Stephen M. Dickey

On research leave, Spring 2012

2128 Wescoe Hall
785-864-2357
smd@ku.edu
Curriculum vitæ: PDF

Degree: Ph.D., Indiana

Position: Associate Professor.

Teaching interests: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Language, Structure of Russian and Russian Functional Grammar, Structure of the South Slavic Languages and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Functional Grammar, South Slavic Culture and Literature, Ottoman Bosnia.

Research interests: Comparative Slavic verbal aspect, cognitive linguistics, Slavic semantics and syntax.

Selected recent publications (since 2000)

Forthcoming article: "Orphan Prefixes and the Grammaticalization of Aspect in South Slavic," to appear in Jezikoslovlje.

Forthcoming article: "On the Development of the Russian Imperfective General Factual," to appear in Scando-Slavica 58(1); http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=ssla20 .

2011 article: "The Varying Role of PO- in the Grammaticalization of Slavic Aspectual Systems: Sequences of Events, Delimitatives, and German Language Contact," in Journal of Slavic Linguistics 19(2): 175–230.

2011 article: "Subjectification and the Russian Perfective", in Marcin Gzrygiel and Laura Janda, eds. Slavic Linguistics in a Cognitive Framework, Peter Lang: 37–66.

2010 chapter: "Common Slavic “Indeterminate” Verbs of Motion Were Really Manner-of-Motion Verbs". New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion. Studies in Language Companion Series, vol. 115. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2009 article: "Хохотнул, схитрил: The Relationship between Semelfactives Formed with -NU- and S- in Russian," coauthored with Laura A. Janda, in Russian Linguistics 33(3): 229–248.

2009 article: "Verbal Aspect and Negation in Russian and Czech" coauthored with Susan H. Kresin, in Russian Linguistics 33(2): 121–176.

2008 article: "Prefixes in the Grammaticalization of Slavic Aspect: Telic S-/Z-, Delimitative PO- and Language Change via Expansion and Reduction," in Aspekte, Kategorien und Kontakte slavischer Sprachen: Festschrift für Volkmar Lehmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Bernhard Brehmer, Katrina Bente Fischer and Gertje Krumbholz, eds., Verlag Dr. Kovač: 96–108.

2007 article: A Prototype Account of the Development of Delimitative PO- in Russian. Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain. Edited by Dagmar Divjak and Agata Kochanska. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 326—371.

2007 translations: Damir Šodan, Bagatelle, Chess, The Tao of Gravity, Marseilless, After Brueghel, Alluvium, Satori in Gradiška, Antarctic, Tristes Tropiques, Eavesdropping. American Poetry Review 36(3): 10—13.

2006 article: (with Marc L. Greenberg) 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 article: Aspectual Pairs, Goal Orientation and PO- Delimitatives in Russian, Glossos 7.

2005 article: S-/Z- and the Grammaticalization of Slavic Aspect. Slovene Linguistic Studies 5: 3—55.

2005 translation: Borislav Pekic, How to Quiet a Vampire (Kako upokojiti vampira), Northwestern University Press 2005 (with Bogdan Rakic).

2003 article: Delimitative Verbs in Russian, Czech and Slavic (coauthored with Julie Hutcheson). American Contributions to the 13th International Congress of Slavists. Volume 1: Linguistics. Edited by Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake. Bloomington: Slavica, 23—36.

2003 article: 'Semelfactive' -ną- and the Western Aspect Gestalt. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 10(1): 29—52.

2003 article: Verbal Aspect in Slovene. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 56(3): 182—207.

2002 article: Distributive Verbs in Serbian and Croatian. Of All the Slavs My Favorites: In Honor of Howard I. Aronson on the Occasion of His 66th Birthday, Edited by Victor Friedman and Donald Dyer. Bloomington, Slavica Publishers: 103—15.

2000 book: Parameters of Slavic Aspect: A Cognitive Approach, Stanford, CSLI Publications. Parameters of Slavic Aspect—Errata.

2000 article: Expressing Ingressivity in Slavic: The Contextually-Conditioned Imperfective Past vs. the Phase Verb stat' and Procedural za-. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 7(1): 11—44

Editorial work

Associate Editor, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Oct 2010–date

Contributing Editor for Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, SlavFile, Jan 2007–date

2001: Journal of Slavic Linguistics 9(1) [aspect issue].

Editorial Assistant, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Sep–Dec 1996

Selected grants

External:

Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo, Norway), Fulbright-Hays

Internal: NFGRF Summer Research