UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED
DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN LINGUISTICS
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Language of instruction: Russian
8 semesters – total credits: 240
1. Obligatory requirements (200 credits)
a) Research (a total of 170 credits, as follows: 10 each in semesters 1 and 2, and 25 each in semesters 3 through 8)
Research leading to the dissertation, as specified by the dissertation advisor.
The research requirement involves completion of a research report in each of the first two semesters of coursework, to be accepted by the dissertation advisor, and the completion of a publishable paper in each of the semesters 3 through 6.
In semesters 7 and 8, completed chapters of the dissertation are to be handed in and an oral presentation based on them to be given for the successful fulfillment of the research credits.
b) Obligatory courses: 6 (contact hours: 2 hours weekly, 5 credits per course, total of 30 credits)
Semester 1:
1. Corpora of Russian (Beáta Györfi)
2. Russian morphosyntax (Károly Bibok)
3. One of the following:
Sociolinguistics of Russian (Károly Bibok) OR
Verbal aspect in Slavic languages (Ilona Erdei) OR
Changes in Russian vocabulary at the turn of 20th–21st centuries (Katalin Kugler and Szabolcs Janurik)
Semester 2:
4. Quantitative methods in linguistics (Beáta Györfi)
5. Lexical semantics and lexical pragmatics (Károly Bibok)
6. One of the following:
Pragmatics (course of the Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program in Hungarian or in English) OR
Theoretical issues of translation (Ilona Erdei and Beáta Györfi)
2. Optional requirements (a total of 40 credits, 20 of them to be completed in semesters 1–4 and 20 in semesters 5–8, to be fulfilled in any combination of the five categories of requirements below)
a) Optional courses (from any program within the Doctoral School of Linguistics): 4 credits each (a maximum of one per semester, to be taken with the approval of the program director and dissertation advisor)
b) Directed study (with dissertation advisor) (4 credits per semester)
c) Conference presentations (individually authored or co-authored presentation or poster presentation listed in the conference program)
poster presentation in mother tongue 1
poster presentation in a second/foreign language 2
oral conference presentation in mother tongue 4
oral conference presentation in a second/foreign language 5
d) Paper published or accepted for publication
paper in mother tongue 4
paper in a second/foreign language 5
e) Teaching (one one-hour seminar course of 14 weeks: 2 credits; a maximum of 8 credits per semester, and a total of 48 credits as per University of Szeged Regulations of Doctoral Studies and Conferring the Doctoral Degree).
f) Scholarly peer review 1
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION: SUBJECTS/AREAS
Morphology of the Russian language
Syntax of the Russian language
Lexis of the Russian language
Lexical semantics
Lexical pragmatics
Russian-Hungarian contrastive linguistics
Sociolinguistics of the Russian language
Methods of computational analysis of the Russian language
RESEARCH TOPICS
Dr. Bibok, Károly
Syntactic alternations
Word meaning from semantic and pragmatic perspectives
Dr. Erdei, Ilona
Semantic and pragmatic problems of the Russian verb aspect
Theoretical issues of translation studies – with special attention to Russian and Hungarian
Dr. Györfi, Beáta
Syntactic issues of Russian linguistics in recent theoretical frameworks
Corpus-based investigations
Issues of typological and contrastive linguistics
Dr. Janurik, Szabolcs
English lexical elements in Russian
Lexis of contemporary Russian (21st century)
English lexical borrowings in contemporary Russian slang
Dr. Kugler, Katalin
Changes in the lexicon in the past decades
PROFESSORS AND SUPERVISORS
Beáta Györfi
Szabolcs Janurik
CURRENT STUDENTS
Infrastructure available to students:
Ph.D. students can use the university library as well as have their own shared office with computers.
RECENT DISSERTATIONS
Szabolcs Janurik: Az angol szókészleti elemek kölcsönzésének kérdései a mai orosz nyelvben: Az 1980-as évektől napjainkig [Problems of the borrowing of English lexical items in Modern Russian: From 1980-s to date], 2007.
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION
Proficiency in Russian
Some knowledge (reading, understanding) of another widely spoken language
Preliminary research project
Examination based on the recommended reading list
Экзамен включает в себя беседу о содержании пяти из следующих библиографических единиц (по выбору студента):
Алефиренко, Н.Ф., Современные проблемы науки о языке: Учебное пособие. M.: Флинта, 2005.
Баранов, А. Н. Введение в прикладную лингвистику : Учебное пособие. М.: Эдиториал УРСС, 2009, 2-е изд., испр.
Беликов, В.И. – Крысин, Л.П., Социолингвистика. М.: РГГУ, 2001.
Белошапкова, В.А. (ред.), Современный русский язык. М.: Азбуковник, 1997, 3-е изд., испр. и доп.
Герд, А.С. (отв. ред.), Прикладное языкознание: Учебник. СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербург. ун-та, 1996.
Касаткин, Л.Л. (ред.), Русский язык: Учеб. для студ. М.: Академия, 2004, 2-е изд., испр. и доп. / 2005, 3-е изд., стер.
Кибрик, А.А. – Кобозева, И.М. – Секерина, И.А. (ред.), Фундаментальные направления современной американской лингвистики: Сборник обзоров. М.: Изд-во Московского университета, 1997.
Кобозева, И.М. Лингвистичекая семантика. М.: Эдиториал УРСС, 2000.
Кодзасов, С.В. – Кривнова, О.Ф., Общая фонетика. М.: РГГУ, 2001.
Кронгауз, М.А., Семантика. М.: РГГУ, 2001.
Крысин, Л.П. (отв. ред.), Современный русский язык: Активные процессы на рубеже XX–XXI веков. М.: ЯСК, 2008.
Новиков, Л.А. (общ. ред.), Современный русский язык: учебник. Фонетика. Лексикология. Словообразование. Морфология. Синтаксис. СПб.: Лань, 1999, 2-е изд., испр. и доп.
Плунгян, В.А., Общая морфология: введение в проблематику. М.: Эдиториал УРСС, 2000.
Тестелец, Я.Г., Введение в общий синтаксис. М.: РГГУ, 2001.
Baylin, J. F., The syntax of Russian. Cambridge: CUP, 2011.
Franks, S., Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax. Oxford: OUP, 1995.
Franks, S. – Andrews, E. – Feldstein, R. (eds.), Slavic linguistics 2000: The future of Slavic linguistics in America. = Glossos 8, Fall 2006. http://www.seelrc.org/glossos/issues/8/
Jachnow, H. (Hrsg.), Handbuch der sprachwissenschaftlichen Russistik. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1999.
RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS
Programme director: Prof. Károly Bibok DSc
Department of Russian Philology
H-6722 Szeged, Egyetem u. 2.
Phone/fax: +32-62-544-160
E-mail: kbibok at lit.u-szeged.hu
