Patricia Chaput

Professor of the Practice of Slavic Languages

Director of the Language Program

Barker Center 377 - 495-4065 - chaput[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: B.A. 1968 UCLA; M.A., Ph.D. 1979 Harvard.

Interests: Russian verb aspect, lexical semantics, pragmatics, language and culture, language teaching.

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Slavic A (Beginning Russian)
• Slavic 102 (Advanced Russian: Introduction to the Language of History and the Media)

Spring:
• Slavic 120r (Supervised Readings in Advanced Russian)
• Slavic 269 (Structure of Russian for Instructors)

Selected Works:
• Shifting Culture from Custom to Context (2000)
• Culture in Grammar (1997)
• Functional and Semantic Factors Affecting Aspect Choice in Questions (1990)
• On the Question of Aspectual Selection in Denials (1986).

Work in Progress:
• College Language Teaching
• The Pragmatics of Aspectual Choice in Russian Imperatives
• Topics in Russian Grammar: An Instructor's Handbook
• Pervyj shag (textbook for beginning Russian).