Professor

Victor Friedman
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics
Graduate Advisor for Slavic Linguistics
Director of CEERES
Wieboldt 405
On leave 2008-09
(773) 702-0732
vfriedm@uchicago.edu
CV (PDF)
More information available at: http://home.uchicago.edu/~vfriedm/
Victor A. Friedman (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975) is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in
the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, where he
also holds an appointment in the Department of Linguistics and an associate appointment in
the Department of Anthropology. He is also Director of the Center for East European and
Russian/Eurasian Studies, a National Resource Center at Chicago. He is president of the U.S.
National Committee of the International Association for Southeast European Studies and vicepresident of the U.S. National Committee of the International Committee of Slavists.
Professor Friedman is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
Academy of Sciences of Albania, the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova, Matica
Srpska, and has been awarded the "1300 Years of Bulgaria" jubilee medal. He has twice been
awarded the Golden Plaque from Sts. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, from which
he also holds the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. During the Yugoslav Wars of Succession
he worked for the United Nations as a senior policy analyst in Macedonia and consulted for
other international organizations. He has held Guggenheim, Fulbright-Hays, ACLS, IREX,
NEH, and other fellowships. His publications include The Grammatical Categories of the
Macedonian Indicative (1977), Linguistic Emblems and Emblematic Languages: On
Language as Flag in the Balkans (1999), Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond (2003), and
Studies in Albanian and Other Balkan languages (2004), as well as more than 200 scholarly
articles. In addition to his research on the Balkan languages, has published extensively on
Lak grammar, as well as on Georgian, and has done field work in Daghestan in addition to
more than 30 years of field work in the Balkans. His main research interests are grammatical
categories as well as sociolinguistic issues related to contact phenomena, standardization,
ideology, and identity.

Selected Publications

Albanian in the Balkan Linguistic League: A Reconsideration of Theoretical Implications.

Studia Albanica Vol. 28, No. 1. 2005 .33-44.
The Balkans as a Linguistic Area. Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics , Vol.
1, ed.-in-Chief Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006. 657-672.
Lak. Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics , Vol. 6, ed.-in-Chief Keith
Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006. 303-305.
Macedonia: Language Situation. Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics , Vol.
7, ed.-in-Chief Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006. 354-356.
Macedonian. Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics , Vol. 7, ed.-in-Chief
Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006. 356-357.
Lak Folktales: Materials for a Bilingual Reader: Part One. Who Is most Important? The Bill
Question: Studies in Honor of Bill J. Darden on the Occasion of His Sixty-Sixth Birthday , ed.
by D. Dyer, G. Fowler, V. Friedman, D. Hristova, H. Aronson, and J. Sadock. Bloomington,
IN: Slavica. 2006. 111-116
Albania. Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and
Society , Vol. 3, 2nd ed., ed. by U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, K.J. Matthier, P. Trudgill. Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter. 2006. 1874-1882.
Boundaries and Borders in Balkan Slavic. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and
Poetics . Vol. 44-45. 2002-2003 (published 2006). 161-173.
Codeswitching in Albanian Urban Music. Urban Music in the Balkans: Drop-Out Ethnic
Identitites or a Case of Tolerance and Global Thinking? , ed. by Sokol Shupo. Tirana:
ASMUS. 2006. 540-564.
West Rumelian Turkish in Macedonia and Adjacent Areas. Turkic Language Contacts , ed.
by H. Boeschoten and L. Johanson. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2006. 27-45.
Dialectological Perspectives on Romani in the Balkan Linguistic League. Balkansko
ezikoznanie - Linguistique balkanique . Vol. 45, No. 1, 2006. 45-54.
Codeswitching in Urbaner Balkanmuzik. Zeitschrift der Initiative Minderheiten. No. 61,
2006. 14-15 (German prcis of #211).
The Expression of Speaker Subjectivity in Lak. L'nonciation mdiatise II, ed. by Zlatka
Guentchva. Louvain: Peeters. 2007. 351-376.
Balkanizing the Balkan sprachbund: A closer look at grammatical permeability and feature
distribution. Grammars in Contact: A Cross Linguistic Typology , ed. by A. Aikhenvald and
R.F.W. Dixon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. 201-219.
Makedonstika vo SAD (Macedonian: Macedonian Studies in the USA). 40 godini
me_unaroden Seminar za makedonski jazik, literatura i kultura: 1967-2007 , ed. by Emilija
Crvenkovska. Skopje: University of Skopje. 2007. 55-58.

Targeted Testing: Where Grammar Meets Proficiency and Authentic Content. Glossos , Vol
9. 2007. 5 pp. http://www.seelrc.org/glossos/issues/9/friedman.pdf
Language Politics and Language Policies in the Contemporary Western Balkans: Infinitives,
Turkisms, and EUrolinguistics. EES News: East European Studies - Woodrow Wilson Center
for Scholars . September-October 2007, 1-4, 10-11.
Udvojuvanjeto na objektot vo balkanskite jazici vo minatoto i denes (Macedonian: Object
reduplication in Balkan languages in the past and today). Klasika - Balkanistika Paleoslavistika: Festschrift in honor of the 85th birthday and 60th anniversary of scholarly
activity of Acad. Petar Ilievski , ed. by Zuzana Topoli_ska et al., Skopje: Macedonian
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2007. 235-249.
Balkan Linguistics and the Challenges of EU Integration: Minorities as Majorities and
Majorities as Minorities. Dynamics of National Identity and Transnational Identities in the
Process of European Integration , Ed. by Elena Marushiakova, Newcastle: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing. 2008. 362-375. (also to be published in Bulgarian Sofia: BAN).
Macedonian Dialectology and Eurology: Areal and Typological Perspectives.
Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung Vol. 61, No. 2 139-146.
Language Contact in Southeastern Europe: From Tolerance to Conflict and Back Again.
Kptildilik: Til-Sana-Medeniet [Polylingualism: Language-Consciousness-Culture] ,
Eleventh International Conference "Axanovskie _tenija", al-Farabi Kazakh National
Unversity, ed. by E. D. Sulejmenova et al., Almaty: al-Farabi Kazakh National Unversity,
2008. 18-31.

Courses:
History of Albania
Structure of Albanian
Albanian Dialectology
Albanian Language and Linguistics
Advanced Albanian Language and Linguistics
History of Bulgarian
Structure of Bulgarian
Bulgarian for Reading Knowledge
Structure of Lak
Lak Language and Linguistics
Lak Morphonemic & Syntactic Analysis
Macedonian for Slavists
Structure of Macedonian
Macedonian Language and Linguistics
Advanced Macedonian Language and Linguistics
Intensive Structure of Macedonian
Old Church Slavonic
Romani Language and Linguistics
Comparative East South Slavic Linguistics
Comparative South Slavic

Language, Power and Identity In Southeast Europe

Language Contact: The Balkan Connection