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HSE Masters student Alexei Lukashkin talks about his impressions of the exchange programme with the French and comparative literature department (Littérature française et comparée) of the Faculty of Philology (Lettres) of Paris IV (Sorbonne).

On the 12th - 14th February 2015 students from the School of Philology and Linguistics presented their papers at a conference of young philologists in Tallinn.

The School of Philology congratulates Natalya Sarana, Lecturer and postgraduate student of the School on publishing her article in the international journal ‘Enthymema’.

From personal contacts to formal agreement

On November 14 a research seminar on linguistics took place at the HSE.   Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Bern University) spoke on ‘Slavic Derivational Morphology between Contact and Inheritance: A Corpus Driven Approach’. The  event was organized  by the Faculty of Philology.

On September 8-12, 2014 Elizaveta Kuzmenko, third-year student of Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Faculty of Philology) took part in an international seminar at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). The event was dedicated to research projects based on materials of the learner corpus and titled ‘Learner Corpus Research Summer School’.

Indian Summer School in Linguistics is a new project carried out by the Department of linguistics of the Faculty of Philology of the Higher School of Economics. The school is focused on linguistic typology and field linguistics. The audience includes bachelor and master students, Ph.D. students and everyone who is interested in linguistics. The school took place in Moscow at the Faculty of Philology of HSE on September 1-5 of 2014.

Instructors and students from the Fundamental and Computational Linguistics programme (Faculty of Philology) travel each year to conduct field research on languages. This year, they worked with understudied languages in Africa, eastern Siberia, the Volga Region, the Northern Caucasus and the Philippines.

The Indian Summer School in Linguistics — one of the HSE's summer schools — recently ended at the Faculty of Philology. Every day between September 1 and 5, dozens of students from the HSE and other Moscow universities and research centers attended lectures in linguistic typology—a subset of linguistics which compares both related and unrelated languages ​​to determine what is universal, what can vary, and what is impossible in language.

Nigel F. Palmer, Emeritus Professor of Medieval German, St Edmund Hall, Oxford will make a report "Gospel Meditations in Late Medieval Europe: Three Voices from the Upper and Lower Rhine" at the HSE on September 24, 2013. The leading professor on medieval issues gave a special interview for the HSE news service.