My research focusses on spoken Russian: dialects, regional variation, pragmatic particles, prosody (phonetics and phonology) and language contact. I also took an MA degree in Scandinavian linguistics with a contrastive study of conjunctions in Russian and Norwegian. I am also fascinated by the relation between standard languages and non-standard varieties, and between majority and minority languages and varieties in Russia, Ukriane and Belarus, which I teach about in my courses on both BA ad MA level.

I teach Russian and Russian linguistics at the courses RUS100, RUS120, RUS130, RUS240, RUS251 (BA-level) and RUS301 History of Russian and modern Russian language structure and RUS303 (“Russian dialectology”, “Linguistic variation in Russian”, “Language, language choice and linguistic variation in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus”)

At the University of Amsterdam (1998-2000) I taught courses in Norwegian grammar, Sacndinavian word order, minority languages in Scandinavia and nynorsk. At the University of Tromsø I taught Russian language and linguistics between 2001 and 2006.

I have supervised Master's theses on a variety of topics in Russian linguistics, and a PhD project on attitudes towards regional varieties of Russian.

2025

• Margje Post (2025). On strong, and not so strong, centres and weak peripheries: First pretonic prominence in M[aa]skva and in other regions of Russia. (external link)
• Margje Post (2025). Regional prosodic variation in the speech of young urban Russians: Quantitative vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm. (external link)
• Margje Post (2025). Exploring first pretonic prominence in varieties of Russian with a multivariable reading task. (external link)
• Margje Post (2025). Language contact on the Kola Peninsula in past and present: Northern Russian final particles and prosody. (external link)
• Margje Post (2025). Language contact on the Kola Peninsula in past and present: Northern Russian final particles and prosody. (external link)
• Margje Post; David Pineda (2025). Речь поморов Терского берега Белого моря: Звучащая хрестоматия. (external link)
• Margje Post (2025). Word prosodic structure and vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm Russian. (external link)

2024

• Margje Post; David Dijkerman Pineda (2024). The Kola Peninsula Spoken Corpus (KoPeSC) 1: Spoken Corpus to “Речь поморов Терского берега Белого моря: Звучащая хрестоматия” [“Pomor Speech on the Ter Coast of the White Sea: A spoken anthology”] (Slavica Bergensia 15). (external link)

2023

• Margje Post; Bistra Andreeva (2023). Polar question intonation in Russian speech from Moscow and Perm. (external link)
• Margje Post (2023). Regional variability in Russian polar question intonation. (external link)

2022

• Margje Post (2022). Word prosodic structure and vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm Russian: A study of phonetics and phonology. (external link)
• Margje Post (2022). The intonation of polar questions in Russian dialects: Data from online spoken corpora of spontaneous speech. (external link)
• Margje Post; Bistra Andreeva (2022). Polar question intonation in Russian speech from Moscow and Perm. (external link)
• Margje Post (2022). Word prosodic differences between Moscow and Perm speech (and some words about other ongoing research on Russian prosodic variation). (external link)
• Margje Post (2022). Russiske dialektkorpus med lyd: En ny kilde til intonasjonsforskning. (external link)
• Margje Post (2022). Spoken corpora of spontaneous speech as a source to study polar question intonation in Russian dialects. (external link)
• Margje Post (2022). Regional phonetic variation in the speech of young urban Russians: An exploratory study of quantitative and qualitative vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm. (external link)

2021

• Margje Post; S. V. Knjazev (2021). Ob intonacii obščego voprosa v dvux russkix govorax s tendenciej k poslovnomu tonal’nomu oformleniju. (external link)
• Margje Post; SV Knjazev (2021). Ob intonacii obščego voprosa v dvux russkix govorax s tendenciej k poslovnomu tonal’nomu oformleniju. (external link)
• Margje Post (2021). Regional‘noe var‘irovanie v reči russkoj gorodskoj molodeži: ėksperimental‘noe issledovanie količestvennoj i kačestvennoj redukcii predudarnyx glasnyx v reči molodyx moskvičej i permjakov. (external link)
• Margje Post (2021). Ispol’zovanie zvukovyx korpusov pri izučenii intonacii regional‘noj russkoj reči i reči bilingvov. (external link)
• Margje Post (2021). Hva har Sovjetunionen gjort for russiske dialekter?. (external link)

2020

• Margje Post; Brechtje Post (2020). Ritmika slova v reči molodych moskvičej i permjakov. (external link)

2019

• Margje Post (2019). Russisk: Orientering. (external link)

2018

• Margje Post (2018). Orientering om russiskstudiet ved UiB. (external link)
• Margje Post (2018). Regionale fonetiske forskjeller i russisk tale: en undersøkelse av vokallengde. (external link)

2017

• Margje Post (2017). Which dialect are we recording? A case study of a Russian babushka’s linguistic accommodation. (external link)
• Margje Post (2017). Why Regional Prosodic Variation is Worth Studying: An Example from Russian. (external link)
• Margje Post (2017). Feltarbeid i en russisk landsby. (external link)
• Margje Post (2017). Nabljudenija nad var'irovaniem jazykovyx čert v reči konservativnyx dialektonositelej. (external link)
• Margje Post (2017). Lynkurs russisk. (external link)

2016

• Margje Post (2016). Dialektbruk i en russisk landsby: stabilitet og variasjon. (external link)
• Margje Post (2016). Poluspontannaja reč' v issledovanijax regional'noj prosodii: opyt iz Britanii, Katalonii i Rossii. (external link)
• Margje Post (2016). Is prosody worth studying?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2016). SCoRRUS og regional uttale. (external link)

2015

• Benedikte Fjellanger Vardøy; Margje Post (2015). Reč molodyx permjakov: samoocenka sobstvennoj reči i akustičeskij analiz regional'nyx čert. (external link)
• Benedikte Fjellanger Vardøy; Margje Post (2015). Reč' molodyx permjakov: ocenka sobstvennoj reči i akustičeskij analiz regional'nyx čert. (external link)
• M Krause; E. V. Erofeeva; Margje Post et al. (2015). Zvukovoj korpus regional'noj russkoj reči kak instrument izučenija regiolektov i ix ocenki naivnymi nositeljami jazyka. (external link)
• Margje Post (2015). The North Russian utterance-final particle dak as an information-structuring device. (external link)
• Sylvie Hancil; Margje Post (2015). Introduction: Final particles from a typological perspective. (external link)
• Sylvie Hancil; Alexander Haselow; Margje Post (2015). Final Particles. (external link)
• Margje Post (2015). Språknøtter russisk. (external link)
• Margje Post (2015). Studying phonetic variation in Russian. (external link)
• Margje Post (2015). Individual variation according to social setting among Russian dialect speakers. (external link)
• Margje Post (2015). Regionale intonasjonsforskjeller i russisk. (external link)
• E. V. Erofeeva; Margje Post (2015). Zvukovoj korpus regional'noj russkoj reči kak instrument izučenija regiolektov i ix ocenki naivnymi nositeljami jazyka. (external link)
• Margje Post (2015). Hoe dialectaal spreekt een Russische dorpsbaboesjka in een interview?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2015). Op zoek naar regionale uitspraakverschillen in het Russisch. (external link)
• Margje Post (2015). Severnoruskaja častica «dak»: Obščaja pragmatičeskaja funkcija. (external link)

2014

• Margje Post (2014). Lær språk på en time – russisk. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). Variation and change in the Russian dialect of Varzuga: a case study based on recordings from three different decades. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). Russisk. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). Sosiolingvistisk dialektologi og dialektologisk sosiolingvistikk. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). Aspirerte konsonanter i russisk. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). Naprjažennye i nenaprjažennye soglasnye v russkom govore Terskogo berega (Kol’skij poluostrov) [= Tense and lax consonants in the Russian dialect of the Ter Coast (Kola Peninsula)]. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). Reportasje om homofile i Russland v/ Øystein Vik. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). Connectives, Subordination and Information Structure: Comments on Trubinskij’s Observations on the “-to–dak” Model in the Pinega Dialects. (external link)
• Benedikte Fjellanger Vardøy; Margje Post; Brita Lotsberg Bryn (2014). The role of language in cooperation between the University of Bergen and Russian universities. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). språkorakel. (external link)
• Margje Post (2014). Russisk – russkij jazyk. (external link)

2013

• Margje Post (2013). Russiske språknøtter. (external link)
• Margje Post (2013). Севернорусские прагматические частицы: слова-паразиты или эффективная коммуникация?. (external link)
• Benedikte Fjellanger Vardøy; Margje Post (2013). Kva kan databasen Integrum og det russiske nasjonalkorpuset seia oss om russiske lånord på -ing?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2013). Некоторые размышления об изучении диалектизмов в речи жителей Кольского полуострова. (external link)
• Benedikte Fjellanger Vardøy; Margje Post (2013). A corpus-based study of English loanwords on ‑ing in Russian (2000-2011). (external link)
• Margje Post (2013). The sociolinguistic situation of the indigenous languages of the Kola Peninsula. (external link)
• Margje Post (2013). Hvordan ser framtida ut for «urspråkene» på Kolahalvøya?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2013). Dokumentasjon av dialekter og truede språk i Russland. (external link)
• Benedikte Fjellanger Vardøy; Margje Post (2013). A corpus-based study of English loanwords on ‑ing in Russian (2000-2011). (external link)

2012

• Margje Post (2012). Russisk på internett (1): Hvordan bruke russiske tekstkilder i forskning og undervisning?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2012). Hvorfor er den pragmatiske partikkelen «dak» så mye brukt i Nord-Russland?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2012). The Northern Russian clitic dak: an utterance-final procedural marker. (external link)

2011

• Margje Post (2011). Russiske dialekter og dialekttalere. (external link)

2010

• Margje Post (2010). Om en fundamental intonasjonsforskjell mellom standardrussisk og russiske dialekter. (external link)
• Margje Post (2010). The Northern Russian procedural marker dak. (external link)
• Margje Post (2010). Dialekt og standardspråk i dagens Russland. (external link)
• Margje Hanne Kristien Post (2010). A contrastive analysis of Russian and Norwegian utterance-initial coordinating conjunctions. (external link)
• Margje Hanne Kristien Post (2010). O sposobach vyrazenija semanticeskoj podcinennosti v severnorusskich govorach. (external link)

2009

• Margje Hanne Kristien Post (2009). Dialektologi og feltarbeid i nordrussiske landsbyer. (external link)
• Margje Hanne Kristien Post (2009). A contrastive analysis of Russian and Norwegian utterance-initial coordinating conjunctions. (external link)
• Margje Hanne Kristien Post (2009). Выделение первого слога в словах с неначальным ударением в некоторых севернорусских говорах. (external link)

2008

• Margje Post (2008). Atypical Prosody in the Russian Dialects of the White Sea. (external link)
• Margje Hanne Kristien Post (2008). Govor derevni Varzuga Terskogo rajona Murmanskoj oblasti v lingvogeograficeskom aspekte. (external link)
• Margje Post (2008). Atipičnaja prosodija russkix govorov Belogo morja. (external link)
• Margje Post (2008). Post-Nuclear Prominence Patterns in Northern Russian Question Intonation. (external link)
• Margje Post (2008). Fonetiske eksperiment på landsbygda i Russland. (external link)

2007

• Margje Post (2007). K probleme opisanija intonacii obscego voprosa v odnom severnorusskom govore. (external link)
• Margje Post (2007). Foneticeskie eksperimenty v gluxoj russkoj derevne. (external link)
• Margje Post (2007). Northern Russian question intonation: A broad hat for broad focus?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2007). Er førstestavelsesprominens i russisk på Kolahalvøya en følge av språkkontakt?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2007). Prominentie van onbeklemtoonde lettergrepen i Russische dialecten. (external link)
• Margje Post (2007). “Frog Story” and “Map Task” in the Russian countryside. (external link)
• Margje Post (2007). Spørsmålsintonasjon i nordrussiske dialekter. (external link)
• Margje Post (2007). K probleme opisanija intonacii obscego voprosa v odnom severnorysskom govore. (external link)

2006

• Margje Post (2006). The Dialect of Varzuga and Its Neighbours. (external link)
• Margje Post (2006). O sposobax vyrazhenija semanticheskogo sochinenija i podchinenija v severnorusskix govorax v sopostavlenii s literaturnym jazykom. (external link)
• Margje Post (2006). Noord-Russische vraagintonatie: een brede hoed voor brede focus?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2006). Northern Russian question intonation: A broad hat for broad focus?. (external link)

2005

• Margje Post (2005). The dialect of Varzuga and its neighbours. (external link)
• Margje Post (2005). Den nordrussiske konnektive partikkelen dak: likheter med norsk så, da og altså. (external link)
• Margje Post; Tamara Lönngren (2005). The pragmatic particle DAK in the Northern Russian dialect of Varzuga (Kola Peninsula): an information structuring device in informal spontaneous speech. (external link)

2004

• Margje Post (2004). The position of the dialect of Varzuga in the Russian dialect landscape. (external link)
• Margje Post (2004). The position of the Varzuga dialect in the Russian dialect landscape. (external link)
• Margje Post (2004). Den informasjonsstrukturerende rollen til partikkelen DAK i nordrussiske dialekter. (external link)

2003

• Margje Post (2003). Mozet li severnorusskoe slovo DAK byt' udarnym?. (external link)
• Margje Post (2003). Het Noord-Russische partikel DAK. (external link)

2002

• Margje Post (2002). Problemy izucenija severnorusskogo slova DAK: dostizenija i nedostatki. (external link)
• Margje Post (2002). Some prosodic characteristics of the Northern Russian dialect of Varzuga. (external link)

2001

• Margje Post (2001). Prosodija govorov Terskogo berega Belogo morja: predvrel'nye nabljudenija. (external link)

1999

• Margje Post (1999). A, I og No mot Og og Men: en kontrastiv undersøkelse av tre russiske og to norske konjunksjoner i setningsinnledende posisjon. (external link)

1998

• Margje Post (1998). Govor derevni Kojdy Mezenskogo rajona Archangel'skoj oblasti (v sopostavlenii s sosednimi govorami). (external link)

1997

• Margje Post (1997). I, A, No, Og en Men: over zinsinleidende voegwoorden in het Russisch en het Noors. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

For all publications and presentations, see the NVA website: https://nva.sikt.no/research-profile/44924

Recent publications:

Soon: an article about language contact between Northern Russian dialects and the local Uralic languages in Northwest Russia

Post, M., Pineda, D. (2025). Речь поморов Терского берега Белого моря: Звучащая хрестоматия [“Pomor Speech on the Ter Coast of the White Sea: A spoken anthology”]. Slavica Bergensia, Vol. 15. URL of the series: https://boap.uib.no/books/sb/index. Accompanying sound files and transcriptions in ELAN: http://hdl.handle.net/11509/150

Post, M. (2025). “Regional prosodic variation in the speech of young urban Russians: Quantitative vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm.” In Susanne Wagner & Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer (eds.), (Dia)lects in the 21st century: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XVII. 253–280. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Post, M. (2025). “Word prosodic structure and vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm Russian.” In Berit Gehrke et al. (Eds.), Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2022, 465–488. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15394193

Post, M. & B. Andreeva (2023). Polar question intonation in Russian speech from Moscow and Perm. In Oliver Niebuhr & Malin Svensson Lundmark (eds.), Proceedings of Nordic Prosody 13. Sciendo. (2023; with Bistra Andreeva). https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675728-012

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