Dates of Conference: January 20-21, 2017
THE CURRENT STATE OF BALKAN LINGUISTICS — WHERE DO WE STAND?
A SYMPOSIUM IN RECOGNITION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KENNETH E. NAYLOR MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
20-21 JANUARY 2017, AT THE BLACKWELL, ON THE CAMPUS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
SPONSORED BY: THE KENNETH E. NAYLOR PROFESSORSHIP IN SOUTH SLAVIC LINGUISTICS, THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, THE CENTER FOR SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, THE HILANDAR RESEARCH LIBRARY AND RESOURCE CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL SLAVIC STUDIES, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, ALL OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
[QUESTIONS? CONTACT Brian D. Joseph — joseph.1@osu.edu]Friday, 20 January
The Naylor Legacy
1:30 – 2:00 Introductory Remarks (Yana Hashamova; Brian Joseph; Myrtle Naylor)
2:00 – 2:30 Howard Aronson, “Reminiscences on the Balkan Scene”
2:30 – 3:00 Robert Greenberg, “The Breakup of Serbo-Croatian: Some Unresolved Issues”
3:00 – 3:30 COFFEE BREAK
The Naylor Legacy (continued, and then some)
3:30 – 4:00 Donald Dyer, “‘Indeterminedly Definite’ after All These Years: A Tribute to Naylor 1983”
4:00 – 4:30 Victor A. Friedman, “LINGUISTIC EMBLEMS AND EMBLEMATIC LANGUAGES: On Language as Flag in the
Balkans in the 21st Century”
4:30 – 5:00 Tom Priestly, “‘Shunt’ Happens: But Where and When? Some Unexpected Positionings of Pronouns and of
Adverbials in ‘Brace’-Constructions in Slovenian Dialects in Austria”
5:30 – 7:30 RECEPTION (for all in attendance)
Saturday, 21 January
Text and Translation
9:30 – 10:00 Joseph Schallert, “Tradition and Innovation in the Lexicon of 19th Century Aegean Macedonian
Vernacular Gospels”
10:00 – 10:30, John Leafgren, “Bulgarian Literary Translation of Verbal Adverbs”
10:30 – 11:00, Olga Mladenova, “Reception of Theophanēs Eleavoulkos in Bulgaria”
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
Language Variation
11:30 – 12:00 Grace Fielder, “Takin’ it to the streets: Language Ideology in post-1989 Bulgaria”
12:00 – 12:30 Ronelle Alexander, “Approaches to Dialect Diversity”
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH (for speakers only)
Sociology of Language
1:30 – 2:00, Catherine Rudin, “Language Contact Continues: Bulgarian-Turkish Code Switching and Mixing in the
21st Century”
2:00 – 2:30, Wayles Browne, “Language names in South Slavic languages”
2:30 – 3:00, Christina Kramer, ‘Reimaging the Linguascape of Skopje’
3:00 – 3:30 COFFEE BREAK
Grammatical Analysis
3:30 – 4:00 Cynthia Vakareliyska, “Comparing [N[N]] Constructions in Macedonian and Bulgarian”
4:00 – 4:30 Marc Greenberg, “Clausal complementation in the Slovene Mura River dialect and its Balkan parallels”
4:30 – 5:00 Brian D. Joseph, “Multiple Determination in Greek and the Balkans
5:00 – 5:15 Closing Remarks