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Curriculum Vitae:
Bill J. Darden


Born: 8 August, 1939

Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1957-9

University of Tennessee (Russian) BA 1963-4

University of Chicago (Slavic Linguistics) Ph.D 1973

Awards and Fellowships:
National Merit Scholarship 1957

University of Chicago Fellowship 1964-5

NDEA Fellowships 1965-6, 1966-7

Fullbright Lectureship, USSR, U of Moscow 1974

Fullbright Lectureship, USSR, U of Vilnius 1985

Military Service:
United States Army 1960-3

Employment:
University of Colorado, Boulder
Assistant Professor 1968-70

University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor 1970-2

University of Chicago
Assistant Professor 1972-5
Associate Professor 1975-91
Professor 1991-

Administrative Positions:
Graduate Student Advisor, Linguistics students, Slavic Department 1972-80

Chairman, Department of Linguistics. 1980-85

Chairman, Department of Slavic Languages 1991-97

Chairman, Department of Slavic Languages 2004-

PUBLICATIONS
  • "The Expression of Morphological Redundancy in Generative Grammar—An Example from Russian Accent," The Chicago Journal of Linguistics 1:1, October, 1967, pp. 85-102.
  • "Phrases without Paraphrases," The Chicago Journal of Linguistics 2:1, 1968, pp. 68-70.
  • "Is the Perfect an Imbedded Past? A Statement from the Devil's Advocate," CLS 4, 1968, pp. 14-21.
  • "On the Question of the Copula," CLS 5, 1969, pp. 30-36.
  • "Accent in the Lithuanian Noun Declension," Magner and Schmalstieg, eds., Baltic Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1970, pp. 47-52.
  • "The Fronting of Vowels after Palatals in Slavic," CLS 6, 1970, pp. 459-70.
  • "A Note on Sommer's Claim that there Exist Languages without CV Syllables," International Journal of American Linguistics, 37:2, 1971, pp. 126-128.
  • "An Example of Iconicity in Russian," Zwicky et al. eds. Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory Essays Presented to James McCawley on his Thirty-Third Birthday, 1971, pp. 87-89.
  • "Diachronic Evidence for Phonemics," CLS 7, 1971, pp. 323-332.
  • "Rule Ordering in Baltic and Slavic Nominal Accentuation," SEEJ 16, 1, 1972, pp. 74-83.
  • "On Confirmative-Tag Sentences in English," CLS 9, 1973, pp. 104-113.
  • "Indirect Speech and Reported Speech in Lithuanian and Bulgarian," You Take the High Node and I'll Take the Low Node, CLS, Chicago, 1973, pp. 326-336.
  • "What Rains?" Linguistic Inquiry IV, 4, 1973, pp. 526-528.
  • Introduction to Natural Phonology, CLS, 1974.
  • "On Abstraction," CLS 12, 1976, 110-121.
  • "O Novom napravlenii v generativnoj fonologii v SShA," Zvegincev, ed., Problemy teoreticheskoj i eksperimental'noj lingvistiki, Moscow 1977, pp. 55-70.
  • "On the Admirative in Bulgarian," Folia Slavica I, 1977, pp. 59-63.
  • "A Global Rule in Lithuanian Phonology," CLS 13, 1977, pp. 116-124.
  • "More on Sundanese Nasalization," CLS Book of Squibs, 1977, pp. 20-21.
  • "Local Ordering vs. Multiple Application of Phonological Rules," CLS 14, 1978, pp. 65-75.
  • "On the Slavic Reflexes of Indo-European *pt," General Linguistics, 18, 1, 1978, pp. 10-13.
  • "On the Nature of Morphophonemic Rules," CLS 15, 1979, pp. 79-89.
  • "Nominal Accent Classes in Lithuanian as Compared to Slavic and Indo-European," The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels, CLS 1979, pp. 330-338.
  • "On the Source of OCS jo®," Folia Slavica 4, 1981, pp. 243-45.
  • "On Arguments for Abstract Vowels in Greenlandic," CLS 17, 1981, pp. 31-37.
  • "Declension Types and Accent Classes in Modern Lithuanian Adjectives," Folia Slavica 5, 1982, pp. 128-135.
  • "Dissimilative Glide Insertion in West Greenlandic," CLS 18, 1982, pp. 82-86.
  • "The Reflexes of I.E. Barytones among Balto-Slavic and Slavic Substantives," IJSLP XXV-XXVI, 1982, pp. 99-107.
  • "Zametki o glave 'Fonologija' v Russkoj grammatike," Russian Language Journal, XXXVI, no. 125, 1982, 167-9.
  • "A Critical Look at Natural Phonology," CLS 19, 1983, pp. 95-119.
  • "On de Saussure's Law," Folia Slavica, 7, 1984, 105-119.
  • "Reduplication and the Underlying Consonant System of Southern Paiute," Proceedings of the 18th Meeting of the Mid-America Linguistics Association, 1983,
  • "CV Phonology and Klamath," IJAL, 51: 384-387.
  • "Explanation and Reality in Phonology," CLS 21, 1985, 40-64.
  • “Comments”, Proceedings of the Conference on Participant Roles: South Asia and Adjacent Areas, Zide, Magier, and Schiller, eds, Bloomington: IULC, 1985, x-xi.
  • "Truncation and/or Transderivational Constraints in Russian Word-Formation." CLS 24, 1988, 88-99.
  • "The Russian Palatalizations and the Nature of Morphophonological Rules", CLS 25, 1989,41-55.
  • "On the Relationship between the Nominal Accent in Lithuanian and that of Other Indo-European Languages," The Nonslavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies 1989, CLS. 56-79.
  • "Morphophonology", entry in Encylopedia of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
  • "On the Syntax of Lithuanian Participles," Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies II, 1992, 71-98.
  • "The Cairene Arabic Verb Without Form Classes", in The Joy of Grammar: A Festschrift in Honor of James D. McCawley (eds. Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (1992). pp. 11-24.
  • "Laryngeals and Syllabicity in Balto-Slavic and PIE," CLS 26, 2, 1990. pp. 61-70.
  • "Linear Assimilation in Consonant Clusters," CLS 27. 100-106.
  • "On the History and Function of Ablaut in the Verb from Balto-Slavic to Russian," University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 5, 1990, pp. 1-15.
  • "Eric the Word-Master," CLS 26, Vol 1, 1990.
  • "Comments on Ivanov's Istoricheskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka." University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 7, 1991.p.48-102.
  • "Aspect, Tense, and Conjugation Class in PIE," CLS 30, 1994, 131-140.
  • "The Contextual Uses of the Present Perfect in the Primary Chronicle" in S. Karlinsky, J. L. Rice, and B. P. Scherr, eds, O Rus! Studia litteraria slavica in honorem Hugh McLean, Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1995, 129-141.
  • "The Slavic s-aorist and the Baltic s-future," Linguistica Baltica 4 (1995) 217-23.
  • "The History of the Accent in the Imperfect in South Slavic," Indiana Slavic Studies, 7 (1995): 1-8.
  • "Rebuilding Morphology without Grammaticalization" CLS 31, 1995, 110-126.
  • "The Evolution of the Balto-Slavic Verb," NSL 8, 1996, 107-1`38.
  • "On the Prehistory of the Slavic Nonindicative," Balkanistica 10, 1997, 81-94.
  • "On the Relevance of Genetic Trees for Linguistic Reconstruction," with Ken Olsen, CLS 35, 1999.
  • "On the Question of the Anatolian Origin of Indo-Hittite," in Robert Drews, ed. Greater Anatolia and The Indo-Hittite Language Family, Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph no. 38, Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, 2001, pp 184-228.
  • "Macedonian as a Model for the Development of Indo-European" Indiana Slavic Studies 12. 85-102, 2001
  • “On the Question of the Archaism of the Hittite Verb,” in The Linguist’s Linguist: A Collection of Papers in Honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer. Munich: Lincom Europa 2002, 127-134.
  • “Who were the Sklaveni and Where did they Come From? Byzantinische Forschunen, 28, 2004
  • “Morphology and Phonology” Oxford Encyclopedia of Linguistics, forthcoming

Reviews
  • Shapiro, M., Aspects of Russian Morphology. Cambridge: Slavica, 1969 (General Linguistics 13, 1, pp. 56-67).
  • de Bray, R.G.A., Guide to the Slavonic Languages, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded, Slavica, 1980 (Slavic and East European Review).

Editorships
  • Darden, B.J., C.-J.N. Bailey, and A. Davidson, Papers from the Fourth Regional Meeting—Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, 1968.
  • Aronson, Howard I., and Bill J. Darden, Studies in Balkan Linguistics to Honor Eric P. Hamp on his Sixtieth Birthday, Folia Slavica 4, 2-3, 1981.
  • Naylor, Kenneth E., Howard I. Aronson, Bill J. Darden, and Alexander M. Schenker, Slavic Linguistics and Poetics: Studies for Edward Stankiewicz on his 60th Birthday, 17 November 1980. IJSLP XXV-XXVI, 1982.
  • Aronson, Howard I., and Bill J. Darden, Papers from the Second Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR, Folia Slavica, 5, 1-3, 1982.

Work in progess:
  • Book on development of Balto-Slavic from Proto-Indo-European