18th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore

University of Washington
Seattle, WA, U. S. A.
March 29-31, 2012
Thursday, March 29
8:15-9:45 TITLE:

TOM PRIESTLY
Placement of pronouns in a Slovene dialect
VIRGINIA HILL
Differential object marking in Romanian: a discourse driven analysis
IVELINA TCHIZMAROVA
Pragmatic Functions of Non-Anaphoric Definites and Non-Deictic Demonstratives
in Bulgarian
9:45-10:15 COFFEE BREAK
10:15-11:45 TITLE:

MATTHEW C. CURTIS
On the chronology of lexical borrowings from Albanian into Slavic
PETYA ASSENOVA
Linguistic phenomena at the border of two areas
HELMUT SCHALLER
Slavic elements and their history in the present Rumanian language
11:45-1:15 LUNCH BREAK
1:15-2:45 TITLE:

KRISTINA REARDON
The female gaze on the new “other”—the members of non-Slovenian post-Yugoslav
states
TATJANA B. EFTIMOSKA
The essay as literary genre (Macedonian experience)
RUXANDRA POP
Mihai Pop – an intellectual Biography
2:45-3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15-4:45 TITLE:

VICTOR FRIEDMAN
What is a newspaper? Basic color terms and Balkan linguistics
ANDREW DOMBROWSKI
Pulevski’s Turkish in a Balkan context
KELLY LYNNE MAYNARD
Reconstruction of the Proto-Gheg infinitive

5:00-... MY BALKANS
18th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, U. S. A.
March 29-31, 2012
Friday, March 30
8:15-9:45 TITLE:

VIKTORIA SUKOVATA
The South Slavic folklore and mythopoetic motives in Marina Abramović’s works
DENIS S. ERMOLIN
Funeral laments and weepings among the Albanians of the Ukraine: (con)-texts and
semantics
HENRIQUE SCHNEIDER
The village outside (against, in) the state: The narrative of the village and the
organization of political power in (Albanian) Kosovo
9:45-10:15 COFFEE BREAK
10:15-11:45 TITLE:

TANYA DIMITROVA
Language as a main identification marker among Bulgarian migrants in Greece
GRACE E. FIELDER
Language, identity and standardization in the Balkans
ELENA PETROSKA
DEMEK in Macedonian
11:45-1:15 LUNCH BREAK
1:15-2:45 TITLE:

BAVJOLA SHATRO
Metaphysical concepts and hermeticism in contemporary Albanian poetry; The
poetry of Martin Camaj in Palimpsest
SVETLANA KALEZIC-RADONJIC
Spas songs as lyrical palimpsest
DRAGICA POPOVSKA
The sacred stones in Macedonian folk religion
2:45-3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15-4:45 TITLE:

ALEKSANDRA SALAMUROVIC
Cultural models of self-images and alterity in Serbian newspapers after 2000
AMANDA GREBER
T is for Tito: Good Language, Good Citizen, and Identity in Textbooks
IRINA SEDAKOVA
Saying Goodbye and Farewell in a ritual context in Bulgaria (in a wider Balkan and
Slavic context)

5:00-... MY BALKANS
18th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, U. S. A.
March 29-31, 2012
Saturday, March 31
8:15-9:45 TITLE:

BRIAN JOSEPH & CHRISTOPHER BROWN

Balkanological lessons from the Greek of Southern Albania
ANASTASIA SMIRNOVA
The meaning of da and če complements in Bulgarian: the analysis in terms of
epistemic commitment
RONELLE ALEXANDER
Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition
9:45-10:15 COFFEE BREAK
10:15-11:45 TITLE:

MARIJA ILIĆ & BOJAN BELIĆ

Language in the making: the case of Bunjevački
KEITH LANGSTON
Managing Croatian and Serbian: The role of language planning boards

11:45-1:15 LUNCH BREAK

1:15-2:45 TITLE:

BOGDAN TRIFUNOVIC
The image and semantics of old Serbia in the writings of Grigorije Božović
NICOLAE STANCIU
About lions and demons in Romanian and Slavic Cultures
LIDIJA DELIĆ
Turk woman in the epic poetry of the Balkan Christians: An insight into epic and
social stereotypes
2:45-3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15-4:45 TITLE:

THEDE KAHL
Old professions and occupational names in multilingual communities of South
Albania
OLGA MLADENOVA
Two editions of Bulgarian texts
DONALD L. DYER
Hanging in the balance: Real lessons in manuscript acceptance and rejection at
Balkanistica

5:00-... MY BALKANS
DINNER & A PARTY