Fifth International Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies

 

 

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)

 

 

THURSDAY MAY 1

 

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-Tošiќ (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

 

 

FRIDAY MAY 2

 

**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 (Filološki 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 (Filološki 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

 

1:40 – 2:10:            Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia Stefan (Macedonian Orthodox Church), “The Macedonian Orthodox Church in the North-American States”

 

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)

 

 

SATURDAY MAY 3

 

**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 (Filološki 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

 

2:45 – 3:15:          Snežana Venovska-Antevska (Institut za Makedonski Jazik):  "Conditions in the Macedonian Language 1990-2002"

 

3:15 – 3:45:          Maksim Karanfilovski  (Filološki 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

 

 

SUNDAY MAY 4

 

**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 (Filološki 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)