Ronelle Alexander, a Native of the State of NAYLOR MEMORIAL LECTURE in Possession of a People

The Lecture The Speaker ECOND NNUAL ENNETH S A K E. Language is the most intimate and precious Ronelle Alexander, a native of the state of NAYLOR MEMORIAL LECTURE IN possession of a people. With it they name Washington, received her B.A. and M.A. SOUTH SLAVIC LINGUISTICS the persons, places, things and ideas that degrees from Washington State University and have meaning for them, through it they the University of Washington, respectively. communicate in a way that affirms their She then moved to Harvard, where she studied belongingness, and by means of it they keep with Horace Lunt and Albert Lord. For her alive the narratives that remind them who doctoral research, she spent 1970-71 in they are. Languages are said to be distinct Yugoslavia (supported by a grant from the from one another when they are mutually American Association of University Women), RONELLE ALEXANDER where she undertook extensive field work in a unintelligible. Dialects of a language are Department of Slavic Languages number of different villages in southern Serbia variants peculiar to a social class or and northern Macedonia. She received her and Literatures geographic locale which are not thought University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in 1975, the same year in which her sufficiently distinct to be classified as dissertation was published as Torlak separate languages. In terms of function, Accentuation. After short term teaching however, each dialect is a self-contained positions at the University of North Carolina - linguistic system which serves the basic Chapel Hill, Yale University, and UCLA, she needs of its group, and is studied by linguists joined the faculty of the University of IN HONOR OF DIVERSITY: as such. The truest distinction between California at Berkeley in 1978, where she has THE LINGUISTIC RESOURCES OF THE language and dialect, in fact, is that held the rank of Professor since 1987. She BALKANS attributed to many a famous linguist: "A teaches all South Slavic languages except language is a dialect with an army and a Slovene, and courses in South Slavic navy." The range of dialectal variation is linguistics, literature, folklore and cultural especially rich in the Balkans, where history. She is the author of four books and ethnographers from many lands have worked numerous articles on linguistics, folklore and assiduously since the last century to collect poetics. She has traveled and lectured in many Wednesday, April 7, 1999 and classify dialectal data, and where the countries, including Siberia and Central Asia. at 3:30 p.m. several vexed "language questions" cannot In 1997, with support from the Rockefeller begin to be understood without dialectology. Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding, she co-organized "Oral After the coming of socialist governments Traditions of the North Pacific Rim, a and mass literacy, it was presumed that Performance Workshop", which brought dialects would die out and the standard The Ohio State University together in California scholars from several languages would predominate. The reverse countries and singers and storytellers from Faculty Club Grand Lounge has happened, however: in many areas, Siberia. Her central research activity remains 181 South Oval Mall dialectal diversity has survived and dialectology, and she is one of the few Columbus, Ohio flourished. The present study, which surveys American Slavists with both theoretical and the discipline of South Slavic dialectology practical research expertise in the field of and attempts to explicate the tenacity of dialectology. Since 1990 she has been carrying dialectal diversity, is dedicated to the honor out extensive field work in Bulgaria, of Kenneth E. Naylor, who began his own culminating in her leadership of the 1996 joint A reception at the Faculty Club distinguished career in South Slavic Bulgarian-American field expedition Grand Lounge will follow linguistics in the field of dialectology. "Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology", sponsored by the International Research and Exchanges Board, and in the forthcoming volume of the same name. The Professorship Kenneth E. Naylor, Jr. Brian D. Joseph The 2000 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, Pennsylvania. 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 Cornell University in 1958, and his M.A. in a minor in Classics), and Harvard University 2000: Wayles Browne of Cornell University. University from the estate of Dr. Naylor. General linguistics from Indiana University (M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978, both in Dr. Browne specializes in South Slavic The professorship is a five-year in 1960. At Indiana, he began to study Linguistics), spending a year in Greece Linguistics, with Serbo-Croation as his appointment, and is dedicated to preserving Slavic with Professor Edward Stankiewicz, doing research on his dissertation. After a particular focus. and continuing the scholarly legacy of Dr. who became a personal friend and mentor. year as an Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral 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 Ohio State University 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 University of Pittsburgh 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 Yugoslavia, 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 South Slavic languages. 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 The late, distinguished professor of South language and on South Slavic linguistics in bilingualism which have led to converging Slavic linguistics, Dr. Kenneth E. Naylor general. He served as editor of the journals linguistic developments in the languages of 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.

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