Professor Emeritus Howard I. Aronson

• University of Illinois 1952-1956 B.A., French
• Indiana University 1956-1958 M.A. , Slavic Languages and Litertures
• Moscow State University 1958-1959
• Indiana University 1959-1961 Ph.D. , Slavic Languages and Literatures

• University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages, 1961-1962.
• University of Chicago, Departments of Slavic Languages Literatures and of Linguistics
  • Assistant Professor 1962-1965
  • Associate Professor 1965-1973
  • Professor 1973-2002
• Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, Summer 1969.
• Visiting Professor, Ohio State University, Summer 1970.

• 1968: Bulgarian inflectional morphophonology. Mouton (The Hague).
• 1974:Morfonologija bolgarskogo slovoizmenenija (trans. of 1968 by T. V. Popova and N. G. Obu£enkov). Progress (Moscow).
• 1982: Georgian: a reading grammar. Slavica (Columbus, Ohio).
• 1985: Singing in Yiddish. (With Arthur Graham). Tara Publications (Cedarhurst, N.Y.)
• 1990: Georgian: a reading grammar. Corrected edition. Slavica (Columbus, Ohio).
• 1999. Georgian language and culture: a continuing course. (With Dodona Kiziria.) Slavica Publishers (Bloomington, IN).

• 1981: (With Bill J. Darden) Studies in Balkan linguistics to honor Eric P. Hamp on his sixtieth birthday. Folia Slavica 4 (nos. 2-3).
• 1982: (with Kenneth E. Naylor, Bill J. Darden and Alexander M. Schenker) Slavic linguistics and poetics: studies for Edward Stankiewicz on his 60th birthday. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 25/26.
• 1982: (With Bill J. Darden) Proceedings of the second international conference on the non-Slavic languages of the USSR. Folia Slavica 5 (nos. 1-3).
• 1984: Papers from the third conference on the non-Slavic languages of the USSR. Folia Slavica 7 (nos. 1-2).
• 1985: Da, ná, sa`, të, te: Constructions with subordinating complementizers in the Balkans. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica. [= Folia Slavica, vol. 7, no. 3]
• 1989: The Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies. Chicago. Chicago Linguistics Society.
• 1989: Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, volume 1.
• 1990: Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, volume 2.
• 1991: Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, volume 3.
• 1992: The non-Slavic languages of the USSR: Linguistic studies, new series. Chicago. Chicago Linguistics Society.
• 1994: NSL.7: Linguistic studies in the non-Slavic languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society
• 1994: Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, volume 4-5 (1992-93).
• 1994: Non-Slavic languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth Conference. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica.
• 1996: NSL.8: Linguistic Studies in the Non-Slavic Languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
• 1997: Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, volume 6-7 (1994-96).
• in press. NSL-9: Linguistic Studies in the Non-Slavic Languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.

• 1962: Vowel/zero alternations in the Bulgarian inflection. Slavic and East European Journal, 6:34-38.
• 1963: American doctoral dissertations in the fields of Slavic and East European languages and literatures. Slavic and East European Journal, 7:l-8.
• 1963: (with E. Stankiewicz) The accent pattern of the Bulgarian noun. Indiana Slavic Studies , 3:130-139.
• 1964: The gender system of the Bulgarian noun. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 8:87-101.
• 1964: Problems of English interference in the teaching of Russian pronunciation: an approach to contrastive analysis. Slavic and East European Journal, 8:308-319.
• 1966: Order of presentation of grammatical structures in the teaching of Russian. Slavic and East European Journal, 10:181-190.
• 1967: On some functions of the opposition definite/non-definite in Bulgarian. Languages and Areas (Bobrinskoy Festschrift), Chicago, 1-5.
• 1967: The grammatical categories of the indicative in the contemporary Bulgarian literary language. To Honor Roman Jakobson, The Hague, Paris, 82-98.
• 1969: Survey of West and South Slavic languages. C. Jelavich, ed. Language and Area Studies: East Central and Southeastern Europe . Chicago, University of Chicago Press, pp. 411-449.
• 1970: Towards a semantic analysis of case and subject in Georgian. Lingua, 25:291-301.
• 1970: On teaching Russian vocabulary and the state of the discipline. Slavic and East European Journal, 14:475-483.
• 1972: Some notes on relative clauses in Georgian. The Chicago Which Hunt: Papers from the Relative Clause Festival . Chicago, Chicago Linguistic Society, 136-143.
• 1972: The study of Bulgarian language and literature in the context of Slavic and Balkan area studies. C. Moser, ed., Conference on Twentieth-Century Bulgarian Literature. Washington, D.C., 85-95.
• 1973: Why aren’t we fluent? Slavic and East European Journal, 17:437-447.
• 1973: The role of attitudes about languages in the learning of foreign languages. Modern Language Journal, 57:323-329.
• 1976: Grammatical subject in old Georgian. Bedi Kartlisa. 35:253-260.
• 1977: Interrelationships between aspect and mood in Bulgarian. Folia Slavica, 1:9-32.
• 1977: English as an active language. Lingua , 41:201-216.
• 1977: Formal correlates to function in the Georgian declension. Bedi Kartlisa , 35:253-260.
• 1979: Towards a typology of transitivity: the strange case of the Georgian subject. Paul R. Clyne, William F. Hanks, Carol L. Hofbauer, eds., The elements: a parasession on linguistic units and levels including papers from the conference on non-Slavic languages of the USSR, Chicago, Chicago Linguistic Society, 253-260.
• 1979: Caucasian languages, Kartvelian. Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature, vol. 3. Academic International Press. 215-220.
• 1981: Towards a typology of aspect in the languages of the Balkan peninsula. Studies in Balkan linguistics to honor Eric P. Hamp on his sixtieth birthday. = Folia Slavica 4:198-204.
• 1982: On "naturalness" and structure in the contemporary Bulgarian literary language. Slavic linguistics and poetics: Studies for Edward Stankiewicz on his 60th Birthday. = International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 25/26:51-63.
• 1982: On the status of version as a grammatical category in Georgian. Proceedings from the Second International Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR = Folia Slavica 5:66-80.
• 1984: The need for updating goals, priorities, and methodologies in the teaching of Serbo-Croatian. Serbo-Croatian Teaching Materials Project, Working Papers, 1:711.
• 1984: On homonymy in the Georgian verbal system. Folia Slavica 7:21-37.
• 1985: On aspect in Yiddish. General linguistics 25:171-88.
• 1985: "Form, function, and the ‘perfective’ in Bulgarian." in The Scope of Slavic Aspect (Michael S. Flier and Alan Timberlake, eds.) Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 274-285.
• 1987: Slavic and Balkan lingustics. Slavic and East European Journal 31 (Thirtieth anniversary issue):191-95.
• 1989: "Inflection vs. derivation in Georgian conjugation." in The non-Slavic languages of the USSR: Linguistic studies (H. I. Aronson, ed.) Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1-19.
• 1990: Ju. V. Zycar’, E. N. ?xotua. Tipologija tranzitivnosti i glubokaja diaxronija gruzinskogo jazyka (neskol’ko kommentariev k odnoj gipoteze.) [The typology of transitivity and the deep diachrony of Georgian: some comments on a hypothesis.] Macne 1. 1990:147-160. [A translation of and commentary on an article of mine, "Towards a typology of transitivity: the strange case of the Georgian subject (1979)].
• 1991: "Towards a typology of verbal categories." in New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and variation (Linda R. Waugh and Stephen Rudy, eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 111-131.
• 1991: "Modern Georgian." in The indigenous languages of the Caucasus, vol. I. The Kartvelian languages (Alice C. Harris, ed.). Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 219-312.
• 1992: "The marking of O3 in Georgian." The non-Slavic languages of the USSR: Linguistic studies, new series. Chicago. Chicago Linguistics Society. Pp. 1-17.
• 1992. "Bulgarian." in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (William Bright, editor in chief). New York, Oxford. Oxford University Press. Pp. 202-205.
• 1994. "Datives and indirect objects in Georgian" in: NSL.7, pp. 1-14.
• 1994. "Transliterating Georgian": Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, vol. 4-5 (1992-93), pp. 77-84.
• 1994. "Paradigmatic and syntagmatic subject in Georgian." in: Non-Slavic languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth Conference. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica. pp. 13-33.
• 1995. "Towards a typology of the Balkan future." Indiana Slavic Studies 7 (1994):9-18.
• 1996. "The opposition adjective/substantive in Georgian and Kartvelian." in: NSL.8: Linguistic studies in the Non-Slavic languages fo the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics. Chicago. Chicago Linguistics Society. Chicago Linguistics Society. Pp. 33-43.
• 1996. "Yiddish." in Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, eds. The world’s writing systems. Oxford University Press, pp. 735-741.
• 1997. "Ak_ak_i ?anije—In memoriam." BurÆi erovnebisa 2 (19—tebervali) (Tbilisi). Pp. 3-4. [Georgian translation of introduction to Non-Slavic languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth Conference. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica.]
• 1997. "Transitivity, reduplication, and clitics in the Balkan languages." In: Neka mu e ve™na slavata: studies dedicated to the memory of Zbigniew Go¬aˆb. Victor A. Friedman, Masha Belyavski-Frank, Mark Pisaro, and David Testen, editors. [= Balkanistica 10.] pp. 20-45.
• 1997. "Georgian phonology." In: Phonologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus). Alan S. Kaye, editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. pp. 929-939.

• Itsik Manger’s Khumesh lider: an introduction to Yiddish and Yiddish Culture.
• Proceedings of the First Chicago Conference on Caucasia.
• Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, volume 8.

• Carleton D. Hodge, et al. Bulgarian: Basic Course. Slavic and East European Journal , 7 (1963), 73-75.
• Albert Lord. Beginning Bulgarian. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 8 (1964), 133-135.
• Lila Pargment. Beginner’s Russian Reader with Conversational Exercises. Modern Language Journal , 48 (1964), 391-392.
• Morton Benson. Dictionary of Russian Personal Names. Modern Language Journal , 50 (1966), 166-167.
• E. Vasilev, et al. Izvestija na Narodnata biblioteka i Bibliotekata na Sofijskija da`r¢aven universitet, 3. Slavic and East European Journal , 10 (1966), 262-263.
• Steible, Daniel J. Concise Handbook of Linguistics. Slavic and East European Journal, 12 (1968), 375-376.
• G. A. Klimov. Die kaukasischen Sprachen. Language, 47 (1971), 232-234.
• Dean S. Worth, Andrew S. Kozak, and Donald B. Johnson. Russian Derivational Dictionary. Slavic and East European Journal , 18 (1974), 454-456.
• H. Christoph Wohlfart and Janet F. Carol. Meet Cree: a guide to the Cree Language. International Journal of American Linguistics, 51 (1985), 321-24.
• Ernest A. Scatton. A Reference Grammar of Modern Bulgarian. To appear in Slavic and East European Journal.
• Alice C. Harris. Diachronic syntax: the Kartvelian case. Language, 64 (1988), 150-51.
• Torikashvili, John J. Georgian-English English-Georgian dictionary. To appear in Modern Language Journal.
• Janton, Pierre. Esperanto: language, literature, and continuity. Modern Language Journal, 78 (1994),117-118.
• Wexler, Paul. The Balkan substratum of Yiddish: a reassessment of the unique Romance and Greek components. Slavic Review, 54 (1995) 191.
• Benyukh, Oleg P., ed. English-Russian comprehensive dictionary. Modern Language Journal 80 (1996), 259-260.
• Hewitt, B. G. Georgian: a structural reference grammar. Anthropological linguistics 39-1 (1997), 166-168.