Zoya V. Shvedova

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Specialization: Philology, Faculty of Philology, Gomel State University, 1997. Candidate of Philological Sciences, 2003. 

Born in 1968 in the village Usielub Grodno region, in 1990, graduated from the Faculty of History, in 1997 - the Faculty of Philology of the Gomel State University. Candidate of Philology in 2003, Associate Professor of the Belarusian language department.  Thesis "Adanamastychnae word formation in the language of the old Belarusian acts XVI - XVIII centuries.". Scientific director of Ph.D. prof. VP Lemtyugovoy. 
Author of 65 scientific publications, including the book "Denominative derivation in Old Belarusian Literacy" (2004), "Dictionary of comparisons in language works Kupala" (co-authored, 2004), "Dictionary of phraseology language works Kupala" (co-authored, 2006 ), textbooks "Modern Belarusian. Spelling and punctuation (co-authored, 2007), "Methods of teaching Belarusian language" (co-authored, 2007).

RESEARCH AREAS

Onomastics, teaching methods, the Belarusian language in school, lexicology, lexicography, phraseology.