UC Berkeley Symposium

[Keith Goeringer]

I am posting this on behalf of the UC Berkeley Slavic Department --
apologies for the lateness of the announcement...

                Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
                Center for Slavic and East European Studies
                Townsend Center for the Humanities
                Department of Linguistics
                Division of Humanities
                         and
                Graduate Division
                        of
                U.C. Berkeley

are pleased to announce a day-long symposium:

        "Dialectology and Historical Linguistics:
                Contributions of South Slavic"

to be held April 22, 1995       Dwinelle Hall 283, UC Berkeley

Opening remarks:  Prof Ronelle Alexander, UC Berkeley

Session 1:      SLOVENE, C^AKAVIAN AND KAJKAVIAN
        9:00-9:30:      Marc Greenberg, University of Kansas (USA)
                "Issues of interpretation in an early dialect descrip-
                tion: Karl Ozvald's description of the Sredis^c^e
                dialect of Prkelian Slovene (1894-1904)"
        9:30-10:00:     Willem Vermeer, University of Leiden (Netherlands)
                "The twofold tradition of classical c^akavian"
        10:00-10:30:    Alan Timberlake, UC Berkeley (USA)
                "Compensatory lengthening in paleo-c^akavian (mechanisms,
                chronology, geography)"

Coffee break

Session 2:      GENERAL SOUTH SLAVIC
        11:00-11:30     Robert Greenberg, U of N Carolina/Chapel Hill (USA)
                "The proliferation of vocative endings in Balkan Slavic
                dialects"
        11:30-12:00     Robert Rendall, UC Berkeley (USA)
                "Clitic ordering in northwest South Slavic"
        12:00-12:30     Henning Andersen, UCLA (USA)
                "The *digniti/dignuti* isoglosses in west South Slavic"

Lunch break

Session 3:      BALKAN SLAVIC
        2:00-2:30       Victor Friedman, University of Chicago (USA)
                "On reconstructing language change and language shift in
                19th c. Thrace: evidence from historical dialectology"
        2:30-3:00       Matthew Baerman, UC Berkeley (USA)
                "Implications of dialectal variation for the history of
                nominal accentuation in Bulgarian"
        3:00-3:30       Joseph Schallert, University of Toronto (Canada)
                "Towards the integration of traditional and previously
                unobserved isoglosses in Balkan Slavic"

Coffee break

Session 4:      BALKAN SLAVIC
        4:00-4:30       Ronelle Alexander, UC Berkeley (USA)
                "Implications of double accent for the diachrony of
                Balkan Slavic"
        4:30-5:00       Vladimir Z^obov, University of Sofia (Bulgaria)
                "Vowel length in Bulgarian dialects"
        5:00-5:30       G e n e r a l   d i s c u s s i o n

Closing remarks:  Prof Alan Timberlake, UC Berkeley