Division of Humanities at The University of Chicago

Department of Slavic Language & Literatures

Senior Lecturer

Steven Clancy, Russian and West Slavic, Slavic Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics
Director, Slavic Language Program
Academic Director, Center for the Study of Languages
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000
Foster 412
(773) 702-8567
sclancy@uchicago.edu

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More information available at: http://home.uchicago.edu/~sclancy/

Steven Clancy is Senior Lecturer in Russian and Slavic Linguistics in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is also the Academic Director of the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Languages (Cobb Hall, 2nd Floor). His publications and works in progress include the forthcoming BEING and HAVING in Slavic and “The ascent of guy” as well as three books on Slavic case semantics with Laura Janda: The Case Book for Russian (2002), winner of the 2005 AATSEEL book award for best book in language pedagogy, The Case Book for Czech (2006), and The Case Book for Polish (forthcoming). His research interests include cognitive linguistics, case semantics and verbal semantics, corpus linguistics, grammaticalization, and historical linguistics. His primary languages of interest are Russian, Czech, and Polish. He is currently studying Slavic case semantics and verbal semantics utilizing various quantitative methods, including Multidimensional Scaling (MDS).

Courses:

Human Being, Language, and Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics

Language teaching:

Language teaching in Russian and Czech at all levels.
Teaching in Slavic Languages and Literatures

Summer Intensive Courses:

Intensive Introduction to Russian Language and Culture
Intensive Intermediate Russian Language and Culture