Head:
assistant professor Petrova A.A., Kandidat of Science

Postgraduate programs
(coordinators: Schamne N.L., Kurakov V.I.):
Language theory
Germanic languages

Master programs
(coordinator: Schamne N.L.)
Germanic languages

Other programs
DSH-Pruefung
Starting 2003 the Department in cooperation with University of Cologne (Germany) holds courses in preparation for DSH-Pruefung (German language exam needed to apply for German educational institutions). The courses imply a two-month stay at Cologne for continuing the preparation.

The general Department research areas are:
Intercultural communication and actual issues of lexical semantics (coordinator: Schamne N.L.)
Syntactic semantics and sentence models paradigms. Actual issues of syntactic semantics (coordinator: Kurakov V.I.)
Issues of child speech ontogenesis. Ontogenesis of utterance generation models. Prosodic structure of child speech in German and Russian (coordinator: Petrova A.A.)
Innovative techniques of German language teaching (coordinator: Zhuravleva N.P.)

Correspondingly, the Department holds the following regular seminars for its instructors and postgraduates:
Current issues of lexical semantics
Current issues of syntactic semantics
Innovative techniques of teaching German as foreign language

Personal research interests of department members

Schamne N.L., professor
Language and cultural aspects of category of space

Kurakov V.I., professor
Syntax semantics, sentence modeling, cognitive grammar
Parts of speech issues in German
Case semantics
Verb control semantics
Content structure, form and meaning asymmetry of grammar forms

Zhuravleva N.P.
Project work as means of personal development individualization

Izotova Z.V.
Categories of possibility and necessity and their speech realization in German legislative acts.

Rogozhnikova I.N
Semantic and pragmatic potential of German imperative modal verbs.

Generalova L.M.
Semantic predicates transposition as means of alternative conceptualization.

Testoyedova T.V.
Linguistic and pragmatic specifics of the genre of German catholic and protestant prayer.

Vlasenko A.V.
Principles of case semantics description and their actualization in the system of German case correlations.

Yegorchenkova N.B.
Communicative and pragmatic potential of German verbs with interrogative semantics.

Dementyeva O.V.
Semantic fundamentals of verb control.

Shammedova E.V.
Cognitive and syntax semantic specifics of German desubstantive verbs.

Academic Partners
The Department has a long-established history of partner and friendly personal relations with the following Germany-based education institutions: University of Cologne, University of Leipzig, and «West-Ost Gesellschaft» (Akademie Calve). Invited lecturers from these institutions are regular guests of the Department, whereas our postgraduates and instructors take frequent trainee courses and jobs there.