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Russian linguist to speak at UTSA this week
(Oct. 14, 2002)--Andrej A. Kibrik, professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, will present two lectures this week at the UTSA 1604 Campus. “The Discourse Structure of Children's Dream Narratives” will be presented 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15 in Business Building Room 3.01.12 and “Introduction to Upper Kukokwim: A Sketch of an Athabaskan Language of Central Alaska” will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, Business Building Room 2.01.14.
Kibrik's areas of expertise are theoretical functional linguistics, language and cognition, discourse, syntax, semantics, linguistic typology, field linguistics, American Indian linguistics, Athabaskan languages, Turkic languages, Caucasian languages, West African languages and Russian grammar.
He teaches discourse analysis and languages at Moscow State University. He earned a Ph.D. in 1988 from the Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences, and an M..A. in 1984 from Moscow State University. Kibrik has published articles on linguistics in approximately 90 publications and co-edited the books “Languages of the World” (Turkic and Paleoasiatic sections) and “Fundamental Trends in Modern American Linguistics.”
Kibrik is on the editorial boards of the encyclopedic publication “Languages of the World, ” John Benjamins Publishers series “Typological Studies in Language,” international journal “Studies in Languages” and international journal “Cognitive Linguistics.”
Among others, Kibrik received a 1991 grant from International Research and Exchanges Board for research in linguistic typology conducted at the University of California and University of Arizona, a grant in 1993 from the Russian Basic Research Foundation for editorial work on the encyclopedic volume "Languages of the World: Paleoasiatic Languages," a 1996 Fulbright scholarship in the U.S. and a grant in 2001 from the Russian Foundation for the Humanities for studies in Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan.
Kibrik is a member of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, the Cognitive Lingustics Association and the Association for Linguistic Typology.
The lectures are sponsored by the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts Cultural Studies Lecture Series, Language and Culture Working Group, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Curriculum and Instruction, Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, and Hillel at UTSA
For more information, contact Bridget Drinka at (210) 458-7720.
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