Dr Robert Lagerberg
Lecturer
Head of Russian Section
Arts Centre Building
room 629 - Tel. 03 - 8344 5187
robertjl@ unimelb.edu.au
Robert Lagerberg received his BA Honours in Russian at the University of Birmingham in England in 1986, in the course of which he studied for a year at Voronezh State University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 1992 on the theme of word stress and affixation in Russian. He also has a Diploma in Czech and Slovak from Oxford University, and has studied at Palacky University in Olomouc. He is currently co-editor of the journal Australian Slavonic and East European Studies. He has lectured at the University of Surrey (1990-1991), the University of Auckland (1992-1996), and the University of Melbourne (1996-present).
Research interests and areas of supervision
Russian and Slavonic linguistics, and also Russian prose, in particular the work of Ivan Turgenev.
Coordinator of
126-150 Beginners Russian A
126-151 Beginners Russian B
126-152 Beginners Russian C
126-153 Beginners Russian D
126-154 Intermediate Russian A
126-155 Intermediate Russian B
126-156 Intermediate Russian C
126-157 Intermediate Russian D
126-158 Advanced Russian A
126-159 Advanced Russian B
126-160 Russian Linguistics A
126-161 Russian Linguistics B
126-162 Reading Russian for Social Scientists A
126-163 Reading Russian for Social Scientists B
126-210 Russian 19th Century Literature and Society
126-421 Advanced Topics in Russian Grammar A
126-422 Advanced Topics in Russian Grammar B
126-423 Introduction to Czech through Russian
126-424 Reading Course in Slavic Studies
126-516 Russian Thesis
Publications
Books
Lagerberg, Robert (1999), Stress and Suffixation in Modern Russian: The Development of Uniform Syllable Stress, Astra Press, Nottingham.
Articles in refereed journals and sections in books
Lagerberg, R.J. (2007), ‘Towards a comprehensive account of the stress of Russian nouns containing the combining form -log: a survey of Russian speakers in Melbourne,’ New Zealand Slavonic Journal, in press.
Lagerberg, R.J. (2007), ‘Variation and Frequency in Russian Word Stress’, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 21/1-2, 165-176.
Lagerberg, R.J. (2006), ‘The stress of Russian adjectives containing the suffix -chatyj,’ Russian Linguistics, 30, 227-234.
Lagerberg, R.J. (2006), ‘Towards a comprehensive account of the stress of Russian verbs containing the suffix -irovat’: a survey of Russian speakers in Melbourne’, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 20/1-2, 195-201.
Lagerberg, R.J. (2005), ‘Towards a comprehensive account of the stress of Russian verbs containing the suffix -irovat’: a survey of Russian speakers’, Russian Linguistics, 29, 39-47.
Lagerberg, R.J. (2005), ‘Towards a comprehensive account of the stress of Russian nouns containing the combining form -log’, Russian Linguistics, 29, 383-393.
Nicholas, N., Debski, R. & Lagerberg, R. (2004), ‘Skryba: an online orthography teaching tool for learners from bilingual backgrounds,’ Computer Assisted Language Learning, 17, 441-458.
Lagerberg, R.J. (2003), ‘Tatuírovat' or tatuirovát'? Towards a comprehensive account of the stress of Russian verbs containing the suffix -irovat',’ Russian Linguistics, 27, 349-362.
Lagerberg, R.J. (2003), ‘Optimality theory and suffixational stress assignment in Russian’, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 37, 55-67.
Lagerberg, R., Matveev, A. & Debski, R. (2000 (published 2002)), 'Using multimedia as a component in a Russian language course', Russian Language Journal, 54/177-179, 35-44.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1999), ‘The stress of Russian adjectives containing the suffix -iv(yj), History of Language, 5/1, 1-9.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1999), ‘The stress of Russian nouns containing the suffix -anin/-chanin’, Russian Linguistics, 23, 137-151.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1998), ‘The stress of Russian nouns containing the suffix -onok/-chonok’, New Zealand Slavonic Review, 32, 211-221.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1998), On the Eve by I. S. Turgenev in Reference Guide to Russian Literature, Fitzroy Dearborn, London, pp. 850-851.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1996), ‘The open frame and the presentation of time in Turgenev’s First Love’, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 10/2, 111-120.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1996), Introduction to First Love by I.S. Turgenev, Bristol Classical Press, 1996, pp. x-xviii. Lagerberg, R.J. (1995), ‘Teaching cases to students without a grammatical background’, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 29, 111-120.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1994), ‘Images of Night and Day in Turgenev’s Pervaia liubov'’, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 28, 57-68.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1994), ‘Stress and Affixation in Russian’, Russian Linguistics, 18, 131-143.
Bibliographical work
Lagerberg, R.J. (1991), ‘Czech Studies: Language’, in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, vol. 52 (1990), The Modern Humanities Research Association, pp. 907-13.
Lagerberg, R.J. (1990), ‘Czech Studies: Language’, in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, vol. 51 (1989), The Modern Humanities Research Association, pp. 911-21.
Editing
Assistant Editor of Australian Slavonic and East European Studies
- Vol. 10/2, 1996
- Vol. 11/1-2, 1997
- Vol. 12/1-2, 1998
Editor of Australian Slavonic and East European Studies
- Vol. 13/1-2, 1999
- Vol. 14/1-2, 2000
- Vol. 15/1-2, 2001
- Vol. 16/1-2, 2002
- Vol. 17/1-2, 2003
Book reviews
(2007) Published in Canadian Slavonic Papers, XLIX, 3/4, 404, a review of Jeehyeon Eom, Rhythmus im Akzent: Zur Modellierung der Akzentverteilung als einer Grundlage des Sprachrhythmus im Russischen, Verlag Otto Sagner (Slavistische Beiträge, Band 451), Munich, 2006.
(2006) Published in Canadian Slavonic Papers, XLVIII, 3/4, 409-410, a review of Karin Larsen, The Evolution of the System of Long and Short Adjectives in Old Russian, Verlag Otto Sagner (Slavistische Beiträge, Band 439), Munich, 2005.
(2005) Published in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 19/1-2, 203-206, a review of Peter Chew, A Computational Phonology of Russian, Dissertation.com, Parkland FL, 2003.
(1998) Published in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 12/2, 116-18, a review of Anna Wierzbicka, Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997.
(1996) Published in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 10/2, 218-19, a review of Terence Wade, A Russian Grammar Workbook, Oxford, Blackwell, 1996.
(1996) Published in The Slavonic and East European Review, 74/104-05, Paul Cubberley, Handbook of Russian Affixes, Columbus, Ohio, 1994.
(1996) Published in The Sunday Age, July 28, Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin, translated by H. T. Willetts, London, 1996.
(1994) Published in The Slavonic and East European Review, 72, 290-91, Adriana Pols, Varianty pristavochnyx glagolov nesovershennogo vida v russkom jazyke, Amsterdam, 1993.
(1992) Published in The New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 26, 183-85, Miloslava Hrubá and Martina Smit-Říhová, Tschechisch: Ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch, Heidelberg, 1991.
(1991) Published in The Slavonic and East European Review, 69, 683-84, The Major Languages of Eastern Europe, ed. by Bernard Comrie, London, 1990.
(1988) Published in The Slavonic and East European Review, 66, 262-63, M. Ferrand, Le suffixe -nja en russe moderne, Paris, 1985.