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Degree: Ph.D., UCLA

Position: Professor and Acting Associate Dean for the Humanities (Spring 2012)

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

2011 essay: (with Ada Emmett) The Scholarly Communication Problem. Why Open Access is Necessary: A Transatlantic Perspective. Hall Center Communiqué, Spring 2011: 20–25. Translations: Croatian (Slobodni filozofski), Romanian (Vatra), Serbian (Danas and Pančevačko čitalište), Slovene (Delo), Ukrainian (Бібліотечний форум України)

2010 chapter: PIE Inheritance and Word-Formational Innovation in Slavic Motion Verbs in ‑i‑. New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion. Studies in Language Companion Series, vol. 115, V. Hasko and R. Perelmutter (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2010 chapter: The Illyrian Movement: A Croatian Vision of South Slavic Unity. Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language Identity Efforts, vol. 2, Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia Garcia (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2009 article: Prekmurje Grammar as a Source of Slavic Comparative Material. Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies 7: 29–44.

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: Slavisticno 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

2009– : Linguistics editor, Slavia Centralis, University of Maribor.

1997–2011 : [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.

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 Vecer (Maribor daily paper), 31 January 2009 (in Slovene).

Wikipedia article Marc L. Greenberg in Slovene.

Google Scholar search for citations Marc L. Greenberg + Slavic OR Slovene