Patricia Chaput

Ph.D. Harvard, 1979
Professor of the Practice of Slavic Languages & Director of the Language Program
Faculty Associate and Executive Committee, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Barker Center 377
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-4065
chaput@fas.harvard.edu
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Research Interests
Russian verb aspect, lexical semantics, pragmatics, language and culture, language teaching.

Current Projects
Work on the pragmatics of aspectual choice in Russian and compilation of a Russian grammar for language instructors.

Selected Publications
“Shifting Culture from Custom to Context” (2000)

“Culture in Grammar” (1997)

“Functional and Semantic Factors Affecting Aspect Choice in Questions” (1990)