| The 17th Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference is being held in coordination with the Midwest Slavic Conference. Click here to go to the schedule for Midwest Slavic. |
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17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference Program
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The 13th Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture will be held in Thompson Library, West Reading Room (1858 Neil Avenue). All other talks will be held at the Blackwell Hotel (also on the OSU campus, 2110 Tuttle Park Place). |
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| Thursday, April 15th |
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| 12:00-2:30pm |
Registration |
| 2:20-2:30pm |
Opening remarks |
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| 2:30-3:30 |
Linguistic borrowing and influence I |
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Chair: Daniel Collins (The Ohio State University) |
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Brian Joseph (The Ohio State University), Labelling loanword types in the Balkans |
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Cynthia Vakareliyska (University of Oregon), Two productive English morphosyntactic borrowings in Bulgarian |
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| 3:30-3:45 |
Coffee break (and registration) |
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| 3:45-5:15 |
Syntax |
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Chair: Donald L. Dyer (University of Mississippi) |
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John Leafgren (University of Arizona), The use of adverbial subordinate clauses in contemporary Bulgarian |
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Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido University), Does Slovenian have 3 passive constructions? On the so-called recipient passive and its grammaticalization in Slovenian |
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Steven Franks (Indiana University) and Anita Peti-Stantić (University of Zagreb), Individuation, orphans, and case |
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| 6:00 |
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Midwest Slavic Conference plenary talk, followed by reception |
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Stephen M. Norris (Miami University), Communism’s cartoonist: Boris Efimov and the Soviet century |
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| Friday, April 16th |
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| 8:00-10:00 |
Registration |
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| 8:30-10:00 |
Semantics and pragmatics in language contact |
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Chair: Victor Friedman (University of Chicago) |
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Donald L. Dyer (University of Mississippi), How words change meaning: Observations on the evolution of Modern Russian lexical semantics in post-Soviet Moldova |
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Eric Heath Prendergast (University of California, Berkeley), The pragmatic role of object reduplication in Albanian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian |
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Helmut Schaller (University of Marburg), Turkish influence in South East Europe: Linguistic and social aspects |
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| 10:00-10:15 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:15-11:45 |
Linguistic borrowing and influence II |
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Chair: Cynthia Vakareliyska (University of Oregon) |
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Dorin Uritescu (York University), Balkan Romanian dialects and the history of Romanian: On some false comparisons and deductions |
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Andrew Dombrowski (University of Chicago), An Albanian look at the jers |
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Kelly Maynard (University of Chicago), The Swadesh List in Samsun Albanian: A case study demonstrating the utility of the 200-word Swadesh List as a standard for language documentation |
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| 11:45-1:00 |
Lunch break |
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| 1:00-2:30 |
Language attitudes, language policy |
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Chair: Christina Kramer (University of Toronto) |
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Keith Langston (University of Georgia) and Anita Peti-Stantić (University of Zagreb), Language policy and the construction of linguistic identity in the Croatian educational system |
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Alexander Murzaku (College of Saint Elizabeth), Vlachophobia in Albania |
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Grant Lundberg (Brigham Young University), Dialect usage and identity in Haloze, Slovenia |
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| 2:30 |
Walk as a group to Thompson Library (1858 Neil Avenue, 1/2 mile from the Blackwell Hotel) |
| 2:45-3:15 |
Tour of Thompson Library |
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| 3:30-5:00 |
13th Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture, followed by reception |
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Location: Thompson Library, West Reading Room |
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Prof. Emeritus Eric Hamp (University of Chicago), South Slavic and its neighbors -- distant past and present |
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| Saturday, April 17th |
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Morphology |
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Chair: Andrea Sims (The Ohio State University) |
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Geri Popova (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Andrew Spencer (University of Essex), Relatedness in periphrasis: A paradigm-based perspective |
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Angelo Costanzo (The Ohio State University), On the evolution of Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian conjugational classes |
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| 10:00-10:15 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:15-11:45 |
Tools and resources in linguistic analysis |
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Chair: Dorin Uritescu (York University) |
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Ronelle Alexander (University of California, Berkeley), Speech from the past: Milman Parry and the Singers of Stolac |
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Quinn Dombrowski (University of Chicago) and Andrew Dombrowski (University of Chicago), An XML-based approach to dialectological data: The development of syllabic liquids in Bulgarian |
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Natalie Mauser-Carter (The Ohio State University), Text abbreviations in Albanian |
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| 11:45-1:00 |
Lunch break |
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| 1:00-3:00 |
Verbal semantics |
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Chair: Grace Fielder (University of Arizona) |
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Irina Sedakova (Russian Academy of Sciences), On Balkan specifics of the Slavic Balkan verbs *hvatati: Structure, semantics, pragmatics |
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Eleni Valma (LACITO UMR 7107 CNRS) and Marina Van Den Handel (University of Paris-Sorbonne), The verbal adjectives of Modern Greek ending in -tos (-τος) and -menos (-μενος): The semantic properties and the aspectual value of state |
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Ivelina Tchizmarova (British Columbia Institute of Technology), A cognitive view of two Bulgarian verbal prefixes: pri- 'at,to' and s- (să-) 'with' |
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Anastasia Smirnova (The Ohio State University), In search of a frog in the Balkans: Linguistic encoding of motion events in Balkan languages |
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| 3:00-3:15 |
Coffee break |
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| 3:15-5:15 |
Bai Ganyo in America: A new translation and new perspectives |
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Chair: Ronelle Alexander (University of California, Berkeley) |
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Victor Friedman (University of Chicago), Shtii rumuneshti?: The languages of Bai Ganyo |
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Christina Kramer (University of Toronto), The deployment of stereotypes in Bai Ganyo |
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Grace Fielder (University of Arizona), Ama de-de!: Authenticity in Bai Ganyo |
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Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College), Bai Ganyo’s revenge: Turkisms in Bai Ganyo |
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| 5:15-6:30 |
Cocktail reception (cash bar, with some munchies provided) |
| 7:00 |
Conference dinner catered by local restaurant |
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| Sunday, April 18th |
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| 9:00-10:30 |
Albanian linguistics (by teleconference from Kosov{o,a}) |
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Chair: Brian Joseph (The Ohio State University) |
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Julie Kolgjini (American University in Kosova and Rochester Institute of Technology), Alternative verb paradigms in Albanian |
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Matthew Curtis (The Ohio State University, American University in Kosova, and the University of Prishtina), Perfect constructions in Northern Geg: Evidence of language contact influence? |
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Rexhepi Ismajli (University of Kosovo),From Albanian to general linguistics: The difficult case of Selman Riza |
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:45-12:15 |
Deixis |
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Chair: Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College) |
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Bojan Belić (University of Washington), When the South Slavs demonstrate: An investigation into South Slavic demonstratives |
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Josh Pennington (The Ohio State University), Appropriating inappropriately: Potential motivators for the dialectal distribution of oblique adjectival long forms (ALFs) in contemporary BCS |
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Petya Assenova (Sofia University "St. Climent Ohridski") and Zlatka Guentchéva (CNRS-LACITO), The Balkan deictic systems from a typological perspective |
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| 12:15-12:20 |
Closing remarks |
