Dr. Valeria Kuchko

 
Current position:
Senior Research Fellow, Toponymic Laboratory, Department of Russian Language, General Linguistics and Speech Communication, Ural Federal University;
Research fellow, Department of Typology and Comparative Linguistics, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
 
Contact information:
Ural Federal University
Faculty of Philology, office 306
51, Lenin av., Ekaterinburg, 620083, Russia
kuchko[at]inbox.ru
 
Dissertations:
Semantiko-motivatsionnoe pole «Lozh', obman» v iazykovom prostranstve russkikh narodnykh govorov [Semantic Field 'Lie, Deception' in the Russian Folk Dialects] (2017, PhD)
 
Research areas: Russian dialectal lexicology, ethnolinguistics, historic lexicology, etymology, motivational semantic reconstruction, onomastics
 
Main publications:
Toponimicheskoe predanie i istoricheskii fakt (na materiale predanii o razboinikakh vostochnogo Vologodsko-Kostromskogo pogranich'ia) [Toponymic Legends and Historical Facts (Legends about Robbers in the Area of Vologda and Kostroma Regions Eastern Boundary)]. Voprosy onomastiki. 2015, 1, 108–133 (co-authored with E. L. Berezovich, O. D. Surikova)
Rus. opravdyvat'sia, opravdanie: opyt diakhronno-semanticheskogo portretirovaniia [Russian Words opravdyvat'siaopravdanie ('justify, excuse' and 'justification, excuse'): An Attempt of Diachronic Semantic Portraying]. Slavianskij almanakh, 2016, 375–385.
K etimologizatsii dialektnykh omonimov: volog. kalaushka [On the Etymology of Dialctal Onyms: Vologda Dialectal kalushka]. Russkij jazyk v nauchnom osveshchenii. 2016, 2, 188—205.
Eshche raz ob etimologii rus. mazurik ‘moshennik’ (v svete kul'turno-iazykovogo obraza mazura v slavianskikh traditsiiakh) [Once Again on the Etymology of the Russian Word mazurik 'Con Artist' (In the Light of the Linguisitc and Cultural Image of Mazur in the Slavic Traditions)]. Slověne, 2017, 1, 413–448 (co-authored with E. L. Berezovich).
Russkaia dialektnaia leksika so znacheniem izmeny v liubvi: semantiko-motivatsionnyi aspekt [Russian Dialectal Vocabulary of Adultery: Motivational Aspect]. Slavianskij almanakh. 2017, 3/4, 479–498