Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology

Research Interests

Slavic linguistics, semiotics of medieval East Slavic culture.

Representative Publications

“Surzhyk: The Rules of Engagement,” in Zvi Gitelman et al., eds., Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk (Cambridge, 2000), 113–36. 

“Innovation in the East Slavic Non-Past: The Case of Belarusian First-Person Plural idom,” in Alan Timberlake, ed., American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists, Ljubljana, 2003. Vol. 1: Linguistics (Bloomington, 2003), 65–77.

“Catching the Drift of Dissimilative Jakan’e,” in Michael S. Flier et al., eds., In Memoriam Henrik Birnbaum (Bloomington, 2006), 129–148.

“The Fourth Palatalization of Velars in Ukrainian:  The Southwestern Dialects,” in Alan J. Nussbaum, ed., Verba Docenti.  Studies in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics Presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by Students, Colleagues, and Friends (Ann Arbor and New York, 2007), 73-82.

Mailing Address
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
368 Barker Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Telephone: (617) 495-2178
E-mail: flier@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/newsite/people/michaelflier.htm

*Fall 2009 Office Hours

Mondays, 2-4pm (Ukrainian Research Institute)

Tuesdays, 2-3pm (Slavic)

Thursdays, 2-3pm (Ukrainian Research Institute)