Re: Moscow State University

Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:

> I just got an email from one Marina Sidorova, Prof of Linguistics, at
> Moscow State University, asking for persmission to publish something
> on Kelen. Is there anyone here who reads Russian who is willing to
> check out the website and confirm that she's who she says she is? Or
> perhaps someone has met her at a conference?
Am I the only russophone on the List? Poor me, after 4 hours of oral
translations! :)))))

Anyway. I have looked at the MSU site. Indeed there is a lady professor there,
Marina Yuryevna Sidorova, Doctor of Science / Philology (that's your Ph.D., I
s'pose), Docent (Associate Professor? - hell, I really don't know the western
ranks, well, a big frog) of the Russian Language Chair of the Philology
Department. But it's impossible to figure out if the mail comes from exactly
this person, or she just uses the name, because nothing says about her interest
in conlangs. The topic of her _doctorate dissertation_ (theses?) is "Grammar
unity of an artistic text". Granted the degree on 2000, the publication gained
an award in 2003.

The rest is up to you.

Deadly tired,
-- Yitzik

P.S. Try to contact Pavel Iosad - he studies at the MSU. I'll send you his
e-mail address privately.

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