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Curriculum vitae Alan Timberlake Contacts Dept. of Lgs. & Lits. 708 Hamilton Hall, mc 2839 Columbia University 1130 Amsterdam Avenue New York NY 10027 phone (212)-854-3451, FAX (212)-854-5009; -mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (W08) Education 1964–68 Harvard College, .A., Slavic Languages 1968–73 Harvard University, Ph.D., Linguistics. Employment 1972–1987 University of at Los Angeles, Slavic Lgs. & Lits. 1987–2008 University of California at Berkeley, Slavic Lgs. & Lits. 2008— Professor & Chair, Columbia University, Slavic Lgs. & Lits. 2001 Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Slavic Lgs. & Lits. (W01, S01) 2003 Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Slavic Lgs. & Lits. (W03, S03) 2004 Visiting Professor, Columbia University (F04) 2005 Visiting Professor, Stanford University (W05, S05) 2006 Visiting Professor, Columbia University (F06) 2005 Visiting Professor, Stanford University (W07) 2007 Visiting Professor, Columbia University (F06) Grants and Fellowships 1987–88 “Grammar and Text,” Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities 1993 Johnson Fellow, University of Surrey, England 1996–97 “Synthetic ,” President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California 1996–97 “Synthetic Russian Grammar,” Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley 2005–6 “Old Russian Chronicles,” Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley Service to the Department and University Chair, Slavic Lgs. & Lits, University of California at Los Angeles (1984–1987) Chair, Slavic Lgs. & Lits, University of California at Berkeley (1991–1996, S2003, 2003–4, Sm 2007) Chair, Slavic Lgs. & Lits, Columbia University (2008—) Humanities Research Fellowship review committee, UCB (1998–2001), chair (1999, 2000, 2001) University graduate fellowship committees (Title VI; Humanities, various years) Graduate adviser, Slavic Lgs. & Lits (various years)

Timberlake, p. 1 Doe Annex Seismic Corrections and Improvements Program Committee (2004–5) Service to the Profession Visiting Committee on Linguistics, Harvard University (two three-year terms) referee: International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics. Slavic Linguistics. Language. Slavic and East European Journal. Journal of Pragmatics editorial board, Русский язык в научном освещении chair, external review committee, Slavic Lgs. & Lits, Duke University (1996) chair, Plenary Session, Problems, Explorations, Solutions. An International Scientific Conference on the Typology of Aspect, State University (September 1997) external review committee, Slavic Lgs. & Lits, University of California at Los Angeles (2000) external review committee, Slavic Lgs. & Lits, University of Chicago (2006–7) Research Interests structure of synchronic Russian; typology and history in general linguistic; comparative Slavic linguistics; chronicles and Old Russian literature Teaching Slavic: introduction to Slavic peoples and cultures; structure of modern Russian; Slavic historical linguistics and philology (Old Russian literature; Old Slavonic; history of Russian; West Slavic linguistics; comparative Slavic linguistics); structure of Lithuanian; Czech literature general linguistics: introduction to linguistics; historical linguistics; syntax; phonetics and phonology; history of Spanish; typology Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised University of California at Los Angeles Gilbert Rappaport (University of Texas at Austin), Grace Fielder (University of Arizona), Karen Robblee (formerly The Pennsylvania State University), Iwona Izdebska, Masako Ueda (Brown), Marc Greenberg (Kansas), Hana Kunstová (Defense Language Institute, Monterey), Katherine McClain (University of California at Santa Barbara), Melvin Strom, Peter Merrill (Phillips Andover Academy) University of California at Berkeley Mary Peabody, Celia Leckey, Susan Kresin (University of California at Los Angeles), David Matthews, Neil Bermel (Suffolk University), Matthew Baerman (Surrey University), Sabine Stoll (Max Planck Institute, ), Karin Larsen, Renee Perelmutter (Kansas) References Professor Michael S. Flier, Slavic Lgs. & Lits., Harvard University Professor Stephen A. Anderson, Linguistics, Yale University Professor Louis Goldstein, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California Professor Viktor Zhivov, Slavic Lgs. & Lits., University of California at Berkeley

Timberlake, p. 2 Publications Alan Timberlake [1] 1974 The Nominative Object in Slavic, Baltic, and West Finnic. Slavistische Beiträge, 82. Munich: Otto Sagner. [2] 1985 Ed., with M. S. Flier. The Scope of Slavic Aspect. UCLA , 12. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. [3] 1993 Ed., with Robert A. Maguire. American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists. Bratislava, August–September 1993. Literature. Linguistics. Poetics. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. [4] 1998 Ed., with Robert A. Maguire. American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists, Cracow, August–September 1998. Literature. Linguistics. Poetics. Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica. [5] 2003 Ed., with Robert A. Maguire. American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists, , September 2003. Literature. Linguistics. Poetics. Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica. [6] 2004 A Reference Grammar of Russian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Refereed Publications, Archival Journals, Conference and Symposium Proceedings [1] 1974 “The Nominative Object in North Russian,” Slavic Transformational Syntax. Ed. R. Brecht and C. Chvany, 219–43. [4] 1976 “Subject Properties in the North Russian Passive,” Subject and Topic. Ed. C. Li, 545–70. New York, N..: Academic Press. [5] 1976 “Nonfiniteness in Finnish,” Texas Linguistic Forum 5:129–50. Papers from the Transatlantic Finnish Conference. [6] 1977 “Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change,” Mechanisms of Syntactic Change. Ed. C. Li, 141–77. Austin, Texas: University of Texas. [7] 1978 “К истории задненебных согласных” [On the History of the Velar in North Slavic], American Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, 1. Ed. H. Birnbaum, 699–729. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. [8] 1978 “Uniform and Alternating Environments in Phonological Change,” Folia Slavica 2:312–28. Ed. E. Scatton. Studies in Honor of Horace G. Lunt. [9] 1979 “Reflexivization and the Cycle in Russian,” Linguistic Inquiry 10:109–41. [10] 1980 “Reference Conditions on Russian Reflexivization,” Language 56:777–96. [11] 1980 with Johanna Nichols, Gilbert Rappaport. “Subject, Topic, and Control in Russian,” Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Ed. B. , et al., 372–86. Berkeley, Calif.: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Timberlake, p. 3 [12] 1980 “Oblique Control of Russian Reflexivization,” Morphosyntax in Slavic. Ed. C. Chvany and R. Brecht, 235–59. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. Russian : 1982. Ed. A. E. Kibrik. Новое в зарубежной лингвистике, 13: Современные синтаксические теории в американской лингвистике, 166–92. Moscow: Progress. [13] 1981 “Dual reflexes of *dj and a Morphological Constraint on Sound Change,” International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 23:25–54. [14] 1982 “Invariance and the Syntax of Russian Aspect,” Tense and Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics. Ed. P. Hopper, 305–31. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Russian translation: 1985. Ed. T. V. Bulygina and A. E. Kibrik. Новое в зарубежной лингвистике, 15: Современная зарубежная русистика, 261– 85. Moscow: Progress. [15] 1982 “The Impersonal Passive in Lithuanian,” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Ed. M. Macaulay, et al., 508–24. Berkeley, Calif.: Berkeley Linguistics Society. [16] 1983 “Compensatory Lengthening in Slavic, 2: Phonetic Reconstruction,” American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, September 1983, 1: Linguistics. Ed. M. S. Flier, 293–319. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. [17] 1983 “Compensatory Lengthening in Slavic, 1: Conditions and Geography,” Papers on the Occasion of the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, September, 1983. Ed. V. Markov and D. S. Worth, 207–36. UCLA Slavic Studies, 7. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. [18] 1985 with Sandra Chung. “Tense, Aspect, and Mood,” Language Typology and Syntactic Fieldwork, 3: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon. Ed. T. Shopen, 202–58. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [19] 1985 “The Temporal Schemata of Russian Predicates,” Issues in Russian Morphosyntax. Ed. M. S. Flier and R. D. Brecht, 35–57. UCLA Slavic Studies, 10. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. [20] 1985 “Reichenbach and Russian Aspect,” The Scope of Slavic Aspect. Ed. M. S. Flier and A. Timberlake, 153–68. UCLA Slavic Studies, 12. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. [21] 1985 with E. L. Keenan. “Predicate Formation Rules in Universal Grammar,” Proceedings of the Fourth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Ed. . Goldberg, et al., 123–38. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Linguistics Association, Stanford University. [22] 1985 “The of Liquid in ,” International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 31–32 (1985):417–30. A Festschrift for Henrik Birnbaum. Ed. M. S. Flier and D. S. Worth. [23] 1985 with E. L. Keenan. “Valency Affecting Rules in Extended Categorial Grammar,” Language Research 21:415–34.

Timberlake, p. 4 [24] 1986 “Metalanguage,” Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9–13 December 1985. Ed. W. P. Lehmann, 71– 97. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 47. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [25] 1986 “The Semantics of Case in Russian Predicate Complements,” Russian Linguistics 10 (1986):137–66. [26] 1988 “Case in Lithuanian,” Agreement in Natural Language. Approaches, Theories, Descriptions. Ed. Michael Barlow and Charles A. Ferguson, 181–200. Stanford, Calif: Center for the Study of Language and Information. [27] 1988 with E. L. Keenan. “Natural Language Motivations for Extending Categorial Grammar,” Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures. Ed. Richard T. Oehrle, Emmon Bach, and Deirdre Wheeler, 267–95. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 32. Dordrecht: Reidel. [28] 1988 “The Fall of the Jers in West Slavic (Kashubian and Upper Sorbian),” Die Welt der Slaven 33:225–47. [29] 1987 “Grammar as Metalinguistic Text,” Review of: Roman Jakobson. Russian and Slavic Grammar Studies. 1931–1981. Ed. Linda R. Waugh and Morris Halle. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 35–36:267–83. [30] 1989 “The Case of Predicative Adjectives in Lithuanian Texts,” The Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR. Linguistic Studies. Ed. Howard . Aronson, 229–48. Chicago: University of Chicago, Chicago Linguistics Society. [31] 1990 “Typology and Phonological History,” Linguistic Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language. Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1–3 December 1987. Ed. Winfred P. Lehmann, 35–56. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 67. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [32] 1990 “The Aspectual Case of Predicative Nouns in Lithuanian Texts,” Verbal Aspect in Discourse. Contributions to the Semantics of Time and Temporal Perspective in Slavic and Non-Slavic Languages. Ed. Nils B. Thelin, 325–48. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [33] 1992 with Johanna Nichols. “Grammaticalization as Retextualization,” Approaches to Grammaticalization. Ed. Elizabeth C. Traugott and Bernd Heine, 1, 129–46. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [34] 1993 “Russian,” The Slavonic Languages. Ed. Bernard Comrie and Greville Corbett, 827–86. London; New York: Routledge. [35] 1993 “Isochrony in Late Common Slavic,” American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists. Bratislava, August–September 1993. Literature. Linguistics. Poetics. Ed. Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake, 425–39. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica.

Timberlake, p. 5 [36] 1993 “Предикат как текст, модальность как квантификация,” Категория сказуемого в славянских языках. Акты международной конференции [“The Predicate as Text, Modality as Quantification,” The Predicate in Slavic Languages. Proceedings of an International Conference] Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) 26.–29.3.1992. Ed. Francesca Fici Giusti and Simonetta Signorini, 209–15. Slavistische Beiträge, 305. [37] 1995 “Avvakum’s ,” Russian Linguistics 19:25–43. [38] 1995 “Mechanisms and Relative Chronology of Polabian Sound Changes,” Wiener slawistischer Almanach 35:281–96. [39] 1996 “Russian Linguistics in the United States,” Russian Linguistics 20:121–30. [40] 1996 with Dunstan Brown, Greville Corbett, Norman Fraser, Andrew Hippisley. “Russian Noun and Network ,” Linguistics 34:53–107. [41] 1996 “Вкусить от дерева познания и убояться: вариативность в развитии винительного-родительного падежа. (По поводу книги Вю Бю Крыською Развитие категории одушевленности в истории русского языкаю М., 1994. 224 c.,” Вопросы языкознания [“Taste of the Tree of Knowledge and Take Fright: Variation in the History of the Accusative-. Review article of: V. B. Krys´ko. 1994. The Development of in the History of Russian. Moscow: Lyceum, 224 pp.,” Questions of Linguistics] 45.5 (1996):7– 19. [42] 1997 “‘Чему ѥси слѣпилъ брaт свои’: Templates and the Development of Animacy,” Russian Linguistics 21:49–62. [43] 1997 with V. M. Zhivov. “Расставаясь со структурализмом,” Вопросы языкознания [Parting with Structuralism,” Questions of Linguistics] 46.3 (1997): 3–14. [44] 1997 “Лексика, время и дискурс в их динамическом взаимодействии (по подову аспектологической анкеты),” Труды аспектологического семинара филологического факультета МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова [“Lexicon, Time, and Discourse and Their Interaction: On the Aspectological Questionnaire,” Working Papers of the Aspectology Seminar of the Philological Faculty] 2, 195– 205. [45] 1997 “Linguistic Layering in the Laurentian Chronicle (The Imperfect Consonantal Augment),” American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists, Cracow, August–September 1998. Literature. Linguistics. Poetics. Ed. Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake, 501–14. Columbus, Oh.: Slavica. [46] 1997 “Аугмент имперфекта в Лаврентьевской летописи,” Вопросы языкознания [“The Imperfect Augment in the Laurentian Chronicle,” Questions of Linguistics] 46.5:66–86. [47] 1999 “The Semantics, Culture, and Cognition of Body Parts (A Cautionary Tale),” RASK 9/10:47–58. E pluribus una. Ed. Jacob L. Mey. [48] in press “Aspect, Tense, and Mood,” Language Typology and Syntactic Fieldwork, 3: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon. Ed. T. Shopen and M. Dryer, 00–00. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [80 pp. ms.] [revision of 18]

Timberlake, p. 6 [49] 1996 “Reflexives with Object Antecedents,” International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 39/40:261–78. [50] 1998 “Заметки о конференции: инвариантность, типология, диахрония и прагматика,” Типология вида. Проблемы, поиски, решения [“Conference Notes: Invariance, Typology, Diachrony, and Pragmatics,” Typology of Aspect. Problems, Explorations, Solutions]. Ed. M. Ju. Čertkova, 11–28. Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kul´tury. [51] 1998 “Вид глагола как история,” Типология вида. Проблемы, поиски, решения [“Verbal Aspect as History,” Typology of Aspect. Problems, Explorations, Solutions]. Ed. M. Ju. Čertkova, 443–54. Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kul´tury. [52] 2000 “Who Wrote the Laurentian Chronicle (1177–1203)?” Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie 59 (2000): 237–66. [53] 1999 “On the Imperfect Augment in Slovo polku Igoreve,” Роман Якобсон. Тексты, документы , исследования/Roman Jakobson. Texts, Documents, Studies. Ed. H. Baran, et al., 771–87. Moscow: RGGU. [54] 2000 “Older and Younger Recensions of the First Novgorod Chronicle” Oxford Slavonic Papers 33 (2000):1–35. [55] 2000 “On First Looking into Apresjan’s Lexicon.” Слово в тексте и в словаре. Сборник статей к семидесятилетию академика Ю.Д. Апресяна [The Word in Text and Lexicon. Studies on the Seventieth Birthday of Academic Iu. D. Apresian]. Мoscow.: “Languages of ”, 317–23. [56] 2001 “Word Order Templates.” Studies on the Syntax and Semantics of Slavonic Languages. Papers in Honour of Andrzej Bogusławski on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Ed. Viktor Chrakovskij, Maciej Grochowski, and Gerd Hentschel. Studia Slavica Oldenburgensia, 9. Oldenburg. 381–90. [57] 2001 “Redactions of the Primary Chronicle.” Русский язык в научном освещении [=The . Scientific Investigation] 1.1:196–218. [58] 2002 “Significatio, conventio, imitatio et inventio.” Русский язык в научном освещении [=The Russian Language. Scientific Investigation] 2.4:57–74. [59] 2004 “Intervals of the Kiev Chronicle (1050–1110),” Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie 63 (2004):51–70. [60] 2006 “A New Edition of Karcevski’s Système du verbe russe.” Russian Linguistics 30 (2006):103 –11. [61] 2006 [with: Olga Gurevich, Julia McAnallen, Elena Morabito, Renee Perelmutter, Jonathan Platt, Johanna Nichols], “Lexicon and Context in Feminization in Russian.” Russian Linguistics 30 (2006):175–211. [62] 2006 “The Origins of Anonymous’s Skazanie and Nestor’s Chtenie o svv. muchenikakh Borise i Glebe.” Русский язык в научном освещении [=The Russian Language. Scientific Investigation] 1 (11): 156–93. [63] in press “The Recovery Narrative of Gleb.” Harvey Goldblatt, ed. [Festschrift for Michael Flier.]

Timberlake, p. 7 [64] 2007 “Не преступати предѣла братнѧ” [Do not Transgress on Your Brother’s Dominion]: The Entries of 1054 and 1073 in the Kiev Chronicle.” Verenitsa liter. K 60-letiiu V. M. Zhivova. Moscow, 2006. 97-112. [65] 2008 “Point of View and Conversion Narrative: Vita Constantini and Povest´ vremennykh let.” Miscellanea Slavica. Сборник статей к 70-летию Бориса Андреевича Успенского. Moscow: Indrik. 256–72. [66] in press “The Origins of the Boris and Gleb Cycle in the Kievan Chronicle.” Zeitschrift für Slawistik.

Non-Refereed Publications, Technical Reports, Articles in Non-Archival Magazines or Journals, Reviews [1] 1977 “Review of: Catherine V. Chvany, On the Syntax of -Sentences in Russian,” Language 53:232–37. [2] 1978 “Book Notice of: Linda R. Waugh, Roman Jakobson’s Science of Language,” Language 54:1004–1005. [3] 1979 “Book Notice of: Honorata Skoczylas–Stawska, Fonetyka w gwarach ziemi wieluńskiej,” Language 55:254–55. [4] 1977 “Bibliographic Survey of: Leonard H. Babby and Richard D. Brecht, ‘The Syntax of Voice in Russian’,” Russian Linguistics 3:342–43. [5] 1992 with Johanna Nichols. “Predicate Nominals,” ed. William Bright, et al., Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [6] 1994 “Morphology,” Encyclopedia Americana (Danbury, Conn.: Grollier). [7] 2000 “Russian Language,” Encyclopedia Americana (Danbury, Conn.: Grollier). [8] 2003 “Review of: Greville G. Corbett, Number (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xx+358. Gunter Senft (ed.), Systems of nominal classification (Language, Culture and Cognition, 4). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. ix+350,” Journal of Linguistics 39.189–95.

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