Professor Emeritus Howard I. Aronson of the University of Chicago has been celebrated for his linguistic scholarship on Balkan and South Slavic linguistics, as well as his groundbreaking work on Georgian grammar and language instruction (including his two textbooks with Slavica). This Festschrift honors his Balkan and South Slavic persona with a collection featuring a virtual Who's Who of North American scholars in this area. Contents Victor A. Friedman: Preface 1 Donald L. Dyer: Foreword 5 The Publications of Howard I. Aronson 7 Ronelle Alexander
Bridging the Descriptive Chasm: The Bulgarian "Generalized Past" 13
Masha Belyavski-Frank
Turkisms in Bosnian Literature after 1992 43
Henry R. Cooper, Jr.
Modern Slovene and Macedonian Bible Translations Compared and Contrasted 57
Bill J. Darden
Macedonian as a Model for the Development of Indo-European Tense and Aspect 85
Stephen M. Dickey
Distributive Verbs in Serbian and Croatian 103
Donald L. Dyer
The Balkans and Moldova: One Sprachbund or Two? 117
Mark J. Elson
The Case for Agglutinative Structure in East Balkan Slavic Verbal Inflection 139
Ali Eminov
The Nation-State and Minority Languages: Turkish in Bulgaria 155
Grace E. Fielder
Questioning the Dominant Paradigm: An Alternative View of the Grammaticalization of the Bulgarian Evidential 171
Victor A. Friedman
Hunting the Elusive Evidential: The Third-Person Auxiliary as a Boojum in Bulgarian 203
Jane Hacking
Attitudes to Macedonian Conditional Formation: The Use of dokolku and bi 231
Eric P. Hamp
On Serbo-Croatian's Historic Laterals 243
Brian D. Joseph
On an Oddity in the Development of Weak Pronouns in Deictic Expressions in the Languages of the Balkans 251
Kostas Kazazis
High-Low Diglossic Code-Switching in a Greek Announcement 269
Christina Kramer
Anton Panov's Play Pecalbari and Its Role in the Standardization of Macedonian 279
Katia McClain
Verbal Categories in Bulgarian: Evidence from Acquisition 293
Sofija Miloradovic and Robert Greenberg
The Transition from South Slavic to Balkan Slavic: Key Morphological Features in Serbian Transitional Dialects 309
Tom Priestly
Some Anomalies in Slovene Dialect Diachronic Morphology and an Explanation Using "Markedness Reversal" 323
Catherine Rudin
Clitic Pronoun Ordering in the Balkan Languages 339
Joeseph Schallert
Southwest Bulgarian Dialect Features in the Fakija (Grudovo Dialect of Southeastern Bulgaria: (с)кuна 'to pluck' 359
Edward Stankiewicz
The Compounded Plural Endings and Grammatical Categories of the Balkan Masculine Nouns 367
