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FIRST KENNETH E. NAYLOR Language is already attested as a source of Victor A. Friedman was born in Chicago in MEMORIAL LECTURE IN SOUTH identification and identity in the Bible: in 1949 and received his B.A. in Russian SLAVIC LINGUISTICS Judges 12:6 the Gileadites identify the Language and Literature from Reed College Ephraimites by making them pronounce the in 1970. His Ph.D. in both Slavic Languages word “shibboleth”. the biblical story also and Literatures and in General linguistics portrays the role of dialect in internecine from the (1975) was warfare. In battle, flags serve to identify the first dual degree granted in the Divisions friend and foe, while in peace they are used at Chicago. His dissertation on the ICTOR RIEDMAN to reinforce the boundaries that divide and Macedonian verb won the Galler prize for V A. F unite. Standard languages and the dialects the Humanities Division. He taught in the Department of Slavic Languages on which they are based perform similar Department of Slavic Languages at the and Literatures unifying and differentiating functions. this University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Chicago is seen especially clearly among the from 1975 until 1993, when he moved to the Southern Slavs and Albanians of the University of Chicago. He is currently Balkans, where divers centrifugal and Professor and Chairman in the Department centripetal forces have brought about a of Slavic Languages and Literatures with a variety of language-based fragmentations joint appointment in Linguistics and an LINGUISTIC EMBLEMS and consolidations at differing times and associate appointment in Anthropology. He places. Religion and perceived history, too, has over 200 publications and has received AND EMBLEMATIC have played significant roles. There was a more than 40 academic awards and honors. LANGUAGES: time in the recent past in Southeastern His book, The Grammatical Categories of ON LANGUAGE AS FLAG IN THE Europe when Greeks were Romans, the Macedonian Indicative, was the first BALKANS Bulgarians were Greeks, Albanians were book on Modern Macedonian published in Turks, and everybody and nobody was a the United States. He is president of the US Macedonian. During that same period, the Committee of the International Association names Serb, Croat, Bosnian, Illyrian, and for Southeast European Studies, and vice- Epirote had meanings quite different from president of the US Committee of the those of today. The interaction of these International Committee of Slavists. In 1982 Thursday, May 28, 1998 factors has been crucial in the formation of he received the “1300 Years of Bulgaria” at 3:30 p.m. modern Southeast European national jubilee medal for contributions to the field of ideologies and ethnic identities, which have Bulgarian studies and in 1991 he received been manipulated, contested, and the University of Skopje Gold Plaque Award crystallized as sites of conflict and sites of for contributions to the field of Macedonian convergence. at times, language has been studies. In 1994 he became the second US- The State University emblematic of religion, at others vice versa, born American citizen elected to the Faculty Club Grand Lounge and at still others the two phenomena have Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 181 South Oval Mall been dissociated. At the time of his death, He has also worked as a Policy and Political my friend and colleague Kenneth E. Naylor Analyst for the United Nations, he has Columbus, Ohio was preparing a major project on the theme advised the Council on Foreign Relations, “language as flag”, and it is in homage to his and has lectured at the US Department of many contributions to this study, especially State and the National Security Agency. His in the realm of the former Serbo-Croatian, research centers on grammatical categories, A reception at the Faculty Club that I will discuss the history and the current language contact, and sociolinguistics in the Grand Lounge will follow state of the intersection of ethnolinguistic Balkans and the Caucasus. and political developments in the Balkans. The Professorship Kenneth E. Naylor, Jr. Brian D. Joseph The 1999 Naylor Lecture

The Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship of Kenneth E. Naylor, Jr. was born on February Born in New York in 1951, Brian D. Joseph The Department of Slavic and East European South Slavic Linguistics was established on 27, 1937 in Philadelphia, . He was schooled at Yale University (B.A. Cum Languages and Literatures is pleased to November 5, 1993 in the College of received his B.A. in French linguistics from Laude, 1973, with a major in Linguistics and announce the Naylor Memorial Lecturer for Humanities through gifts to The Ohio State in 1958, and his M.A. in a minor in Classics), and Harvard University 1999: Ronelle Alexander of the University University from the estate of Dr. Naylor. General linguistics from Indiana University (M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978, both in of California, Berkeley. Dr. Alexander The professorship is a five-year in 1960. At Indiana, he began to study Linguistics), spending a year in Greece specializes in South Slavic Linguistics, with appointment, and is dedicated to preserving Slavic with Professor Edward Stankiewicz, doing research on his dissertation. After a special interests in Balkan Slavic and continuing the scholarly legacy of Dr. who became a personal friend and mentor. year as an Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral dialectology and South Slavic oral tradition. Naylor. Professor Brian D. Joseph, a When Professor Stankiewicz moved to the Fellow at the University of Alberta, Dr. Balkan/Greek scholar of the Department of University of Chicago, Kenneth Naylor went Joseph began in 1979 as Assistant Professor Linguistics at the and with him. There he received his doctorate in in the Linguistics Department at The Ohio a colleague of Dr. Naylor, has the Russian and South Slavic linguistics in 1966. State University, where he has been ever distinguished honor of being the first Dr. Naylor was an assistant professor at the since, becoming a full professor in 1988, and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor. He now holds from 1964 to 1966. serving as Chair of the Department of joint appointments in the Department of In 1966, he began teaching Slavic linguistics Linguistics from 1987 to 1997. Dr. Joseph Linguistics and the Department of Slavic at The Ohio State University. At the time of has been the recipient of numerous awards and East European Languages and his death, Dr. Naylor was the Acting and honors, including the 1995 OSU Alumni Literatures. Director of the Center for Slavic and East Distinguished Teaching Award, the Erskine European Studies at the Ohio State Visiting Fellowship at the University of The Lecture Series University. Dr. Naylor was the recipient of Canterbury in New Zealand in the summer numerous awards, grants and fellowships of 1997, and the currently held Kenneth E. As part of the Naylor Professorship, from many sources, including the American Naylor Professorship of South Slavic Professor Joseph has established an annual Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Linguistics. Professor Joseph is recognized Lecture on South Slavic Linguistics in program, and the countries of Bulgaria and worldwide as one of the leading specialists Kenneth Naylor's memory that will bring , from which he was awarded in the history and structure of Greek and in leading scholars in the field to OSU each medals of honor (the Jubilee Medal and the Balkan linguistics. His primary scholarly Spring to give a public lecture and to lecture Order of the Yugoslav Flag with Golden interest is in historical linguistics, with an in Professor Joseph's South Slavic classes. Wreath, respectively). In 1990, he testified emphasis on the latter history of Greek. This before the U.S. House of Representatives, has led him to study Greek in relation to its Foreign Affairs Committee on ethnic rivalry neighboring languages in the Balkans, in Yugoslavia and the development of the including the . His Serbo-Croatian language. Dr. Naylor’s work on the Balkan Sprachbund explores the research centered on the Serbo-Croatian effects of years of language contact and language and on South Slavic linguistics in bilingualism which have led to converging The late, distinguished professor of South general. He served as editor of the journals linguistic developments in the languages of Slavic linguistics, Dr. Kenneth E. Naylor Balkanistica, Folia Slavica, and The the area. This area of research was one in American Bibliography of Slavic and East which Dr. Naylor was also deeply interested. European Studies. The overwhelming Author or co-author of 5 books and editor or majority of his seventy articles focused on co-editor of 8 volumes, Professor Joseph's Serbo-Croatian and Balkan linguistics. His long list of publications includes many dedication and many accomplishments live dealing with Balkan linguistics. He is in his work and in the love of the field he currently working with Professor Victor Brian D. Joseph, first and current Kenneth instilled in his students. Friedman on a book on the Balkan languages E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic for Cambridge University Press. Linguistics