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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:31:56
From: Brian Joseph [joseph.1 at osu.edu]
Subject: The Current State of Balkan Linguistics - the 20th Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture Event

 
The Current State of Balkan Linguistics - the 20th Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture Event 

Date: 20-Jan-2017 - 21-Jan-2017 
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA 
Contact: Brian Joseph 
Contact Email: joseph.1 at osu.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Meeting Description: 

This conference gathers together most of the previous 19 Naylor Memorial
Lecturers for a two-day event addressing the current state of Balkan
Linguistics.

A Symposium in Recognition of the 20th Anniversary of the Kenneth E. Naylor
Memorial Lecture Series.

20-21 January 2017
At the Blackwell, on the campus of the Ohio State University

Sponsored by:

The Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship in South Slavic Languages, the Ohio State
University
The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, the Ohio
State University
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies, the Ohio State University
The Hilandar Research Library and Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies,
the Ohio State University
The Department of Linguistics, the Ohio State University
 

Program:

The Current State of Balkan Linguistis - Where Do We Stand?

Friday, 20 January:

The Naylor Legacy: 

1:30 - 2:00:
Yana Hashamova, Brian Joseph, Myrtle Naylor
Introductory Remarks

2:00 - 2:30:
Howard Aronson
'Reminiscences on the Balkan Scene''

2:30 - 3:00:
Robert Greenberg
''The Breakup of Serbo-Croatian: Some Unresolved Issues''

3:00 - 3:30: Coffee Break

The Naylor Legacy (continued, and then some):

3:30 - 4:00:
Donald Dyer
''Indeterminedly Definite' after All These Years: A Tribute to Naylor 1983''

4:00 - 4:30:
Victor A. Friedman
''Linguistic Emblems and Emblematic Languages: On Language as Flag in the
Balkans in the 21st Century''

4:30 - 5:00:
Tom Priestly
'''Shunt' Happens: But Where and When? Some Unexpected Positionings of
Pronouns and of Adverbials in 'Brace'-Constructions in Slovenian Dialects in
Austria''

5:30 - 7:30: Reception (for all in attendance)

Saturday, 21 January:

Text and Translation:

9:30 - 10:00:
Joseph Schallert
''Tradition and Innovation in the Lexicon of 19th Century Aegean Macedonian
Vernacular Gospels''

10:00 - 10:30:
John Leafgren
''Bulgarian Literary Translation of Verbal Adverbs''

10:30 - 11:00:
Olga Mladenova
''Reception of Theophanēs Eleavoulkos in Bulgaria''

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break

Language Variation:

11:30 - 12:00:
Grace Fielder:
''Takin' it to the streets: Language Ideology in post-1989 Bulgaria''

12:00 - 12:30:
Ronelle Alexander
''Approaches to Dialect Diversity''

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch (for speakers only)

Sociology of Language:

1:30 - 2:00:
Catherine Rudin
''Language Contact Continues: Bulgarian-Turkish Code Switching and Mixing in
the 21st Century''

2:00 - 2:30:
Wayles Browne
''Language names in South Slavic languages''

2:30 - 3:00:
Christina Kramer
''Reimaging the Linguascape of Skopje''

3:00 - 3:30: Coffee Break

Grammatical Analysis:

3:30 - 4:00:
Cynthia Vakareliyska
''Comparing [N[N]] Constructions in Macedonian and Bulgarian''

4:00 - 4:30:
Marc Greenberg
''Clausal complementation in the Slovene Mura River dialect and its Balkan
parallels''

4:30 - 5:00:
Brian D. Joseph
''Multiple Determination in Greek and the Balkans

5:00 - 5:15:
Closing Remarks





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