Dr. ELISABETH ELLIOTT Distinguished Senior Lecturer; Director of Slavic Languages and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures Crowe Hall 4-125 (847) 491-8082 eelliott@northwestern.edu

Elisabeth Elliott received her Ph.D. 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:

Slavic linguistics and pedagogy
Russian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Turkish languages and dialects
Balkan Sprachbund
Structure of Russian and other Slavic languages
Language, identity, and nationalism
Semantics and Slavic typology of tense and aspect
Dialectology

Current projects:

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.

Grammaticalization of the 'have' and new 'be' present perfects in the Slavic languages.

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

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

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

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