All events will be held in 370 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Program Overview
Thursday 30 March
1:00 Welcoming remarks: Ronelle Alexander
1:15 - 3:15 Session 1
Break
3:30 - 5:30 Session 2
Friday 31 March
8:00 - 10:00 Session 3
Break
10:15 - 12:15 Session 4
Lunch break
1:45 - 3:45 Session 5
Break
4:00 - 6:00 Session 6
Evening free
Saturday 1 April
8:30 - 10:00 Session 7
Break
10:15 - 12:15 Session 8
Lunch break
1:45 - 3:45 Session 9
Break
4:00 - 6:00 Session 10
6:00 Closing remarks: Ronelle Alexander
Pre-Final Conference Program
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Session 1 (30 March, 1:15 - 3:15 PM)
1:15. Victor Friedman
Dialect as Flag: Towards a Balkanization of the Sprachbund
1:45. Olga Mladenova
Quantification in Balkan Languages
2:15. Elena Morabito
Analyticity: Just Another Balkanism?
2:45. Maksim Kisilier
Is Romean a Northern Greek Dialect?
Session 2 (30 March, 3:30 - 5:30 PM)
3:30. Serife Genis and Kelly Lynne Maynard
A Case Study of an Endangered Language Community: Albanians in the Black Sea Region of Turkey
4:15. Thede Kahl
Shepherds in Contact: the Farsherot Dialect in Epirus after Sedentarization
4:45. John Leafgren
How Gerundial are Bulgarian Kato-Clauses?
5:15. Anastasia Smirnova
Evidence for the Diachronic Analysis of Color Terminology
Session 3 (31 March, 8:00 - 10:00 AM)
8:00. Lidija Cvikic
Vocabulary Acquisition in Croatian as Second and Foreign Language
8:30. Milena Savova
Translation of Inflight Menus: A Rare and Challenging Type of Translation
9:00. Donald Dyer
Did the Soviets Win After All? Examining the Lexicon of a Moldavian-Romanian Dictionary
9:30. George Mitrevski
The Online Macedonian Electronic Text Corpus: Current Status and Future Plans
Session 4 (31 March, 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM)
10:15. Sanja Lacan
Girls Behaving Badly: Representing the Lesbian in Dalibor Matanic’s Fine Dead Girls
10:45. Liliana Milkova
Cultural Heritage in Post-Socialist Art from the Balkans
11:15. Stiliana Milkova
Nostalgic Vision(s): Konstantin Velichkov’s Letters from Rome
11:45. Polina Dimova
Magical Realist Theatre in the Balkans: The Magical Doubling of Language and Reality in Iordan Radichkov’s Play January
Session 5 (31 March, 1:45 - 3:45 PM)
1:45. Andrej Sobolev
Aspects of Nominal Morphosyntax in the Southern Arumanian Dialect of Pind
2:15. Anastasia Loukina
The Balkan Sprachbund and Regional Phonetic Variations in Modern Greek
2:45. Georgios Tserdanelis and Brian Joseph
On Phonetic Balkanisms
3:15. Joseph Schallert
The Historical Phonology of Fakija Dialect Vocalism
Session 6 (31 March, 4:00 - 6:00 PM)
4:00. Keith Langston
The Neocircumflex and the Quantity of Present-Tense Thematic -e- in Cakavian
4:30. Andrea Sims
Side Effects of Dialect Loss, the Genitive Plural in Non-standard Croatian
5:00. Katie Woznicki
An Acoustic Analysis of Word Prosody in Ljubljana Slovene
5:30. Bojan Belic
Unique Control in Present-Day Serbian
Session 7 (1 April, 8:30 - 10:00 AM)
8:30. Helmut Schaller
Internal and External Borrowings from Turkish in South Slavic Languages
9:00. Henry Cooper
The Bible among the Croatian Glagolites: How, When, Where, Why and to What Extent?
9:30. Tom Priestly
Reflexive Pronouns in Sele Slovene
Session 8 (1 April, 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM)
10:15. Grace Fielder
Balkan Discourse Markers: A Problem in Historical Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
10:45. Elena Petroska and Mimoza Rista-Dema
Information Structure and Word Order in Albanian and Macedonian
11:15. Tanja Ivanova-Sullivan
The Pragmatic Function of the Overt Expletive in Weather Constructions in Bulgarian
11:45. Traci Lindsey
Code-Switching and Language Mixing in Bulgarian Popular Music
Session 9 (1 April, 1:45 - 3:45 PM)
1:45. Christina Kramer
Shifting Borders - Shifting Identities: Individual Response to Macedonian Language Standardization
2:15. Robert Greenberg
Meeting Lofty Standards: Ongoing Controversies in the Standardization of Serbian and Croatian
2:45. Grant Lundberg
Dialect Attitudes in Slovenia
3:15. Tanja Petrovic
The Yugoslav People’s Army and Language Ideologies of Ex-Yugoslav Peoples
Session 10 (1 April, 4:00 - 6:00 PM)
4:00. Bill Darden
OCS by- vs. bi- as an Old Future-Optative Opposition
4:30. Brian Joseph
The Geg Albanian of Steinmetz (1912)
5:00. Alexander Murzaku
The Evolving Geometry of the Deictic Adverbs of Place in Albanian
5:30. Eric Hamp
Albanian do and marr, Balkan Futures and Phrasal Verbs
