• Advantages and shortcomings of different perspectives in describing Northern Russian dak. 

      Post, Margje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2002)
      The word dak is one of several highly frequent particles, used in most Northern Russian and some Siberian dialects. It can occur sentence initially, sentence internally and sentence finally to connect two parts of the discourse, such as words, sentences, and presuppositions. This article describes the advantages and shortcomings of six different perspectives which have been used to describe this ...
    • The Dialect of Varzuga and Its Neighbours 

      Post, Margje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2006)
      Comparisons between dialects tell us how a dialect relates to other dialects: how isolated it is, and which dialects it is most closely related to. Areal-linguistic studies also give information about the historical ties of the dialect and its speakers to other regions and about their cultural background. The present article discusses the relation of the Russian dialect of Varzuga, an old Pomor ...
    • “Frog Story” and “Map Task” in the Russian countryside 

      Post, Margje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2007)
      In Russian dialectology, most data are collected by means of traditional methodology. Most dialectologists use questionnaires, mainly for lexicographic purposes, which is a highly developed field of research in Russian dialectology, as in Russian linguistics in general. In addition, spontaneous monologues and dialogues are recorded. The language consultants are elderly inhabitants of remote ...
    • The position of the dialect of Varzuga in the Russian dialect landscape 

      Post, Margje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2004)
      Until recently, few researchers had studied the archaic Russian dialects of the Kola Peninsula. In 2001 and 2004, slavists from the University of Tromsø carried out dialectological field work on the Ter Coast of Kola Peninsula. On our first expedition we were joined by colleagues from Moscow. In 2004, the universities of Tromsø and Bochum received funding from NFR (Norway) and DAAD (Germany) to set ...
    • Problemy izucenija severnorusskogo slova DAK: dostizenija i nedostatki 

      Post, Margje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2002)
      The word dak is one of several highly frequent particles, used in most Northern Russian and some Siberian dialects. It can occur sentence initially, sentence internally and sentence finally to connect two parts of the discourse, such as words, sentences, and presuppositions. This article describes the advantages and shortcomings of six different perspectives which have been used to describe ...
    • Prosodija govorov Terskogo berega Belogo morja : predvrel'nye nabljudenija 

      Post, Margje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2001)
    • Prosodija govorov Terskogo berega Belogo morja: predvrel'nye nabljudenija 

      Post, Margje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2001)
      The present article presents some preliminary results of the study of some prosodic characteristics of the dialects of Varzuga and Umba, two Northern Russian villages on the Ter Coast of the White Sea. In our recently collected recordings, we observed a number of prosodic characteristics which are assumed to be typical for Northern Russian. Firstly, vowels appear to be relatively short. Secondly, ...