PERSONAL DATA:

• Born: Chicago, IL, 18 October 1949
• Home Address: 5538 South Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
• Home Telephone: 773-955-1376

• Ph.D.: University of Chicago. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Linguistics (The first dual Ph.D. to be granted in the Division.) June 1975. Dissertation: The Grammatical Categories of the Macedonian Indicative: A Study in Syntax, Semantics, and Structure (defense passed "with distinction").
• M.A.: University of Chicago. Slavic Languages and Literatures. June 1971.
• B.A.: Reed College, Portland, OR. Russian Language and Literature. 1966- 1970. Thesis: Gusli-Samogudy: A Study of Form and Content in the Russian Magic Tale. (received grade of AA [equivalent of highest honors])
• Certificate: University of Skopje, Yugoslavia. Fourth and Fifth annual Seminars for Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture. Summers 1971, 1972.
• Audit: Portland State University, Portland, OR. Intensive Serbo-Croatian. Summer 1970.
• Certificate: Leningrad State University, USSR. CIEE Russian Language Program. Summer 1969.

• University of Chicago.
  Professor Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Chairman 1997-2000), Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology (associate appointment), and the College 1993-
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  Professor Department of Slavic Languages 1984-93 (Chairman 1987-93)
  Associate Professor Department of Slavic Languages 1979-84
  Assistant Professor Department of Slavic Languages 1975-79
  

• University of Helsinki.
  Visiting Scholar, November 2000.
• National University of Malaysia.
  Visiting Scholar, October 2000.
• Kyoto University.
  Visiting Scholar, October 1999.
• Central European University - Budapest.
  Professor, Summer Course –The Plight of the Gypsies”, Romani Language, Identity, and Standardization, July 1999, July 2001
• University of Skopje - Institute for Sociological, Political, and Juridical Research.
  Professor & Section Organizer, International Summer School –The Bright Side of the Balkans: Mutuality in a Common Future”, Section 1: The Roots of Common Balkan Identity -- The Roots of Mutuality, June 1999.
• Cornell University.
  Professor, LSA Linguistics Institute, Topics in Balkan Linguistics, July-August 1997.
• United Nations.
  Senior Political and Policy Analyst, Analysis and Assessment Unit, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (O/SRSG), United Nations Protection Forces (UNPROFOR), June-August, 1994.
  

ARTICLES

1. The Relative Clauses in Slavic (with Zbigniew Gol/a,b). The Chicago Which Hunt. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1972. 30-46.
2. Golem interes za makedonskiot folklor vo SAD. [Macedonian: A great interest in Macedonian folklore in the USA]. Vacher 16 September 1972, p. 7. [Interview]
3. Za nekoi osobenosti na makedonskiot glagol od glednata tochka na generativnata semantika [Macedonian: On some characteristics of the Macedonian verb from the viewpoint of generative semantics]. Makedonski jazik, Vol. 25, 1974. 205-10.
4. The Image of Gjorgji Pulevski (Blazhe Koneski; translation from Macedonian). Macedonian Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1974. 57-59. Reprinted in Makedonija, Vol. 21, No. 254. 1974. 14-15.
5. Macedonian Language and Nationalism During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Balkanistica, Vol. 2, 1975. 83-98. Reprinted in Macedonian Review Vol. 16, No. 3, 1986. 280-292.
6. The Constitutional Development of the S[ocialist] R[epublic of] Macedonia. (Gjorgji Caca; translation from Macedonian). Macedonian Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1975. 76-91.
7. Dialectal Synchrony and Diachronic Syntax: The Macedonian Perfect. Papers from the Parasession on Diachronic Syntax. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1976. 96-104.
8. Structural and Generative Approaches to an Analysis of the Macedonian Preterite. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1976. 460-64.
9. The Question of a Bulgarian Indefinite Article. Bulgaria: Past and Present. Columbus: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1976. 334-40.
10. Peasant and National Culture in Southeastern Europe: A Comment. Balkanistica, Vol. 3, 1976. 59-62.
11. The Morphology of Case in Southeast Serbian Dialects. Folia Slavica, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. 76-88.
12. Developments of the Perfect in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Explorations in Language and Linguistics: UNC Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 1. Chapel Hill: UNC Dept. of Linguistics. 1977. 21- 9.
13. A Problem in Grammatical Invariance. The CLS Book of Squibs. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1977. 42-3.
14. Dostoevsky on the Meaning of Humanity. Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 11977. 40.
15. Macedonian Toponomastics: Popular Etymologies and Etymological Popularities. Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. 41.
16. On Christian-Moslem Relations in the Balkans. Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. 42. (Reprinted in Opus Maledictorum: A Book of Bad Words, ed. by Reinhold Aman. New York: Marlowe and Co. 1996. 4.)
17. Latent Accusative Tendencies in the Skopje Dialect. all in Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. 40-2, 68-73.
18. Turco-Slavica Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1977. 185-88.
19. The Zaporozhian Letter to the Turkish Sultan: Historical Commentary and Linguistic Analysis. Slavica Hierosolymitana, Vol. 2. Jerusalem: Magnes. 1978. 25-38.
20. On the Semantic and Morphological Influence of Turkish on Balkan Slavic. Papers from the Fourteenth Regional Meeting: Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1978. 108-18.
21. Influence vs. Convergence in Areal Phenomena. The Southeast Conference on Linguistics Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1979. 1-8.
22. Toward a Typology of Status: Georgian and Other Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union. The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1979. 339-50.
23. Verbal Categories in the Languages of the Balkans (Report). The American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1979. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 1979. 331.
24. Elementary Russian Obscenity. Maledicta, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1979. 197-204. (Reprinted in Opus Maledictorum: A Book of Bad Words, ed. by Reinhold Aman. New York: Marlowe and Co. 1996. 89-96.)
25. The Study of Balkan Admirativity: Its History and Development. Balkanistica, Vol. 6, 1980. 7-30.
26. Admirativnost vo balkanskite jazici: Kategorija protiv upotreba. [Macedonian: Admirativity in the Balkan languages: Category vs. Usage]. Makedonski jazik, Vol. 30, 1980. 121-29.
27. Admirativity and Confirmativity. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1981. 12-28.
28. The Pluperfect in Albanian and Macedonian. Folia Slavica, Vol. 4, Nos. 2-3, 1981. 273-82.
29. Nekoi zabeleshki za indirekten govor i prekazhuvanjeto vo makedonskiot i albanskiot jazik. [Macedonian: Some observations on indirect speech and renarration in Macedonian and Albanian]. Makedonski jazik, Vol. 32/33, 1981. 769-76.
30. Reportedness in Bulgarian: Category or Stylistic Variant? International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, Vol. 25/26, 1982. 149- 63.
31. Balkanology and Turcology: West Rumelian Turkish in Yugoslavia as Reflected in Prescriptive Grammar. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, Vol. 2, Amsterdam: Rodopi. 1982. 1-77.
32. Admirativity in Bulgarian Compared with Albanian and Turkish. Bulgarian Past and Present, Vol. 2. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1982. 63-67.
33. Grammatical Categories and a Comparative Balkan Grammar. Ziele und Wege der Balkanlinguistik. (Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen, Vol. 8). Berlin: Osteuropa-Institut an der Freien Universität Berlin. 1983. 81-98.
34. Znachenie na otdavna minalo vreme za istorijata na b@lgarskija ezik. [Bulgarian: The significance of the pluperfect for the history of the Bulgarian language]. Dokladi. Istoricheski razvoj na b@lgarskija ezik. P@rvi mezhdunaroden kongres po b@lgaristika. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1983. 111-126.
35. Vocabulary Elements in Early Macedonian Lexicons. Maledicta, Vol. 7, 1983. 164-66.
36. Status and the Lak Verbal System. Folia Slavica, Vol. 7, No. 1/2, 1984. 135-49.
37. The Sociolinguistics of Literary Macedonian. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 52, 1985. 31-57.
38. Problems in the Codification of a Standard Romani Literary Language. Papers from the Fourth and Fifth Annual Meetings: Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter. New York: Gypsy Lore Society, 1985. 56-75.
39. The Sociology of the Macedonian Literary Language. Bulletin de Liaison - Centre d'études balkaniques, No. 4. Paris: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1985. 64-80.
40. Aspectual Usage in Russian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian. in The Scope of Slavic Aspect (UCLA Slavic Studies 12) ed. by Michael Flier and Alan Timberlake. Columbus: Slavica. 1985. 234-46.
41. Balkan Romani Modality and Other Balkan Languages. Folia Slavica, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1985. 381-389.
42. Linguistics, Nationalism, and Literary Languages: A Balkan Perspective. in The Real World Linguist: Linguistic Applications in the 1980's, ed. by Victor Raskin and Peter Bjorkman. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. 1986. 287-305.
43. Romani Te in a Balkan Context. Je,zykowe studia bal/kanistyczne, Vol. 1. Wrocl/aw: Polska Akademia Nauk. 1986. 39-48.
44. Evidentiality in the Balkans: Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Albanian. in Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology, ed. by Johanna Nichols and Wallace Chafe. (Vol. 20 in the series Advances in Discourse Processes.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex. 1986. 168-87.
45. Turkish Influence in Modern Macedonian: The Current Situation and Its General Background. Festschrift für Wolfgang Gesemann, Band 3, Beiträge zur slawischen Sprachwissenschaft und Kulturgeschichte. (Slavische Sprachen und Literaturen Band 8), ed. by Helmut Schaller. München: Hieronymus. 1986. 85-108.
46. Victor Friedman, '70, and the Gypsy Lore Society. Reed Quarterly. Fall 1986. 8-9.
47. Pattern and Structure in Balkan Languages. Endeavors: Research and Graduate Education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Vol. 3, No. 2, 1986. P. 19. [Interview]
48. Kavkazskoe zaimstvovanie v ciganskom. `Etimologija. 1986-1987 (Moscow). 229-30. (Russian version of 50).
49. Tipologijata na upotrebata na da vo balkanskite jazici. [Macedonian: The Typology of the use of da in the Balkan languages]. Prilozi: Oddelenie za lingvistika i literaturna nauka - Makedonska Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite. Vol. 12, No. 1, 1987. 109-119.
50. A Caucasian Loanword in Romani. Papers from the Eighth and Ninth Meetings: Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter. New York: Gypsy Lore Society. 1988. 18-20. (English version of 48.).
51. Morphological Innovation and Semantic Shift in Macedonian. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1988. 34-41.
52. The Category of Evidentiality in the Balkans and the Caucasus. American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists: Linguistics. A. M. Schenker, ed. Columbus: Slavica. 1988. 121-139.
53. Improvising Absinthe (letter). The Chicago Reader, Vol. 17, No. 41, 1988. p. 2.
54. National Language and Linguistic Nationalism in the Balkans. Språkforholdene på Balkan og I Øst-Europa. Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for fonetik og lingvistik: Skriftserie Nr. 32, Serie A, 1988. 1-16.
55. Za slozhenite minati vreminja vo dihovskiot govor vo sporedba so makedonskiot literaturen jazik. [Macedonian: Complex Past Tenses in the Dihovo Dialect in Comparison with Literary Macedonian] Jazichnite pojavi vo Bitola i bitolsko deneska i vo minatoto. Skopje: Makedonska Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite. 1988. 193-200.
56. La typologie morpho-syntaxique des constructions en da-të-s@-ná dans les langues balkaniques. Cahiers Balkaniques, Vol. 12. Paris: INALCO. 1988. 77-94.
57. On The Question of "Pluperfect" in Lak. Iberiul-k'avk'asiuri enatmecnierebis c'elic'deuli (Tbilisi). Vol. 15, 1988. 282-92.
58. Elementary Georgian Obscenity. Maledicta, Vol. 10, 1988-89. 37-42.
59. Makedonistichkata dejnost na Viktor Fridman [Macedonian: The work of Victor Friedman in Macedonian studies]. Makedonsi isselenichki Almanax '88. Skopje: Matica na Iselenicite od Makedonija. 1988. 47-51. [Review article by Nina Dimitrova].
60. Turquismes en romani: à propos de l'établissement d'une langue rom unique et les composants lexicaux turcs des différents dialectes. Tsiganes: Identité, Évolution. Ed. by Patrick Williams. Paris: Études Tsiganes. 1989. 403-413.
61. Toward Defining the Position of Turkisms in Romani. Jezik i kultura Roma. Sarajevo: Institut za prouchavanje nacionalnih odnosa. 1989. 251-267.
62. On the Terminology for Lak Synthetic Past Paradigms. The Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1989. 106-120.
63. Macedonian: Codification and Lexicon. Language Reform, Volume IV. Ed. by I. Fodor and C. Hagège. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. 1989. 299-334.
64. Upotrebata na glagolskite vreminja vo makedonskite i vo drugi balkanski poslovichni izrazi. [Macedonian: The use of verbal tenses in Macedonian and other Balkan proverbial expressions]. Makedonski jazik, Vol. 40/41, 1989-90. 661-670.
65. On the Turkish Lexical Component in Romani Dialects and Their Relationship to Romani Language Planning. One Hundred Years of Gypsy Studies. Cheverly, MD: Gypsy Lore Society. 1990. 133-44. [English version of 60].
66. Razlikuvanjeto na makedonskite glagolni paradigmi so pomoshnite glagoli sum i ima [Macedonian: The differentiation of Macedonian verbal paradigms with the auxiliary verbs 'be' and 'have']. Literaturen zbor Vol. 36, No. 1-2, 1990. 87-90.
67. Gjorgji Pulevski: Fjalorët e tij dhe Rilindja Kombëtare Shqiptare dhe Maqedonase. [Albanian: Gjorgji Pulevski: His dictionaries and the Albanian and Macedonian national renaissances]. Konferenca shkencore e 100-vjetorit të Lidhjës Shqiptare të Prizrenit, Vol. 2. Prishtina: Kosovo Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1990. 245-256.
68. Lak Oral Poetry in Turkey: A Trans-National Phenomenon. The Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, Vol. 2, 1990. 13-17.
69. Doktor za makedonskite glagoli [Macedonian: A Ph.D. on the Macedonian verb]. Nova Makedonija 14 August 1990, p. 8 [Interview]
70. The Earliest Text in Balkan (Rumelian) Romani: A Passage from Evliya Çelebi's Seyaahhat-naame (with Robert Dankoff). Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Series 5, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1991. 1-20.
71. Case in Romani: Old Grammar in New Affixes. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Series 5, Vol. 1, No. 2. 1991. 85-102.
72. Romani Nominal Inflection: Cases or Postpositions? Problemy opisu gramatycznego je,zyków slowianjskych, (= Studia gramatyczne, Vol. 11). Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences. 1991. 57-64.
73. Dijalektna osnova, varijacija i kodifikacijata na balkanskite literaturni jazici (albanski, bugarski, makedonski, romski) [Macedonian: Dialectal base, variation, and codification in Balkan literary languages (Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romani). Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Balkan Linguistics and Literature. Skopje: University of Skopje, 1991. 17-24.
74. Glagolskite kategorii, morfoloshkite paradigmi i opredeluvanjeto na izoglosite na makedonskata jazichna teritorija. [Macedonian: Verbal categories, morphological paradigms, and the determination of isoglosses on Macedonian linguistic territory]. Studia lingvistica Polono-Jugoslavica, Vol. 6, 1991. 6.33-40.
75. Makedonistikata vo Amerika i Amerikancite vo makedonistikata [Macedonian: Macedonian Studies in America and Americans in Macedonian Studies] Literturen zbor, Vol. 38, No. 5-6, 1992. 19-27.
76. Za Blazhe Koneski [Macedonian: For Blazhe Koneski]. Literturen zbor, Vol. 38, No. 5-6, 1992. 11-13.
77. Lak Substantival Declension: 40 cases or 50? The Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies -- Second Series. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1992. 113-33.
78. Variation and Choice in Balkan Linguistic Standardization. Bulletin de Liaison - Centre d'études balkaniques, No. 10. Paris: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. 1992. 10-19.
79. Dialectal base, variation and codification of the Balkan literary languages: Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romany. Balkan Forum, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1992. 147-53. (English version of 73).
80. Aspectual Oppositions in Bulgarian, Albanian, and Turkish. S@postavitelno ezikoznanie. 1992. 17,3.33-38.
81. Za Makedonija pravevme sè shto mozheme [Macedonian: We have done all we can for Macedonia]. Nova Makedonija 22 August 1992, p. 14. [Interview]
82. Radostta ot poznanieto [Bulgarian: The pleasure of an acquaintance]. Evrejski vesti [Sofia]. 3 February 1992, pp. 1 & 6. [Interview]
83. Makedonija gi ispolnuva amerikanskite uslovi za priznavanje [Macedonian: Macedonia fulfills all the US requirements for recognition]. Nova Makedonija 13 July 1992, p. 2 [Translation of a letter to President Busch].
84. Balkan Indicativity: Diversity within Unity. Balkan Forum 1993. 1,2:255-62.
85. On the recognition of Macedonia (letter). National Geographic, April 1993. Vol. 183, No. 4, p. v.
86. The First Philological Conference for the Establishment of the Macedonian Alphabet and the Macedonian Literary Language: Its Precedents and Consequences. In The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: The "First Congress" Phenomenon, ed. by Joshua Fishman. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1993. 159-80.
87. The Loss of the Imperfective Aorist in Macedonian: Structural Significance and Balkan Context. American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists. Robert A. MacGuire and Alan Timberlake, eds. Columbus: Slavica. 1993. 285-302.
88. Charakterystyka socjolingwistyczna wspól/czesnego literackiego je,zyka macedonskiego [Polish: Sociolinguistic characteristics of the modern Macedonian literary language.] Socjolingwistyka 12/13. Kraków: Polish Academy of Sciences. 1993. 183-197. (Polish version of 37).
89. Language Policy and Language Behavior in Macedonia: Background and Current Events. Language Contact, Language Conflict, ed. by Eran Fraenkel and Christina Kramer. Peter Lang: New York. 1993. 73-99.
90. Macedonian. The Slavonic Languages. ed. by B. Comrie and G. Corbett. London: Routledge. 1993. 249-305.
91. Dialect Variation and Questions of Standardization in Macedonia: Macedonian, Albanian and Romani. Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1993. 7-35.
92. Raznovidnost kako bogatstvo (Macedonian: Diversity as wealth). Puls 17.XII.93. 36-37. (Interview).
93. Blazķe Koneski (1921-1993): Brilijanten lingvist i pisatel Lik, Vol. 8, No. 259 (literary supplement to Nova Makedonija 23.II.94). 11-12. (Macedonian version of 94).
94. Small Languages and Small Language Communities 17: Blazķe Koneski: In Memoriam. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, No. 108, 1994. 211-215.
95. Ga in Lak and the Three "There-s”: Deixis and Markedness in Daghestan. NSL.7: Linguistic Studies in the Non-Slavic Languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics, ed. by Howard I. Aronson. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1994. 79-93.
96. Turkisms in a Comparative Balkan Context. Septi¦me Congr¦s International d'”tudes du Sud-Est Europņen: Rapports. Athens: Greek National Committee for Southeast European Studies. 1994. 521-543.
97. Assertive Verb Forms in Lak. Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth Conference, ed. by Howard Aronson. Columbus: Slavica. 1994. 114-119.
98. About the ja- in makedonskiot jazik: The Fate of Initial *eķ- and *eĀ- in Macedonian. (with Laura Janda). Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Vol. 2, No. 2. 1994. 284-288.
99. Variation and Grammaticalization in the Development of Balkanisms. CLS 30 Papers from the 30th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume 2: The Parasession on Variation in Linguistic Theory. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1994. 101-115. (Reprinted in Studia Albanica, Vol. 32, 1995-99, 95-110).
100. Slavic-Albanian Contacts and Early Polyglot Lexicons: The Albanian Lexicon of the Monk ArkødŻi, A Mid-Nineteenth Century Manuscript from the Hilendar Monastery on Mount Athos. Slavia meridionalis: Studia linguistica, slavica et balcanica, (Polish Academy of Sciences), Vol. 1, 1994.139-156.
101. Ndikimi i shqipes nė tė folmet arumune tė Maqedonisė jugėperėndimore: mėnyra habitore. (Albanian: The influence of Albanian on the Arumanian dialects of southwestern Macedonia: The admirative mood). Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovės, Vol. 1, 1994. 195-197.
102. Prof. d-r Viktor Fridman. Patopisi i razgovori(by Vera Stojcķeska-Antik‚). Skopje: Matica makedonska. 1994. 121-127. (Interview).
103. On the Constitutional Name of the Republic of Macedonia (letter). East European Constitutional Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1995. 88.
104. On the Use of the Terms "Rom" and "Romani" (with Ian Hancock). Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1995. 6-7.
105. Romani Standardization and Status in the Republic of Macedonia. Romani in Contact: The History, Structure, and Sociology of a Language, ed. by Yaron Matras. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1995. 203-217.
106. Surprise! Surprise! Arumanian Has Had an Admirative!, Indiana Slavic Studies, Vol. 7, 1994. 79-89.
107. Introduction: A Handbook of Vlax Romani, by Ian Hancock. Columbus: Slavica. 1995. 13-15.
108. Persistence and Change in Ottoman Patterns of Codeswitching in the Republic of Macedonia: Nostalgia, Duress and Language Shift in Contemporary Southeastern Europe. Summer School: Code-switching and Language Contact, ed. by Durk Gorter et al. Ljouwert/Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy. 1995. 58-67.
109. Amerikanskite slavisti i makedonistikata. (Macedonian; American Slavists and Macedonian Studies) Lik, Vol. 9, No. 340-341 (literary supplement to Nova Makedonija 13.IX.95). 11, 13. (To be reprinted in Nasķe pismo).
110. Potcķinet vid vo makedonskiot i drugite balkanski jazici. (Macedonian: Subordinate Aspect in Macedonian and Other Languages of the Balkans). Studies in Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture, ed. by Benjamin Stolz. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications. 1995. 37-48.
111. Censuses and National Identity in Macedonia. in Macedonia: Ethnic and International Issues. International Researches and Exchanges Board Roundtable Report. Washington, DC: IREX. 1995. 9-12.
112. La cuisine macņdonien (with Veselka Palmer). Cuisines d'Orient et d'ailleurs, ed. by Michel Aufray and Michel Perret. Paris: INALCO/Grenoble: Glņnant. 1995. 76-79.
113. The Differentiation of Macedonian and Bulgarian in a Balkan Context. Balkan Forum, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1995. 291-305.
114. Distinkciite meg‚u makedonskiot i bugarskiot jazik. (Macedonian: The distinctions between the Macedonian and Bulgarian languages). Nova Makedonija, 25.V.95. 12. (report of inaugural address to Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences).
115. Vo makedonskiot jazik e srceto na Balkanot. (Macedonian: In the Macedonian language is the heart of the Balkans). Nova Makedonija, 27.V.9. 15. (Interview).
116. Shqipja ėshtė njė gjuhė unike shumė interesante. (Albanian is a very interesting and unique language). Rilindja, 25.VIII.95. 9. (Interview).
117. Mėnyra habitore nė gjuhėn arumune dhe nė gjuhėn shqipe -- paralele dhe ndikime (Albanian: The admirative mood in Arumanian and Albanian: parallels and influences). Seminari XVII ndėrkomėtar pėr gjuhėn, letėrsinė dhe kulturėn shqiptare: Pėrmbledhje e ligjeratėve, referimeve,kumtesave dhe e diskutimeve. Tirana: Albanian Academy Sciences. 1995. 221-225.
118. The Place of Balkan Linguistics in Understanding Balkan History and Balkan Modernity. Bulletin de l'Association des ņtudes du sud-est europņen, Vol. 24-25, 1994-1995. 87-94.
119. Makedonskiot jazik vo balkanskiot kontekst (The Macedonian language in its Balkan Context). Lik, Vol. 10, No. 357 (literary supplement to Nova Makedonija 10.I.96). 11. Reprinted in Makedonija, No. 513, 1996. 30-31.
120. Makedon ve T€rk dillerinde belirli geōmisĮ ve hikye zamanlarĶ (Turkish: Confirmative and narrative tenses in Macedonian and Turkish). Makedonsko-turski kulturni vrski vo minatoto i denes: II meg‚unaroden simpozium 23-25 oktomvri 1991 (Second International Symposium on Macedonian-Turkish Cultural Relations, 23-25 October 1991) Skopje: University of Skopje. 1996. 55-58.
121. Jazicķnite kontakti vo Makedonija: novi podatoci i novi priodi (Macedonian: Linguistic Contacts in Macedonia: New Data and New Approaches). Studii za makedonskiot jazik, literatura i kultura. Skopje: Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij. 1996. 55-61.
122. Mbi rindėrtimin e situatės dialektore shqipe dhe sllave nė mesin e shekullit XIX nė Traki (Albanian: On the Reconstruction of the Albanian & Slavic Dialectal Situation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Thrace). Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovės, Vol. 2, 1995. 211-224.
123. Typological and Areal Features Linking and Separating the Balkans and the Caucasus. Papers in Slavonic Linguistics (Occasional Series). III, ed. by J. Ian Press and F. E. Knowles. London: University of London. 1996. 99-111.
124. On Macedonia (letter). National Geographic, Vol. 189, No. 6, 1996. xiv.
125. Populations and Powder Kegs: The 1994 Macedonian Census in historical Perspective, Woodrow Wilson Center - East European Studies Occasional Paper No. 44. Washington, DC. 1996. 31 pp.
126. Observing the Observers: Language, Ethnicity, and Power in the 1994 Macedonian Census and Beyond. Toward Comprehensive Peace in Southeastern Europe: Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans, ed. by Barnett Rubin. New York: Council on Foreign Relations/Twentieth Century Fund. 1996. 81-105 & 119-126. (revised, expanded, and updated version of 125, which was supposed to have appeared in 1995).
127. Romani and the Census in the Republic of Macedonia. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Fifth Series), Vol. 6, No. 2, 1996. 89-101.
128. O differenciacii temporal'nosti i aspektual'nosti v bolgarskom i makedonskom jazykax (Russian: On the differentiation of temporality and aspectuality in Bulgarian and Macedonian). Voprosy jazykoznanija, No. 1, 1996. 116-124.
129. Gender, Class, and Age in the Daghestanian Highlands: Towards a Unified Account of the Morphology of Agreement in Lak. NSL.8: Linguistic Studies in the Non-Slavic Languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics, ed. by Howard I. Aronson. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1996. 187-199.
130. Diferencijacija na makedonskiot i bugarskiot jazik vo balkanskiot kontekst. (Macedonian: The Differentiation of Macedonian and Bulgarian in a Balkan Context) Jazicite na pocķvata na Makedonija. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1996. 75-82.
131. Dijalektna osnova, varijacija i kodifikacijata na balkanskite literaturni jazici: Albanskiot, bugarskiot, makedonskiot, romskiot. (Macedonian: Dialectal base, variation, and codification in Balkan literary languages: Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romani). Studia Linguistica Polono-Meridianoslavica (formerly Studia lingvistica Polono-Jugoslavica), Vol. 8, 1996. 111-118. (updated version of 73).
132. On Former Yugoslavia (letter). Reed Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 6, 1996. 48.
133. On potrzebie (letter). Zippy Quarterly. No 14 (December 1996). 32.
134. A newly discovered grammatical form in the Arumanian dialect of Beala de Sus. Newsletter of the Society Fa’rsĮa’rotĮul, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1996. 1-6. (popular version of 106).
135. Macedonian Lexicography and East South Slavic Linguistics: Problems and Perspectives. Balkan Forum Vol. 4, No. 4, 1996. 171-180.
136. The Five Deictics of Lak. A Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features, and Deixis, ed. by Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1996. 307-318. (earlier version of 95, in press for 7 years).
137. The Turkish Lexical Element in the Languages of the Republic of Macedonia from the Ottoman Period to Independence. Zeitschrift f€r Balkanologie, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1996. 133-150. (updated version of 96).
138. Habitorja e shqipes dhe "prezumtivul" e rumanishtes. (Albanian: The Albanian admirative and the Romanian presumptive). Seminari XVIII ndėrkomėtar pėr gjuhėn, letėrsinė dhe kulturėn shqiptare: Pėrmbledhje e ligjeratėve, referimeve,kumtesave dhe e diskutimeve. Tirana: Albanian Academy Sciences. 1996. 581-586.
139. Kontakti dhe ndėrgjegja nė lidhjen gjuhėsore ballkanike. (Albanian: Contact and Consciousness in the Balkan Sprachbund). Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovės, Vol. 3, 1996. 233-253. [a second version was published in Studime albanologjike (University of Tirana) Vol. 2, No. 1, 1997. 132-149.]
140. Makedonskiot jazik i makedonskiot identitet: Ponovata istorija i ponovata istoriografija (Macedonian: Macedonian Language and Identity: Recent History and Recent Historiography). Makedonski jazik, Vol. 45-47, 1994-1996. 5-22. (Macedonian version of 181).
141. Mbi konceptet nacionalin nė fjalorin tri gjuhėsh tė Gjorgji Pulevskit. (Albanian: On National Conceptions in the Trilingual Dictionary of Gjorgji Pulevski.) Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovės, Vol. 4, 1997. 123-129.
142. In Memoriam: Zbigniew GoŒaĀb. Balkanistica, Vol. 10, 1997. 1-2.
143. A Contrastive View of Subordinate Aspect and the Opposition Confirmative/Non-Confirmative in the Balkans with Particular Reference to Macedonian and Turkish. BalkanisticaVol. 10, 1997. 185-201.
144. Viktor Fridman. (Short biography, item 130, and bibliography of published works through 1992). Pristapni predavanja, prilozi i bibliografija na novite cķlenovi na Makedonskata Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1997. 105-133.
145. Grcite go napg‚aat imeto bugarite ³ jazikot (Macedonian: The Greeks attack the name, the Bulgarians ³ the language). Vecķer 16-17.VIII.97. 12-13. (Interview).
146. Language Contacts in Southeastern Europe: The Republic of Macedonia. Contact Linguistics: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, Vol. 2 (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, Volume 14), ed. by Hans Goebl, Peter H. Nelde, Zdeneķk Stary, and Wolfgang Wžlck‚. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 1997. 1442-1451.
147. Pojavata na mnogujazicķnosta (multilingvizmot) kaj Marko Cepenkov. (Macedonian: The phenomenon of multilingualism in Marko Cepenkov). Zbornik vo cķest na Radmila Ugrinova-Skalovska po povod sedumdestgodisķninata. Skopje: University of Skopje. 1997. 329-334.
148. Linguistic Form and Content in the Romani-language Press. The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, ed. by Y. Matras, P. Bakker & H. Kyuchukov. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1997. 181-196.
149. Znacķenjeto na makedonskiot jazik za balkanisticķkata lingvistika i negovata afirmacija na meg‚unarodno nivo. (Macedonian: The significance of the Macedonian language for Balkan linguistics and for its affirmation on the international scene). Pedeset godini na makedonskata nauka za jazikot. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1997. 75-82.
150. One Grammar, Three Lexicons: Ideological Overtones and Underpinnings in the Balkan Sprachbund. CLS 33: Papers from the Panels on Linguistic Ideologies in Contact, Universal Grammar, Parameters and Typology, The Perception of Speech and other Acoustic Signals, ed. by Kora Singer, Randall Eggert, Gregory Anderson. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1997. 23-44.
151. The Grammatical Expression of Presumption and Related Concepts in Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance, American Contributions to the 12th International Congress of Slavists, ed. by Michael Flier and Alan Timberlake. 1998. Bloomington: Slavica. 390-405
152. Cyganskij jazyk i vopros balkanskogo jazykovogo sojuza (Russian: The Romani language and the question of the Balkan Sprachbund). Materialy XXVI mezķvuzovskoj naucķno-metodicķeskoj konferencii prepodavatelej i aspirantov, Vyp. 3: Balkanskie cķtenija. University of St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg, Russia. 1997. 53-60.
153. Message from Pristina [sic]: 'The Indifference Wounds Us Deeply' (translation from the Albanian). Washington Post, Section C, 27.IX.98. 2
154. The Implementation of Standard Macedonian: Problems and Results. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 131, 1998. 31-57.
155. Trip to Macedonia began professorźs eminent career as language expert. The University of Chicago Chronicle, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1998. 6. (Interview).
156. A Balkanist in Daghestan: Annotated Notes from the Field. The Anthropology of East Europe Review Vol. 16, No. 2. 1998. 115-129.
157. Makedonskiot jazik sprema ruskiot i bugarskiot: vid, vreme i modalnost. (The Macedonian language in comparison with Russian and Bulgarian: Aspect, tense, and mood). Makedonsko-ruski jazicķni, literaturni i kulturni vrski. Skopje: University of Skopje. 1998. 79-93. (Macedonian version of 40).
158. Telegrama. Spomenica posvetena na Bozķidar Vidoeski 1920-1998. (Macedonian: Letter of condolence published in a Memorial to Bozķidar Vidoeski.) Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1998. 31-33.
159. Putting a Crisis in Focus. Lab Notes, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1998. 16-19. (Interview).
160. Grammatical Gaps and Lexical Gaps - Aspect and the Lexicon in Macedonian. Jazykoveķdnņ aktuality, informativn‰ zpravodaj cķesky‚ch jazykoveķdcuõ, Vol. 35, 1998. 40-45.
161. Educational Language rights and Romani Participation in Macedonian Education. ERIC Microfiche Collection (1 fiche, 18 pp.) No. ED-428-021. 1998. (short version of 166). (reprined in In: Resource Book on education for Roma pupils, ed. by Judith Kovacs. Budapest: The Institute for Educational Policy, Open Society Institute).
162. The Albanian Language in Its Eastern Diaspora (Eī AlvanikeĄ‚ GloĄ‚ssa steĄn AvatolikeĄ‚ Diasporø). Arvanitika kai ElleĄnika: ZeīteĄmata polygloĄssikoĄn kai polypolitismikoĄn koinoteĄtoĄn [Greek: Arvanitika and Greek: Problems of multilingual and multicultural communities], Vol. 2, ed. by Loukas Tsitsipis. Livadeia, Greece: European Union & The Prefecture of Levadeia [sic], 1998. 215-231.
163. On the Complexity of Identity in the Nineteenth Century Balkans as Reflected in a Multilingual Text. V poiskah "balkanskogo" na Balkanah. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for Slavic Studies. 1999. 48-51. (updated version of 140).
164. E-mail Brings Home the Pathos of War. Chicago Sun Times, 30.III.99. 3. (Interview).
165. Peirce, Albanians, and Vlahs: Semiotics and Status in the Balkan Sprachbund. The Peirce Seminar Papers, Vol. 4, ed. by Michael Shapiro. New York: Berghahn. 1999. 515-529; also comments on other papaers: 85-86, 108-109, 240-42.
166. On the Differences between Macedonia and Kosovo (letter). East European Constitutional Review, Vol. 8, No. 1-2, 1999. 115.
167. The Romani Language in the Republic of Macedonia: Status, Usage, and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 46, No. 3-4, 1999. 317-339.
168. Apsurdno e partiite da se zanimavaat so lingvistika [Macedonian: Itźs ridiculous for political parties to meddle in linguistics]. Start, Vol. 1, No. 22, 1999. 31-33 (Interview).
169. Preardhja e gjuhės shqipe me pikėpyetje [Albanian: The ancestor of the Albanian language is a question mark]. Rrezja Vol. 2, No. 4-5, 1999. 4-5. (Interview; reprinted in Vol. 3, No. 12-13, 2000. 6-7).
170. Macedonian Language and Identity: Recent History and Recent Historiography. Guard the Word Well Bound: Proceedings of the Third North American-Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies, (Indiana Slavic Studies 10), ed. by Christina Kramer and Brian Cook. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 1999. 71-86.
171. Proverbial Evidentiality: On the Gnomic Uses of the Category of Status in Languages of the Balkans and the Caucasus. Mediterranean Language Review, Vol. 11, 1999. 135-155.
172. Evidentiality in the Balkan Languages. Handbuch der S€dosteuropa-Linguistik, ed. by Uwe Hinrichs. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1999. 519-44.
173. Blazķe Koneski i severnoamerikanskata lingvistika. (Macedonian: Blazķe Koneski and North American Linguistics). Pridonesot na Blazķe Koneski za makedonskata kultura. Skopje: University of Skopje. 1999. 29-36.
174. Romani in the Balkan Linguistic League. ValkanikeĄ GloĄssologia: Sygkhronia kai Diakhronia/Balkanlinguistik: Synchronie und Diachronie, ed. by Chr. Tzitzilis and Kh. SymeonideĄs. Thessaloniki: University of Thessaloniki. 2000. 95-105.
175. The Balkans/Refugees Map (letter). National Geographic, Vol. 197, No. 6, 2000. xx.
176. The Modern Macedonian Standard Language and Its Relation to Modern Macedonian Identity. The Macedonian Question: Culture, Historiography, Politics, ed. by Victor Roudometoff. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs. 2000. 173-206.
177. Macedonian Language. Encyclopedia of Modern East Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism,.ed. Richard Frucht. New York: Garland. 2000. 471.
178. Fable as History: The Macedonian Context of –Before the Rain”. Rethinking History. Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000. 137-48.
179. Horace G. Lunt and the Beginning of Macedonian Studies in the United States. Prilozi: Oddelenie za lingvistika i literaturna nauka - Makedonska Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 1998. 115-119.
180. Kuadri Historik i Linguistikės Shqiptare [Albanian: Albanian Studies in the United States: Its history and Implications for the Future of Albanian Higher Education]. Mėsuesi, Vol. 39, No. 24. 2000. 6.
181. The Emergence of Literary Languages in Southeastern Europe. Language, Blacks and Gypsies: Languages without a Written Tradition and their Role in Education, ed. by Thomas Acton and Morgan Dalphinis. London: Whiting and Birch. 2000. 37-51. (earlier version of 42, delayed for 14 years and somewhat updated)
182. Confirmative/Nonconfirmative in Balkan Slavic, Balkan Romance, and Albanian, with Additional Observations on Turkish, Romani, Georgian, and Lak. Evidentials in Turkic, Iranian and Neighbouring Languages, ed.by Lars Johanson and Bo Utas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2000. 329-366.
183. Proleptic and Resumptive Object Pronouns in Romani: A Balkan Noun Phrase Perspective. Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, ed. by Yaron Matras and Viktor Elsķ‰k. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2000. 187-204.
184. Observations on the Use of Jedan as a Marker of Indefiniteness in Serbian/Croatian. In a foreign Harbor: Essays in Honor of Vasa D. Mihajlovic‚, ed. by Radmila Gorup and Bogdan Rakic‚. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2000. 195-204.
185. The Bulgarian Indefinite Article Revisited in Its Balkan Context. Bulgarian Studies at the Dawn of the 21st Century: A Bulgarian-American Perspective. (Sixth Joint Meeting of Bulgarian- and North American Scholars. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, May 30 - June 2, 1999), ed. by Anisava Miltenova. Sofia: IK –Gutenberg”. 2000. 105-114.
186. Languages and Ethnicity in Balkan Politics: Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Albanian (Meeting Report #215). East European Studies (EES) News, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scolars Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. January-February 2001. 4 & 11.
187. After 170 years of Balkan Linguistics: Whither the Millennium? Mediterranean Language Review, Vol. 12, 2000. 1-15. (republished with an Albanian abstract in Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovės, Vol. 5-7, 1998-2000. 223-237.)
188. Primeneta lingvistika i makedonskite glagolni kategorii (Macedonian: Applied Linguistics and Macedonian Verbal Categories), Language and Society at the Turn of the XXI Century: Proceedings of the First International Congress of the Macedonian Applied Linguistics Association, ed. by Ljupcho Stefanovski and Jovanka Lazarevska. Skopje: University of Skopje. 2000. 107-113
189. Macedonia. Countries & Their Cultures Ed. by Monica Hubbard. New York: Macmillan. 2001. 1334-1341.
190. Romani Multilingualism in its Balkan Context. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Vol. 54, 2001. 146-159.
191. On the Number of Paradigms in the Romanian Presumptive Mood (modul prezumtiv). Cercetari lingvistice Vol. 48, No. 1-4, 1997. 173-79.
192. Bisedė me linguistin amerikan, Viktor Friedman: Duhet tė kalojė njė brez dhe paratė e Evropės (Albanian: Conversation with the American linguistc Victor Friedman: It will take a generation and financial aid from Western Europe). Zėri 14.VI.01. 3. (Interview).
193. Bladder. Kidney. Lung. Spleen. Digest. in A Supplement to a Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, ed. by Boyd Davis and Sidney Smith. Chapel Hill: UNC Press. To appear.
194. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Balkan Sprachbund: Language and dialect in Macedonia. Slavia Merdionalis, Vol. 2. 1995. To appear.
195. Gramatikalizacijata na balkanizmite vo makedonskiot jazik (Macedonian: The Grammaticalization of Balkanisms in Macedonian). Makedonski jazik, 51, 2000. To appear.
196. The Development and Significance of the Modern Bulgarian Pluperfect. Bulgarian Linguistics by American Scholars. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo. To appear.
197. Gnomic Speech in Bulgarian, Albanian, Turkish, and Georgian. Bulgaria Past and Present, Vol. 4. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. To appear.
198. North American Slavists and Macedonian Studies Yesterday and Today. Macedonian Review. To appear.
199. West Rumelian Turkish in Macedonia and Adjacent Areas. Volume on Turkish Language Contact. Amsterdam: Benjamins. To appear.
200. On the Limits of Modality in the Balkan Sprachbund. Proceeding Conference: Aktuelle Probleme der Balkanlinguistik, ed. by Helmut Shaller. Wiesbaden: Harrassowirtz. To appear.
201. Admirativity Revisited. Balkansko ezikoznanie - Linguistique Balkanique. To appear.
202. Lak Folktales: Materials for a Bilingual Reader: Part One. Who Is most Important? The Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, Vol. 8-9, 1998-1999. To appear.
203. The Expression of Speaker Subjectivity in Lak. Lźņnonciation mediatisņe 2, ed. by Zlatka Guentchņva. Louvain: Peeters. To appear.
204. Lak Folktales: Materials for a Bilingual Reader: Part Two. Shamsuźs Dog. A Festschrift for Howard I. Aronson. ed. by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite. Columbus: Slavica Publishers. To appear.
205. The Romani Indefinite Article in Its Historical and Areal Context. Festschrift for Norbert Boretzky, ed. by Birgit Igla. To appear.
206. Language in Macedonia as an Identity Construction Site. When Languages Collide: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Implications Of Language Conflict and Language Coexistence, ed. by Brian Joseph and Ilse Lehiste. Columbus: Ohio State University. To appear.
207. Les marqueurs de fronti¦re dans la grammaire du romani: Structure de la languge et conservatisme dans le Diaspora Balkanique. Faits de Langues: Langues de diaspora, langues en contact, ed. by AnaŻd Donabedian, Paris: Ophrys. 2001.
208. The Indefiniteness of •oneź in its Macedonian and Balkan Context. Fourth Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies. Proceedings. Skopje: University of Skopje. To appear.
209. In Memoriam: Pavle Ivic‚ (with Ronelle Alexander, Wayles Browne, Marc Greenberg, Robert Greenberg). Juzķnoslovenski filolog, Vol. 55, no. 1/2, 2000. 63-74.
210. Pragmatics and Contact in Macedonia: Convergence and Differentiation in the Balkan Sprachbund. Juzķnoslovenski filolog, Vol. 55, no. 3/4, 2000. 1343-1351.
211. The Vlah Minority in Macedonia: Language, Identity, Dialectology, and Standardization. Selected Papers in Slavic, Balkan, and Balkan Studies, ed. by Juhani Nuoluoto, Martii Leiwo, Jussi Halla-aho, (Slavica Helsingiensa 21). Helsinki: University of Helsinki. To appear.
212. The Importance of Language in the Education Process. Proceedings of the Roundtable "The Future of Macedonia: Macednoian-Albanian Dialogue", ed. by Sasho Ordanovski. Forum: Skopje. To appear.
213. Nation and Language in Gjorgji Pulevskiźs Trilingual Dictionary: What the Nineteenth Century Can Tell the Twenty-First. MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAS: Changing Contexts in the Changing Balkans?, ed. by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers et al., London: Harris. Ta appear.
214. Interrogation and Nonconfirmativity: A Peircean Approach to the Intersection between Expressive Past and Present. The Peirce Seminar Papers, Vol. 5, ed. by Joėlle Rņthorņ and Tony Jappy. New York: Berghahn. To appear.
215. The Republic of Macedonia. Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, ed. by Carl Skutsch and Robin L. Rone. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. To appear.
216. Romani Multilingualism in its Balkan Context, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. To appear.
217. Nabljuduvajk‚i gi nabquduvacķite Jazikot, etnitetot i mok‚ta vo tekot na makedonskiot popis vo 1994 i potoa. New Balkan Politics, Vol. 1, no. 3. To appear. [Macedonian translation of 126.]

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• Mediterranean Language Review (Vol. 10) with Marcel Erdal, Werner Arnold, and Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1998. 218 pp.
• Mediterranean Language Review (Vol. 11) with Marcel Erdal, Werner Arnold, and Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1999. 207 pp.
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4. Hendriks, Peter. The Radozhda-Vevchani Dialect of Macedonian. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1978. 111-12.
5. Makedonistika Tom 1 and other recent Macedonian Publications. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1979. 312-13.
6. Englund, Brigitta. Yes/No Questions in Bulgarian and Macedonian. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1979, 426-28.
7. Referati na makedonskite slavisti za VIII Megjunaroden slavistichki kongres vo Zagreb-Ljubljana. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1979. 562-63.
8. Toshev, Krum. Strushkiot govor (spored nekoi materijali od XIX vek). Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1980. 458-59.
9. ________. Language. Vol. 57, No. 1, 1981. 240-42.
10. Skendi, Stavro. Balkan Cultural Studies. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1981. 105-07.
11. Grannes, Alf. Loan Compounds in Bulgarian Reflecting the Turkish Indefinite Izafet-Construction. American Anthropologist. Vol. 84, No. 2, 1982. 460.
12. ________. Canadian Slavonic Studies. Vol. 22, 1988. 517-19.
13. Loli Phabaj, Vol. 1. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1982. 1&4.
14. Aronson, Howard. Georgian: A Reading Grammar. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1983. 114-15.
15. ________. Modern Language Journal. Vol. 67, No. 2, 1983. 200-01.
16. Newmark, Leonard et al. Standard Albanian: A Reference Grammar for Students. Modern Language Journal. Vol. 67, No. 2, 1983. 178-79.
17. Humesky, A. Modern Ukrainian. Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Vol. 4, 1982. 331-33.
18. Hetzer, Armin and Viorel S. Roman. Albanien: Ein bibliographischer Forschungsbericht mit Titel€bersetzungen und Standortnachweisen. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, 1984. 420-21.
19. Cortiade, Marcel. "Jove Poesia Rom" in JORN 12 (5-44). Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter. Vol. 8, No. 3, 1985. 4&7.
20. Scatton, Ernest. A Reference Grammar of Modern Bulgarian. Slavic Review, Vol. 44, No. 3, 1985. 598-99.
21. Huld, Martin E. Basic Albanian Etymologies. Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 29, No. 4, 1985. 494-96.
22. Tsonev, Ben'o. Istorija na B@lgarskija Ezik (2 vols.) Slavic Review. Vol. 45, No. 1, 1986. 177-78.
23. Camaj, Martin. An Albanian Grammar. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 3O, No. 3, 1986. 466-68.
24. Lindstedt, Jouko. On the Semantics of Tense and Aspect in Bulgarian. Language, Vol. 62, No. 3, 1986. 724-25.
25. Cortiade, Marcel. Romani fonetika thaj lekhipa. Fonetika i pravopis romskog jezika. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1986. 4.
26. ________. EŖtudes Tsiganes. To appear.
27. Ilieva, Kornelija. Mestoimenija i tekst. Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 31, No. 3, 1987. 365-67.
28. Tsonev, Ben'o. Istorija na B@lgarskija Ezik (Vol. 3) Slavic Review. Vol. 46, No. 4, 1987. 654-55.
29. Slobin, Dan & Karl Zimmer, eds. Turkish Linguistics. Turkish Studies Association Bulletin. Vol. 12, No. 1, 1988. 51-56.
30. Lehiste, Ilse. Lectures on language contact. Lanugage. Vol. 65, No. 2, 1989. 431-32.
31. Praktyicheskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka. Modern Language Journal. Vol. 73, No. 3, 1989. 384.
32. Dutch Studies in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics. (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 10). The Southeast Conference on Linguistics Bulletin. Vol 14, No. 1, 1990. 65-69.
33. Thordarson, Fridrik (ed.) Proceedings of the Third Caucasian Colloquium, Oslo, July 1986. (Studia Caucasologia, Vol. I.) Language, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1991. 422-23.
34. Vogt, Hans. Linguistique caucasienne et arménienne. (Studia Caucasologia, vol II). Language. Vol. 67, No. 2, 1991. 423-24.
35. Aronson, Howard. Georgian: A Reading Grammar. Corrected (2nd) Edition. Modern Language Journal. Vol. 75, No. 3, 1991. 381.
36. Kuzey Kafkasya K€lt€r Dergisi. The Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, Vol. 3, 1991. 67-70 .
37. Zymberi, Isa. Colloquial Albanian. Modern Language Journal. Vol. 76, No. 3, 1992. 407-08.
38. Young, David M. English-Albanian Vocabulary. Modern Language Journal. Vol. 77, No. 1, 1993. 101.
39. Thelin, Nils B. (ed.) Verbal Aspect in Discourse: Contributions to the semantics of time and temporal perspective in Slavic and Non-Slavic languages. Language. Vol. 69, No. 2, 1993. 436-37.
40. Bugarski, Ranko & Celia Hawkesworth. Language Planning in Yugoslavia. Modern Language Journal. Vol. 77, No. 3, 1993. 396-397.
41. Jahr, Ernst Hļkon (ed.) Language Contact : Theoretical and Empirical Studies. (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 60.) Language. Vol. 70, No. 2, 1994. 390.
42. Hinrichs, Uwe et al. eds. Sprache in der Slavia und auf dem Balkan. Slavic Review. Vol. 53, No. 3, 1994. 924-25.
43. Baldauf, Ingeborg. Shriftreform und Schriftwechsel bei den muslimischen Russland- und Sowjett€rken (1850-1937): Ein Symptom ideengeschichtlicher und Kulturpolitischer Entwicklung. Language. Vol. 71, No. 1, 1995. 189-90.
44. Fielder, Grace. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Verbal Categories in Bulgarian. Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Vol. 2, No. 2, 1994. 333-40.
45. de Gila-Kochanowski, Vania (in collaboration with Huguette Tanguy). Parlons tsigane: Histoire, culture et langue du peuple tsigane. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Fifth Series). Vol. 5, No. 2, 1995. 119-122.
46. Kyuchukov, Hristo. Romany children and their preparation for literacy: A Case Study. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Fifth Series). Vol. 6, No. 1, 1996. 63-65.
47. Foulon-Hristova, Jadranka. Les modes de narration en Macédonien. Language. Vol. 73, No. 3, 1997. 680-81.
48. Grannes, Alf. Turco-Bulgarica: Articles in English and French concerning Turkish influence on Bulgarian. Turkic Languages. Vol. 2, No. 1, 1998. 154-58.
49. Thomason, Sarah G. (ed.). Contact Languages: A Wider Perspective. The SECOL Review. To appear.
50. Sugarman, Jane C. Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings. Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review. To appear
51. Recenzija na doktorskata disertacija –Govorot na Aromancite Farsķeroti od ohridsko-strusķkiot region (vo balkanski kontekst)” od m-r Marjan Markovik‚, asistent na filolosķkiot fakultet –Blazķe Koneski” vo Skopje. [Macedonian: Review of the doctoral dissertation –The dialect of the Frasheriote Aromanians of the Ohrid-Struga region (in its Balkan context)”, by Marjan Markovik‚, M.A., instructor at the Philological Faculty –Blazhe Koneski" in Skopje]. Bilten na Univerzitetot –Sv. Kiril i Metodij” vo Skopje, No. 766, 2000. 62-71.
52. Van den Berg, Helma, ed. Studies in Caucasian Linguistics. Studies in Language. To appear.
53. Paulston , Christina Bratt and Donald Peckham, eds. Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. Linguistic Anthropology. To appear.
54. Szobries, Torsten. Sprachliche Aspekte des nation-building in Mazedonien: Die kommunistische Press in Vardar-Mazedonien 1940-1943. Slavic Review. To appear.
55. Igla, Birgi. Das Romani von Ajia Varvara: Deskriptive und historisch-vergleichende Darstellung eines Zigeunerdialekts. Diachronica. To appear.

• National Science Foundation and Mount Holyoke College Secondary Science Training Program Scholarship (anthropology), Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, MA, Summer 1965.
• National Merit Scholarship Finalist, 1966.
• Faculty Commendation for Academic Excellence, Reed College, 1969, 1970.
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1970.
• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1970-71.
• University of Chicago Special Humanities Fellowship 1970-73.
• University of Chicago Travel Grant for Fourth Annual Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture, Summer 1971.
• American Council of Learned Societies (hereafter ACLS) Grant for the Study of East European Languages - Macedonian, Summer 1972.
• Commission for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries for the Socialist Republic of Macedonia Research Stipend, Summer 1972.
• Associateship, Illinois Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and East Europe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Summer 1973, 1979.
• International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship for Doctoral Research Abroad - Yugoslavia, 1973-74.
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship - Yugoslavia, 1973-74.
• Marc Perry Galler Prize for Distinguished Dissertation Research, University of Chicago, 1976.
• University of North Carolina Research Council Grant, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985.
• ACLS Grant for the Study of East European Languages - Albanian, Summer 1976.
• Nominated for Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC, 1977.
• Member of Delegation to Second International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, Varna, Bulgaria, June 1978.
• American Philosophical Society Penrose Fund Grant to study Albanian and Bulgarian verb form usage in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, Summer 1978.
• ACLS Travel grant for Fourth International Congress on Southeast European Studies, Ankara, Turkey, August 1979.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Category A Fellowship for Research, 1980-81.
• "1300 Years of Bulgaria" jubilee medal for contributions to the field of Bulgarian studies (Awarded by Peoples Republic of Bulgaria), September 1982.
• ACLS Travel Grant for Fifth International Congress on Southeast European Studies, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, September 1984.
• UNC College Endowment Fund Grant, 1984, 1987.
• ACLS Grant for East European Studies, 1986.
• ACLS Travel Grant for Sixth International Congress on Southeast European Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, August-September 1989.
• International Research and Exchanges Board Short Term Travel/Collaborative Exchange grant to help fund First North American-Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 1991.
• Macedonian Orthodox Diocese of Detroit Award for Contributing to the affirmation of the Macedonian language, June 1991.
• Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje Gold Plaque Award for Contributions to the field of Macedonian studies, June 1991.
• International Research and Exchanges Board Short Term Travel grant to Second International Symposium on Macedonian-Turkish Cultural Relations, University of Skopje, Yugoslavia, October 1991.
• International Research and Exchanges Board Travel grant to University of Sofia (research) and 25th Annual Seminar for Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture, Ohrid, Macedonia (former Yugoslavia), August 1992.
• Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member, elected 1994.
• International Research and Exchanges Board Short Term Travel grant to Republic of Macedonia, May 1995.
• Matica Srpska, Member, elected 1995.
• Isaac and Viola H. Stern Endowment Fund grant for project: "A New Alignment of Historically focused Study of Language" (with Susan Gal and Michael Silverstein), 1998.
• Institute on Southeastern Europe of the Central European University, Budapest, grant for a conference on "Systemic Linguistic Phenomena resulting from Centuries of Balkan Socio-Cultural Contact" to be held in the Republic of Macedonia, 1998 (postponed by Macedonian co-organizer for reasons of health), 1998.
• Ministry of Education of the Republic of Macedonia, grant to support the teaching of Macedonian at the University of Chicago, 1998.
• United States Information Service, Grant for Travel to Skopje to attend International Conference on Applied Linguistics as plenary speaker. 1998.
• United States Information Service, Grant for Travel to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and lecture at University of Prishtina 1998 (postponed due to violence in Kosovo).
• Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, Grant for Project "Macedonian words.../creating images.../creating words..." a video project (directed by Kim Gareiss). 1998.
• Grant from The Franke Institute for The Humanities at the University of Chicago to support proposed conference and volume –On the Brink of the Modern: In Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Adam Mickiewicz” (with Joanna Kurowska-Mlynarczyk). 1998, 1999.
• ACLS Travel Grant for Eighth International Congress on Southeast European Studies, Bucharest, Romania, August-September 1998.
• USIS Grant for Travel to Albania to attend Conference entitled Higher Education - The Road to Democracy and Stability, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the Albanian Ministry of Education, and the University of Tirana, Tirana, May 2000.
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Foreign Fellowship, October-November 1999
• ACLS Post-Doctoral Fellowship for East European Studies, 2000-01.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Research, 2001
• USIS Travel Grant to Macedonia to participate in Roundtable "The Future of Macedonia: Macednoian-Albanian Dialogue", sponsored by Forum Center for Strategic Research, Union of Albanian Intellectuals in Macedonia, and U.S. Embassy in Skopje (Office of Public Affairs).

• American Association for Southeast European Studies (AASES)
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
• American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
• American Association of Teachers of Turkish (AATT)
• Association for Language Typology (ALT)
• Bulgarian Studies Association (BSA)
• Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS)
• East European Anthropology Group (EEAG)
• Gypsy Lore Society (GLS)
• International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
• Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences (MANU)
• Matica Srpska (MS)
• Society for Albanian Studies (SAS)
• Society of the Study of Caucasia (SSC)
• Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL)
• Turkish Studies Association (TSA)

• Adviser for Undergraduate Majors, 1977-79, 82-83
• Carolina Seminar on Environment, Democracy, and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe (1992-93)
• Chair, Chinese Lectureship Search Committee 1984
• Committee to review proposed exchange with Romanian Academy of Sciences 1983
• Department Chair 1987-93
• Department Book Chair 1975-87
• Faculty Adviser, WXYC Student Radio 1988-93
• Faculty Council, Alternate, 1977-78, 83-84, 85-86
• Faculty member of Student Educational Broadcasting board, 1988-93
• Vice-Chair, Student Educational Broadcasting board, 1989-93
• Grade Appeal Review Committee, Dept. of Romance Languages, 1976, 1977
• Graduate Admissions Director 1987-1993
• Language Laboratory Committee 1975-87
• Library Administrative Board, Alternate, 1980-81
• Linguistics Curriculum/Department Advisory Committee 1980-93
• Off-Campus Awards Committee, Alternate, 1982-83
• UNC Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Advisory Committee 1991-93
• Special Committee on Facilities for Language Instruction 1983
• Steering Committee Duke/UNC Title VI Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1991-93
• Supervisor of Elementary Russian Instruction 1975-80, 82-84
• UNC Self-Study Task Group I, 1984

• Chair, Committee on Balkan Linguistics, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies 1993-
• Chicago Humanities Institute Faculty Working Group on (literary) language, community, identity, and history 1993-94
• Dean's Committee for a Center for European Studies 1993-94, 1996-97
• Department Chair 1997-2000
• Faculty Governing Board of the Chicago Humanities Institute 1995-98
• Faculty Board, 1996-98 Sawyer-Mellon Seminar "Sexual Identities, Identity Politics: Cross Cultural Investigations"
• Harper-Schmidt Fellowship Selection Committee 1996
• Member, Center for Middle Eastern Studies 1997-

• Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia (R)
• Arts and Humanities Research Board of the United Kingdom (R)
• Balkanistica (R)
• Cambridge University Press (R)
• Canadian Slavonic Papers (R)
• Cornell U. Press (R)
• Duke University Press (R)
• Edwin Mellen Press (R)
• Ethnos (R)
• Folia Slavica (EB)
• International Journal of slavic Linguistics and Poetics (EB)
• International Politics (R)
• Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (EB)
• Journal of Romani Studies (continuing the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society)(EB)
• Journal of Slavic Linguistics (R)
• Language (R)
• LinCom Europa Press (R)
• MacArthur Foundation (R)
• Mediterranean Language Review (EB)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (R)
• National Humanities Center (R)
• National Science Foundation (R)
• New Balkan Politics (EB)
• Open Society Institute (R)
• Oxford University Press (R)
• Public Culture (R)
• Replika [Budapest] (R)
• Routledge (R)
• Slavic and East European Journal (R)
• Slavic Review (R)
• Slavica Publishers (R)
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (R)
• University of Chicago Press (R)
• University of Pittsburgh Press (R)
• University of Wisconsin Press (R)
• Woodrow Wilson Center (R)

1. Balkan Linguistics, AATSEEL annual meeting, Chicago, December 1977.
2. Balkan Sociolinguistics, AASES annual meeting (with AAASS), Columbus, October 1978.
3. Albania during the Zog Era, SAS annual meeting (with AAASS), Philadelphia, November 1980.
4. Albanian Linguistics, AASES Second Symposium/Conference on Southeastern Europe, Columbus, April 1981.
5. Language and Linguistics, Midwest Slavic Conference annual meeting, Chicago, May 1982.
6. Balkan Linguistics, AATSEEL annual meeting, Chicago, December 1982.
7. Gypsy and Traveler Sociolinguistics, GLS annual meeting, Ann Arbor, March 1983.
8. Romani Historical Linguistics, GLS annual meeting, New York, February 1984.
9. Bulgaria and its Balkan Linguistic Neighbors, AAASS annual meeting, New Orleans, November 1986.
10. Aspect, Modality, and Tense as Balkan Linguistic Categories, AAASS annual meeting, Honolulu, November 1988.
11. Syntax and Determinedness in the Balkans, AAASS annual meeting, Chicago, November 1989.
12. Balkan Clitic Phenomena, AAASS annual meeting, Washington, D.C., October 1990.
13. Macedonia Today: Language, Literature, and Religion, AAASS annual meeting, Miami, November 1991.
14. Balkan Linguistics Today: Recent Developments and New Approaches, AAASS annual meeting, Honolulu, November 1993.
15. Case Studies in Slavic Linguistics, AAASS annual meeting, Philadelphia, November 1994.
16. Balkan Clitics and Particles: The Grammar and Meaning of "Little Words" in Language Contact, AAASS annual meeting, Philadelphia, November 1994.
17. I Am What I Speak: Language, Etnicity and Identity in the Balkans, AAASS annual meeting, Washington, DC, October 1995.

• Consultant - Ministry of Education, Republic of Macedonia on the codification of Literary Romani for the introduction of Romani as a subject of instruction in the Republic of Macedonia. November, 1992.
• Consultant - Information Services Unit Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, June 1995.
• Consultant - Reader's Digest, Editorial Research, February 1997.
• Discussant - Symposium on Peasant Culture and National Culture, AASES annual meeting (with AAASS), St. Louis, October 1976.
• Discussant - Panel "Verbal Categories in Balkan Languages", AAASS Annual Meeting, Boston, November 1987.
• Discussant - Panel "Discourse and Pragmatics", AATSEEL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 1991.
• Discussant - Colloquium "Vers une federation des pays des Balkans?", sponsored by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales), Sorbonne, Paris, December 1992.
• Discussant - Workshop on Language, Literature and Empire, University of Chicago Humanities Institute, October 1994.
• Discussant - Balkan Music: Negotiating Gender, Ethnicity, Region, Society for Ethnomusicology (with American Folklore Society), annual meeting, Milwaukee, October 1994.
• Discussant - "Genocide, Ethnic cleansing, or Population Transfers?: Comparative perspectives on Bosnia, Cyprus, Central/Southeast Europe, and Southeast Asia", conference sponsored by Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, May 1996.
• Discussant - Panel –Language and Ideology”, AATSEEL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 1998.
• Discussant - Conference entitled Higher Education - The Road to Democracy and Stability, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the Albanian Ministry of Education, and the University of Tirana, Tirana, May 2000.
• Organizer - panel on Albania and Its Neighbors, Second Symposium/Conference on Southeastern Europe, AASES, Columbus, April 1981.
• Organizer - Section U.2: Balkan Linguistic Contacts, Sixth International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Sofia, August-September 1989.
• Organizer - panel "The Balkans and the Caucasus as Linguistic Areas." Fourth International Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England, July 1990.
• Organizer - First North American - Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 1991.
• Organizer (North American delegation) - Second Macedonian-North American Slavic Conference. Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, August 1994.
• Organizer (with Michael Silverstein) - Linguistic Reconstruction:  Culture and Language in History, first of three quarterly conferences sponsored by The Chicago Initiative on Language and Diachrony, November 1998.
• Outside evaluator - dissertation defense, Department of History, University of Toronto, June 2000.
• Outside evaluator - dissertation defense, Slavic Department, University of Toronto, September 2001.
• Panelist - "The Splintering of Eastern Europe: Ethnic Conflict in the Wake of Socialism" sponsored by the UNC-Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, October 1992.
• Participant - Third Annual Seminar on Albanian Culture for Foreigners, University of Prishtina, August-September 1976.
• Participant - special JCEE-ACLS workshop on the humanities, October 1987.
• Participant - Twenty-Second Annual Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture, Cyril and Methodius University, August 1989.
• Participant - International Peace and Security Program Research Planning Meeting "The Security of Marginal Populations" sponsored by Social Science Research Council, New York, April 1990.
• Participant - Twenty-Third Annual Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture, Cyril and Methodius University, August 1990.
• Participant - Workshop on Oral Proficiency in Slavic Languages Other than Russian sponsored by Duke-UNC Center for Soviet and East European Studies, June 1992.
• Participant - Twenty-Fifth Annual Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture, Cyril and Methodius University, August 1992.
• Participant - Woodrow Wilson Center East European Studies Workshop on New Directions for the Study of Eastern Europe, Washington, D.C., December 1992.
• Participant - Workshop on Cross-National Empirical Studies in Eastern Europe, JCEE & Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, Munich, June 1993.
• Participant - Twenty-Seventh Annual Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture, Cyril and Methodius University, August 1994.
• Participant - Conference on Intellectual Concerns and Scholarly Priorities in Southeastern Europe, Zagreb, January 1995.
• Participant - Conference on South Balkans, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, December 1995.
• Participant - Fact Finding Mission to Serbia, Kosovia, Macedonia, Albania, Center for Preventive Action (Council on Foreign Relations), December 1995.
• Participant - Meeting on South Balkans Report, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, February 1996, February 1997.
• Participant - Meeting on the future of East European Studies, Central European University, Budapest, May 1996.
• Participant (funded by Council on Foreign Relations) -  "An Agenda for Preventive Diplomacy:  Theory and Practice", Workshop sponsored by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, UNPREDEP, the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission, the Center for Democracy, and the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Skopje, Macedonia, October 1996.
• Participant -  "War or Peace", Discussion of recent events in former Yugoslavia, especially Macedonia,  Woodrow Wilson Center - East European Studies, Washington, DC, February 1997.
• Participant - International Colloquium "Diplomacy and Peace Efforts in the Balkans during the Interwar Period (1919-1939), organized by The National Committee of AIESEE at the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Skopje, May 1997.
• Participant - Thirtieth Annual Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture, Cyril and Methodius University, August 1997.
• Participant - Fifth Annual Conference on Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, December 1998.
• Participant - SEELRC National Policy committee Meeting, Duke University, August 1999, April 2000, March 2001.
• Participant - Meeting on Macedonia w/ members of the Balkan Initiative - U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, DC April 2000.
• Participant - Meeting on Southeast Europe with directors of SuaraCENPEACE (Centre for Peace Initiative Trust), Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, October 2000.
• Participant - Workshop on International Policy in the Balkans. The Future of the Balkans: Beyond Conflict and Underdevelopment, conference sponsored by The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 2001.
• Participant - Kosovo and Its Neighbors: UN and NGO Perspectives Roundtable organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, New York and Washington DC (video-connected conference), April 16, 2001.
• Program Chair - linguistics sections, Fifth Bulgarian-American Conference on Bulgarian Studies, Washington, D.C., (conference postponed due to financial crisis in Bulgaria -- later held at U Pittsburgh, 1995).
• Representative (American) - AIESEE Executive Board Meeting, Bucharest, March 1988.
• Resource person - Third Annual Conference on Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, December 1996.
• Research in Daghestan (funded by U. Chicago) - June, 1998.
• Site evaluator for School of Slavonic and East European Studies (U. of London) on behalf of ACLS - London, January 1989.

1. Relative Clauses in South Slavic. Eigth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, April 1972.
2. On the Morphology of Case in South Serbian, Balkan Studies Seminar, University of Chicago, May 1972.
3. On the Question of the Bulgarian Indefinite Article. First Bulgarian-American Conference on Bulgarian Studies, Madison, May 1973.
4. Macedonian Language and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century. AAASS annual meeting, Atlanta, October 1975.
5. Some Observations on the Grammatical Categories of Macedonian Verbs. AATSEEL annual meeting, Chicago, December 1975.
6. Structural and Generative Approaches to an Analysis of the Macedonian Preterite. LSA annual meeting, San Francisco, December 1975.
7. Kategorijata rezultativnost vo makedonskiot glagol [Macedonian: The Category of Resultativity in the Macedonian Verb]. Third Annual Symposium on Balkan Linguistics and Literature, Ohrid, Yugoslavia, August 1976.
8. The Category of Admirativity. SECOL annual meeting, Atlanta, November 1976.
9. Related Verbal Categories in Albanian, Turkish, and Balkan Slavic. Conference on Southeastern Europe, Ohio State University, April 1977.
10. Verbal Abuse in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Cryptolinguistic Society, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., November 1977.
11. A Re-examination of Some Bulgarian and Macedonian Calques on Turkish. First Biennial Balkan Conference, University of Chicago, March 1978.
12. On the Semantic and Morphological Influence of Turkish on Balkan Slavic. CLS annual meeting, Chicago, April 1978.
13. Turkish Influence on Balkan Slavic. Linguistics Circle, Ohio State University, May 1978.
14. Gjorgji Pulevski: Fjalorët e tij dhe rilindja kombëtare shqiptare dhe maqedonase [Albanian: Gjorgji Pulevski: His Dictionaries and the Albanian and Macedonian National Renaissances]. Conference in honor of the 100th anniversary of the League of Prizren, Prishtina, Yugoslavia, June 1978.
15. Admirativnost v b@lgarski, albanski i turski ezik [Bulgarian: Admirativity in Bulgarian, Albanian, and Turkish]. Second Bulgarian-American Conference on Bulgarian Studies, Varna, Bulgaria, June 1978.
16. The Current Status of Turkish Dialects in Macedonia. AAASS annual meeting, Columbus, October 1978 .
17. Influence vs Convergence in Areal Phenomena. SECOL annual meeting, Atlanta, November 1978.
18. The Dictionaries of Gjorgji Pulevski and Macedo-Albanian Linguistic Contact. AATSEEL annual meeting, New York, December 1978.
19. The Ponto-Caspian Resultative. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Arizona, March 1979.
20. Toward a Typology of Status: Georgian and Other Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union. First International Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union, University of Chicago, April 1979.
21. Tense and Status in Albanian, Balkan Slavic, and Turkish. Fourth International Congress on Southeast European Studies, Ankara, Turkey, August 1979.
22. Fact vs Fantasy in the Bulgarian Reported. Southern Conference on Slavic Studies annual meeting, New Orleans, October 1979.
23. Osmanli Turkish in the Balkans: Isoglosses, Attitudes and Slavo-Albanian Contacts. AATSEEL annual meeting, San Francisco, December 1979.
24. Some Peculiarities in the Albanian Indicative System. Second Biennial Balkan Conference, University of Chicago, May 1980.
25. The Bulgarian Pluperfect and Its Development within the Bulgarian Verbal System. 1300 godini B@lgarija: A Conference to Celebrate 1300 years of Bulgarian Statehood, University of Chicago, February 1981.
26. On the Nature of Evidentiality in Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Albanian. Evidentials Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, May 1981.
27. Znachenie na otdavna minalo vreme za istorijata na b@lgarski ezik [Bulgarian: The Meaning of the Pluperfect for the History of Bulgarian]. First International Congress on Bulgarian Studies, Sofia, May 1981.
28. Albanian Morpho-Syntax in the Light of Balkan Slavic. AATSEEL annual meeting, New York, December 1981.
29. An Analysis of Jusuf and Kepeski's Romani Gramatika. GLS annual meeting, New York, February 1982.
30. Comparative Balkan Verbal Categories: Prolegomenon to a Theoretical Approach. Third Biennial Balkan Conference, Indiana University, April 1982.
31. Toward a Theory of Grammatical Macro-Categories and Overlapping Semantic Fields. University of Chicago Linguistics Seminar, May 1982.
32. Introduction to the Study of Balkan Linguistics. University of Chicago Linguistics Circle, May 1982.
33. The Aorist/Imperfect Opposition in Bulgarian, Albanian, and Turkish. Third Bulgarian-American Conference on Bulgarian Studies, Boston, October 1982.
34. Macedonian Language and National Identification in Yugoslavia. AAASS annual meeting, Washington, DC October 1982.
35. The Category of Status in the Lak Verbal System. Third International Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union. University of Chicago, March 1983.
36. Morphologically Marked Reported Speech. UNC Linguistics Circle, April 1983.
37. The Rumelian Turkish Dialects and Their Place Among the Balkan Languages. Linguistics Circle and Dept. of Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, May 1983.
38. Balkan Indicativity. AAASS annual meeting, Kansas City MO, October 1983.
39. Subordinate and Superordinate Aspect in East Balkan Slavic and Their Correspondences in Russian. Conference on the Scope of Slavic Aspect, University of California, Los Angeles, December 1983.
40. Romani Te in a Balkan Context. Fourth Biennial Balkan Conference, University of Chicago, March 1984.
41. Linguistics, Nationalism, and Literary Languages: A Balkan Perspective. Purdue University Linguistics Group and Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, April 1984.
42. Politics and the Dictionary. Midwest Slavic Conference annual meeting, Columbus, May 1984.
43. Historical, Nationalistic, and Linguistic Considerations in the Formation of Literary Languages: Past and Current Problems in the Balkan States. International Conference on Languages without Written Tradition, Thames Polytechnic, London, August 1984.
44. Za slozhenite minati vreminja vo dihovskiot govor vo sporedba so makedonskiot literaturen jazik i vo drugite dijalekti. [Macedonian: Complex Past Tenses in the Dihovo Dialect in Comparison with Literary Macedonian and the Other Dialects]. Conference on Language and Linguistics in Bitola and the Bitola Region, Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bitola, September 1984.
45. Balkan Romani Modality and the Other Balkan Languages. Fifth International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Belgrade, September 1984.
46. Ethnicity, Language, and Nationalism in the Balkans. Conference on Eastern Europe, Kentucky Council for International Education, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green and Murray State University, Murray KY, November 1984.
47. Turkish Influences on Macedonian. AAASS annual meeting, New York, November 1984.
48. Assertive Forms in Lak. Fourth International Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union, University of Chicago, May 1985.
49. A Caucasian Loanword in Romani. GLS annual meeting, New York, February 1986.
50. Semantic Shift and Morphological Innovation in Macedonian. Fifth Biennial Balkan Conference, Indiana University, March 1986.
51. Tipologija na upotrebata na da vo balkanskite jazici. [Macedonian: The Typology of da in the Balkan languages]. Philological Faculty, University of Skopje, Yugoslavia, October 1986.
52. Glagolskite kategorii, morfoloshkite paradigmi i opredeluvanjeto na izoglosite na makedonskata jazichna teritorija. [Macedonian: Verbal categories, morphological paradigms, and the determination of isoglosses on Macedonian linguistic territory]. Institute for the Macedonian Language, Skopje, Yugoslavia, October 1986.
53. Language, Nationalism, and Literary Standardization in the Balkans. Russian Institute, Section of Middle Eastern and African Studies, and Department of History, University of Bergen, Norway, October 1986.
54. On the Turkish Lexical Component in Romani Dialects and Their Relationship to Romani Language Planning. International Colloquium "Tsiganes: Identité, Culture, Evolution." Paris, December 1986.
55. Makedonskiot jazik od sociolingvistichkiot aspekt [Macedonian: The sociolinguistics of Macedonian]. Macedonian translation of article #41, broadcast in two parts as part of Radio Skopje (First Program) Evening Cultural Program. February 1987.
56. Evidentiality in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Cornell Linguistics Circle. Cornell University, April 1987.
57. Standardization in Balkan Literary Languages. Cornell Linguistics Circle. Cornell University, April 1987.
58. On the Terminology for Lak Verbal Categories. Fifth International Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union, University of Chicago, May 1987.
59. Ubotreba na glagolnite vremena v gnomichen rech v b@lgarskija i drugi ezici. [Bulgarian: The use of verbal tenses in gnomic speech in Bulgarian and other languages]. Fourth Bulgarian-American Conference on Bulgarian Studies. Smolyan, Bulgaria, June 1987.
60. A Survey of the Languages of the Caucasus. Duke University, February 1988.
61. Gnomic Language in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Sixth Biennial Balkan Conference, University of Chicago, March 1988.
62. On the Status of Turkisms in Romani. GLS annual meeting, New York, March 1988.
63. The Category of Evidentiality in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Tenth International Congress of Slavists, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 1988.
64. Balkan Slavic Evidentials: Their History, Isoglosses, and Relations to Non-Slavic Evidentials. Invited lecture, Indiana University, April 1989.
65. Glagol'nye priëmy na Balkanax i na Kavkaze [Russian: Verbal Devices in the Balkans and the Caucasus]; Conference on Balkan-Caucasian Connections sponsored by the Bulgarian and Georgian Academies of Sciences, Tbilisi, USSR, April 1989 (Conference cancelled due to riots in Tbilisi; paper was presented instead at the Section on Caucasology, Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences USSR, Moscow, USSR).
66. Case in Lak: 30 or 50? Sixth International Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union, University of Chicago, May 1989.
67. Balkan Slavic Evidentials: Their History, Isoglosses, and Relations to Non-Slavic Evidentials. Invited lecture, University of Chicago, May 1989.
68. Upotrebata na glagolskite vreminja vo makedonskite i vo drugi balkanski poslovichniizrazi. [Macedonian: The use of verbal tenses in Macedonian and other Balkan proverbial expressions]. Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Balkan Linguistics and Literature, Ohrid, Yugoslavia, August 1989.
69. The Balkans and the Caucasus as Linguistic Areas and as a Linguistic Area. Sixth International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Sofia, August-September 1989.
70. Report on the work of Section U.2.2. Interrelations et contacts linguistiques dans les balkans: Interrelations bilingues. Sixth International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Sofia, August-September 1989.
71. Slavic-Albanian Contacts and Early Polyglot Lexicons. "La langue albanaise dans le contexte balkanique principalement sous le point de vue des contacts albano-slaves": Conference sponsored by the Polish Academy of Sciences. Warsaw, September 1989.
72. Macedonian, Albanian, and Romani in Yugoslavia. Roundtable "Language Policy in Eastern Europe and Western Asia: Innovation, Development, and Retrogression". AAASS annual meeting, Chicago, November 1989.
73. Romani Nominal Inflections: Cases or Postpositions? GLS annual meeting, New York, March-April 1990.
74. Romani Case in a Balkan Context. Seventh Biennial Balkan Conference, University of Toronto, May 1990.
75. Contact and Diffusion: Balkan and Caucasian Sprachbund Phenomena. Invited lecture, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 1990.
76. Macedonia and Kosovo: Cultural Diversity and the Quest for Community, Symposium presentation, Reed College, Portland, OR, June 1990.
77. Typological and Areal Features Linking and Separating the Balkans and the Caucasus. Fourth International Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England, July 1990.
78. Dijalektna osnova, varijacija i kodifikacijata na balkanskite literaturni jazici (albanski, bugarski, makedonski, romski) [Macedonian: Dialectal base, variation, and codification in Balkan literary languages (Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romani). Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Balkan Linguistics and Literature, Ohrid, Yugoslavia, August 1990.
79. Deixis in Lak: Locating the Unmarked Member in a Five-Way System. Towards a Calculus of Meaning: An International Symposium on General Linguistics, Duke University, October 1990.
80. What's Happening in the Balkans: Yugoslavia. Reed College Alumni Association, Washington Area Chapter Presentation, October 1990.
81. Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in Eastern Europe Today, Reed College, Portland, OR, October 1990.
82. Language and Nationalism in the Balkans, especially Macedonian and Albanian. Conference on Language and Nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 1991.
83. Ga in Lak and the Three "There"s. Seventh International Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union. University of Chicago, Chicago, May 1991.
84. Potchinet vid vo makedonskiot i drugite balkanski jazici. [Macedonian: Subordinate Aspect in Macedonian and Other Languages of the Balkans]. First North American - Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 1991.
85. Status, Aspect and Mood in Macedonian as Compared with Turkish in a Balkan Context. Macedonian Linguistics Seminar, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, August 1991.
86. Makedonistikata vo Amerika i Amerikancite vo makedonistikata [Macedonian: Americans in Macedonian Studies and Macedonian Studies in America]. Macedonian Linguistics Seminar, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, August 1991.
87. The Relation of Dialectal Variation to Literary Codification in Languages of the Balkans. University of Skopje, Department of English, Skopje, Yugoslavia, October 1991.
88. Makedonistika vo Severna Amerika [Macedonian: Macedonian Studies in North America] (expanded version of 85). University of Skopje, Department of Macedonian, Skopje, Yugoslavia, October 1991.
89. Makedonca ve Türkçe'de aorist ve imperfekt: areal ve tipoloji hadiseleri [Turkish: Aorist and Imperfect in Macedonian and Turkish: Areal and Typological Phenomena]. Second International Symposium on Macedonian-Turkish Cultural Relations, University of Skopje, Yugoslavia, October 1991.
90. Minority Languages in Yugoslavia. Duke-UNC Center for Soviet and East European Studies Faculty Seminar on Changes in Eastern Europe. Duke University, November 1991.
91. "Language, Religion, and National Identity in the Balkans: Who are All These People and Why Do They Keep Trying to Kill Each Other?" Eringhaus Residence Hall Lecture Series, UNC, February 1992.
92. "Evidentiality in Macedonian and Bulgarian." Rountable "Evidentiality in Turkish, Bulgarian and Macedonian", University of California, Berkeley, March 1992. .
93. On the Oppositions Vlax/Non-Vlax and Nomadic/Sedentary in the Classification of Romani Dialects. Annual Meeting, GLS annual meeting, Harvard University, March 1992.
94. The Loss of the Imperfective Aorist in Macedonian. Invited lecture, University of Chicago, April 1992.
95. Aorist and Imperfect in the Balkans. Eighth Biennial Balkan Conference, University of Chicago, April 1992.
96. Newly discovered dialects of Albanian and Bulgarian in Turkish Thrace. Midwest Slavic Conference annual meeting, Columbus, May 1992.
97. Makedonistika vo Severna Amerika [Macedonian: Macedonian Studies in North America] (updated version of 88). St. Mary's Macedonian Orthodox Church, Columbus, May 1992.
98. Gramatikalizacijata na balkanizmite vo makedonskiot jazik [Macedonian: The Grammaticalization of Balkanisms in Macedonian]. 25th Annual Seminar for Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture, Ohrid, Macedonia (former Yugoslavia), August 1992.
99. Language and Politics in the Balkans, UNC, October 1992.
100. Ethnic Formation and Ethnic Conflict in Southeastern Europe. Carolina Seminar on Environment, Democracy, and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe, UNC, October 1992.
101. "Yugoslavia" in Balkan Politics. Second Annual Workshop for Secondary School Teachers, sponsored by Duke/UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Elon College, November 1992.
102. Pragmatikata i Gramatikalizacijata vo balkanskite jazici [Macedonian: Pragmatics and grammaticalization in the Balkan languages]. University of Skopje, Department of Macedonian, Skopje, Yugoslavia, November 1992. (First lecture of the year for graduate students in the Department).
103. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Balkan sprachbund. Conference on New Approaches to Balkan Linguistics sponsored by the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, November 1992.
104. Language, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Former Yugoslavia. UNC Humanities Program Seminar:  New Europe, Old Hatreds, February 1993.
105. Second class nouns in Lak: Gender and Age in the Daghestanian Highlands. Eighth International Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the former Soviet Union. University of Chicago, Chicago, May 1993.
106. Romani Standardization and Status in the Republic of Macedonia. Conference: Romanes in Kontakt mit andern sprachen, University of Hamburg, May 1993.
107. Macedonia and the Balkans Today. Reed College Alumni Association, Washington Area Chapter Presentation, May 1993.
108. The Codification of Romani in Macedonia. GLS annual meeting, Catholic University of America, DC, May 1993.
109. Yugoslavia. UNC Humanities Program Summer College Seminar:  The State of the World 1993: Perspectives on a Time of Troubles, July 1993.
110. Balkan Pragmatics in Cognition, Codification, and Cultural Identity: Macedonian and Bulgarian. Fourth International Pragmatics Conference, Kobe, Japan, July 1993.
111. The Loss of the Imperfective Aorist in Macedonian: Structural Significance and Balkan Context. Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava, Slovakia, August-September 1993.
112. Grammar and Politics in the Balkans. New Faculty Lecture, Chicago Humanities Institute, November 1993.
113. Balkan Sociolinguistics, Roundtable presentation, AAASS annual meeting, Honolulu, November 1993.
114. The grammaticalization of Discourse Functions in Balkan Slavic. AATSEEL annual meeting, Toronto, December 1993.
115. A Survey of the Languages of the Caucasus. Guest lecture for Ethnology of the Caucasus, University of Chicago, February 1994.
116. Language Contact and the Grammaticalization of Expressivity: Perfects and Particles in the Balkan Sprachbund. University of Arizona, Tucson, February 1994.
117. The Arumanian Admirative: A New Balkanism. Ninth Biennial Balkan Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1994.
118. Variation and Grammaticalization in the Development of Balkanisms. Thirtieth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, April 1994.
119. Jazichnite kontakti vo Makedonija: novi podatoci i novi priodi [Macedonian: Linguistic contacts in Macedonia: New data and new approaches]. Second Macedonian-North American Slavic Conference. Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, August 1994.
120. Turkisms in a Comparative Balkan Context. Seventh International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Thessaloniki, August-September 1994.
121. Problems of Romani Dialectal Differentiation: An Historical Overview. University of Amsterdam, September 1994.
122. Persistence and Change in Ottoman Patterns of Codeswitching in the Republic of Macedonia: Nostalgia, Duress and Language Shift in Contemporary Southeastern Europe. Summer School on Code-switching, Frisian Academy, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, September 1994.
123. The Yugoslav Crisis: A Linguist's View. University of Chicago Humanities Open House, October 1994.
124. Macedonian Vocative Particles. AAASS annual meeting, Philadelphia, November 1994.
125. Makedonistikata vo Amerika i Amerikancite vo makedonistikata vo vtorata polovina na dvaesti vek [Macedonian studies in America and Americans in Macedonian studies during the second half of the twentieth century], Macedonian Human Rights Council, Passaic New Jersey, November 1994.
126. Linguistic Form and Content in the Romani-Language Press of the Republic of Macedonia. Second International Conference on Romani Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, December 1994.
127. Admirativity in Balkan Romance in Comparison with Balkan Slavic, Albanian, and Turkish. AATSEEL annual meeting, San Diego, December 1994.
128. Ancient Friendships and Modern Hatreds: The Betrayal of Macedonia. University of Arizona, Tucson, February 1995.
129. Interpreting Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans. Seminar: The Macedonian Question Revisted. Arizona State University, Tempe, February 1995.
130. Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia: New Balkan Powderkeg? Woodrow Wilson Center East European Studies Lecture, Washington, D.C., March 1995.
131. Language, Ethnicity and Identity in the Balkans. University of California, Berkeley, April 1995.
132. The Politics of Statistics: Language, Nationality and the Macedonian Census of 1994. Center for Slavic & East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 1995.
133. On the Reconstruction of the Dialectal Situation in mid-nineteenth century Thrace. Conference on Dialectology and Historical Linguistics: The Contributions of South Slavic. University of California, Berkeley, April 1995.
134. Update on Macedonia. IREX Title VIII Seminar, US Department of State, Washington, DC. April 1995.
135. The Place of Balkan Linguistics in Understanding Balkan History and Balkan Modernity. Conference: Pour une nouvelle conception de la coopération sud-est européenne, International Association Association for Southeast European Studies (AIESEE). Bucharest, May 1995.
136. Diferencijacijata na makedonskiot i bugarskiot jazik vo balkanskata sredina" [Macedonian: The differentiation of Macedonian and Bulgarian in the Balkan context]. Inaugural lecture, Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Skopje, May 1995.
137. Severnoamerikanskite slavisti i makedonistikata v minatoto i denes. [Macedonian: North American Slavists and Macedonian studies in the past and today], Institut za makedonski jazik, Skopje, May 1995.
138. Romani and the Census in the Republic of Macedonia. Annual Meeting, GLS, Leiden, May 1995.
139. On the Differentiation of Temporality and Aspectuality in Macedonian and Bulgarian. Twenty-third meeting of the International Commission on Research on the Grammatical Analysis of the Slavic Languages, Göteborg, June 1995.
140. Mënyra habitore në gjuhën arumune dhe në gjuhën shqipe -- paralele dhe ndikime [Albanian: The admirative mood in Arumanian and Albanian: parallels and influences]. Seventeenth International Seminar for Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, Tirana August 1995.
141. Contact and Consciousness in the Balkan Sprachbund (Plenary paper). Language and Consciousness, An International Symposium, Varna, Bulgaria, September 1995.
142. Albanians, Roma and Vlahs in Macedonia, AAASS annual meeting, Washington, DC, October 1995.
143. Znachenieto na makedonskiot jazik za balkanska lingvistika i negovata afirmacija na megjunardnoto nivo. [Macedonian: The significance of the Macedonan language for Balkan linguistics and for its affirmation on the international scene].  International Colloquium on 50 Years of Macedonian Linguistics, Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Skopje, November 1995.
144. The Balkans, Linguistics, and Politics.  University of Chicago, Humanities Division Visiting Committee, January 1996.
145. West Rumelian Turkish in Macedonia and Adjacent Areas.  Conference on Turkish in Contact, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar, February 1996.
146. Romani Education and Romani Language Use in the Republic of Macedonia: Historical Perspectives and Current Prospects.  Choncoff Seminar on Education and Reform in the Balkans, Arizona State University, Tempe, February 1996.
147. "O Roma" or "E Roma"?: Romani (Gypsy) Language Standardization, Identity Politics. and Schools in the Republic of Macedonia, University of Arizona, Tucson, February 1996.
148. Balkan Language Contact: Mechanisms and Ideology. Seminar on Language Contact. University of Chicago, March 1996.
149. Identity Politics and Political Identities: The Macedonian Census as a 'European' Event. Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, March 1996.
150. Shifters, Verbal Categories, and the Balkan Slavic Verb. International Conference on Prague School Linguistics: 70 Years of Existence of the Prague Linguistic Circle and 100th Anniversary of Roman Jakobson's Birthday, Prague, March 1996.
151. The Daco-Romanian Presumptive in Its Balkan Context. Tenth Biennial Balkan Conference, University of Chicago, May 1996.
152. Habitorja e shqipes dhe "prezumtivul" e rumanishtes. [Albanian:  The Albanian admirative and the Romanian presumptive].  Eighteenth International Seminar for Albanian language, literature and culture, Tirana, August 1996.
153. Macedonian Lexicography and East South Slavic Linguistics:  Problems and Perspectives.  Twenty-fourth meeting of the International Commission on Research on the Grammatical Analysis of the Slavic Languages, Siena, September 1996.
154. From Grammar to Politics and Back Again:  Language, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Balkans.  University of Chicago Humanities Open House, October 1996.
155. The Standardization of Macedonian 1943-53:  Precedents, Problems, and Progress. AAASS annual meeting, Boston, November 1996
156. Romani as a Standard Language and as a Balkan Language. Third International Conference on Romani Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, December 1996.
157. Balkan Language and Nationalism 1986-96. Lecture for Anthropological Linguistics Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 1997.
158. The History of Macedonian Identity and the Balkan Wars of 1991-94. Workshop:  Doing History in the Shadow of the Balkan Wars, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 1997.
159. Politics and Language in the Balkans.  Lecture sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia and the Department of Slavic Languages, Univerity of Wisconsin, Madison, February 1997.
160. Dark Vowels, Clear Liquids, and Circumventral Trouserholders:  A Survey of the Balkan Linguistic Wars.  Workshop on Language and Society, University of Chicago, March 1997.
161. Cyganskij jazyk i vopros balkanskogo jazykovogo sojuza [Russian:  The Romani language and the question of the Balkan Sprachbund].  XXVI Inter-University Conference on Linguistics and Literature, University of St. Petersburg, Russia, March 1997.
162. Educational Language Rights and Romani Participation in Macedonian Education.  American Educational Research Association (AERA), annual meeting, Chicago, March 1997.
163. Towards a Typology of the Opposition Confirmative/Non-Confirmative in the Balkans: Balkan Slavic, Balkan Romance, Albanian, Turkish, and Romani. Colloquium on Types of Evidentiality in Turkic, Iranian and Neighbouring Languages, sponsored by the University of Mainz, the University of Uppsala, and the Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey, April 1997.
164. One Grammar, Three Lexicons:  Ideological Overtones and Under-pinnings in the Balkan Sprachbund.   (Plenary paper).  Thirty-Third Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, April 1997.
165. On the Limits of Modality in the Balkan Sprachbund.  Conference:  Aktuelle Probleme der Balkanlinguistik (First meeting of the Commission for Balkan Linguistics of the International Committee of Slavists), University of Marburg, Germany, April 1997.
166. Images by Roms for Roms:  The 1997 Romani Baxt Calendar.  Workshop:  The Romani:  Issues of Repression and the Politics of Visual Representation, Chicago Humanities Institute, May 1997.
167. A Survey of Serbian and Croatian Literature, guest lecture, course on Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern and Central European Literature, University of Chicago, May 1997.
168. Macedonian Language and Identity:  Recent History and Recent Historiography.  Third Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies, University of Toronto, June 1997.
169. Peirce, Albanians, and Vlahs:  Semiotics and Status in the Balkan Sprachbund.  International Colloquium on Language and Peircean Sign Theory, Duke University, June 1997.
170. The Structure of Lak.  Special lecture, LSA Summer Institute, Cornell University, July 1997.
171. Grammatical Gaps and Lexical Gaps -  Aspect and the Lexicon in Macedonian. Twenty-fifth meeting of the International Commission on Research on the Grammatical Analysis of the Slavic Languages, Charles University and Malá Skála, Czech Republic, October 1997.
172. Balkan Languages and Languages of the Balkans: Ideologies of Sameness and Difference.    University of Chicago Humanities Open House, October 1997.
173. Romani and Rumelian in the Balkan Linguistic League. International Conference on Balkan Linguistics:  Synchrony and Diachrony, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, October-November 1997.
174. Reinvigorating Southeast European Studies, presentation at Roundtable. AAASS annual meeting, Seattle, November 1997.
175. Roundtable on Verbal Aspect, presentation, AATSEEL annual meeting, Toronto, December 1997.
176. On Evidentiality.  Seminar at Dartmouth College, February 1998.
177. Mixed Salads and Mixed Blood: The Construction, Destruction, and Deconstruction of Ethnic Identity in the Balkans, Public Lecture sponsored by Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College, February 1998.
178. Cauldrons, Melting Pots, and Powder Kegs:  National Ideologies and Languages of Southeastern Europe at the End of the 1890s/1990s, Colloquium on Ethnic Conflicts in the Balkans, University of Toronto, March, 1998.
179. How Not to Do Things with Words:  On Grammatical Mechanisms of Commitment Avoidance, Colloquium on Ethnic Conflicts in the Balkans, University of Toronto, March, 1998.
180. Romani and the Balkan Sprachbund.  Eleventh Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore, University of Arizona, March 1998.
181. Apples of Discord and Layers of Onion:  Macedonia as an Identity Construction Site, Vaughn Humanities Center Seminar on Personal Worlds, Cultural Worlds: Person-Centered Approaches to Culture, Vanderbilt University, April 1998.
182. Evidence that Evidentiality Is Not Based on Evidence: The Languages of Southeastern Europe, lecture sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt University, April 1998.
183. How to Say What You Mean without Meaning What You Say in Southeastern Europe, Lecture sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 1998.
184. I Told you Once, I Told you Twice, What I Tell You Three Times Is True:  Memoirs of a United Nations Policy Analyst in Former Yugoslavia, Lecture sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 1998.
185. Primeneta lingvistika i makedonskite glagolni kategorii (Macedonian:  Applied Linguistics and Macedonian Verbal Categories)  (Plenary paper).  Macedonian Applied Linguistics Association, First International Congress, University of Skopje, May 1998.
186. Romani identity and Romani Literature,  guest lecture, course on Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern and Central European Literature, University of Chicago, May 1998.
187. Linguistic Emblems and Emblematic Languages: On Language as Flag in the Balkans, First Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial lecture in South Slavic Linguistics, Ohio State University, May 1998
188. Turkish Lexicon in the Balkans, Ohio State University, May 1998.
189. Application of Linguistic Theory to Teaching the Macedonian Verb.  Conference on Internationalizing the Curriculum:  The Languages of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Duke-UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Duke University, July/August 1998.
190. The Grammatical Expression of Presumption and Related Concepts in Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance, Twelfth International Congress of Slavists, Jagellonian University of Kraków, Poland, August 1998.
191. Pronominal Object Reduplication (Prolepsis and Resumption) in Romani, Fourth International Conference on Romani Linguistics, University of Manchester, England, September 1998.
192. Admirativnostta v minaloto i dnes.  [Bulgarian:  Admirativity Yesterday and Today].  International Symposium Honoring the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician Vladimir Georgiev, sponsored by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Sofia, Bankya, Bulgaria, October 1998.
193. The Albanian Language in Its Eastern Diaspora (H AlbanikÆ Gl?ssa sthn AnatolikÆ Diasporã), Conference on Arvanitika and Greek:  Issues Concerning Multilingual and Multicultural Communities", Sponsored by the Municpaility of Livadhia and Exandas Co. with cooperation from the European Union, Livadhia, Greece, November 1998.
194. Minority as a Linguistic Category in Macedonia  (Plenary paper).  Conference 'When Languages Collide: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Implications Of Language Conflict and Language Coexistence."  Ohio State University, Columbus, November 1998.
195. Blazķe Koneski i severnoamerikanskata lingvistika (Plenary paper). (Macedonian: Blazķe Koneski and North American Linguistics). International Conference on the Contribution of Blazķe Koneski to Macedonian Culture. University of Skopje, Macedonia, December 1998.
196. RTV Interviews: CBS (29 March 1999), ABC (30 March 1999), WMAQ (31 March 1999), WBEZ NPR (30 September 1999).
197. The Electronic Battle Fields of Kosovo: A Grammar-Based Approach to Competency in Albanian. Second Conference on Internationalizing the Curriculum: The Languages of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Duke-UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Duke University, April 1999.
198. Fable as History: The Macedonian Context of "Before the Rain”. Conference: One Film - Many Histories: An Inquiry into the Film "Before the Rain". European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre, Department of History and Civilisation, Florence, Italy, April 1999.
199. Language, Politics, and Identity in the Balkans. South Central European Studies Seminar, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, Washington, DC, April 1999.
200. Metohija and the Plain of Dukagjin: Academic Perspectives on the crisis in Kosov@ [sic!]. World Jewish Congress (Midwest Branch), Chicago, May 1999.
201. On Macedonia. Teach-In on the War in Yugoslavia. University of Chicago, May 1999.
202. The Bulgarian Indefinite Article Revisited in Its Balkan Context, Sixth Bulgarian-American Conference on Bulgarian Studies. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, May 1999.
203. The Romani Indefinite Article in Its Historical and Areal Context. GLS Annual Meeting, University of Florence, Italy, June 1999.
204. Romani in its European Context. Public lecture, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, July 1999.
205. Albaniaźs Historical Legacy. Seminar on Albania for US Ambassador-elect Joseph Limprecht, US Department of State, Washington DC, July 1999.
206. After 170 years of Balkan Linguistics: Whither the Millennium? Eighth International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Bucharest, August 1999.
207. Evidentiality in Balkan Slavic. Kyoto University, October 1999.
208. Balkan Linguistics: Its Past, Present, and Future. Public lecture, Kyoto University, October 1999.
209. Ethnic Problems and Languages in the Balkans. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. November 1999.
210. The History of Slavic and Balkan Studies in the United States. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, November 1999.
211. Problems in Balkan-Slavic Linguistics. Tokyo University, November 1999.
212. Ethnic Relations in the Republic of Macedonia. AAASS Annual Meeting, St. Louis, November 1999.
213. Comparative Balkan Perspectives on Admirativity in Albanian. Workshop on Albanian Linguistics, The Ohio State University, December 1999.
214. Barrels of Gunpowder and Mountains of Languages: Comparative Perspectives on Macedonia and Daghestan University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2000.
215. Hills of Tongues, Salads of Fruit: Ethnolinguistics and ethnopolitics in the Caucasus and the Balkans. Yale University, New Haven, February 2000.
216. Indefiniteness in Balkan Slavic. Second Northwest Slavic Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March, 2000.
217. Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Albanian. Seminar on Languages and Ethnicity in Balkan Politics, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, April 2000.
218. Language and Politics in the Balkans. South Central European Studies Seminar, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, Washington, DC, April 2000.
219. Macedonia and Daghestan: Parallels and Contrasts. Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN): Identity and the State: Nationalism and Sovereignty in a Changing World, Columbia University, New York, April 2000.
220. Picking Cherries from a Fruit Salad: Teaching Macedonian for Reading Knowledge. Third Conference on Internationalizing the Curriculum: Technologies in the Context of Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, Duke-UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Duke University, April 2000.
221. The Indefinite Article as a Balkanism, Twelfth Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, University of Kansas, May 2000.
222. The Albanian Question in Historical Perspective. Roundtable on the Albanian Question. U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, May 2000.
223. Kuadri Historik i Linguistikės Shqiptare [Albanian: Albanian Studies in the United States: Its history and Implications for the Future of Albanian Higher Education]. Conference entitled Higher Education - The Road to Democracy and Stability (Arsimi i lartė - Rruga drejt demokracisė she stabilitetit], sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the Albanian Ministry of Education, and the University of Tirana, Tirana, May 2000.
224. Phņnom¦nes de contact et maintien des fronti¦res en grammaire Rromani dans les Balkans (French: Boundary Markers in Romani Grammar: Language Structure and Identity Maintenance in the Balkan Diaspora). Conference ”Langues de diaspora”, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Sorbonne-III, Paris, May 2000.
225. For Eric Hamp on the Occasion of the Award of the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Universita degli Studi della Calabria - A Brief Note on His Contributions to the Field of Linguistics (read in absentia), June 2000.
226. Grammar and Power in Albanian: Reporting Ironic Neutrality. Sixth International Congress, International Conuncil for Central and East European Studies, Tampere, Finland, July/August 2000.
227. Neopredelenosta vo negoviot makedonski i balkanski kontekst. [Macedonian: Indefiniteness in its Macedonian and Balkan Context]. Fourth Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies. Ohrid, Macedonia, August 2000.
228. Macedonia and Kosov@ [sic!]: Language Planning since 1989 - Macedonian, Albanian, Romani, Aromanian, Turkish, Serbian. International Con