Prof. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Education
MA in Slavic languages and literatures, University of Chicago, 1983 • PhD in Slavic languages and literatures (specializing in Slavic linguistics) at UCLA, 1990 (diss. advisors: Professors Henrik Birnbaum and Alan Timberlake).
Position, duties
Professor of Slavic Languages, teaching Slavic linguistics at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. Currently serving as Chairman of the Slavic Department.
Courses regularly taught
Introduction to Slavic Languages and Linguistics, History of Russian, Old Church Slavic, Comparative Slavic Linguistics, Language and Identity in East-Central Europe and Russia.
Current projects
Monograph on the history of Slavic verbs of motion (with Stephen M. Dickey) • Critical edition of Avgust Pavel's Vend nyelvtan (with Marija Bajzek, Budapest, and Marko Jesenšek, Maribor) • Dictionary of the dialect of Srednje Jarše
Recent publications
A Short Reference Grammar of Slovene (= LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 30). Munich: LINCOM, 2008. • A Historical Phonology of Slovene, Historical Phonology of the Slavic Languages, vol. 13. Heidelberg: C. Winter Universitätsverlag, 2000. (Award: Best Book in Slavic Linguistics 2002, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, New York, Dec. 2002.) • Slovene translation (Zgodovinsko glasoslovje slovenskega jezika), Maribor: Založba Aristej, 2002. Two newspaper articles about the book (in Slovene): Večer (Maribor) and Delo - Književni listi (Ljubljana). • Further publications: see curriculum vitae (PDF).
Grants and awards (selected)
Fulbright 1988 • NEH 1993 • IREX 1996 • American Philosophical Society 2004 (others: see CV)
Editorial work
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 124: Sociolinguistics of Slovene. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997 • Slovenski jezik/Slovene Linguistic Studies. Ljubljana/Lawrence: ZRC SAZU/Hall Center for the Humanities, 1997—
Languages
Proficient: Croatian (Bosnian, Serbian), Czech, Russian, Slovene • Reading, some speaking: Albanian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Yiddish; other Slavic languages
Extra curricular
Lute and classical guitar. Occasional participation in the KU Instrumental Collegium Musicum and the Downtown Mandolin Orchestra (which includes guitars). My mainstream classical guitar was built by Brian Cohen. In recent years I have been learning the Russian seven-string guitar, which is tuned in G major, on an early 20th-century (pre-Revolutionary) instrument provided by my friend Dr. Oleg Timofeyev. In May-June 2007 I attended the International Annual Russian Guitar Seminar (IARGUS), run by Dr. Timofeyev. Click here for some pictures of the event.
I have also dabbled in genealogy. You can visit my ancestors from Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine.
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