Kotorova Elizaveta Georgievna

Date and place of birth: August 21, 1954; Tomsk (Russia)

Marital status: married, one daughter

634 021 Tomsk

ul. Altayskaya 97, kv. 116

e-mail: kotorova@tspu.edu.ru

kotor_eg@lcd.tpu.edu.ru

1971-1976 Student: The Faculty of the Foreign Languages, Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute (Russia). Official Degree: Teacher of German, English and French (Honours Diploma);

Education program included: Pedagogics and Psychology; Oral and Written Practice of German, English and French; General Linguistics, Theoretical Courses of German Grammar, Phonetics and Lexicology, History of German Language, etc. During the education time I took part in field work collecting materials on Ket language - one of the Siberian aboriginal languages.

1977-1982 Post-Graduate Courses: The Department of General, Comparative-Historical and Typological Linguistics, The Moscow State University, Russia.

Educational program included: Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, General Information about the Structure of Chinese Language, General and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Theory of Folk-lore.

1983 The support of doctoral thesis (in the field of Contrastive Semantics and Lexicology of German and Russian) in Moscow State Lomonossov-University. The academic degree „Kandidat filologicheskih nauk" is awarded on July 27 1983.

1985 2 month courses in the Moscow State University studying the intensive methods

of teaching foreign languages.

1992-1993 2 month research work in the Berlin Free University (Germany), Department of Germanic Philology.

1994 3 month research work in Udine University (Italy), Institute for Germanic Philology.

1994-1996 research work in Berlin Humboldt-University (Germany), Institute for Slavonic languages (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Fellow).

1997 - 2 month research work in Berlin Humboldt-University (Germany), Institute for Slavonic languages.

1998 habilitation in Moscow State Lomonossov-University, the subject of the dissertation is „Problem of interlingual equivalence in the sphere of lexical semantics".

Responsibilities: lectures on General Linguistics, Lexicology of German, Comparative Typology of Russian, German, English and other languages, research work in the field of Contrastive Semantics, Lexicology, Typology and General Linguistics, tutoring students in their research work.

Responsibilities: lectures on Russian Lexicology, seminar in Contrastive Lexicology of Russian, and German, research work in the field of Contrastive Semantics, Lexicology and Typology.

Responsibilities: lectures on Lexicology of German, Comparative Typology of Russian, German English and other languages, Intensive Methods of teaching foreign languages; research work in the field of Contrastive Semantics on the basis of the languages of the similar and different types.

Responsibilities: teaching German(oral and written practice); preparation of teaching aids for student's research work in the field of Contrastive Linguistics.

- Over 20 years experience in teaching German (oral and written practice).

- Over 10 years experience in teaching German using suggestive methods.

- Over 15 years experience in reading lectures on Lexicology, Typology, General Linguistics.

- Over 20 years experience in research work in the field of Contrastive Semantics and Lexicology of the cognate and non cognate languages.

- Over 5 years experience in research of Ket language, one of the Siberian aboriginal languages,

Since 1979 I have participated in more than 30 regional, all-union and international scientific conferences, among them:

- All-Union Conference „Types of Communication and the Content Aspect of the Language" (Moscow, October 1985);

- The 6th Conference of Germanic Philologists in the USSR „Tendencies in Development of Contemporary German Language" (Tashkent, May 1990);

- All-Union Conference „Norm in Human Intercourse" (Gorki, October 1990);

- Republican Scientific Conference „Urgent Problems of Lexicology" (Daugavpils, May 1991);

- International Conference „Methods of Contrastive Studies of Romanic and Germanic Languages" (Yaroslavl, May 1992)

- The 8th Conference of Germanic Philologists in the USSR „Language, Culture and Language Teaching" (Alma-Ata, September 1992);

- The VI. German Conference of Slavonic Philologists. (Leipzig, October 1994).

- International Conference „Slavonic and German Language World. Typological Specificity of Slavonic Languages in Comparison to German" (Berlin, March 1995).

- International Colloquium „History of Linguistics and Investigation of Language" (Tübingen, June 1996).

- XVIth International Congress of Linguists (Paris, July 1997).

- The VII. German Conference of Slavonic Philologists (Bamberg, September 1997).

- International Colloquium „Analytic and Synthetic Language Knowledge" (Berlin/Krausnick, Sept. 1998)

8th International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (Osaka, 26.-30. 10. 1998)

1995 - member of Association of Linguistic Typology

1998 - member of International Pragmatics Association

Russian: mother tongue.

German, English: written, read and spoken fluently.

French: proficiency in reading and translating.

Italian: basic knowledge

Ket: basic knowledge