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Elisabeth Elliott received her PhD in Slavic Linguistics from the University of Toronto and she is the Coordinator of Slavic languages. Dr. Elliott teaches language and linguistic courses in both the Slavic Department and the Department of Linguistics.
Research Interests:
1) Slavic linguistics and pedagogy
2) Russian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Turkish languages and dialects
3) Balkan Sprachbund
4) Structure of Russian and other Slavic languages
5) Language, identity, and nationalism
6) Semantics and Slavic typology of tense and aspect
7) Dialectology
Current projects:
1) The historical imperative as a Balkanism: use of the 2nd person singular imperative for 1st and 3rd persons past tense narration in Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Romanian, Macedonian, and former Serbo-Croatian.
2) Grammaticalization of the 'have' and new 'be' present perfects in the Slavic languages.
3) Structure of Russian for teachers of Russian: the key elements in the structure (grammar, phonology, morphology, semantics, borrowings, etymology, etc.) of Russian to help teach Russian.
Recent courses taught
Slavic 101-1,2,3 Elementary Russian
Slavic 203-1,2,3 Russian Language and Culture
Slavic 405 Russian Teaching Seminar
Slavic 341/Linguistics 342: Structure of Modern Russian
Linguistics 221 Language and Prejudice
Linguistics 222 Language, Politics, and Identity
Linguistics 471 Proseminar in Semantics: Slavic tense and aspect
Publication
"Imam ('Have') plus Past Passive Participle in the Bulgarian Erkech Dialect." In Ronelle Alexander and Vladimir Zhobov (eds.). Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology. University of California Press/University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, edited volume #2, 2004.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/editedvolumes/2/7
Syllabi
LING 222-0 Language, Politics, and Identity
LING 470 Proseminar in Semantics: Tense and Aspect in Slavic, Spring 2003
SLAVIC 101-1- 22 Elementary Russian
SLAVIC 102-1- 20 Intermediate Russian
SLAVIC 341 Structure of Russian/LING 342 Structure of Various Languages: Russian, Fall 2002
SLAVIC 405 Russian Teaching Methodologies, Fall 2003
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