ballerina Laura Janda's "secret site"


Schedule of individual weekly meetings Fall 2007

Meetings begin week of August 27

Nicholas LeBlanc: T 11:00

John Korba:


Laura Janda's Schedule Fall 2007: Click here for Laura's week-at-a-glance daytime schedule.

SLAV/PWAD 467 TR 12:30-1:45 Dey 402

SLAV/LING 409 TR 2-3:15 Dey 403

Office Hours: T 3:30-5


Other commitments I have:

Slavic dept meetings noon-1 Wednesdays: August 29, September 12, October 3, November 7, December 5


Where in the world is Laura Janda?

October 12-14, 2007: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association meeting in Chicago, "Russian Aspect: From Theory to Pedagogy" (with John Korba; abstract); itinerary; ereceipt; Hotel; ppt presentation; handout

DC Oct 18-19, staying at Dupont North (rooms 5&6 with shared bath), need to arrive before 5:30; free street parking after 6:30; 202-467-6777

Nov 16-26, 2007: Teaching at the University of Tromsoe; itinerary; teaching materials: Aspekt egenskaper ppt, Aspekt egenskaper stoetteark 1, Aspekt egenskaper stoetteark 2, Aspektklynger ppt, Aspektklynger stoetteark, eksempler av klynger

Jan 3-5, Seminar i historisk lingvistikk, Lysebu, Oslo. My paper title: "Utviklingen av aspektklynger ved russiske verb". Seminar organized by Dag Trygve Truslew Haug d.t.t.haugATifikk.uio.no and Jan Terje Faarlund. Flight to Norway, flight to Tromsoe.

April 24-26, 2008. Plenary speaker at Językoznawstwo kognitywne Łódź 2008, Poland.

May 29-June 1, 2008: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages at the University of Tartu, Estonia

June 20-25, 2008: Moscow Cognitive Science Conference. Abstract due Dec 1

Late summer 2008: XIV International Congress of Slavists in Ohrid, Macedonia (Call for papers), American Committee of Slavists site, my abstract

I can be reached at my cell phone (919-260-5230) while I am in the continental US.

October 8-10, 2008: International congress of cognitive linguistics in Tambov, Russia (Call for papers; submission by April 1, 2008)


This is a test... Can you find Laura Janda in this picture? Can you guess where/when it was taken???


Film series for my courses!

Please join us. Click here to get the schedule!
Dagmar has sent us two websites with great practical information on how to give a talk from Lera Boroditsky: site 1 and site 2
Projects underway:
Solovyev's synonymy project
Paper for Heim festschrift: “Teaching Advanced Czech: Student-Driven Internet-Powered Course Materials” (abstract); article due Sept 30
Paper for Perlmutter volume: “Prefixed Perfectives from Non-determined Motion Verbs in Russian” (abstract) article due Dec 1
Paper for Tabakowska volume due Oct 31
Book review due in December
Paper for Sopot volume
Diminutive & Augmentative verbs (Preliminary data)
Empty prefix project Verbs with empty prefixes
Textbook version of aspect project
Book on Languages and Nationalism for Cambridge U Press

Quick link to FRIDA


Sites for learning statistics

Interactive modules on most of the topics covered in an intro stat course

An online textbook with good links to demos for many concepts

Another pretty good online text


This site last updated on: August 16, 2007