The Construction of Russian National Corpus: Basic Data and Subcorpora

Speaker: Prof. Moriia Voeikova (Dean of the Dept. of Grammatical Theory in Institute for Linguistic Studies, Dean of Philological Faculty of Saint-Petersburg State University, Ph. D. advisor.)

Time: Friday, May 11, 2018, 13:30-15:30

Location: Chongyuan Building 201

Speaker Biography:

Prof. M. D. Voeikova was born in Feb. 1962. She graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University and received her Ph. D. in 1987. From 1988 to 2005 she worked as research assistant, research fellow, senior research fellow and deputy dean of the Dept. of Grammatical Theory in Institute for Linguistic Studies (Saint-Petersburg) of Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Prof. M. D. Voeikova is a leading member of Saint Petersburg School of Functional Grammar and chief expert of Russian National Corpus. She has considerable achievements in many areas, such as the theory of functional grammar, children’s language acquisition, corpus linguistics etc.