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1 May 2008
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1:00 |
Registration begins |
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1:45 |
Opening remarks |
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Session 1 Slavic Diachronic Linguistics
Chair:
Grace E.
Fielder |
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2:00
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Bill
J. Darden (University of
Chicago):
Negative concord in OCS |
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2:30 |
Marko
Snoj (Fran Ramovs Institute
of Slovene Language/ University of
Ljubljana):
Slovene place names with the suffix -ina: Some difficult cases |
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3:00
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Stefan
Stojanovic
(University of
Toronto):
The homeland of Slavs in the light of names of trees (and fish) |
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3:30-3:45 |
Coffee Break
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Chair: Victor Friedman
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3:45 |
Thede Kahl (Austrian
Academy of Sciences, Balkankommission):
Aromanian
elements in Sarakatsan Greek |
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4:15
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Grace
E. Fielder (University of
Arizona):
The “borrowability” of Balkan
discourse markers |
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4:45 |
Olga
Miseska Tomic
(University of Novi Sad/University of Skopje):
Interaction
of Balkan Sprachbund features with the structures of
individual languages |
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6:00 |
Welcoming reception |
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David Albahari:
Parallel worlds |
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2 May 2008
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Session 3 Language Contact
Chair: Marc L. Greenberg
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8:00 |
Donald
Dyer (The University of
Mississippi):
“With our head and your hands”
A sociolinguistic study of contemporary Moldova since its independence
from the Soviet Union |
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8:30 |
Tom
Priestly (University of
Alberta):
Is there Balkan “seepage” in East Slavic?
On Rumanian syntactic influence on Ukrainian dialects |
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9:00 |
Angelo
Costanzo (The Ohio State
University):
The role of language contact in the expansion of a Romanian
conjugational (sub-) class |
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9:30-9:45 |
Coffee Break
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Session 4 The Balkan Sprachbund II
Chair: Ronelle
Alexander |
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9:45 |
Victor
Friedman (University of Chicago):
Turkish grammar in Balkan Romani:
Hierarchies of markedness in Balkan
linguistics |
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10:15 |
Petia
Asenova and Vasilka
Aleksova (University of
Sofia):
The Balkan aspect
of nota accusativi personalis
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10:45 |
Traci
S. Lindsey (University of
California, Berkeley):
The balkanization of
motion verbs |
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Ute
Dukova (Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences/University of Frankfurt am Main):
On sacred time in Balkan languages: The lexicon of the popular calendar
feasts |
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11:45-1:45 |
Lunch
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Session 5 Dialectology
Chair: Christina E. Kramer
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1:45 |
George
Thomas (McMaster
University):
Serbo-Croatian as a bridge between the
Balkan and Carpathian Sprachbünde |
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2:15 |
Darina
Mladenova (Institute of
Balkan Studies, Sofia):
Bulgarian lexical
isoglosses: Geographical distribution and chronology |
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2:45 |
Marc
L. Greenberg (University of
Kansas):
Prekmurje grammar as a source of
Slavic comparative material |
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3:15 |
Jason
Swiecki (University of
Chicago):
Balkanisms as literature: The dialect of
Nis in the works of Stevan
Sremac |
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3:45-4:00 |
Coffee Break
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Session 6
Phonetics and Phonology
Chair:
Joseph Schallert |
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4:00 |
Grant
H. Lundberg (Brigham Young
University):
Tonemic pitch in Sele |
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4:30 |
Donald F. Reindl (University of Ljubljana):
The fate of German (post)velars in
Slovenian loanwords |
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5:00 |
Matthew C. Curtis (The Ohio
State University):
The allolinguistic status of the
Albanian palato-alveolar affricate xh |
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Rachel
Klippenstein (The Ohio
State University):
Initial consonant clusters in
Albanian |
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3 May 2008
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Session 7 Semantics and Pragmatics
Chair: Virginia
Hill |
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Ivelina K. Tchizmarova
(Alexander College, Burnaby, British Columbia):
A
cognitive view of the meanings of the Bulgarian verbal prefix pro-
‘through, into’ |
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8:30 |
Olga
M. Mladenova (University of
Calgary):
Modern Bulgarian ta |
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Elena
Petroska (Sts.
Cyril
and Methodius University, Skopje/ Indiana
University, Bloomington):
Narrative retelling in Macedonian |
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9:30 |
Maxim M. Makartsev (Institute
for Slavic Studies, Moscow):
The elusive
evidential in translation |
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Session 8 Culture and Society
Chair: Olga
Nedeljkovic
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Christina
Stojanova (University of Regina):
New Bulgarian literature: Between (post)
modernity and social nihilism |
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8:30 |
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10:00-10:15 |
Coffee Break
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Session 9 Morphosyntax I
Chair: Steven L.
Franks
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10:15 |
Ronelle Alexander
(University of California, Berkeley):
Clitic placement in BCS
revisited |
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10:45 |
Bojan
Belic
(University of Washington):
When OVO and OVO are different |
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11:15 |
John
Leafgren (University of
Arizona):
The use of long and short definite
articles in Bulgarian |
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Session 10 Balkan Traditional Culture
Chair: Olga
Mladenova
Discussant: Marko
Zivkovic (University of Alberta) |
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Bruce A.
McClelland
(Independent scholar, US):
Killing the irrational: The
Enlightenment’s misappropriation of Balkan demonology |
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Marija
Ilic
(University of Belgrade/ Institute for Balkan Studies):
The notion of
time in collective narratives: The case of the older Serbs in Hungary |
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Andrey B. Moroz (Russian
State University for Humanities, Moscow):
“Folk
hagiography” and folk saints cult in Orthodox Slavic popular tradition |
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11:45-1:45 |
Lunch
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Session 11 Morphosyntax II
Chair: Olga
Miseska Tomic |
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1:45 |
Virginia Hill (University
of New Brunswick, Saint John):
Romanian ia as a
marker for imperative |
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Steven
L. Franks (Indiana
University, Bloomington):
The fine structure of the
Bulgarian compound tenses |
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Wayles
Browne (Cornell
University):
Syntactic studies in Burgenland Croatian |
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Kelly
Maynard
(Independent scholar, US):
The verbs jam and kam in Samsun
Albanian |
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Chair: Christina
Stojanova |
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Alenka
Jensterle-Dolezal
(Charles University, Prague):
The myths of a woman in Slovenian “Moderna”: “A mother or a prostitute” |
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Darja Pavlic
(University of
Maribor):
Contextualizing contemporary Slovenian
lyric poetry within literary history |
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Jasmina Odor (Independent
scholar, Canada):
Contemporary short fiction: a
comparative glimpse of Croatian and Canadian literatures |
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3:15 |
Branislava Milic-Brett
(University of Alberta):
Dalmatian reception of Alberto
Fortis’s Viaggio in Dalmazia |
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3:45-4:00 |
Coffee Break
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Session 13 Morphosyntax III
Chair: John
Leafgren |
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4:00 |
Joseph
Schallert (University of
Toronto):
Observations on non-concord of
gender in the Balkan Slavic perfect |
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4:30 |
Andrea
D. Sims (Northwestern
University):
BCS nominal syncretism, feature
structure and false agreement |
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Session 14 Sources on Language and Culture
Chair:
Tom Priestly |
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5:00 |
Christina E. Kramer
(University of Toronto):
Macedonian in Prague: The Frinta
lectures |
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5:30 |
Grant
Harris (The Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.):
Resources relating
to Southeastern Europe at the Library of Congress |
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4 May
2008 |
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Session 15
Identities in the
Balkans
Chair:
Petia
Asenova |
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Jernej
Mlekuz
(Institute
for Slovenian Emigration Studies, Ljubljana):
The
struggle for meaning: the story of burek in “Slovene”
national identity |
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Olga Nedeljkovic
(University of Illinois at Chicago):
Juraj Sizgoric’s and Ivan
Cesmicki’s Anti-Turkish
Elegies |
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Helmut
Schaller (Philipps
University, Marburg):
Bulgarian as a European
language from a linguistic point of view |
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Irina
A. Sedakova
(Institute
for Slavic Studies, Moscow):
Bulgarian vocabulary
and the question of the linguistic and ideological unions |
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10:00
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Alexander Murzaku (College
of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, New Jersey):
Language unchained |
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10:30-10:45 |
Coffee
Break |
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10:45-11:00 |
Concluding remarks |
