Kenda-Jež – Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU

Karmen Kenda-Jež, Ph.D.

Research Fellow, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Office: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 4/IV, No. 408
Tel.: 01 4706 222
Email: carmen@zrc-sazu.si
Office hours: Wednesday from 12.00 noon to 2.00 p.m.

Education:

BA in Slovenian language and literature (University of Ljubljana, 1988),
Ph.D. in Slovenian linguistics (University of Ljubljana, 2003).

Dialectological fieldwork:

north-east Poland (Polish dialects at the (present-day) border with Lithuania and Ukraine – dialectolological research camp, July 1985);
Cerkno and its surroundings (the Cerkno dialect, 1986–1994);
Podbrdo and its surroundings (the Bača subdialect – Alpine Youth Research Camp, August 1995);
Kanalska dolina (Val Canale) (the Zilja dialect, Slovenian in a linguistically mixed environment – Research Camps of the Slovenian Cultural Centre Planika, since 2003);
gathering dialect material for the Slovenian Linguistic Atlas (SLA): Marija na Zilji / Maria Gail (AT), Pernice, Ravnice (HR) (the Zilja dialect, the North Pohorje-Remšnik dialect, the Kostel dialect, since 2006).

Research interests:

dialectology, social dialectology and sociolinguistics: theoretical and methodological problems;
linguistic geography of the Slovenian and Slavic languages;
methodology of spoken language research;
transcribing spoken language;
languages in contact, language/dialect loss;
(dialect) lexicography: dictionary as a structured database intended for linguistic, ethnological, sociological and anthropological research;
phonetics and phonology;
history of (Slovenian) linguistics;
linguistic thought of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay.

visiting researcher within the Slavic Linguistic Atlas project, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (January, November 2011).

member of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas Commission (OLA) at the International Committee of Slavists (since 1997), head of the Slovenian National Commission OLA (since 2008);
member of the editorial board of the journal Jezikoslovni zapiski and the journal Rozprawy Komisji Językowej Łódzkiego Towarzystwa Naukowego (Łódź, Poland);
lecturer in sociolinguistics at the School of Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica (since 2007).

Bitenc, M. and K. Kenda-Jež, 2015. Language variation in Slovene: a case study of two geographically mobile speakers. In: Eivind Torgersen et al. (eds.), Language variation – European perspectives In: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 31–42.
Kenda-Jež, K. 2012. Slovenska narečja v Slovanskem lingvističnem atlasu (OLA). Slavistica vilnensis, Kalbotyra 57, Issue 2, pp. 57–75.
Kenda-Jež, K. 2007, ²2015. Shranli smo jih v bančah: slovarski prispevek k poznavanju oblačilne kulture v Kanalski dolini = contributo lessicale alla conoscenza dell’abbigliamento in Val Canale. Ukve: S.K.S. Planika Kanalska dolina; Slori: ATS Od me-je; Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU.
Kenda-Jež, K. Strukturalizem v slovenski dialektologiji = Structuralism in Slovenian dialectology. In: Ada Vidovič-Muha (ed.), Slovensko jezikoslovje danes = Slovenian linguistics today, Slavistična revija 54, Special Issue), pp. 115–124.
Kenda-Jež, K. 2005. Fonološki opis govora Ovčje vasi. In: Nataša Gliha Komac et al. (eds.), Ovčja vas in njena slovenska govorica: raziskovalni tabor Kanalska dolina 2003 = Valbruna e la sua parlata slovena: stage di ricerca Val Canale 2003. Ukve: Slovensko kulturno središče Planika, Kanalska dolina; Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU; Založba ZRC, 2005, pp. 85–128.
Kenda-Jež, K. 2005. Narečna besedila iz Ovčje vasi. In: Nataša Gliha Komac et al. (eds.), Ovčja vas in njena slovenska govorica: raziskovalni tabor Kanalska dolina 2003 = Valbruna e la sua parlata slovena: stage di ricerca Val Canale 2003. Ukve: Slovensko kulturno središče Planika, Kanalska dolina; Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU; Založba ZRC, 2005, pp. 129–190.
Kenda-Jež, K. 2004. Narečje kot jezikovnozvrstna kategorija v sodobnem jezikoslovju. In: Erika Kržišnik (ed.), Aktualizacija jezikovnozvrstne teorije na Slovenskem: členitev jezikovne resničnosti, Obdobja 22, Metode in zvrsti. Ljubljana: Center za slovenščino kot drugi/tuji jezik pri Oddelku za slovenistiko Filozofske fakultete, 2004, pp. 263–276.
Kenda-Jež, K. 2002. Model idealnega govorca v slovenskih dialektoloških raziskavah. In: Marko Jesenšek et al. (eds.). Med dialektologijo in zgodovino slovenskega jezika: ob življenjskem in strokovnem jubileju prof. dr. Martine Orožen, Maribor: Slavistično društvo, 2002, pp. 150–165.