Faculty of Baltic and Finnish Philology and Culture

Chair of Karelian and Veps languages

Head of the Chair,      Full Professor, Doctor of Philology, Zaikov Petr Mefodievich Pravda str., 1, room#306 Tel.: (814-2) 57-13-41 E-mail: pzaikov@psu.karelia.ru

• Scientific interests of the personnel of the chair

• Program of cooperation with foreign and home universities

• Scientific research work on the projects

The chair has been founded in 1990. 20 students are enrolled at the chair annually to study Karelian, Finnish, and Veps languages. The graduates of the chair work as journalists, interpreters, members of staff of scientific bodies, teachers of secondary schools of the republic.

The teachers of the chair perform the following courses:

• Introduction to Karelian language (Karelian and Livvik dialects)
• Introduction to Veps language
• Introduction to modern Finnish language
• Phonetics of Karelian language (Karelian and Livvik dialects)
• Phonetics of Veps language
• Phonetics of modern Finnish language
• Morphology of Karelian language (Karelian and Livvik dialects)
• Morphology of Veps language
• Karelian dialectology
• Developing oral and written speach of Karelian language (Karelian and Livvik dialects)
• History of Karelian language
• History of Veps language
• Karelian and Finnish folk poetry
• Practical interpretation and translation from Karelian language (Karelian and Livvik dialects)
• Practical interpretation and translation from Veps language
• Syntax of Karelian language (Karelian and Livvik dialects)
• Comparative grammar of Karelian and Finnish languages
• Comparative grammar of Veps and Finnish languages

The lecturers from Institute of Language, Literature and History of KSC of the RAS perform the following special courses:

• Onomastics of Karelia
• Ethnography of Karelians and Vepsians
• Ethnocultural history of the peoples of Karelia

Scientific interests of the personnel of the chair:

Zaikov Petr Mefodievich Head of the Chair, Doctor of Philology, Full Professor	1. Morphology of Karelian language (Karelian dialect) 2. History of Karelian language 3. Karelian dialectology 4. Comparative grammar of Karelian and Finnish languages Scientific interests: "Verb in Karelian language ", "Nominal forms of the verbs". The scientific monograph "Verbal wordchanging in Karelian language" has been prepared. The scientific theme "Nominal forms of verbs in Karelian language" will be finished in 2002.
Gorshkova Olga Einarovna senior instructor	1. Introduction to modern Finnish language 2. Phonetics of modern Finnish language 3. Karelian and Finnish folk poetry 4. Developing oral and written speach of Karelian language Scientific interests: "Verse form cliche in Karelian tales".
Bogdanova Elena Viktorovna senior instructor	1. Morphology of Karelian language (Livvik dialect) 2. Practical interpretation and translation from Karelian language (Livvik dialect) 3. Syntax of Karelian language (Livvik dialect) 4. Developing oral and written speach of Karelian language Scientific interests: problems of reflexive conjugation in Karelian language. Accomplishes post-graduate studies, theme of dissertation "Reflexive conjugation in Karelian language"(under supervision of P.M.Zaikov). Scientific report "Suffixes of reflexive conjugation in Karelian language", Voru (Estonia, 1998).
Giloeva Natalya Mihailovna senior instructor	1. Introduction to Karelian language (Livvik dialect) 2. Phonetics of Karelian language (Livvik dialect) 3. Morphology of Karelian language (Livvik dialect)  4. Practical interpretation and translation from Karelian language (Livvik dialects) Accomplishes post-graduate studies, theme of dissertation "Pronouns in Karelian language" (under supervision of P.M.Zaikov). Performed reports at the conferences: "Networking" (Petrozavodsk, 2000), "Itameren-suomalaistem yhdystiet" (Voru, Estonia, 2000)
Melentieva Aino Viktorovna instructor	1. Introduction to modern Finnish language 2. Phonetics and morphology of modern Finnish language 3. Practical interpretation and translation from Karelian language (Karelian dialect) 4. Syntax of Karelian language (Karelian dialect) 5. Developing oral and written speach of Karelian language (Karelian dialect) Accomplishes post-graduate studies, theme of dissertation "Lexis of fishing in Karelian language' dialects" (under supervision of P.M.Zaikov)
Karlova Olga Leonidovna post-graduate student	1. Morphology of Karelian language (Karelian dialect) Accomplishes post-graduate studies in PetrSU, theme of dissertation "L-model in oikonimy of Karelia" (under supervision of I.I.Mullonen).
Rogozina Valentina Viktorovna instructor	1. Introduction to Veps language 2. Phonetics of Veps language 3. Morphology of Veps language 4. Practical interpretation and translation from Veps language Accomplishes post-graduate studies in Karelian State Pedagogical Institute, theme of dissertation "Figurative and metaphorical means of expression in Veps language" (under supervision of G.M.Kert)

 

Program of cooperation with foreign and home universities

The chair cooperates with Finnish and Scandinavian universities within the framework of the project "Languages of small peoples of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Russia" (Finnish, Karelian, Veps, Estonian, Saam). The chair has an agreement on cooperation between the Chair of Baltic and Finnish Philology and Culture and Tallinn Pedagogical University.

Jointly with the Chair of Karelian and Veps languages of Karelian State Pedagogical Institute the chair prepares educational supplies for the courses of Karelian and Veps languages.

Jointly with Petrozavodsk state Conservatory the chair holds annual conferences on the problems of musical culture of the peoples of Karelia.

The instructors and post-graduate students of the chair work on probation at the chair of Baltic-Finnish languages of the University of Helsinki. (Zaikov P.M., 1994; Gorshkova O.E., 1993; Bogdanova E.V., 1996, Gorshkova O.E., 2000)

 

Scientific research work on the projects

The instructors of the chair work on the following projects:

1. The project "Finnish-Ugric world in Internet" includes preparing and locating on the server of PetrSU the articles on material and spiritual culture of Finnish-Ugric peoples of Karelia. (under supervision of P.M.Zaikov) (1998-2000)

2. The project "Theoretical aspects of Karelian grammar" implies writing two theoretical monographs: "Nominal forms of verbs in Karelian language" (P.M.Zaikov) и "Reflexive conjugation in Karelian language" (E.V.Bogdanova). (1998-1999)

3. The project "Problems of ethnocultural renaissance of small peoples in the European North" is aimed on studying Karelian and Veps languages. (under supervision of T.I.Starshova)

4. The project "Publishing educational supplies on Veps and Karelian grammar" is aimed to prepare for publication the following educational supplies "Verb in Veps language" (N.G.Zaitseva) and "A collection of exercises in Karelian language. The Verb" (Zaikov P.M., Gorshkova O.E., Rugoeva L.I.) (under supervision of P.M.Zaikov) (1998-1999) Книга опубликована в 2000 году.

5. The project "Languages of small peoples of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Karelia" (under supervision of H.Mantila, H.Sulkala) (1999- up to today) The four work meetings have been held and two collections of articles have been published.