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Prof. Marc L. Greenberg, (c) Lea H. Greenberg

Marc L. Greenberg


Degree: Ph.D., UCLA
Position: Chair and Professor.
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)

Selected recent publications

  • 2008 book: A Short Reference Grammar of Slovene. LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 30. (Munich: LINCOM)
  • 2007 article: Phonetic Evidence for the Development of the “Acute” Tone in Slavic. Tones and Theories: Proceedings from the International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentuation: 95–108. (Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet)
  • 2007 article: [with Joseph Schallert] The Prehistory and Areal Distribution of Slavic *gъlčěti ‘Speak’. Slovenski jezik/Slovene Linguistic Studies 6: 9–76.
  • 2006 article: The Slovene Sound System Through Time. Slovensko jezikoslovje danes/Slovenian Linguistics Today. Posebna številka Slavistične revije 54: 535–543.
  • 2006 article: [with Stephen M. Dickey] Slavic *jazditi ‘to ride’ and its Implications for the Development the Category of (In)determinacy. Jezikovna predanost, 153–158. Maribor: Slavistično društvo/Ljubljana: SAZU
  • 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].
  • 2005 article: Dialect Variation along the Mura. Croatica et Slavica Iadertina 1: 107–124. (Zadar)
  • 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)
  • 2000 book: A Historical Phonology of the Slovene Language (= Historical Phonology of the Slavic Languages, XIII). (C. Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg)

    Editorial work

  • 1997– : [with Marko Snoj] Slovenski jezik/Slovene Linguistic Studies (Hall Center for the Humanities, KU, and the 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

  • Personal web page
  • Full curriculum vitæ (RTF)
  • Full curriculum vitæ (PDF)

    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.

    • Physical location of office:
    2134 Wescoe Hall
    Mailing address:
    Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
    1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm. 2133
    Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA
    Tel.: (785) 864-2349
    E-mail: mlg (at) ku.edu