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Svetlana Sokolova
Virgečilgehus
Professor of Russian linguistics
Head of the Russian programs at UiT The Arctic Univeristy of Norway since Fall 2024
Member of the Editorial board of the journal Scando-Slavica
Treasurer for the Nordic Slavic Association (Norsk slavistforbund)
Coordinator of the Russian film club at UiT The Arctic Univeristy of Norway
Karolina Belokurova Nilsen,
Svetlana Sokolova,
Elena Bjørgve
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Советские мультфильмы глазами русскоязычной молодежи в Норвегии
Slovo. Journal of Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures 2026 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer,
Aleksandra Ignateva,
Elizaveta Kibisova
:
Suffix diversity: investigating the morphological landscape of Russian loan verbs
Tore Nesset,
Martina Björklund,
Svetlana Sokolova
:
Shortening mechanisms in construction morphology: the Russian spec-N construction
Svetlana Sokolova
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The Role of Citizen Journalism in Building a Collective Memory: Applying Citizen Journalism to Language Instruction
Svetlana Sokolova,
Dmitrij Egorov
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Meždu diskursom i konstrukciej: istorija russkogo BYVALO (Between a discourse particle and a construction: the history of Russian BYVALO)
Svetlana Sokolova,
Andrei Rogatchevski,
Kristian Bjørklund,
David Henrik Laven,
Håkon Roald Sverdrupsen
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The Participatory Approach and Student Active Learning in Language Teaching: Language Students as Journalists and Filmmakers
Svetlana Sokolova
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Spot the Miner: Do Clothes Really Make the (Wo)man?
Svetlana Sokolova
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Analogy and contrast at the morphology-syntax interface: A case study of new Russian [N[N]] compounds
Svetlana Sokolova,
Daria Kosheleva,
Elena Bjørgve,
Tore Nesset,
Elmira Zhamaletdinova,
Laura Alexis Janda
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My Russian Journey: Rethinking Teaching Russian to Beginners
Tore Nesset,
Svetlana Sokolova
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Complexity vs. communication: Teaching constructions at the beginner’s level
04. Mar 2026 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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‘To Perfect Down’ and ‘To Foam Up’: Do Aspectual Prefixes Function as Verb Classifiers? New Insights from Russian Corpus and Experimental Data
2025 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Andrea Camoletto
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Toward Effective Instruction of Russian Fleeting Vowels: A Usage-Based Perspective
2025 ARKIV
Anna Endresen,
Valentina Zhukova,
Svetlana Sokolova,
Elmira Zhamaletdinova
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Improving Grammar's Reputation: Rethinking grammar instruction for L2 Russian
2025 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer
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Morphological variation in Slavic loan verbs: multiple suffixes
2025 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
:
The Politics of Co-Production: Bare et liv: Historien om Fridtjof Nansen (1968)
2025 ARKIV
Sandra Birzer,
Svetlana Sokolova
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Fra konkurranse til overflod: Hvordan bosniske låneverb integreres morfologisk
2025 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Русские феминитивы в свете гендерных дебатов [Russian Feminatives in the Light of Gender Debates]
2025 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Что мы знаем о русских феминитивах? [What do we know about Russian feminitives?]
2025 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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История русского БЫВАЛО: дискурсивный маркер или грамматическая конструкция? [The History of Russian Byvalo: A Discourse Marker or a Grammatical Construction?]
2025 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Grammatika - eto veselo: Novye elekronnye resursy dlja obučenija grammatike RKI (More fun with grammar: New digital resources for grammar instruction in L2 Russian)
2024 ARKIV
Yanina Prystauka,
Svetlana Sokolova
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Russian verb classifiers electrified
2024 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Applying Citizen Journalism to Language Instruction
2024 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Andrea Camoletto
:
Second Language Acquisition of Russian Fleeting Vowels
2024 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Roundtable: Teaching Russian Language and Eurasian Studies in a New Political Environment: Challenges and Prospects
2024 ARKIV
Sandra Birzer,
Svetlana Sokolova
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Competition and Overabundance: Exploring Linguistic Variation in Bosnian verbal suffixes
2024 ARKIV
Anastasia Makarova,
Svetlana Sokolova
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Family ties: how closely related are families of constructions with the same anchor? A case study of Russian pronouns
2024 ARKIV
Sandra Birzer,
Svetlana Sokolova
:
Morphological variation in Slavic verbal suffixes
2024 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer
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New insights on linguistic variation: Competition and overabundance in Slavic verbal suffixes
2024 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Learning Grammar in a Strategic Way: New pedagogical resources for Russian as a Foreign Language
2024 ARKIV
Anastasia Makarova,
Svetlana Sokolova
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What’s in a family bond? Russian constructions with a pronominal anchor
2024 ARKIV
Elmira Zhamaletdinova,
Svetlana Sokolova
:
My Russian Journey: Insights and Challenges of New Teaching Practices for Elementary Russian
2024 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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The Dynamics of Russian Compounding
2024 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer
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Vybor suffiksa i suffiksal'naja variativnost' v slavjanskix glagolax (Suffix choice and suffix variation in Slavic verbs)
2024 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Elena Bjørgve,
Daria Kosheleva,
Elmira Zhamaletdinova
:
My Russian Journey: Rethinking Teaching Russian to Beginners
2023 ARKIV
Tore Nesset,
Svetlana Sokolova,
Martina Björklund
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Specprezentacija – A cognitive approach to the morphological construction spec-N in Russian
2023 ARKIV
Tore Nesset,
Svetlana Sokolova
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Special operations: Russian rivalry in cognitive linguistics
2023 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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New Approaches to Grammar: Interactive Digital Tools Targeting Strategic Input
2023 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Constructional variation vs. constructional contamination: A special case of new Russian [N[N]] compounds
2023 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer
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Unraveling morphological competition: derivational properties of loan markers
2023 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer,
Aleksandra Ignatieva,
Elizaveta Kibisova
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A usage-based approach to morphological variation: The choice of suffix in Russian loan verbs
2023 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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The New Life of Russian Compounds: Constructional Rivalry with Compounds like top-igrok and specoperacija
2023 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Andrei Rogatchevski
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"The participatory approach and student-active learning in language teaching: Language students as journalists and filmmakers"
2023 ARKIV
Elena Bjørgve,
Elmira Zhamaletdinova,
Svetlana Sokolova,
Daria Kosheleva
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My Russian Journey: New Teaching Practices for Elementary Russian
2023 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Elena Bjørgve
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Min russiske reise: En ny undervisningsressurs for å lære russisk
2022 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Citizen Journalism In and Outside the Classroom: The Educational Film Project «Our Common Victory»
2022 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Designing curricula at UiT: RUS-2022 "Russian and Career Development"
2022 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova
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Media Language in Use: The UiT Course RUS-2022 "Russian and Career Development"
2022 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer
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Hva utløser morfologisk variasjon i russiske innlånte verb?
2022 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer
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Suffix Variation in Russian Loan Verbs
2022 ARKIV
Svetlana Sokolova,
Sandra Birzer
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Morphological Exaptation in Russian: A Corpus Study of Suffix Variation in Loan Verbs
2022 ARKIV
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Dutkanberoštumit
I am Professor of Russian linguistics at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, and a member of the research group CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian). My main research areas involve cognitive grammar, corpus and historical linguistics with major focus on Russian morphology and syntax. From a theoretical perspective, I am interested in linguistic variation and rivalry as a result of both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic factors.
From a practical perspective, I address the issue of how empirically based cognitive linguistics can be used in second language learning and in developing strategic language teaching materials.
Fields of interest:
Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, Corpus Linguistics, Slavic linguistics, historical linguistics
Morphology, syntax-semantics interface, grammaticalization, aspect, verbal prefixes, quantifiers and pronouns, word-formation, non-standard language, metaphor
Languages competency:
Russian (native speaker), English (fluent), Norwegian (fluent), German (B1/B2), Spanish (B1), Polish (A2), Ukrainian (A1), Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian (full expertise), Latin and Ancient Greek (basic knowledge)
Project management experience:
2025–2027
- Hybrid STEP (STudent Exchange Program) in the second language classroom (3 mln NOK), funded by HK-dir (Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education; UTFORSK 2024), PI
2024
- MOrphological variation in loan VErbs (MOVE), a three-month DAAD scholarship (Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists, 57693448) for the research stay at the University of Bamberg, Germany (6,775 EUR)
2023–2024
- Development funds for the textbook Min russiske reise (476,000 NOK), funded by The Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association, PI
2022–2024
- Citizen journalism for enhancement of regional development. Development of the interdisciplinary curricula and implementation of teaching innovations (with University of Bielsko-Biała, funded by The Foundation for the Development of the Education System in the European Economic Area: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), collaborator
2019–2022
- The digital resource Min russiske reise, HK-dir (Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education), MAJAK: Det russiske læringsfyrtårnet, Fyrtårnmidler, UiT, leader of several work packages
2020
- “Vår felles seier – Our Common Victory” (265,000 NOK), funded by The Norwegian Barents Secretariat, co-PI
2017–2020
- TWIRLL: Targeting Wordforms in Russian Language Learning, HK-dir (Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education), collaborator
2017–2018
- Native and borrowed formants and patterns in Russian word-formation against the Slavic background: semantic relations, types of interaction, stylistic potential. Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Department for Humanities and Social Sciences (2130/17-04-00532), collaborator
2017–2018
- “Homo ludens” – development of innovative learning forms through interaction of film and theater in language learning (140,000 NOK), funded by The Norwegian Barents Secretariat, PI
2015–2016
- Varangian Rus’ Digital Environment (800,000 NOK), funded by HK-dir (Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education; UTFORSK 2014), PI
2011–2012
- Time is Space: Unconscious Models and Conscious Acts, Norwegian Research Council, collaborator
2008–2010
- Exploring Emptiness: Russian Verbal Morphology and Cognitive Linguistics, Norwegian Research Council, collaborator