International Symposium in Honor of Prof. Henrik Birnbaum at UCLA

[Ronald Vroon]

Dear Colleagues:

The UCLA Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the UCLA Center for
European and Eurasian Studies are pleased to announce an international
symposium in honor of our late friend and colleague, Professor Henrik
Birnbaum.  The symposium program is appended for your information.

Ronald Vroon
Chair
UCLA Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures


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Birnbaum Symposium
Herbert Morris Seminar Room, Royce Hall 306, 22 February 2003

Morning Session (9:00 - 12:30)
1.
Vyacheslav Ivanov, UCLA. The Fate of the Final *-r in Slavic
Marc Greenberg, University of Kansas. Common Slavic: Progress or Crisis in
Its Reconstruction?
Henning Andersen, UCLA. Common Slavic: Remaining Controversial Issues
Susan Kresin, UCLA. On the Ordering of Clitics in Old Czech
2.
Dean Worth, UCLA. The Reluctant Relics of Gleb
Emily Klenin, UCLA. Will the Patriots Win This Season?
Robert Romanchuk, Florida State University/University of Pennsylvania. Words
Woven of Water: Again on the Slovo Daniila Zatochnika
Jos Schaeken, University of Groningen/University of Basel. Baltic and Slavic
Medieval Treasures in Swiss Libraries


Afternoon Session (2:00-5:30)
1
Daniel Collins, Ohio State University. Lost Times and Lost Empires:
Tendentious Manuscripts in Sixteenth-Century Russian-Athonite Contact
Jules Levin, UC Riverside/UCLA. Observations on Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Cyrillic Transliteration and "Phonetic" Transcription of
English
Michael Shapiro, Brown University. The Russian Non-Renaissance in Literary
Perspective
Olga Yokoyama, UCLA. The Logic of Socially Transmitted Superstitions
 2.
Grace Fielder, University of Arizona. A Phoenix from the Ashes: The
Resurrection of the Bulgarian Perfect
Ronelle Alexander, UC Berkeley. Bosnian - Croatian - Serbian: One Language
or Three?
Laura Janda, University of North Carolina. A Metaphor for Aspect in Slavic
Alan Timberlake, UC Berkeley. Substratum and Sprachbund
Michael Flier, Harvard University. Catching the Drift of Dissimilative Jakan
'e

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