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.

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

Send me an e-mail if you are interested in accompanying sound files or other data.