The Center for Slovenian Studies Lecture Series

The Center for Slovenian Studies in cooperation with the Department of Modern Languages presents a series of lectures about Slovenian language and literature.

"The origins of »Rock« verse, strophe and lyrics in church music"

Monday, January 26, 2009 12:00PM-1:00PM
ALEKSANDER BJELČEVIČ, PhD

Main Classroom 134

Assistant Professor Aleksander Bjelčevič was born in 1962. He studied Slovenian Language and Philosophy and is currently employed at the Slovenian Language Department at the University of Ljubljana. His main field of research is early Slovenian literature, in which he investigates the theory of verse and its history from the Middle Ages through present day. Dr. Bjelčevič's work and interests also include the international project, Słowiańska metryka porównawcza (comparative Slavonic metrics), and the philosophy of literature including the ideas of fiction, quality, literarity, problems of interpretation, literature and morale. He is an analytical philosopher.

For more information contact Luka Zibelnik at l.zibelnik@csuohio.edu

STRATIFIKACIJA SLOVENSKEGA BESEDJA: O NASTAJANJU JEZIKOVNEGA BESEDNJAKA SKOZI ČAS IN PROSTOR

V sredo, 28. januarja, 6PM-7PM
dr. SIMONA KLEMENČIČ

Main Classroom 134

doc. Dr. Simona Klmenčič je trenutno zaposlena na SAZU (Slovenska akademija znanosti in umentosti) in na oddelku za primerjalno književnost na Filozofski fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani. Področja njenega raziskovanja so: 1) indoevropska dialektologija (razčlenitev indoevropskega jezikovnega prostora, korespondence med posameznimi indoevropskimi jeziki, katerih nastanek lahko postavimo v čas po razpadu indoevropskega prajezika, predhistorične migracije); 2) "nostratsko" jezikoslovje (kako izluščimo postopke primerjalne metode in jih ovrednotimo; tipične napake pri sklepanju), v tem posebej indouralska teorija, ki povezuje indoevropsko jezikovno družino z uralsko; 3) indoevropske starožitnosti (obravnava tistih izrazov iz indoevropskega besednega fonda, ki pomagajo odkrivati materialno in duhovno zgodovino indoevropskih ljudstev). V predavanju bo orisala leksikalni razvoj slovenskega jezika od prahistoričnega do modernega časa.

Za več informacij pišite Luku Zibelniku na l.zibelnik@csuohio.edu.

The stratification of Slovene lexis: on formation of a language's vocabulary through space and time

Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 6:00PM-7:00PM
SIMONA KLEMENČIČ, PhD

Main Classroom 134

Assistant Professor Simona Klemenčič is currently employed at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), and at the Department for Comparative Literature at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. Her main fields of research include Indo-European Dialectology (analysis of the Indo-European language region, and correspondence between specific Indo- European languages and prehistoric migrations) and Nostratic Linguistics (extraction and evaluation of comparative methods procedures, and typical mistakes in making inferences). Dr. Klemenčič specializes in Indo-Ural theory, which connects the Indo-European family of languages with the Ural, and Indo- European relics of the past, in which she researches terms from the Indo-European word pool which assist in discovering the material and spiritual history of Indo-European people. In her lecture she is going to present an outline of lexical development of Slovene language, from prehistoric to modern times.

For more information contact Luka Zibelnik at l.zibelnik@csuohio.edu.