Teaching interests: Structure and history of Russian and other Slavic languages, Old Church Slavic, language and identity/nationalism, sociolinguistics; Russian, Czech, Slovene, BCS language
Research interests: Reconstruction of Common Slavic, Indo-European; dialectology; language and identity/nationalism; Western South Slavic languages (Slovene, BCS)
2006 article: The Slovene Sound System Through Time. Slovensko jezikoslovje danes / Slovenian Linguistics Today. Posebna številka Slavistične revije 54: 535–543.
2006 e-book: Short Slovene Reference Grammar. (Reference Grammar Network. Duke University / University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: SEELRC)
2006 encyclopedia article: Slovene. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition [print and electronic editions], ed. by Keith Brown, vol. 11: 424–428. (Oxford: Elsevier). [+ 33 audio files].
2004 encyclopedia article: Indo-European 5: Slavic. Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols. (ed. Philipp Strazny): 521–524. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn).
2004 encyclopedia article: Serbo-Croatian and South Slavic Languages. Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols. (ed. Philipp Strazny): 956–958. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn).
2002–03 article: Common Slavic: Progress or Crisis in its Reconstruction? Notes on Recent Archaeological Challenges to Historical Linguistics. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 44–45: 197–209 (appeared in 2006).
2002 book (Slovene edition of 2000 book): Zgodovinsko glasoslovje slovenskega jezika. (Založba Aristej, Maribor)
2009– : Linguistics editor, Slavia Centralis, University of Maribor.
1997– : [with Marko Snoj] Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic
Studies(Hall Center for the Humanities, KU, and the Fran Ramovš Slovene Languages Institute, Scientific Research Center, Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ljubljana).
Selected grants
External: IREX, Franklin Research Grant (American Philosophical Society), Fulbright, NEH
Internal: Hall Center for the Humanities
Current projects
Book: Translation (from Hungarian) and annotation of Avgust Pavel’s 1942 Vend nyelvtan, a grammar of standard Mura-River Slovene, based on dialect material and the Prekmurje written tradition.
Book: Grammar of Srednje Jarše Slovene dialect.
Book [with Stephen M. Dickey]: The origins of the "indeterminate" verbs of motion in Slavic.
Paper [with Alan Redd]: New mathematical approaches to the taxonomy of Slavic.
Other
Interview on RTV SLO 1 (Slovenia) with Aleksander Čolnik, 14 September 2008 (filmed 30 June 2008); transcript of the show (in Slovene)
Interview in the Saturday Supplement of Večer (Maribor daily paper), 31 January 2009 (in Slovene).
