Indiana Slavic Studies Volume 12: Of All the Slavs My Favorites: In Honor of Howard I. Aronson on the Occasion of His 66th Birthday

Victor A. Friedman and Donald L. Dyer
$30.00
(ISSN) 0073-6929
386 (Vol. 12)
2001
Paperback
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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