Margje Post

post-doctoral research fellow

Phone (+47)
776 44751

Email
margje.post@hum.uit.no

Office/Visit
A-1017

Biographical data
2006 - 2009 Researcher in the project "The Atypical Utterance Prosody of the Pomor Dialects of the White Sea, an Endangered Variety of Russian in a Language Contact Area", a personal post-doctoral research project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (project nr 171929/V20)
24.11.2007-10.12.2007: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2007 (August-November) Visiting Fellow at the Norwegian University Centre in St Petersburg
2006 (July - December) Visiting Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), for cooperation with Cecilia Odé

2006 (January - June) University Lecturer at the University of Tromsø

2006 (April, 7) Doctor Artium (PhD), University of Tromsø

2001-2005 Junior Researcher (PhD student), UiTø

For details, see my CV (English, May 2005) with list of publications

Teaching
Spring 2008 Bergen: RUS 201 aspect (in Norwegian)

Research
Russian dialectology
Spontaneous speech, colloquial and non-standard speech varieties
Pragmatic particles
Prosody
Information structure

Research Projects
Click here to be linked to the multi-lingual home page of the Russian dialectology project at our University, made by David Pineda


Pdf-file of the project description of my post-doctoral research project:
Pomor Prosody project description

Bibliography
Publications registered in the Norwegian research database Frida



Sound files to my publications can be found here




My doctoral dissertation is called "The Northern Russian pragmatic particle dak in the dialect of Varzuga (Kola Peninsula): An information structuring device in informal spontaneous speech"

Description of its content (in Norwegian):
litt om innholdet

Download my dissertation here:
whole dissertation (590 pp., pdf-file, 3.3 MB)
front cover (version in colour, pdf-file, 1.76 MB)
abstract


Abstract (in Russian) of my paper, presented at the Russian Dialectology Conference, Zvenigorod, 22-25 October, 2006: tezisy Zvenigorod 2006 (rtf-file)
dokladZveni2006 (pdf-file, old version, containing more than the actual talk)

Some articles about my research (in Norwegian):

"Doktoren svarer", Morgenbladet, May, 2006

forskning.no (April, 2006)

press release (April, 2006)

An interview with the Tromsø participants in the dialectological field work expedition to the Kola Peninsula in Tromsøflaket (2001)






Frank Waaldijk has not only helped me to get finished my doctoral dissertation, he is also an excellent mathematician and an uncommonly interesting artist

David Pineda does not only know a lot about Russian dialects (see link above), and about a vast number of languages, but also about trolleybusses and other fascinating vehicles for public transport