Professor Emeritus Howard I. Aronson of the University of Chicago has been celebrated for his linguistic scholarship on Balkan and South Slavic linguistics, as well as his groundbreaking work on Georgian grammar and language instruction (including his two textbooks with Slavica). This Festschrift honors his Balkan and South Slavic persona with a collection featuring a virtual Who's Who of North American scholars in this area.
| Contents |
| Victor A. Friedman: Preface |
| Donald L. Dyer: Foreword |
| The Publications of Howard I. Aronson |
| Ronelle Alexander: Bridging the Descriptive Chasm: The Bulgarian "Generalized Past" |
| Masha Belyavski-Frank: Turkisms in Bosnian Literature after 1992 |
| Henry R. Cooper, Jr.: Modern Slovene and Macedonian Bible Translations Compared and Contrasted |
| Bill J. Darden: Macedonian as a Model for the Development of Indo-European Tense and Aspect |
| Stephen M. Dickey: Distributive Verbs in Serbian and Croatian |
| Donald L. Dyer: The Balkans and Moldova: One Sprachbund or Two? |
| Mark J. Elson: The Case for Agglutinative Structure in East Balkan Slavic Verbal Inflection |
| Ali Eminov: The Nation-State and Minority Languages: Turkish in Bulgaria |
| Grace E. Fielder: Questioning the Dominant Paradigm: An Alternative View of the Grammaticalization of the Bulgarian Evidential |
| Victor A. Friedman: Hunting the Elusive Evidential: The Third-Person Auxiliary as a Boojum in Bulgarian |
| Jane Hacking: Attitudes to Macedonian Conditional Formation: The Use of dokolku and bi |
| Eric P. Hamp: On Serbo-Croatian's Historic Laterals |
| Brian D. Joseph: On an Oddity in the Development of Weak Pronouns in Deictic Expressions in the Languages of the Balkans |
| Kostas Kazazis: High-Low Diglossic Code-Switching in a Greek Announcement |
| Christina Kramer: Anton Panov's Play Pecalbari and Its Role in the Standardization of Macedonian |
| Katia McClain: Verbal Categories in Bulgarian: Evidence from Acquisition |
| Sofija Miloradovic and Robert Greenberg: The Transition from South Slavic to Balkan Slavic: Key Morphological Features in Serbian Transitional Dialects |
| Tom Priestly: Some Anomalies in Slovene Dialect Diachronic Morphology and an Explanation Using "Markedness Reversal" |
| Catherine Rudin: Clitic Pronoun Ordering in the Balkan Languages |
| Tom Priestly: Some Anomalies in Slovene Dialect Diachronic Morphology and an Explanation Using "Markedness Reversal" |
| Edward Stankiewicz: The Compounded Plural Endings and Grammatical Categories of the Balkan Masculine Nouns. |