The
Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) May 1 May 4, 2003
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, the Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship of South Slavic Linguistics, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, and the Office of International Affairs (all of The Ohio State University)
Organizing Committee: North America -- Brian D. Joseph, Victor Friedman, Christina Kramer; North America & Macedonia -- George Mitrevski; Macedonia: Vera Stojčevska-Antiќ; assisted by Tanja Ivanova
All sessions will be at the Holiday Inn on Lane (328 W. Lane Avenue)
1:00: Welcoming remarks:
Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University); Vera Stojčevska-Antiќ
(Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij); Violeta Čepujnoska
(Vice Rektor, Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij)
1:15
2:45 -- SESSION 1 -- PRAGMATICS
1:15
1:45:
Grace Fielder (University of Arizona), "Constructing Identity
under Siege: A Discourse Analysis
of Macedonian Narrative"
1:45 - 2:15:
Tanja Ivanova (Ohio State University), "Dativus Ethicus in
Macedonian and Other Balkan Languages and its Syntactic, Pragmatic, and
Historical Aspects"
2:15
2:45:
Alexandre Sevigny (McMaster University), "Analysis of a
Pragmatic Macedonian Particle"
**2:45
3:00 BREAK
3:00
4:30 SESSION 2 --
STUDIES ON MEDIEVAL TEXTS
3:00
3:30:
Petar Hr. Ilievski (Macedonian Academy of
Sciences and Arts) "The
First Slavic and Macedonian Translation of the Gospel"
3:30
4:00:
Daniel Collins (The Ohio State University),
"Distance,
Subjecthood, and the Early Slavic Dative Absolute"
4:00 4.30: Maja Jakimovska-Toiќ (Institut za Makedonska Literatura), "The Characteristics of Macedonian Literature of the XV Century"
**4:30
4:45 BREAK
4:45
5:45 SESSION 3 -- 20th Century History and Culture
4:45
5:15:
Lazar Lazarov (Institut za Nacionalna Istorija,
Skopje), "The Great Forces and Macedonia and the Yugoslav-American
Relations in the 20th
Century"
5:15 5:45: George Mitrevski (Auburn University), "Notes and Studies of Prespa in the Branislav Rusiќ Archives at MANU"
**6:00
8:00 RECEPTION FOR ALL IN ATTENDANCE
**8:15
Coffee, tea, bagels available
9:00
10:30 SESSION 4 --
MACEDONIAN AND THE BALKANS
9:00
9:30:
Victor Friedman (University of Chicago), "Evidentiality,
Modality, and Narrative in Macedonian and other Balkan Languages"
9:30 10:00: Marjan Markoviќ (Filoloki Fakultet, Skopje): "Grammatical Categories of Personal Pronouns in the Balkan Context"
10:00
10:30: Ronelle
Alexander (University of California, Berkeley), "Language versus Dialect in
Balkan Slavic, with Special Reference to Macedonian"
**10:30
10:45 BREAK
10:45
12:15 SESSION 5 -- MODERN
LITERATURE
10:45
11:15: Vessela
Warner (University of Washington): "Two
Plays by Goran Stefanovski in the Light of Postcolonial Theory"
11:15
11:45: Michael
Seraphinoff (Skagit Valley College): "Through
a Child's Eyes -- a discussion of the child as narrator in Macedonian
literature"
11:45
12:15: Vera
Stojčevska-Antiќ (Filoloki Fakultet,
Skopje), "Honouring the Jubilee 'Ilinden 1903-2003' performances
of Cernodrinski in the USA"
**12:30
1:30 LUNCH (for participants)
1:40
2:40 SESSION 6 -- MACEDONIAN INSTITUTIONS IN THE US
2:10 2:40: Vasil Babamov (Macedonian-American Friendship Association), "Macedonian Organizations in the United States"
**2:45
3:10 RECOGNITION CEREMONY
3:30
5:00 6th
Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture
Speaker:
Dr. Zuzana Topolinska, MANU
Title: "The
anthropocentric case theory: How is
man realized in the discourse?
**5:15
7:00 Naylor Lecture RECEPTION (FOR ALL IN ATTENDANCE)
**8:15
Coffee, tea, bagels available
9:00
10:15 SESSION 7 -- HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
9:00 9:20: Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University), "Typological and Areal Perspectives on the Reshaping of a Macedonian Verbal Ending
9:20 9:45: Eric P. Hamp (University of Chicago), "zbor (word) and an unrecognized Indo-European root"
9:45
10:15: Mark
Elson (University of Virginia), "On the Formal Relationship Between the
Synthetic Past Tenses in Macedonian and Its Role in the Evolution of the
Conjugational Unit"
**10:15
10:30 BREAK
10:30
12:30 SESSION 8 -- SOCIOLINGUISTICS
10:30
11:00: Christina
Kramer (University of Toronto), "The Writing and Performance of Anton
Panov's Pechalbari: Processes of
Codification"
11:00
11:30: Ann
Evans (Montclair State University), "Language Rights for Ethnic Macedonians
in Greece"
11:30 12:00: Vesna Palmer (University of Chicago), "Who speaks what, to whom and when: A case study of a Macedonian-English bilingual family"
12:00 12:30: Ljudmil Spasov (Filoloki Fakultet, Skopje): "The Contribution of Horace G. Lunt and Victor A. Friedman for the Development of the Socio-Linguistic Research on the Macedonian Language"
12:45
2:30 LUNCH (for participants),
with an address by Professor Horace G. Lunt ("The early days of the
Macedonian literary language: An inside look")
2:45
4:15 SESSION 9 -- MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE
3:15
3:45:
Maksim
Karanfilovski (Filoloki
Fakultet, Skopje): "Some
Characteristics of the Category Aspect in the Macedonian Language Compared to
the Russian, Polish and Serbian Language
3:45 4:15: Biljana Belamarić-Wilsey (University of North Carolina), "Reading and Pronouncing Macedonian: an Interactive Tutorial"
**4:15
4:30 MINI-BREAK
4:30
5:20 SESSION 10 -- MACEDONIAN AND AMERICAN TIES
4:30 5:00: Violeta Čepujnoska (Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij), "The Scientific Cooperation between SS. Cyril and Methodius University and the Universities from America
5:00
5:20:
Philip Shashko (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "American
Visions of Ottoman Macedonia: From
the Ilinden Uprising to the Young Turks, 1903-1908"
**RECEPTION
(FOR PARTICIPANTS) BUSES LEAVE AT 6:00
**8:15
Coffee, tea, bagels available
9:00
10:40 SESSION 11 -- PHONOLOGY
9:00
9:30:
Slavica Kochovska (Rutgers University), "Palatalization in
Macedonian in a Feature Geometry Model"
9:30
9:50:
Joseph Schallert (University of Toronto), "The Reflexes of
Common Slavic *golomb 'pigeon' in Macedonian Dialects"
9:50
10:10: Charles
Gribble (The Ohio State University), "On the Spelling of [f] as <v>
in Macedonian"
10:10 10:40: Kate Minnis (University of Toronto), "An Examination of the Disappearance of Etymological [x] in the Modern Macedonian Language"
**10:40
11:00 BREAK
11:00
1:00 SESSION 12 -- SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
11:00 11:30: Lidija Arizankovska (Filoloski Fakultet, Skopje): "The Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of the Macedonian Particle samo Compared to its Equivalents in the English Language"
11:30 12:00: Loren Billings (National Chi Nan University), "Substantiating 'very non-standard conclusions' about the Clitic Cluster in Macedonian: Beyond Syntax (again)"
12:00 12:30: Elena Petroska (Filoloki Fakultet, Skopje) On Some Types of Predicates in Macedonian
12:30 1:00 CONFERENCE SUMMARY AND WRAP-UP: Brian D. Joseph (The Ohio State University), Vera Stojčevska-Antiќ (Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij)