Personal page of Elena Gorbova

Lecturer at the Department of General Linguistics

Department Coordinator for Teaching Workload

Education:

Graduated from Leningrad State University 1989 (Dept.of Russian as a Foreign Language, Philological Faculty). Honors Diploma for Outstanding Grade Point Average
Candidate of Philology (Ph.D.): General linguistics (1996). St. Petersburg State University. Dissertation topic: A Comparative Study of Aspectual Categories in Russian and Spanish (as expressed in fiction)

Interests (research and teaching): general linguistics, language typology, semantics of grammatical categories, comparative grammar, general and comparative aspectology

Memebership: The Linguistic Society of St.Petersburg

Participation in research projects: The Russian Language and Modern Russia (ongoing)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

*- in Russian

“The role of the category of telicity and semantic classifications of predicates in teaching Russian as a foreign language”, Problems of intensive teaching Russian as a foreign language (St.Petersburg, 1993. pp.88-90). *
“On the semantic potential of the progressive in Spanish”, Vestnik SPbGU. Series 2. 1996. Issue I., # 2, pp.101-104. *
“A comparative study of aspectual categories in Russian and Spanish (as expressed in fiction)”. Dissertation abstract, (St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg University, 1996). - 24pp. *
“Towards the development of a universal classification of verbal action characters”, XXVIII Conference of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Philology, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 16, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 1999. pp. 7-13. *
“The two-component theory of aspect: the progressive-limitative viewpoint (based on Spanish material)”, XXIX Conference of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Philology, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 14, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 2000. pp. 11-16. *
“Acerca del problema del potencial semántico del progresivo en español”, Language Design, Volume 3 (2000). P.21-34.
“The opposition ‘Progressive/Non-Progressive’ in Spanish: aspectual characteristics and language-specific peculiarities”, Yazyk i rechevaya deyatel'nost'. Vol. 3, Part 1 (St. Petersburg, 2000, p. 118-132). * (With a summary in English).
“The opposition ‘Imperfect / Aorist’ in Spanish”, XXXI Conference of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Philology, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 22, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 2002. *
“On the correlation of the concepts ‘aspectuality’ and ‘actionality’ in general aspectology”, Problems of theoretical and synchro-descriptive linguistics. Linguistics. Metalinguistics. Psycholinguistics. (St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg University, 2003, pp. 12-23) (with A.A. Gorbov)*
“The two-component theory of aspect: the progressive-limitative viewpoint of the Spanish verb and its correspondences in Russian”, Problems of theoretical and synchro-descriptive linguistics. Linguistics. Metalinguistics. Psycholinguistics. (St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg University, 2003, pp. 131-144). *
“An analysis of the intersection of the oppositions ‘Imperfect / Aorist’ and ‘Progressive / Non-Progressive’ in Spanish (based on a linguistic experiment)”, XXXII Conference of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Philology, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 24, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 2003, p. 41-48. *
“The Perfect Progressive of the Spanish verb (based on a linguistic experiment)” XXXIII International philological conference, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 24, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 2004, p. 15-24. *
“The preliminary results of modern Russian spontaneous speech monitoring (with N.A. Slepokurova, T.V. Chernigovskaya, E.P. Komovkina, T.V. Matveyeva, E.I. Riehakainen, A.S. Romanova)”, Modern Russian Speech: status and functioning, Part II. St. Petersburg: St.Petersburg University, 2006, p. 7-30. *.
“An aspectually relevant taxonomy of verbs and the taxonomic category as a parameter of lexical meaning” // XXXIV International philological conference. University of St. Petersburg. Issue 22, Part 3. St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 7-11. *
“Aspectual grammemes and adverbial context” // XXXV International philological conference. University of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, 2006 * (in press).

Languages: native Russian; excellent proficiency Spanish; upper-intermediate level English, basic German and French.

	GORBOVA Elena V. E-mail: elena-gorbova@yandex.ru
Lecturer at the Department of General Linguistics Department Coordinator for Teaching Workload Education: Graduated from Leningrad State University 1989 (Dept.of Russian as a Foreign Language, Philological Faculty). Honors Diploma for Outstanding Grade Point Average Candidate of Philology (Ph.D.): General linguistics (1996). St. Petersburg State University. Dissertation topic: A Comparative Study of Aspectual Categories in Russian and Spanish (as expressed in fiction) Interests (research and teaching): general linguistics, language typology, semantics of grammatical categories, comparative grammar, general and comparative aspectology Memebership: The Linguistic Society of St.Petersburg Participation in research projects: The Russian Language and Modern Russia (ongoing) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: - in Russian “The role of the category of telicity and semantic classifications of predicates in teaching Russian as a foreign language”, Problems of intensive teaching Russian as a foreign language* (St.Petersburg, 1993. pp.88-90). * “On the semantic potential of the progressive in Spanish”, Vestnik SPbGU. Series 2. 1996. Issue I., # 2, pp.101-104. * “A comparative study of aspectual categories in Russian and Spanish (as expressed in fiction)”. Dissertation abstract, (St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg University, 1996). - 24pp. * “Towards the development of a universal classification of verbal action characters”, XXVIII Conference of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Philology, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 16, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 1999. pp. 7-13. * “The two-component theory of aspect: the progressive-limitative viewpoint (based on Spanish material)”, XXIX Conference of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Philology, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 14, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 2000. pp. 11-16. * “Acerca del problema del potencial semántico del progresivo en español”, Language Design, Volume 3 (2000). P.21-34. “The opposition ‘Progressive/Non-Progressive’ in Spanish: aspectual characteristics and language-specific peculiarities”, Yazyk i rechevaya deyatel'nost'. Vol. 3, Part 1 (St. Petersburg, 2000, p. 118-132). * (With a summary in English). “The opposition ‘Imperfect / Aorist’ in Spanish”, XXXI Conference of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Philology, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 22, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 2002. * “On the correlation of the concepts ‘aspectuality’ and ‘actionality’ in general aspectology”, Problems of theoretical and synchro-descriptive linguistics. Linguistics. Metalinguistics. Psycholinguistics. (St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg University, 2003, pp. 12-23) (with A.A. Gorbov)* “The two-component theory of aspect: the progressive-limitative viewpoint of the Spanish verb and its correspondences in Russian”, Problems of theoretical and synchro-descriptive linguistics. Linguistics. Metalinguistics. Psycholinguistics. (St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg University, 2003, pp. 131-144). * “An analysis of the intersection of the oppositions ‘Imperfect / Aorist’ and ‘Progressive / Non-Progressive’ in Spanish (based on a linguistic experiment)”, XXXII Conference of the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Philology, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 24, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 2003, p. 41-48. * “The Perfect Progressive of the Spanish verb (based on a linguistic experiment)” XXXIII International philological conference, University of St. Petersburg. Issue 24, Part 1. St. Petersburg, 2004, p. 15-24. * “The preliminary results of modern Russian spontaneous speech monitoring (with N.A. Slepokurova, T.V. Chernigovskaya, E.P. Komovkina, T.V. Matveyeva, E.I. Riehakainen, A.S. Romanova)”, Modern Russian Speech: status and functioning, Part II. St. Petersburg: St.Petersburg University, 2006, p. 7-30. . “An aspectually relevant taxonomy of verbs and the taxonomic category as a parameter of lexical meaning” // XXXIV International philological* conference. University of St. Petersburg. Issue 22, Part 3. St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 7-11. * “Aspectual grammemes and adverbial context” // XXXV International philological conference. University of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, 2006 * (in press). Languages: native Russian; excellent proficiency Spanish; upper-intermediate level English, basic German and French.