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Saint Petersburg State University

The Dutch-Russian language pair in terms of interpretation and its teaching to undergraduate students shows a typical picture not only for Germanic, but also for most European languages. Nevertheless, there are a number of problematic issues, both objective and subjective, typical of th...

This article deals with three early translations of Ivan Turgenev’s novel ‘Fathers and Sons’ into Dutch (1870, 1918 and 1919). It traces the long and complicated path of the novel to its Dutch readers. The first Dutch translation (by Goeverneur) was made through two intermedia...

Кaren Blixen was one of the artists with two talents who are able to express themselves in both literature and painting. Although Blixen gave up her childhood dream of becoming a painter in her later years, we can assume that the theoretical knowledge and practical experi...

The story of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer exists in the major Germanic traditions (except Old English), represented by texts recorded between the second half of the 13th and the mid-19th centuries, viz. the Old Icelandic Eddas and the Vǫlsungasaga, the German Nibelungenlied and the...

The article explores the problem of reception of poetics and content in the case of the Swedish version-translation of Andrey Platonov’s novel “Chevengur” (“Don Quijote i revolutionen”, 1973, translated by Sven Vallmark). The main differences between the reduced Swedish edition of “Chevengur...

Johannes V. Jensen (1873–1950) wrote a six-novel series on evolution he later entitled Den lange Rejse (The Long Journey, 1908–1923). Scholars have usually classified The Long Journey as mythic because of those passages in the series that share common features with the specific Jen...

The author presents a new interpretation of the recently discovered Rakkestad-stone from eastern Norway. The runic inscription on this stone is to be dated in the period AD 350–500 and its language is Proto-Norse (Ancient Nordic). Every new find of an older runic inscription i...

There have been considered independent clauses with implicit and vacant subject, which refer to narrative and interrogative sentences with ascertained subject, as well as to interrogative sentences with non-ascertained subject. The languages particularly involved are English, Dutch and Swedish. The&#x...

Linguistic complexity is considered a good indicator of language learners’ performance and development. In the last few decades, linguistic, and especially syntactic, complexity has become a popular and important field of research within second and foreign language acquisition studies, and variou...

Scandinavian influence in the history of English caused by the Old Norse and Old Danish invasions of the 8th — early 11th centuries is a popular topic in historical studies. The specific nature of the English-Scandinavian contacts explains the fact that the results were regist...

In contrast to the traditional treatment of Frisian vowel quantity as phonologically relevant, it is considered to be predictable and dependent on the type of contact (long vowel = open contact vs short vowel = close contact). The replacement of an open contact by a close...

The problem of digital control design to keep the controlled variables of a dynamic object in a given range is considered, taking into account the constraints imposed on the manipulated variables. The essence of the problem is to ensure that the process variables are enter...

The current state of telecommunications is characterized by more and more increasing scale of networks, increase in the speeds of data transmission and continuous emergence of the new services and applications which use various protocols and peruse resources of network diverently. However,&#...

This article describes different techniques for calculating escape routes in cases of emergency. The article contains developed mathematical model that describes dynamic flows movement in a directed graph. Model parameters include undirected graph as a model of a building, initial flow value...