Dr. Elena Bratishenko

PhD

Positions

Associate Professor, Russian

Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures

Contact information

bratishe@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-8109

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Slavic Linguistics, University of Toronto, 1998

M.A. Russian language and literature, University of Toronto, 1991

Research

Areas of Research

Slavic historical linguistics

diachronic nominal morphology, language change, cognitive approaches to linguistics, history of East Slavic languages, analogy, Russian language and culture, the dialect of Medieval Novgorod, Medieval Slavic literature, Proto‑Indo‑European

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
Russian 201	Introductory Russian I
Russian 209	Introductory Russian II
Russian 301	Continuing Russian I
Russian 303	Continuing Russian II
Russian 400	Topics in Advanced Russian
Russian 332	The Russian Verbal System
Russian 551	Army Russian (independent study)
Russian 551	Gender in the Russian Language (independent study)

Awards

Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award, 2003

Publications

Journal articles

On the Nominative with Infinitive: Notes in the margins of the Domostroj. Elena Bratishenko. Scando-Slavica 67/1. 91–111. (2021)
Everything old is new again: Another look into the history of Russian adjectives. Elena Bratishenko. Russian Linguistics 43/1. 41-64. (2019)
Observations on the dative absolute in the Laurentian chronicle. Elena Bratishenko. Russian Linguistics 39/2. 255–273. (2015)
Genitive vs. dative: The case of protivu in the history of Russian. Elena Bratishenko. Russian Linguistics 35/3. 283–299. (2011)
Tracing the genealogy of the Gen. -ovo in Russian adjectival declension. Elena Bratishenko. Russian Linguistics 34/1. 67–86. (2010)
Genitive-Accusative and Possessive Adjective in Old East Slavic. Elena Bratishenko. Scando-Slavica. 83-103. (2003)
On the Authorship of the 1229 Smolensk-Riga Trade Treaty. Elena Bratishenko. Russian Linguistics. 345-361. (2002)

Books and book chapters

Instrument, causal chain, and second predicative cases in the history of Russian”, Sub specie aeternitatis: Sbornik naučnyx statej k 60-letiju Vadima Borisoviča Krys’ko [A Collection of Articles in Honour of the 60th Birthday of V. B. Krys’ko]. . Elena Bratishenko. The Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow: Azbukovnik. 165-173. (2021)

Conference proceedings

"On the pronoun ego in the history of Russian", in Tirkkonen, Jani-Matti and Esa Anttikoski (eds.). Elena Bratishenko. Proceedings of Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 24, Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Reports and Studies in Education, Humanities, and Theology, 5. 262–274. (2013)