All-Russian Contest “Youth Community Leader”

The Organizing Committee of All-Russian contest “Youth Community Leader 2012” invites you to take part in the contest for the selection of talented young people focused on social and political activity.

The Organizing Committee invites students from 15 to 18 years old who applied for participating before April 01, 2012 and  got registered on the Contest site.

The contest is held in two stages:

 I stage – the first (qualifying) stage is held by correspondence from February 10 to April 01, 2012.

The students are admitted to the participation in the stage by correspondence in case they have preliminary registration.

II stage – the second (intramural) stage is held intramurally till April 15, 2011 in Moscow.

The students are admitted to the participation in the intramural stage in case they win the first stage.The intramural stage of the contest is held in the form of a test and oral expression of the students’ opinion on contemporary society problems.The Winners of the Contest are the students who get the biggest score in two stages.The Winners of All-Russian contest “Youth Community Leader 2012” will be awarded with diplomas and valuable presents, they also will be included in the succession pool of the Youth Problems Federal Agency.

More detailed information can be found on the official site of Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities: http://www.mggu-sh.ru/

Don’t miss your chance!

The Contest Organizing Committee

Translated by a post-graduate Yulia Volozhanina.

Videobattle Again

SMSUH  launches a video contest Videobattle 2012. It is open to all concerned students from SMSUH and from other universities.Topics:
1) It's all about it!
A story about the department and its representatives, students, about all the events of  the faculty, about its pride and its grieves. And it’s about all the people who are "the real face of the faculty".
2) My Universities
The story-thought “what we got from student life in all its manifestations during our study here, what we learn during our lessons, how we build our relationships, what we perceive, how we are growing up, how we transform our experience into the personality development”.

The main prize is a video camera!

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Translated by a fourth-year student Margarita Andreeva, Faculty of Foreign Languages and International Communication, 42 group.

Conference "Typology of morphosyntactic parameters"

Center for modern linguistic research at Moscow State University for the Humanities is organizing a conference in theoretical and typological linguistics TYPOLOGY OF MORPHOSYNTACTIC PARAMETERS.

The conference will take place on December 5, 2011 at the Moscow State University for the Humanities (Sholokhov-University)
The opening is at 10.30 AM. [the conference room will be announced later].

The conference is addressed the issues of

• Word order typology and constraints on movement.
• Clitic typology.
• Argument structure.
• Case, Agreement, Head Marking, Dependent Marking.
• Syntax-Prosody interface.
• Polypredicative structures.
• Spell-out, ellipsis and zero categories.
• The correlation of morphosyntactic parameters and language types.

Format: 25 minutes for the presentation +10 minutes for the discussion

Organizing committee: Anton Zimmerling, Peter Arkadiev

The conference participants are leading Russian linguists representing research institutions and universities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg and specializing in the field of typological syntax and grammar theory.

Parametric approach to grammar is a rapidly growing branch in linguistic studies lying at the joint of Universal Grammar and linguistic typology. World’s languages can be described in terms of general parameters capable of taking different values. There exist ca. 7000 languages described to an uneven degree.  Linguistic typology deals with open classes of world’s languages sharing the same parametric combinations and aims at establishing types conforming to stable parametric combinations which predict the distribution of grammar features. Our conference is devoted to the interaction of morphological (Case, Agreement) and syntactic (sentence structure, constraints of wоrd order and external merger) аs well as to interlevel interfaces, specifically, to the syntax-prosody interface responsible for the correlation of the phonetic form and the syntactic output as well as for the segmentation of well-formed texts.