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CURRICULUM VITAE
VICTOR A. FRIEDMAN
Andrew W. Mellon Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature


University of Chicago
1130 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
e-mail: vfriedm@uchicago.edu


PERSONAL DATA:
Born: Chicago, IL, 18 October 1949

EDUCATION:
  • Ph.D. University of Chicago. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Linguistics (The first dual Ph.D. in the Divisions). 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.

EMPLOYMENT:
  • University of Chicago
    • Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Chairman 1997 - 2000 and 2001-04), 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.

CONTRACT/GUEST:
  • Research Center for Linguistic Typology, LaTrobe University, Australia
    • Visiting Fellow, August-November 2004.
  • University of Prishtina
    • Guest Professor, May, 2002
  • 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, July 2003.
  • 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.

COURSES:
Introduction to Slavic Linguistics; South Slavic Linguistics; Balkan Linguistics; Comparative East South Slavic Linguistics; Romani Linguistics; Structure of Albanian; Bulgarian for Slavists; Language Contact; History of Russian; Structure of Russian; Elementary Russian; History of Macedonian; Structure of Macedonian; Elementary Macedonian; Advanced Macedonian; Albanian; Bulgarian; Georgian; Lak; Old Church Slavonic; Romani; Turkish; Perspectives on Language in the Humanities; Language, Power, and Identity in Southeastern Europe. Reading Courses: Albanian dialectology; Macedonian Literature; Bulgarian Literature; Advanced Old Church Slavonic; A. Konstantinov’s Do C◊ikago i nazad; Croatian Language and Nationalism, Balkan History from the early Middle Ages to the Present.

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES
  1. The Relative Clauses in Slavic (with Zbigniew Go¬a®b). The Chicago Which Hunt. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1972. 30 46.
  2. Za nekoi osobenosti na makedonskiot glagol od glednata toc√ka na generativnata semantika (Macedonian: On some characteristics of the Macedonian verb from the viewpoint of generative semantics). Makedonski jazik, Vol. 25, 1974. 205 210.
  3. The Image of G‰org´i Pulevski (Blaz√e Koneski; translation from Macedonian). Macedonian Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1974. 57 59. Reprinted in Makedonija, Vol. 21, No. 254. 1974. 14 15.
  4. 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, 1976. 280 292.
  5. The Constitutional Development of the S(ocialist) R(epublic of) Macedonia. (G‰org´i Caca; translation from Macedonian). Macedonian Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1975. 76 91.
  6. Dialectal Synchrony and Diachronic Syntax: The Macedonian Perfect. Papers from the Parasession on Diachronic Syntax. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1976. 96 104.
  7. Structural and Generative Approaches to an Analysis of the Macedonian Preterite. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1976. 460 464.
  8. The Question of a Bulgarian Indefinite Article. Bulgaria: Past and Present. Columbus: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1976. 334 340.
  9. Peasant and National Culture in Southeastern Europe: A Comment. Balkanistica, Vol. 3, 1976. 59 62.
  10. The Morphology of Case in Southeast Serbian Dialects. Folia Slavica, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. 76 88.
  11. 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.
  12. A Problem in Grammatical Invariance. The CLS Book of Squibs. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1977. 42 43.
  13. Dostoevsky on the Meaning of Humanity. Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. 40.
  14. Macedonian Toponomastics: Popular Etymologies and Etymological Popularities. Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. 41.
  15. 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 & Co. 1996. 4. ).
  16. Latent Accusative Tendencies in the Skopje Dialect. Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. 68 73.
  17. Turco Slavica Maledicta, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1977. 185 188.
  18. The Zaporozhian Letter to the Turkish Sultan: Historical Commentary and Linguistic Analysis. Slavica Hierosolymitana, Vol. 2. Jerusalem: Magnes. 1978. 25 138.
  19. 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. 108 118.
  20. Influence vs Convergence in Areal Phenomena. The Southeast Conference on Linguistics Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1979. 1 8.
  21. 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. 339 350.
  22. Verbal Categories in the Languages of the Balkans (Report). The American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1979. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 1979. 331.
  23. 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 & Co. 1996. 89 96. ).
  24. The Study of Balkan Admirativity: Its History and Development. Balkanistica, Vol. 6, 1980. 7 30.
  25. Admirativnost vo balkanskite jazici: Kategorija protiv upotreba. (Macedonian: Admirativity in the Balkan languages: Category vs usage). Makedonski jazik, Vol. 30, 1980. 121 129.
  26. Admirativity and Confirmativity. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1981. 12 28.
  27. The Pluperfect in Albanian and Macedonian. Folia Slavica, Vol. 4, No. 2 3, 1981. 273 282.
  28. Nekoi zabeles√ki za indirekten govor i prekaz√uvanjeto vo makedonskiot i albanskiot jazik. (Macedonian: Some observations on indirect speech and renarration in Macedonian and Albanian). Makedonski jazik, Vol. 32 33, 1981-1982. 769 776.
  29. Reportedness in Bulgarian: Category or Stylistic Variant? International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, Vol. 25 26, 1982. 149 163.
  30. 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.
  31. Admirativity in Bulgarian Compared with Albanian and Turkish. Bulgaria Past and Present, ed. by D. Kosev, Vol. 2. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1982. 63 67.
  32. 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.
  33. Znac√enie na otdavna minalo vreme za istorijata na bu≥lgarskija ezik. (Bulgarian: The significance of the pluperfect for the history of the Bulgarian language). Dokladi. Istoric√eski razvoj na bu≥lgarskija ezik. Pu≥rvi mez√dunaroden kongres po bu≥lgaristika. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1983. 111 126.
  34. Vocabulary Elements in Early Macedonian Lexicons. Maledicta, Vol. 7, 1983. 164 166.
  35. Status and the Lak Verbal System. Folia Slavica, Vol. 7, No. 1 2, 1984. 135 149.
  36. The Sociolinguistics of Literary Macedonian. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 52, 1985. 31 57.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.
  39. Aspectual Usage in Russian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian. The Scope of Slavic Aspect (UCLA Slavic Studies, Vol. 12), ed. by Michael Flier and Alan Timberlake. Columbus: Slavica. 1985. 234 246.
  40. Balkan Romani Modality and Other Balkan Languages. Folia Slavica, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1985. 381 389.
  41. Linguistics, Nationalism, and Literary Languages: A Balkan Perspective. The Real World Linguist: Linguistic Applications in the 1980's, ed. by Victor Raskin and Peter Bjarkman. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. 1986. 287 305.
  42. Romani Te in a Balkan Context. Je®zykowe studia ba¬kanistyczne, Vol. 1. Wroc¬aw: Polska Akademia Nauk. 1986. 39 48.
  43. Evidentiality in the Balkans: Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Albanian. Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology, (Advances in Discourse Processes, Vol. 20), ed. by Johanna Nichols and Wallace Chafe. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. 1986. 168 187.
  44. Turkish Influence in Modern Macedonian: The Current Situation and Its General Background. Festschrift für Wolfgang Gesemann, Band 3, Beiträge zur slawischen Sprachwissenschaft und Kulturgeschichte. (Slawische Sprachen und Literaturen Band 8), ed. by Helmut Schaller. Munich: Hieronymus. 1986. 85 108.
  45. Victor Friedman, ’70, and the Gypsy Lore Society. Reed Quarterly. Fall 1986. 8 9.
  46. Kavkazskoe zaimstvovanie v ciganskom. `Etimologija. 1986 1987 (Moscow). 229 230. (Russian version of 48).
  47. 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.
  48. 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 46).
  49. Morphological Innovation and Semantic Shift in Macedonian. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1988. 34 41.
  50. The Category of Evidentiality in the Balkans and the Caucasus. American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists: Linguistics, ed. by A. M. Schenker. Columbus: Slavica. 1988. 121 139.
  51. 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.
  52. Za sloz√enite minati vreminja vo dihovskiot govor vo sporedba so makedonskiot literaturen jazik. (Macedonian: Complex Past Tenses in the Dihovo Dialect in Comparison with Literary Macedonian) Jazic√nite pojavi vo Bitola i bitolsko deneska i vo minatoto. Skopje: Makedonska Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite. 1988. 193 200.
  53. La typologie morpho syntaxique des constructions en da të sa≥ na´ dans les langues balkaniques. Cahiers Balkaniques, Vol. 12. Paris: INALCO. 1988. 77 94.
  54. On The Question of “Pluperfect” in Lak. Iberiul kavkasiuri enatmecnierebis celicdeuli (Tbilisi), Vol. 15, 1988. 282 292.
  55. Elementary Georgian Obscenity. Maledicta, Vol. 10, 1988 1989. 37 42.
  56. Turquismes en romani: à propos de l’e´tablissement d’une langue rom unique et les composants lexicaux turcs des diffe´rents dialectes. Tsiganes: Identite´, E‰volution, ed. by Patrick Williams. Paris: E‰tudes Tsiganes. 1989. 403 413.
  57. Toward Defining the Position of Turkisms in Romani. Jezik i kultura Roma, ed. by Milan S◊ipka. Sarajevo: Institut za prouc√avanje nacionalnih odnosa. 1989. 251 267.
  58. On the Terminology for Lak Synthetic Past Paradigms. The Non Slavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 1989. 106 120.
  59. Macedonian: Codification and Lexicon. Language Reform, Volume IV, ed. by I. Fodor and C. Hagège. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. 1989. 299 334.
  60. Upotrebata na glagolskite vreminja vo makedonskite i vo drugi balkanski poslovic√ni izrazi. (Macedonian: The use of verbal tenses in Macedonian and other Balkan proverbial expressions). Makedonski jazik, Vol. 40 41, 1989 1990. 661 670.
  61. 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. 133 144. (English version of 58).
  62. Razlikuvanjeto na makedonskite glagolni paradigmi so pomos√nite 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.
  63. 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.
  64. Lak Oral Poetry in Turkey: A Trans National Phenomenon. The Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, Vol. 2, 1990. 13 17.
  65. The Earliest Text in Balkan (Rumelian) Romani: A Passage from Evliya Çelebi's Seya≤hat na≤me (with Robert Dankoff). Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Fifth Series), Vol. 1, No. 1, 1991. 1 20.
  66. Case in Romani: Old Grammar in New Affixes. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Fifth Series), Vol. 1, No. 2. 1991. 85 102.
  67. Romani Nominal Inflection: Cases or Postpositions?. Problemy opisu gramatycznego je®zyko´w s¬owian´skych, (Studia gramatyczne, Vol. 11). Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences. 1991. 57 64.
  68. 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.
  69. Glagolskite kategorii, morfolos√kite paradigmi i opredeluvanjeto na izoglosite na makedonskata jazic√na teritorija. (Macedonian: Verbal categories, morphological paradigms, and the determination of isoglosses on Macedonian linguistic territory). Studia lingvistica Polono Jugoslavica, Vol. 6, 1991. 33 40.
  70. 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.
  71. Za Blaz√e Koneski (Macedonian: For Blaz√e Koneski). Literturen zbor, Vol. 38, No. 5 6, 1992. 11 13.
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. Dialectal Base, Variation and Codification of the Balkan Literary Languages: Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romany. Balkan Forum, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1992. 147 153. (English version of 70).
  75. Aspectual Oppositions in Bulgarian, Albanian, and Turkish. Su≥postavitelno ezikoznanie, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1992. 33 38.
  76. Balkan Indicativity: Diversity within Unity. Balkan Forum, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1993. 255 262.
  77. The First Philological Conference for the Establishment of the Macedonian Alphabet and the Macedonian Literary Language: Its Precedents and Consequences. The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: The "First Congress" Phenomenon, ed. by Joshua Fishman. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1993. 159 180.
  78. The Loss of the Imperfective Aorist in Macedonian: Structural Significance and Balkan Context. American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, ed. by Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake. Columbus: Slavica. 1993. 285 302.
  79. Charakterystyka socjolingwistyczna wspó¬czesnego literackiego je®zyka macedon´skiego (Polish: Sociolinguistic characteristics of the modern Macedonian literary language). Socjolingwistyka 12 13. Kraków: Polish Academy of Sciences. 1993. 183 197. (Polish version of 36).
  80. Language Policy and Language Behavior in Macedonia: Background and Current Events. Language Contact, Language Conflict, ed. by Eran Fraenkel and Christina Kramer. New York: Peter Lang. 1993. 73 99.
  81. Macedonian. The Slavonic Languages, ed. by B. Comrie and G. Corbett. London: Routledge. 1993. 249 305. (Revised and updated version published in Dve makedonski gramatiki na sovremeniot makedonski standarden jazik od Horas G. Lant i Viktor A. Fridman (Macedonian: Two American grammars of the modern Macedonian standard language by Horace G. Lunt and Victor A. Friedman.) Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2003. 167-263)
  82. Dialect Variation and Questions of Standardization in Macedonia: Macedonian, Albanian and Romani. Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1993. 7 35.
  83. 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.
  84. Turkisms in a Comparative Balkan Context. Septième Congrès International d'Études du Sud Est Européen: Rapports. Athens: Greek National Committee for Southeast European Studies. 1994. 521 543.
  85. 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.
  86. About the ja in makedonskiot jazik: The Fate of Initial *e√ and *e® in Macedonian. (with Laura Janda). Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Vol. 2, No. 2. 1994. 284 288.
  87. 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).
  88. Slavic Albanian Contacts and Early Polyglot Lexicons: The Albanian Lexicon of the Monk Arkádïi, 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.
  89. Ndikimi i shqipes në të folmet arumune të Maqedonisë jugëperëndimore: mënyra habitore. (Albanian: The influence of Albanian on the Arumanian dialects of southwestern Macedonia: The admirative mood). Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovës, Vol. 1, 1994. 195 197.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. Surprise! Surprise! Arumanian Has Had an Admirative!, Indiana Slavic Studies, Vol. 7, 1994. 79 89.
  93. 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.
  94. 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 Nas√e pismo).
  95. Potc√inet 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.
  96. 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.
  97. La cuisine macédonien (with Veselka Palmer). Cuisines d'Orient et d'ailleurs, ed. by Michel Aufray and Michel Perret. Paris: INALCO/Grenoble: Glénant. 1995. 76 79.
  98. The Differentiation of Macedonian and Bulgarian in a Balkan Context. Balkan Forum, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1995. 291 305.
  99. 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).
  100. Mënyra habitore në gjuhën arumune dhe në gjuhën shqipe paralele dhe ndikime (Albanian: The admirative mood in Arumanian and Albanian: parallels and influences). Seminari XVII ndërkomëtar për gjuhën, letërsinë dhe kulturën shqiptare: Përmbledhje e ligjeratëve, referimeve,kumtesave dhe e diskutimeve. Tirana: Albanian Academy Sciences. 1995. 221 225.
  101. The Place of Balkan Linguistics in Understanding Balkan History and Balkan Modernity. Bulletin de l'Association des études du sud est européen, Vol. 24 25, 1994 1995. 87 94.
  102. 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.
  103. Makedon ve Türk dillerinde belirli geçmis∞ ve hikâye zamanlarπ (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.
  104. Jazic√nite 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.
  105. Mbi rindërtimin e situatës dialektore shqipe dhe sllave në mesin e shekullit XIX në Traki (Albanian: On the Reconstruction of the Albanian & Slavic Dialectal Situation in Mid Nineteenth Century Thrace). Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovës, Vol. 2, 1995. 211 224.
  106. 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.
  107. 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.
  108. 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 116, which was supposed to have appeared in 1995).
  109. Romani and the Census in the Republic of Macedonia. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Fifth Series), Vol. 6, No. 2, 1996. 89 101.
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. Diferencijacija na makedonskiot i bugarskiot jazik vo balkanskiot kontekst. (Macedonian: The Differentiation of Macedonian and Bulgarian in a Balkan Context) Jazicite na poc√vata na Makedonija. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1996. 75 82.
  113. 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 70).
  114. A newly discovered grammatical form in the Arumanian dialect of Beala de Sus. Newsletter of the Society Fa˘rs∞a˘rot∞ul, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1996. 1 6. (popular version of 99; also at http://www.farsarotul.org/nl19_1.htm).
  115. Macedonian Lexicography and East South Slavic Linguistics: Problems and Perspectives. Balkan Forum Vol. 4, No. 4, 1996. 171 180.
  116. 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 89, in press for 7 years).
  117. The Turkish Lexical Element in the Languages of the Republic of Macedonia from the Ottoman Period to Independence. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1996. 133 150. (updated version of 44 and 93).
  118. Habitorja e shqipes dhe "prezumtivul" e rumanishtes. (Albanian: The Albanian admirative and the Romanian presumptive). Seminari XVIII ndërkomëtar për gjuhën, letërsinë dhe kulturën shqiptare: Përmbledhje e ligjeratëve, referimeve, kumtesave dhe e diskutimeve. Tirana: Albanian Academy Sciences. 1996. 581-586.
  119. Kontakti dhe ndërgjegja në lidhjen gjuhësore ballkanike. (Albanian: Contact and Consciousness in the Balkan Sprachbund). Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovës, Vol. 3, 1996. 233 253. (A second version was published in Studime albanologjike [University of Tirana) Vol. 2, No. 1, 1997. 132-149.)
  120. 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 155).
  121. Mbi konceptet nacionale në fjalorin tri gjuhësh të Gjorgji Pulevskit. (Albanian: On National Conceptions in the Trilingual Dictionary of Gjorgji Pulevski.) Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovës, Vol. 4, 1997. 123 129.
  122. A Contrastive View of Subordinate Aspect and the Opposition Confirmative/Non Confirmative in the Balkans with Particular Reference to Macedonian and Turkish. Balkanistica Vol. 10, 1997. 185 201.
  123. Viktor Fridman. (Short biography, item 121, and bibliography of published works through 1992). Pristapni predavanja, prilozi i bibliografija na novite c√lenovi na Makedonskata Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1997. 105 133.
  124. 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, Zdene√k Stary, and Wolfgang Wölck´. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 1997. 1442 1451.
  125. Pojavata na mnogujazic√nosta (multilingvizmot) kaj Marko Cepenkov. (Macedonian: The phenomenon of multilingualism in Marko Cepenkov). Zbornik vo c√est na Radmila Ugrinova Skalovska po povod sedumdestgodis√ninata. Skopje: University of Skopje. 1997. 329 334.
  126. 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.
  127. Znac√enjeto na makedonskiot jazik za balkanistic√kata 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.
  128. 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.
  129. The Grammatical Expression of Presumption and Related Concepts in Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance, American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists, ed. by Michael Flier and Alan Timberlake. 1998. Bloomington: Slavica. 390 405
  130. Cyganskij jazyk i vopros balkanskogo jazykovogo sojuza (Russian: The Romani language and the question of the Balkan Sprachbund). Materialy XXVI mez√vuzovskoj nauc√no metodic√eskoj konferencii prepodavatelej i aspirantov, Vyp. 3: Balkanskie c√tenija. University of St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg, Russia. 1997. 53 60.
  131. Message from Pristina [sic]: 'The Indifference Wounds Us Deeply' (translation from the Albanian). Washington Post, Section C, 27.IX.98. 2
  132. The Implementation of Standard Macedonian: Problems and Results. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 131, 1998. 31 57.
  133. A Balkanist in Daghestan: Annotated Notes from the Field. The Anthropology of East Europe Review Vol. 16, No. 2. 1998. 115 129.
  134. 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 jazic√ni, literaturni i kulturni vrski. Skopje: University of Skopje. 1998. 79 93. (Macedonian version of 39).
  135. Grammatical Gaps and Lexical Gaps Aspect and the Lexicon in Macedonian. Jazykove√dné aktuality, informativní zpravodaj c√esky´ch jazykove√dcu˚, Vol. 35, 1998. 40 45.
  136. Educational Language Rights and Romani Participation in Macedonian Education. ERIC Microfiche Collection (1 fiche, 18 pp.) No. ED 428 021. 1998. (short version of 154). (reprinted in: Roma Education Resource Book, Vol. 2, ed. by Judith Kovacs. Budapest: The Institute for Educational Policy, Open Society Institute. 2001. 385-402).
  137. The Albanian Language in Its Eastern Diaspora (E≤ Alvanike¯´ Glo¯´ssa ste¯n Avatolike¯´ Diasporá). Arvanitika kai Elle¯nika: Ze≤te¯mata polyglo¯ssiko¯n kai polypolitismiko¯n koinote¯to¯n (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.
  138. On the Complexity of Identity in the Nineteenth Century Balkans as Reflected in a Multilingual Text. .na Balkanah. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for Slavic Studies. 1999. 48 51. (updated English-language version of 132).
  139. 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 papers: 85-86, 108-109, 240-42.
  140. The Romani Language in the Republic of Macedonia: Status, Usage, and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 46, No. 3 4, 1999. 317 339.
  141. 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.
  142. 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.
  143. Evidentiality in the Balkan Languages. Handbuch der Südosteuropa Linguistik, ed. by Uwe Hinrichs. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1999. 519-44.
  144. Blaz√e Koneski i severnoamerikanskata lingvistika. (Macedonian: Blaz√e Koneski and North American Linguistics). Pridonesot na Blaz√e Koneski za makedonskata kultura. Skopje: University of Skopje. 1999. 29-36.
  145. Romani in the Balkan Linguistic League. Valkanike¯ Glo¯ssologia: Sygkhronia kai Diakhronia/Balkanlinguistik: Synchronie und Diachronie, ed. by Chr. Tzitzilis and Kh. Symeonide¯s. Thessaloniki: University of Thessaloniki. 2000. 95-105.
  146. 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. [Translated into Macedonian and published as "Moderniot makedonski jazik i negovata vrska so moderniot makedonski identitet" in Makedonskoto pras#enje, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Press. 241-288.
  147. 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.
  148. Fable as History: The Macedonian Context of “Before the Rain”. Rethinking History. Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000. 137-48. [Rerpinted in Rain: The World about Milcho Manchevski’s Film before the Rain, ed. by M. Kostova and B. Kunovski, Skopje: Museum of Modern Art. 2004. 117-120.]
  149. 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.
  150. Kuadri Historik i Linguistikës Shqiptare (Albanian: Albanian Studies in the United States: Its history and Implications for the Future of Albanian Higher Education). Mësuesi, Vol. 39, No. 24. 2000. 6.
  151. 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 41, delayed for 14 years and somewhat updated)
  152. 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.
  153. 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 ElsÒk. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2000. 187-204.
  154. 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.
  155. 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.
  156. Languages and Ethnicity in Balkan Politics: Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Albanian (Meeting Report #215). East European Studies (EES) News, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. January-February 2001. 4 & 11.
  157. 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 Kosovës, Vol. 5-7, 1998-2000. 223-237 and in Bulletin de l’Association International d’Études du Sud-Est Européen Vol. 30, 2000, 203-216.)
  158. 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
  159. Pragmatics and Contact in Macedonia: Convergence and Differentiation in the Balkan Sprachbund. Juz√noslovenski filolog, Vol. 55, No. 3/4, 2000. 1343-1351.
  160. Romani Multilingualism in its Balkan Context. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Vol. 54, 2001. 146-159. (Serialized and reprinted in English with Macedonian translation in Romani c√hib, supplement to Horizonto, Vol. 2, 12/2002-1/2003. 5-6 [part 1].)
  161. On the Number of Paradigms in the Romanian Presumptive Mood (modul prezumtiv). Studii s∞i Cerceta*ri lingvistice Vol. 48, No. 1-4, 1997. 173-79.
  162. The Romani Indefinite Article in Its Historical and Areal Context. “Was ich noch sagen wollte...” A Multilingual Festschrift for Norbert Boretzky on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Supplements, Studia typologica 2), ed. by Birgit Igla and Thomas Stolz. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 2001. 287-301.
  163. Gramatikalizacijata na balkanizmite vo makedonskiot jazik (Macedonian: The Grammaticalization of Balkanisms in Macedonian). Makedonski jazik, Vol. 51-52, 2000-2001. 31-38.
  164. Les marqueurs de frontière dans la grammaire du romani: Structure de la langue et conservatisme dans le Diaspora Balkanique. Faits de Langues: Langues de diaspora, langues en contact, ed. by Anaïd Donabedian, Paris: Ophrys. 2001. 21-34.
  165. Nabluduvajk´i gi nabluduvac√ite (Macedonian: Observing the Observers) New Balkan Politics, Vol. 1, 2001/2002. 123-159. Also published on the web in English and Macedonian in New Balkan Politics Vol. 3/4, Autumn/Winter 2001 http://www.newbalkanpolitics.org.mk/Issue3.asp. (Macedonian version of 116).
  166. The Vlah Minority in Macedonia: Language, Identity, Dialectology, and Standardization. Selected Papers in Slavic, Balkan, and Balkan Studies, ed. by Juhani Nuorluoto, Martii Leiwo, Jussi Halla-aho, (Slavica Helsingiensa 21). Helsinki: University of Helsinki. 2001. 26-50. (reprinted in Newsletter of the Society Fa˘rs∞a˘rot∞ul, Vol. 16, No. 1-2, Fall 2002 - Spring 2003. 29-44).
  167. Macedonian. Facts about the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the Worlds Major Languages, Past and Present, ed. by Jane Garry and Carl Rubino. New York: Holt. 2001. 435-439.
  168. Admirativity Revisited. Balkansko ezikoznanie Linguistique Balkanique. Vol. 41, No. 1, 2001. 55-62.
  169. Hunting the Elusive Evidential: The Third-Person Auxiliary as a Boojum in Bulgarian. Of All the Slavs My Favorites: Studies in Honor of Howard I Aronson on the Occasion of his 66th Birthday. (ed. with Don Dyer). (= Indiana Slavic Studies, 12.) Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2002. 203-30.
  170. A Grammar-Based Approach to Competency in Albanian and Some Remarks on Teaching the Less Commonly Taught Languages of Eastern Europe. Studime: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovës, Vol. 8-9, 2002. 11-21.
  171. Makedonia ve Civar Bölgelerde Balkan Türkçesi / Balkan Turkish in Macedonia and Adjacent Areas. Türkler Vol. 20: Türk Topluluklarπ / The Turks, Vol. 6: Turkish World, ed. by Hasan Celâl Güzel et al. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye. 2002. 455-463 / 609-616. (published simultaneously in Turkish and English).
  172. Evidentiality in the Balkans. Studies in Evidentiality ed. by Alexandra Aikhenvald and Robert Dixon, Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2003. 189-218.
  173. The Indefiniteness of ‘one’ in its Macedonian and Balkan Context. Zbornik referati od IV Makedonsko-Severnoamerikanska slavistic√ka konferencija za makedonistika, ed. by V. Stojec√evska-Antik´, et al. Skopje: University of Skopje. 2003. 25-33.
  174. Language and Politics in the Former Yugoslavia. Tableau: Newsletter of the Division of Humanities, University of Chicago, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 8 & 10.
  175. 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, Johanna DeStafano, Neil Jacobs, and Ilse Lehiste. Columbus: Ohio State University. 2003. 257-295.
  176. ‘One’ as an Indefinite Marker in Balkan and Non-Balkan Slavic. American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists. ed. by Alan Timberlake and Michael Flier. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2003. 93-112.
  177. Lak Folktales: Materials for a Bilingual Reader: Part Two. Shamsu’s Dog. Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Howard I. Aronson, ed. by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2003. 75-83.
  178. Factivity in Balkan Narrative and Discourse. Slavistic#ki studii 10: Spisanie na Katedrata za slavistika pri Filolos#kiot fakultet "Blaz#e Koneski" za 2001 godina.. Skopje: Univerzitet "Sv. Kiril i Metodij." 2003. 493-504.
  179. Shqipja standarde në Amerikë: Studime shkencore, pedagogjike, dhe planifikimi gjuhësor. Konferencë Shkencore: Shqipja standarde dhe shoqëria shqiptare sot. (Albanian: Standard Albanian in America: Scholarly Studies, Pedagogy, and Language Planning.) Konferenca shkencore: Shqipja standarde dhe shoqëria shqiptare sot (Scholarly Conference: Standard Albanian and Albanian Society Today), ed. by J. Bulo, E. Lafe, S. Mansaku, and E. Hysni. Tirana: Albanian Academy of Sciences. 2003. 155-157.
  180. The Romani Press in Macedonia: Language and Perspective. Ethnic Identities in Dynamic Perspective: Proceedings of the 2002 Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society, ed. by Sheila Salo and Csaba Prónai. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 2003. 175-191.
  181. Vendi i gegnishtes në gjuhën shqipe dhe në Ballkan [Albanian: The Position of Gheg in Albanian and in the Balkans]. Phoenix [Shkodër] Vol 7 No. 1-6, 2003. 40-56.
  182. Romani as a Minority Language, as a Standard Language, and as a Contact Language: Comparative Legal, Sociolinguistic, and Structural Approaches. Multilingualism in Global and Local Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Eighth Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, ed. by Kari Fraurud and Kenneth Hyltenstam, Stockholm: Stockholm University. 2003. 103-133.
  183. Typological versus Areal Explanations of Evidentiality as a Balkanism. Balkan Syntax and Semantics, ed. by O. M. Tomic!. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2004. 101-134.
  184. Language Planning and Status in the Republic of Macedonia and in Kosovo. Language in the Former Yugoslav Lands. ed. by Ranko Bugarski and Celia Hawkesworth. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2004. 197-231.
  185. ‘One’ as an Indefinite Marker in Balkan and Non-Balkan Slavic. Prilozi: Oddelenie za lingvistika i literaturna nauka Makedonska Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2003. 109-151. (This is the complete text, an abbreviated version of which was published as #177. The earlier publication was shortened owing limitations on financing and space.)
  186. 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.
  187. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Balkan Sprachbund: Language and dialect in Macedonia. Slavia Merdionalis, Vol. 2. 1995. To appear.
  188. The Development and Significance of the Modern Bulgarian Pluperfect. Bulgarian Linguistics by American Scholars. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo. To appear.
  189. Gnomic Speech in Bulgarian, Albanian, Turkish, and Georgian. Bulgaria Past and Present, Vol. 4. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. To appear.
  190. North American Slavists and Macedonian Studies Yesterday and Today. Macedonian Review. To appear.
  191. On the Limits of Modality in the Balkan Sprachbund. Proceeding Conference: Aktuelle Probleme der Balkanlinguistik, ed. by Helmut Schaller. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. To appear.
  192. The Importance of Language in the Education Process. Proceedings of the Roundtable "The Future of Macedonia: Macedonian-Albanian Dialogue", ed. by Sasho Ordanovski. Forum: Skopje. To appear.
  193. Unidirectional Romani Multilingualism in Macedonia and Its Significance for Language Contact., Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. To appear.
  194. Edna pesna od Blaz√e Koneski: Us√te edna vrska so severnoamerikanskata lingvistika (Macedonian: A Poem by Blaz√e Koneski: Yet Another Connection with North American Linguistics). Deloto na Blaz√e Koneski: Ostvaruvanja i perspektivi. (The Work of Blaz√e Koneski: Achievements and Perspectives), ed. Milan G´urc√nov et al. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. To appear.
  195. West Rumelian Turkish in Macedonia and Adjacent Areas. Turkic Language Contacts, ed. by H. Boeschoten and L. Johanson. Amsterdam: Benjamins. To appear.
  196. 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.
  197. Nation and Language in Gjorgji Pulevski’s 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. To appear.
  198. The Expression of Speaker Subjectivity in Lak. L’Énonciation médiatisée 2, ed. by Zlatka Guentchéva. Louvain: Peeters. 2003. 75-83.
  199. Interrogation and Nonconfirmativity: A Peircean Approach to the Intersection between Expressive Past and Present. The Peirce Seminar Papers, Vol. 5, ed. by Michael Shapiro. New York: Berghahn. To appear.
  200. The Republic of Macedonia. Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, ed. by Carl Skutsch and Robin L. Rone. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. To appear.
  201. Albania. Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society , Vol. 3, 2nd ed., ed. by U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, K.J. Matthier, P. Trudgill. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. To appear.
  202. Standard Albanian in the United States. Marrëdhëniet Shqiptaro-Amerikane: Të kuptojmë të Ardhmen nëpërmjet të shkuarës (Albanian: Albanian-American Relations: Let Us Understand the Future by means of the Past) - Proceedings. Tirana: Albanian Academcy of Sciences. To appear.
  203. Admirativity: Between modality and evidentiality. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, To appear.
  204. The Romani Language in Macedonia in the Third Millennium: Progress and Problems. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Romani Linguistics, ed. by Dieter Halwachs et al. Munich: LinCom Europa. To appear.
  205. Boundaries and Borders in Balkan Slavic. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics. vol. 44-45. To appear.
  206. Nepotvrditelnost i diskurs vo makedonskiot i drugite balkanski jazici [Macedonian: Nonconfirmativity and discourse in Macedonian and other Balkan languages). Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Symposium on Balkan Linguistics and Literature. Skopje: University of Skopje. To appear.
  207. Targeted Testing: Where Grammar Meets Proficiency and Authentic Content. Glossos. To appear
  208. Evidentiality, Modality, and Narrative in Macedonian and Other Balkan Languages. Proceedings: Fifth North American-Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies. Brian Joseph, ed. Columbus: The Ohio State University.
  209. Albanian in the Balkan Linguistic League: A Reconsideration of Theoretical Implications. Proceedings: Ninth International Congress on Southeast European Studies. Tirana: Albanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. To appear.

EDITED WORKS
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  2. Da Mu E Vec√na Slavata: Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Zbigniew Go¬a®b (ed. with M. Belyavski Frank, M. Pisaro & D. Testen) publ. as Balkanistica 10. 1997. x+436 pp.
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  4. Mediterranean Language Review (Vol. 11) with Marcel Erdal, Werner Arnold, and Johannes Niehoff Panagiotidis. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1999. 207 pp.
  5. Mediterranean Language Review (Vol. 12) with Marcel Erdal, Werner Arnold, and Johannes Niehoff Panagiotidis. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2000. 196 pp.
  6. Mediterranean Language Review (Vol. 13) with Marcel Erdal, Werner Arnold, and Johannes Niehoff Panagiotidis. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2001. 203 pp.
  7. Mediterranean Language Review (Vol. 14) with Marcel Erdal, Werner Arnold, and Johannes Niehoff Panagiotidis. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2001. 198 pp.
  8. Identity Formation among Minorities in the Balkans: The cases of Roma, Egyptians and Ashkali in Kosovo with Elena Marushiakova, Herbert Heuss, Nicolae Gheorghe, Ivan Boev, Nadege Ragaru, Rubin Zemon, Vesselin Popov. Sofia: Studii Romani. 2001. 60 pp. [Also on web: www.crfms.org.mk/RAEstudiiromani.doc]
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  2. The Grammatical Categories of the Macedonian Indicative. Columbus. Slavica. 1977. 210 pp.
  3. Macedonian Historical Phonology (Blaz√e Koneski, with Boz√o Vidoeski; translation from Macedonian) (Historical Phonology of the Slavic Languages, Vol. 12, series ed. Geo. Shevelov). Heidelberg. Carl Winter. 1983. xii+150 pp. (Republished with the Macedonian original, Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001. xxxix+330 pp. )
  4. Teaching Materials for Elementary Russian (with Eleonora Magomedova, 500 pp. Photocopied ms used for teaching Elementary Russian at UNC, Chapel Hill 1982 1994, University of Chicago 1997 2000).
  5. Linguistic Emblems and Emblematic Languages: On Language as Flag in the Balkans, (Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture Series in South Slavic Linguistics, No. 1). Columbus: Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University. 1999. 34 pp.
  6. Macedonian. (Languages of the World/Materials 117). Munich: LinCom Europa. 60 pp. 2002.
  7. Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond: Studies in Contact, Typology, and Other Phenomena in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. xvi+191 pp. 2003.
  8. Studies on Albanian and Other Balkan Languages. Peja: Dukagjini. 546 pp. 2004.

INTRODUCTIONS, FOREWARDS, LETTERS, OBITUARIES
  1. Improvising Absinthe (letter). The Chicago Reader, Vol. 17, No. 41, 1988. 2.
  2. Blaz√e 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 4).
  3. Small Languages and Small Language Communities 17: Blaz√e Koneski: In Memoriam. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, No. 108, 1994. 211 215.
  4. On the Recognition of Macedonia (letter). National Geographic, Vol. 183, No. 4, 1993. v.
  5. On the Constitutional Name of the Republic of Macedonia (letter). East European Constitutional Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1995. 88.
  6. Introduction: A Handbook of Vlax Romani, by Ian Hancock. Columbus: Slavica. 1995. 13 15.
  7. On Macedonia (letter). National Geographic, Vol. 189, No. 6, 1996. xiv.
  8. On Former Yugoslavia (letter). Reed Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 6, 1996. 48.
  9. On potrzebie (letter). Zippy Quarterly. No 14 (December 1996). 32.
  10. In Memoriam: Zbigniew Go¬a®b. Balkanistica, Vol. 10, 1997. 1 2.
  11. Telegrama. Spomenica posvetena na Boz√idar Vidoeski 1920 1998. (Macedonian: Letter of condolence published in a Memorial to Boz√idar Vidoeski.) Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1998. 31 33.
  12. On the Differences between Macedonia and Kosovo (letter). East European Constitutional Review, Vol. 8, No. 1-2, 1999. 115.
  13. The Balkans/Refugees Map (letter). National Geographic, Vol. 197, No. 6, 2000. xx.
  14. In Memoriam: Pavle Ivic´ (with Ronelle Alexander, Wayles Browne, Marc Greenberg, Robert Greenberg). Juz√noslovenski filolog Vol. 55 No. 1/2 2000. 63-74.
  15. Kostas Kazazis: In Memoriam. Balkanistica Vol. 16. 2003. 287-289. (Reprinted in South East European Newsletter [London] No. 54, 21-23.]
  16. Foreward. Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Howard I. Aronson , ed. by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2003. xix-xx.

ABSTRACTS
  1. Tense and Status in Albanian, Balkan Slavic and Turkish. Quatrième Congrès International d'Études du Sud Est Européen: Abrégés des Communications et des Co Rapports. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu. 1979. 264 265.
  2. On the Significance of the Pluperfect for the History of Bulgarian. Rezjumeta: Pu≥rvi mez√dunaroden kongres po bu≥lgaristika, Vol. 2. Sofia: Bu≥lgarska Akademija na Naukite. 1981. 51 52.
  3. Problems in the Creation of a Standard Literary Romani. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1982. 3.
  4. Balkan Romani Modality and the Other Balkan Languages. Linguistique: Résumés. Cinquième Congrès International d'Études du Sud Est Européen. Belgrade. 1984.
  5. Kategorija dokazatel’nosti na Balkanah i na Kavkaze. X mez√dunaroden kongres na slavistite: Rezjumeta na dokladite. Sofia: Bu≥lgarska Akademija na Naukite. 1988. 126.
  6. On the Status of Turkisms in Romani. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1988. 9 10.
  7. The Balkans and the Caucasus as Linguistic Areas and as a Linguistic Area. Sixième Congrès International d'Études du Sud Est Européen: Résumés des communications. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1989. 47.
  8. Glagol'nye priëmy na Balkanax i na Kavkaze (Russian: Verbal Devices in the Balkans and the Caucasus). (Abstract). Vostoc√naja rukopisnaja kniga i Balkany: Tezisy dokladov. Tbilisi: Academy of Sciences, Georgian SSR. 1989. 34 35.
  9. Romani Nominal Inflections: Cases or Postpositions?. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1990. 3.
  10. Typological and Areal features Linking and Separating the Balkans and the Caucasus. Abstracts: Fourth International Congress of Soviet and East European Studies. London: Pergamon Press. 1990. 43.
  11. On the Oppositions Vlax/Non Vlax and Nomadic/Sedentary in the Classification of Romani Dialects. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1992. 3.
  12. The Codification of Romani in Macedonia. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1993. 3.
  13. Balkan Pragmatics in Cognition, Codification, and Cultural Identity: Macedonian and Bulgarian. Fourth International Pragmatics Conference: Program and Abstracts. Kobe: IPrA. 1993. 5.
  14. Aorist i imperfekt vo makedonskiot i turskiot jazik: Arealni i tipolos√ki pojavi. XI medzinárodny´ zjazd slavistov: Zborník resumé. Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences. 1993. 316 317.
  15. The grammaticalization of Discourse Functions in Balkan Slavic, Abstracts: Linguistic panels. AATSEEL: Indiana University. 1993.
  16. Persistence and Change in Ottoman Patterns of Codeswitching in the Republic of Macedonia: Nostalgia, Duress and Language Shift in Contemporary Southeastern Europe, Abstracts. Summer School on Code switching, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden. The Netherlands: Frisian Academy. 1994. 37 38.
  17. Contact and Consciousness in the Balkan Sprachbund. Abstracts: Language and Consciousness: An International Symposium. Sofia: Institute for Bulgarian Language. 1995. 12 13.
  18. Romani and the Census in the Republic of Macedonia. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1995. 8.
  19. Shifters, Verbal Categories, and the Balkan Slavic Verb. Prague School Linguistics: 70 Years of Existence of the Prague Linguistic Circle and 100th Anniversary of Roman Jakobson's Birthday. Prague: Charles University. 1996. 18 19.
  20. Primeneta lingvistika i makedonskite glagolni kategorii (Macedonian: Applied Linguistics and Macedonian Verbal Categories). MALA ‘98 Macedonian Applied Linguistics Association, First International Congress: Language and Society on the Threshold of the XXI Century. Skopje: Center for Foreign Languages. 1998. 15.
  21. Educational Language rights and Romani Participation in Macedonian Education. Resources in Education. July 1999.
  22. Polish Macedonian Contrastive Analysis: 2. Prosody. (Boz√idar Vidoeski, Irena Sawicka, Zuzana Topolin´ska). Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. (English resumé of Macedonian book) 1999. 177-179.
  23. Grammar and Power in Albanian: Reporting Ironic Neutrality. VI ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) Congress, Tampere, Finland, 29 July/ - 3 August Tampere: ICCEES. 2000 p. 121
  24. Interrogatives as Diagnostic for Tense Marking in Evidentials, Meeting Handbook, Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 3-6 January 2002. p. 72
  25. Two Festschriften for Howard I. Aronson (notice), Bulgarian Studies Association Newsletter, 32(1). 3-5
  26. From Orientalism to Democracy and Back Again: Turkisms in the Balkan Languages. V poiskah “orientalnogo” na Balkanah (Balkanskie C◊tenija 7) - Tezisy i materialy, ed. by I. A. Sedakova and T.V. Civ’jan. Moscow: Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2003. 61-63.
  27. Albanian in the Balkan Linguistic League: A Reconsideration of Theoretical Implications. Ninth International Congress on Southeast European Studies Tirana: Albanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 198

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PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS, PROFILES & STUDIES OF MY WORK
  1. Golem interes za makedonskiot folklor vo SAD. (Macedonian: A great interest in Macedonian folklore in the USA). Vac√er 16. IX. 72. 7.
  2. Pattern and Structure in Balkan Languages. Endeavors: Research and Graduate Education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Vol. 3, No. 2, 1986. 19.
  3. An Academic Paper on Turkish Words in Macedonian. Makedonija 1986. 23.
  4. Nauc√na studija za turcizmite vo makedonskiot jazik (Macedonian: A new study of Turkisms in the Macedonian language). Nova Makedonia 19 XII. 86. 10.
  5. Makedonistic√kata dejnost na Viktor Fridman (Macedonian: The work of Victor Friedman in Macedonian studies). Makedonsi isselenic√ki Almanax '88. Skopje: Matica na Iselenicite od Makedonija. 1988. 47 51. (Review article by Nina Dimitrova).
  6. Doktor za makedonskite glagoli (Macedonian: A Ph. D. on the Macedonian verb). Nova Makedonija 14. VIII. 90. 8.
  7. Radostta ot poznanieto (Bulgarian: The pleasure of an acquaintance). Evrejski vesti (Sofia). 3. II. 92. 1 & 6.
  8. Makedonija gi ispolnuva amerikanskite uslovi za priznavanje (Macedonian: Macedonia fulfills all the US requirements for recognition). Nova Makedonija 13. VII. 92. 2 (Translation of a letter to President Bush).
  9. Za Makedonija pravevme sè s√to moz√eme (Macedonian: We have done all we can for Macedonia). Nova Makedonija 22. VIII. 92. 14.
  10. Fridman kaj ministerot Bajadz√iev (Friedman meets Misiter Bajaldz*iev; account of Romani codification conference), Nova Maskedonija 21. XI. 92. 4.
  11. Raznovidnost kako bogatstvo (Macedonian: Diversity as wealth). Puls 17. XII. 93. 36 37.
  12. Prof. d r Viktor Fridman. Patopisi i razgovori (by Vera Stojc√eska Antik´). Skopje: Matica makedonska. 1994. 121 127.
  13. 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]
  14. Vo makedonskiot jazik e srceto na Balkanot. (Macedonian: In the Macedonian language is the heart of the Balkans). Nova Makedonija, 27. V. 95. 15.
  15. Fridman e odlic√en makedonist (Macedonian: Friedman is an excellent Macedonianist), feuilleton Duhovnite kontakti na makedonskata inteligencija - epistolarno nasledstvo (8), (from the personal correspondence of Boz√idar Vidoeski with Zbigniew Gola®b), Nova Makedonija 2. VII 95. 9.
  16. Amerikanski slavist revizira bu˘lgarskija ezik. (Bulgarian: An American Slavist revises the Macedonian language.) Makedonija (Sofia). 18. VII. 95. 3.
  17. Shqipja është një gjuhë unike shumë interesante. (Albanian is a very interesting and unique language). Rilindja, 25. VIII. 95. 9.
  18. Grcite go napg´aat imeto bugarite — jazikot (Macedonian: The Greeks attack the name, the Bulgarians — the language). Vec√er 16 17. VIII. 97. 12 13.
  19. Trip to Macedonia began professor’s eminent career as language expert. The University of Chicago Chronicle, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1998. 6.
  20. Putting a Crisis in Focus. Lab Notes, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1998. 16 19.
  21. E mail Brings Home the Pathos of War. Chicago Sun Times, 30. III. 99. 3.
  22. Apsurdno e partiite da se zanimavaat so lingvistika (Macedonian: It’s ridiculous for political parties to meddle in linguistics). Start, Vol. 1, No. 22, 1999. 31-33.
  23. Preardhja e gjuhës shqipe me pikëpyetje (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).
  24. Miceli, Anna Maria Totaro. 2000. "La Linguistica Albanese secondo Victor Friedman.” M.A. Thesis. Università degli studi di Palermo. M.A. Thesis.
  25. Bisedë me linguistin amerikan, Viktor Friedman: Duhet të kalojë një brez dhe paratë e Evropës (Albanian: Conversation with the American linguist Victor Friedman: It will take a generation and financial aid from Western Europe). Zëri 14. VI. 01. 3.
  26. Terms of Engagement: What Macedonian and Albanian Intellectuals Talk About When They Talk About War. by Laura Secor. Lingua Franca, Vol. 11, No. 8, 50-57. (Article both quotes me directly and cites my work and includes a photo, p. 53)
  27. Spasov, Ljudmil. 2003. Pridonesot na Viktor A. Fridman za razvitokot na sociolingvistic#kite istraz#uvanja na makedonskiot jazik. (Macedonian: The Contribution of Victor A. Friedman to the Development of Sociolinguistic Research on Macedonian.) Predavanja na XXXV meg!unaroden seminar za makedonski jazik, literatura i kultura (Lectures of the XXXV International Seminar on Macedonian Language Literature and Culture.) (Ohrid 5-23 August 2002), chief ed. Maksim Karanfiloski, 53-72. Skopje: University of Skopje.
  28. Friedman, like so many other faculty members, understands the pleasure and adventure of living ‘the life of the mind. University of Chicago Chronicle Vol. 22, No 11. (6 March 2003), p. 3.
  29. Profesori Victor Friedman flet për “Javën” [Albanian: Professor Victor Friedman speaks for “Java”]. Interview by Ragip Lahuta for Gazeta Java (Prishtina, Kosovo) No. 56, 18 July 2003. [hard copy and http://www.gazetajava.com/56friedman.html]
  30. Speaking of the Balkans. by Richard Mertens. University of Chicago Magazine. August 2003 18-20. (Article about me based on interviews).

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

  • 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 1971.
  • University of Chicago Special Humanities Fellowship 1970 1973.
  • 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 (Macedonia), 1973 1974.
  • Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Yugoslavia (Macedonia), 1973 1974.
  • Marc Perry Galler Prize for Distinguished Dissertation Research, University of Chicago, 1976.
  • University of North Carolina (hereafter UNC) Research Council Grant, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985.
  • UNC College Endowment Fund Grant, 1984, 1987.
  • 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 1981.
  • "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.
  • 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, Republic of Macedonia, 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 1999.
  • 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 (USIS) Grant for Travel to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and lecture at University of Prishtina 1998 (postponed due to violence in Kosovo).
  • USIS Grant for Travel to Macedonia to attend International Conference on Applied Linguistics as plenary speaker. 1998.
  • 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: Macedonian-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), June 2001.
  • Co-sponsor, Franke Institute for the Humanities Conference Grant to support “New Medias, New Publics” Fourth Annual Chicago/Michigan (Michicagoan) Conference on Linguistic Anthropology, May 2002
  • USIS Grant for Travel to Kosovo and lecture at University of Prishtina 2002.
  • Sts. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje Gold Plaque Award for Contributions to the field of Macedonian studies, 15 April 2003.
  • Franke Institute Conference Grant, International Conference “Balkan Epic: Song, History, and Modernity” 27 February 2004. (with Philip Bohlman and Nada Petkovic)
  • Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova, Member, elected 2004

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova (ASHAK)
  • 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)
  • Societas Caucasologica Europaea (CSE)
  • Society for Albanian Studies (SAS)
  • Society of the Study of Caucasia (SSC)
  • Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL)
  • Turkish Studies Association (TSA)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  • University of North Carolina
    • Adviser for Undergraduate Majors, 1977 1979, 1982 1983
    • Carolina Seminar on Environment, Democracy, and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe (1992 1993)
    • Chair, Chinese Lectureship Search Committee 1984
    • Committee to review proposed exchange with Romanian Academy of Sciences 1983
    • Department Chair 1987 1993
    • Department Book Chair 1975 1987
    • Faculty Adviser, WXYC Student Radio 1988 1993
    • Faculty Council, Alternate, 1977 1978, 1983 1984, 1985 1986
    • Faculty member of Student Educational Broadcasting board, 1988 1993
    • Vice Chair, Student Educational Broadcasting board, 1989 1993
    • Grade Appeal Review Committee, Dept. of Romance Languages, 1976, 1977
    • Graduate Admissions Director 1987 1993
    • Language Laboratory Committee 1975 1987
    • Library Administrative Board, Alternate, 1980 1981
    • Linguistics Curriculum/Department Advisory Committee 1980 1993
    • Off Campus Awards Committee, Alternate, 1982 1983
    • UNC Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Advisory Committee 1991 1993
    • Special Committee on Facilities for Language Instruction 1983
    • Steering Committee Duke/UNC Title VI Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1991 1993
    • Supervisor of Elementary Russian Instruction 1975 1980, 1982 1984
    • UNC Self Study Task Group I, 1984
  • University of Chicago
    • Chair, Committee on Balkan Linguistics, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies 1993 present
    • Chicago Humanities Institute Faculty Working Group on (literary) language, community, identity, and history 1993 1994
    • Dean's Committee for a Center for European Studies 1993 1994, 1996 1997
    • Department Chair 1997 2000, 2001-2004
    • Faculty Governing Board of the Chicago Humanities Institute 1995 1998
    • Faculty Board, 1996 1998 Sawyer Mellon Seminar "Sexual Identities, Identity Politics: Cross Cultural Investigations"
    • Faculty sponsor, Second Annual Chicago/Michigan (Michicagoan) Conference on Linguistic Anthropology, spring 2000
    • Harper Schmidt Fellowship Selection Committee 1996
    • Member, Center for Middle Eastern Studies 1997 present
    • Steering committee, Sawyer Seminar, The Range of Contemporary Literacy: The Circulation of Poetry 2001-2002
    • Chair, Committee to review to Program in General Studies in the Humanities, 2002
    • Faculty sponsor (with Susan Gal, John Lucy, and Michael Silverstein), “New Medias, New Publics” Fourth Annual Chicago/Michigan (Michicagoan) Conference on Linguistic Anthropology, May 2002
    • Faculty sponsor (with Susan Gal, John Lucy, and Michael Silverstein), “” Fifth Annual Chicago/Michigan (Michicagoan) Conference on Linguistic Anthropology, May 2002
    • Selection Committee, East European Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) grants, Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, 2004-present

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES
  • UNC representative to East European Summer Language Institute Planning Meeting, Ohio State University April 1985
  • Language Training Committee 1985 1996
  • Chair, Subcommittee on East European Languages 1987 1993
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES/SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (from 1994)
  • Executive Committee, 1977 1979, 1983 1985
  • Vice President 1987 1989
  • President 1990 1992
AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR COLLABORATION IN EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE STUDY
  • Advisory Board 1988 present
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS)
  • East European Summer Language Institute Screening Committee 1985 1989
  • East European Summer Language Training Selection Committee 1989 1992, 2001-present
  • Committee on East European Studies 1992 1997
  • Evaluator for linguistics applications, Committee on East European Studies 1999
  • Advisor on East European programs and language training grants 2001
ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DES ÉTUDES DU SUD EST EUROPÉEN (AIESEE)
  • President, American Committee 1988 present
  • Executive Board, American Committee 1985 present
ASSOCIATION FOR LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
  • Nominating Committee 1999 2000
BRITISH AMERICAN SECURITY INFORMATION COUNCIL
  • Interview for the project “Missed Opportunities of Conflict Prevention Policy in Kosovo - A European-American Evaluation” 2000
BULGARIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
  • Nominating Committee 1984, 1986
  • Chair, Nominating Committee, 1988, 1990
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
  • Center for Preventive Action South Balkan Project 1995 1997
  • (see also lecture 243)
COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE (FULBRIGHT)
  • Southeastern Europe Area Selection Committee 1991, 1992
GYPSY LORE SOCIETY
  • Board of Directors 1983 present
  • President 1984 1986
  • Vice President 1992 1994
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF SLAVISTS
  • International Commission on Balkan Slavic Linguistics 1993 present
  • International Commission on Research on the Grammatical Structure of the Slavic Languages 1993 present
  • Vice President, U.S. National Committee, 1994 present
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
  • Consultant on Macedonia, 1997
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE COUNCIL
  • Consultant on Albanian, 2001
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EXCHANGES BOARD
  • Advisory group on Southeastern Europe, 1992
  • Consultant on Albanian 1981 1982, 1985 1986, 1991 1999
  • Consultant on Bulgarian 1985 1987, 1991 1999
  • Consultant on Macedonian, 1976 1977, 1979 1980, 1985 1986, 1994 1999
  • Consultant on Linguistics 1984 1986
  • East European Exchange Selection Committee 1982 1984, 1991 1993
  • Liaison for establishing academic exchanges with the Republic of Macedonia, August 1992.
  • Participant IREX meeting with Arben Puto of the University of Tirana concerning the first American Albanian academic exchange, Princeton, June, 1991.
  • Selection Committee for IREX exchange with Albania, 1992, 1993
  • Slavonic Studies Seminar Selection Committee 1982 1988, 1991 1993
INTERNATIONAL ROMANI UNION
  • Language Standardization Committee 1991
JOINT COMMITTEE ON EASTERN EUROPE OF THE SSRC AND ACLS
  • Member 1992 1996
MACEDONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
  • Member outside of working duty, elected 1994
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
  • Selection Committee, Summer Stipends in Linguistics and Spanish Literature, 1988
  • Selection Committee, Summer Stipends in Linguistics and African, Asian, German, Slavic, and Comparative Literature, 1989
OHRID SUMMER UNIVERSITY
  • Board of Directors 2002-present
OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL VISITORS, BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
  • Discussion of Islam in the U.S. and Religious Freedom Issues with Mr. Selim Myumyun Mehmed, Chief Mufti of the Muslims in the Republic of Bulgaria , Rector, Higher Islamic Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria, Director and Publisher, the “Muslims” Newspaper; Mr. Hyusein Chitak, Deputy Rector, Higher Islamic Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria; Mr. Nikolay Pankov, Head of the Cabinet of the Chief Mufti of the Muslims in Bulgaria, 3 February 2003
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY & VOICE OF AMERICA
  • Control listener, Macedonian language programming, 2003
SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND
  • Consultant on Macedonian/Albanian émigré issues, 2001
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
  • Study Leader, Yugoslavia Tour, September 1986
SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER (SEELRC)
  • National Policy Committee 1999 present
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (SSRC)
  • Summer Institute for Russian and Non Russian Languages Selection Committee 1987 1998
  • Participant International Peace and Security Program Research Planning Meeting “The Security of Marginal Populations” sponsored by Social Science Research Council, New York, April 1990.
  • (see also lecture 244)
SOCIETY FOR ALBANIAN STUDIES
  • Vice-President, 1978 1981
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
  • Observer (UNPROFOR), 1994 Extraordinary Census, Republic of Macedonia, June July 1994
  • Grader, Albanian translator exams, UNPROFOR, June August, 1994
  • Consultation with the Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs of the United Nations and meeting with Americas and Europe Division, Department of Political Affairs, April 17, 2001.
UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE (USIP)
  • Screening Committee, Solicited Competition on Bosnia and the Balkans, 1999.
  • (see also Lecture 234)
YALE CENTER FOR LANGUAGE STUDY
  • Albanian language tester 2003

Outside Academic Consultant (tenure, promotion, hiring, prizes, and doctoral theses)

  • Columbia U., Cornell U., Dartmouth College, Duke U, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, George Mason U., Georgetown U., Harvard U., Howard U., Institut Universitaire de France, Macquarie U., Ohio State U., Purdue U., Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Sorbonne, SUNY-Albany, SUNY-Stonybrook, Thames Polytechnic, U. of Alberta, U. of Arizona, U. of Minnesota, U. of California-Berkeley, U. of Chicago (while at UNC), U. of Georgia, U. of Kansas, U. of London, U. of Manchester, U of Maryland, U. of Melbourne, U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor, U. of Oregon, U. of Pittsburgh, U. of Skopje, U. of Toronto, U. of Virginia, U. of Wisconsin - Madison, U. of Zurich, Vanderbilt U., Wagner College, Witchita State U., Yale U.
  • Arizona State University
    • Outside Evaluator, ASU - University of Prishtina Linkage Project funded by US Department of State, December 2002.
    Dartmouth College
    • Chair, Review Committee on the status of the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences, November 2000
  • Harvard University
    • Visiting Committee for Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Board of Overseers of Harvard College, 2000-2003
  • The Ohio State University
    • The Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics, selection committee, 2000-02.
    • Consultant on the document A Humanities Response to National Security Documents, College of Humanities, 10 October 2003.

Legal Consultant

  • Asylum cases (affidavits, letters, etc.): Albanian December 1997, Bulgarian Rom (Gypsy) July 1998, Kosovar Albanian February 2001, Daghestani (Lak) March 2001
  • Expert witness: Macedonian, Office of the Public Defender, County of Du Page, February 2001
  • Consultant, Romani, Cook County Public Guardian's Office November 2003.

Editorial Boards (EB) Referee/Reviewer (R)

  • John Benjamins, series Studies Structural and Functional Linguistics (EB)
  • Glossos (EB)
  • International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics (EB)
  • Journal of Romani Studies (continuing the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society)(EB)
  • New Balkan Politics (EB)
  • Folia Slavica (EB)
  • Mediterranean Language Review (EB)
  • Juz#noslovenski filolog (EB)
  • Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia (R)
  • Anthropological Linguistics (R)
  • Balkanistica (R)
  • Canadian Slavonic Papers (R)
  • Ethnos (R)
  • Gengo Kenkyu, The Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan (R)
  • International Politics (R)
  • Journal of Slavic Linguistics (R)
  • Language (R)
  • Public Culture (R)
  • Replika (Budapest) (R)
  • Slavic and East European Journal (R)
  • Slavic Review (R)
  • Cambridge University Press (R)
  • Columbia U. Press (R)
  • Cornell U. Press (R)
  • Duke U. Press (R)
  • Edwin Mellen Press (R)
  • LinCom Europa Press (R)
  • Oxford U. Press (R)
  • Routledge (R)
  • Slavica Publishers (R)
  • University of Arizona Press (R)
  • University of Chicago Press (R)
  • University of Pittsburgh Press (R)
  • University of Wisconsin Press (R)
  • Arts and Humanities Research Board of the United Kingdom (R)
  • Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom (R)
  • Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, SOAS, University of London (R)
  • MacArthur Foundation (R)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (R)
  • National Humanities Center (R)
  • National Science Foundation (R)
  • Open Society Institute (R)
  • Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (R)
  • Woodrow Wilson Center (R)

Panel Chairships

  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, DC., 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, Ethnicity and Identity in the Balkans, AAASS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 1995.
  18. Anthropological Approaches to the Balkan Crisis. Thirteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, 14-16 March, 2002.

Other

  • 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.
  • Consultation on Macedonian, University of Potsdam, September 2000.
  • Discussion Leader - "Is this a Region?", Northwestern University Faculty Development Seminar, 10 October 2002.
  • 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.
  • Discussant - Panel “To the East of Europe's Middle Leg: The Balkans and Adjacent Peripheries”, Slavic Forum 2002, University of Chicago, 12-13 April 2002.
  • Discussant - Performance and Culture in Post-Socialist Balkan Contexys, AAASS Annual Meeting, Boston, 4-7 December 2004.
  • Guest lecturer - seminars in Russian Formalism, Structuralism and Semiotics (topic: Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale) and in Balkan Anthropology (topic: Language, Census, and Identity), Reed college, 30 October 2002.
  • 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.
  • Organizer - Grammars of Narratives and Narratives of Grammar: The Encoding and Mapping of Power Relations into and onto Balkan Verbal Categories. Sixth International Congress, International Council for Central and East European Studies, Tampere, Finland, July/August 2000.
  • Organizer (North American delegation) Fourth Macedonian North American Slavic Conference. Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, August 2000.
  • Organizer - Translating Baj Ganjo: A Conference. University of Chicago, 30-31 May 2003.
  • Organizer - Translating Baj Ganjo II: A Conference. University of Chicago, 23-24 June 2003.
  • Outside evaluator - dissertation defense, Department of History, University of Toronto, June 2000.
  • Outside evaluator - dissertation defense, Slavic Department, University of Toronto, September 2001.
  • Outside evaluator - dissertation defense, Anthropology Department, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, December 2002.
  • 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, New York, October 1987.
  • Participant Twenty Second Annual Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture, Cyril and Methodius University, August 1989.
  • 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, DC, 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, Kosovo, 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, April 2002, March 2003.
  • 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 Suara CENPEACE (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.
  • Participant - Balkan Masculinities, Conference organized by School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 7-8 June 2002.
  • Program Chair linguistics sections, Fifth Bulgarian American Conference on Bulgarian Studies, Washington, DC, (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.
  • Research and Consultation in Grammars of East European Languages (funded by SEELRC), Duke U., August, 2000.
  • Site evaluator for School of Slavonic and East European Studies (U. of London) on behalf of ACLS London, January 1989.

LECTURES AND PAPERS

  1. Relative Clauses in South Slavic. Eighth 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, DC, November 1977.
  11. A Re examination of Some Bulgarian and Macedonian Calques on Turkish. First Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, 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 bu≥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 G‰org´i Pulevski and Macedo Albanian Linguistic Contact. AATSEEL Annual Meeting, New York, December 1978.
  19. The Ponto Caspian Resultative. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, 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 Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, University of Chicago, May 1980.
  25. The Bulgarian Pluperfect and Its Development within the Bulgarian Verbal System. 1300 godini Bu≥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. Znac√enie na otdavna minalo vreme za istorijata na bu≥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 Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, Indiana University, Bloomington, 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 Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, 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 sloz√enite 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 Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, Indiana University, Bloomington, 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, morfolos√kite paradigmi i opredeluvanjeto na izoglosite na makedonskata jazic√na 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: Identite´, Culture, Evolution. ” Paris, December 1986.
  55. Makedonskiot jazik od sociolingvistic√kiot aspekt (Macedonian: The sociolinguistics of Macedonian). Macedonian translation of article 37, 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. Upotreba na glagolnite vremena v gnomic√en rec√ v bu≥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 Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, 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, Bloomington, 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 canceled 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 poslovic√ni izrazi. (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 Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, 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. Potc√inet 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: Macedonian Studies in America and Americans in Macedonian Studies). 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 72). 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. Roundtable "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 Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, 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.
  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. First International Conference on Romani Linguistics: 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 i