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The Lecture The Speaker THIRD ANNUAL KENNETH E. Born in 1941, Wayles Browne, currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at Cornell NAYLOR MEMORIAL LECTURE IN One thing countries and stateless national University, is one of the leading Western SOUTH SLAVIC LINGUISTICS groups, both in the Balkans and elsewhere, scholars specializing in the study and feel they should have (alongside a flag, an analysis of Serbo-Croatian. His Slavic stu- airline, a soccer team, and an anthem) is a dies began with his undergraduate career at standard language. Harvard University (A.B., 1963, in Linguis- Standards have had a bad press in the tics and Slavic Languages), and continued American linguistics tradition, witness with graduate work at Massachusetts In- WAYLES BROWNE Robert Hall's 1950 book Leave Your stitute of Technology and the University of Language Alone!. In fact, there are great Department of Linguistics Novi Sad in Yugoslavia, culminating in a advantages in having a standard, even Cornell University Ph.D. degree from the University of Zagreb though, in order to put one together, in 1983. He studied with some of the finest someone has to invest some work into linguists and Slavicists of the 20th century, processing and tampering with existing including Roman Jakobson, Horace Lunt, language forms. But it's also true that de jure Morris Halle, and Pavle Ivic._ His standards can be, or come to be, out of step "WHAT IS A STANDARD dissertation, directed by Rudolf Filipovic,_ LANGUAGE GOOD FOR, AND with de facto usage. In some cases, more than one standard grows up based on the was entitled Relativna _e__ u hrvatskom WHO GETS TO HAVE ONE?" same raw material. One secondary result of ili srpskom jeziku u poredjenju s engleskom this can be rancorous discussions about the situacijom (Relative Clauses in Serbo- justification or lack of justification for one or Croatian in Comparison with the English Situation) and is one of the first serious Friday, May 19, 2000 another of the standards: who has the right to attempts to analyze Serbo-Croatian syntax at 3:00 p.m. standardize the language separately from the others, and who can deny another group the within a Generative Grammar framework. It right to do so? was later published in revised form, in 1986, The number of languages that have as Relative Clauses in Serbo-Croatian, as more than one standard is larger than we part of the Zagreb English-Serbo-Croatian The Ohio State University usually think: it includes English, German, Contrastive Project, by the Institute of Portuguese, Dutch/Flemish, and Spanish, Linguistics of the University of Zagreb. Faculty Club Grand Lounge Author of more than 65 articles and 20 181 South Oval Mall perhaps also French, as well as Serbo- Croatian/Bosnian. Special difficulties can reviews, Professor Browne wrote the wide- Columbus, Ohio arise for anyone who wishes to teach or learn ly-cited definitive sketch of Serbo-Croatian such a language. Even in Lesson 1 of a grammar: "Serbo-Croat", pp. 306-387 in textbook, there is likely to be material which The Slavonic Languages (B. Comrie and G. will lay the teacher -- and, later on, the Corbett, eds., Routledge Publishers, 1993). students -- open to accusations of taking Besides his present position at Cornell, A reception at the Faculty Club where he has taught since 1974, he has Grand Lounge will follow sides against one of the existing groups. taught at Brown University and Yale Uni- versity. He has also held research positions at MIT and at the University of Zagreb. Professor Browne's main interests lie in the syntax of Serbo-Croatian and other South Slavic languages (relative clauses, clitic placement rules, complement clauses, etc.) and in the contributions these can make to theoretical work in general linguistics. The Professorship Kenneth E. Naylor, Jr. Brian D. Joseph Other Naylor Lectures 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, a major in Linguistics and a announce the Naylor Memorial Lecturer for Humanities through gifts to The Ohio State Cornell University in 1958, and his M.A. in minor in Classics), and Harvard University 2001: Howard Aronson of University of University from the estate of Dr. Naylor. General linguistics from Indiana University (M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978, both in Chicago. Dr. Aronson specializes in South The professorship is a five-year in 1960. At Indiana, he began to study Linguistics), spending a year in Greece Slavic Linguistics, with Bulgarian as his appointment, and is dedicated to preserving Slavic with Professor Edward Stankiewicz, doing research on his dissertation. After a particular focus (in addition to considerable and continuing the scholarly legacy of Dr. who became a personal friend and mentor. year as an Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral expertise in Georgian). Naylor. Professor Brian D. Joseph, a When Professor Stankiewicz moved to the Fellow at the University of Alberta, Dr. The Naylor Memorial Lectures are Balkan/Greek scholar of the Department of University of Chicago, Kenneth Naylor went Joseph began in 1979 as Assistant Professor published in the newly-created Naylor Linguistics at the Ohio State University and with him. There he received his doctorate in in the Linguistics Department at The Ohio Memorial Lecture Monograph Series. The a colleague of Dr. Naylor, has the Russian and South Slavic linguistics in 1966. State University, where he has been ever 1998 Lecture by Victor Friedman distinguished honor of being the first Dr. Naylor was an assistant professor at the since, becoming a full professor in 1988, and ("Linguistic Emblems and Emblematic Kenneth E. Naylor Professor. He now holds University of Pittsburgh from 1964 to 1966. serving as Chair of Linguistics from 1987 to Languages: On Language as Flag in the joint appointments in the Department of In 1966, he began teaching Slavic linguistics 1997. Dr. Joseph has been the recipient of Balkans") and the 1999 Lecture by Ronelle Linguistics and the Department of Slavic at The Ohio State University. At the time of numerous awards and honors, including the Alexander ("In Honor of Diversity: The and East European Languages and his death, Dr. Naylor was the Acting 1995 OSU Alumni Distinguished Teaching Linguistic Resources of the Balkans") are Literatures. Director of the Center for Slavic and East Award, the Erskine Visiting Fellowship at now available; for information, contact the European Studies at the Ohio State the University of Canterbury in New Department of Slavic and East European The Lecture Series University. Dr. Naylor was the recipient of Zealand in the summer of 1997, a Fulbright Languages and Literatures (614-292-6733). numerous awards, grants and fellowships Research Award in Greece in 1987, and the As part of the Naylor Professorship, from many sources, including the American currently held Kenneth E. Naylor Professor Joseph has established an annual Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Professorship of South Slavic Linguistics. Lecture on South Slavic Linguistics in program, and the countries of Bulgaria and Professor Joseph is recognized worldwide as Kenneth Naylor's memory that will bring Yugoslavia, from which he was awarded one of the leading specialists in the history leading scholars in the field to OSU each medals of honor (the Jubilee Medal and the and structure of Greek and in Balkan Spring to give a public lecture and to lecture Order of the Yugoslav Flag with Golden linguistics. His primary scholarly interest is in Professor Joseph's South Slavic classes. Wreath, respectively). In 1990, he testified in historical linguistics, with an emphasis on before the U.S. House of Representatives, the latter history of Greek. This has led him Foreign Affairs Committee on ethnic rivalry to study Greek in relation to its neighboring in Yugoslavia and the development of the languages in the Balkans, including the Serbo-Croatian language. Dr. Naylor’s South Slavic languages. His work on the research centered on the Serbo-Croatian Balkan Sprachbund explores the effects of language and on South Slavic linguistics in years of language contact and bilingualism general. He served as editor of the journals which have led to converging linguistic Balkanistica, Folia Slavica, and The developments in the languages of the area. American Bibliography of Slavic and East This area of research was one in which Dr. European Studies. The overwhelming Naylor was also deeply interested. Author majority of his seventy articles focused on or co-author of 5 books and editor or co- Serbo-Croatian and Balkan linguistics. His editor of 8 volumes, Professor Joseph's long dedication and many accomplishments live list of publications includes many dealing in his work and in the love of the field he with Balkan linguistics. He is currently Brian D. Joseph, first and current Kenneth instilled in his students. working with Professor Victor Friedman, the The late, distinguished professor of South E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic first Naylor Lecturer (in 1998), on a book on Slavic linguistics, Dr. Kenneth E. Naylor Linguistics the Balkan languages for Cambridge University Press..