etc. Also Slav'ist Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Young Students Learning Library;      298 words ......Poland. Russian belongs to the group of Slavic languages that includes Polish, Bulgarian, Slovak...Romanian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian. All Slavic languages are similar to one another. One important...read. Before about a.d. 900, most Slavic languages had never been written down. ...

Great Russian

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      33 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 Great Russian the Russian language, as distinguished from Ukrainian and Belorussian, the two other East Slavic languages Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Newsmaker: Oscar E. Swan

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  November 11, 2007 ;     230 words ......grown children. Occupation: Professor in Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh Education: Bachelor...Princeton University; master's degree and doctorate in Slavic languages and literatures, University of California-Berkley. Background...

Pitt professor 'just vibrant all of his life'

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  October 28, 2008 ;     484 words ......to school, he secured work teaching Slavic languages and literature at the University of...the school and wrote a textbook on Slavic languages and a monograph on medieval art in...for the University of Pittsburgh's Slavic languages and literature department. "He just...

Introduction: Teaching Slavic Languages and Cultures

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......traditions that inform the teaching of Slavic languages. Addressing questions that pertain...Southern, Western and Eastern map of Slavic languages. Six articles comprise the first part...prove useful in the teaching of other Slavic languages. The first article addresses an ...

Voyage of discovery

Jerusalem Post;  July 23, 1999 ;     700+ words ......German fluently, as well as a whole range of Slavic languages. Slavic languages, she adds, are not as difficult as they seem...language too. I just mixed together a couple of Slavic languages and came up with Czech!" I met Marina in...

Michael Kreps, 54 Poet, language professor at BC

The Boston Globe;  December 13, 1994 ;     150 words ......literature at Herzen Institute in Leningrad and a doctorate in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California in Berkeley...Boston College since 1981. During the summers, he taught Slavic languages at Middlebury College. A celebrated poet in Russia, he...

Kiril Taranovsky, 82; professor of Slavic languages at Harvard

The Boston Globe;  January 20, 1993 ;     389 words ...Kiril Taranovsky, professor emeritus of Slavic languages at Harvard and a noted scholar of Russian poetry and...him, went back to the university and got a degree in Slavic languages in 1936. During much of the decade of the 1930s Mr...

UW PROF DRUGGED, ROBBED IN RUSSIA.(FRONT)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  November 21, 2007 ;     257 words ......Russian park. David Bethea, 59, chairman of the university's Slavic languages department, said he has visited Russia more than two dozen...Wild West that is the new Russia, said Judith Kornblatt, a Slavic languages professor at UW-Madison. I thought the worst. But Bethea...