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This summer, Amy Dahlstrom will be speaking on “OBJ Θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects” at the 2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. The annual conference will be held at the University of Cambridge in July.

James Kirby will be giving two talks in May. The first, “Linguistic experience in tone perception,” will be given at the 2nd ASA Special Workshop on Speech in Portland on May 23. Six days later, James will be presenting “Tonal similarity and tone perception in Vietnamese” at the 19th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society in Saigon.

The department’s own Jerry Sadock will be the first interviewee in a series of  videotaped “Lives in Linguistics,” to be taped on April 21 in the Karen Landahl Center at 3:15. Friends are welcome to attend!

We’ll be having two other guests in May: Catherine Chvany, on May 5, and Lila Gleitman on May 11, both part of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. More on that to come.

Ten years ago today our dear colleague Jim McCawley died, very unexpectedly, of a heart attack.  For those who have more recently joined the Department of Linguistics at Chicago, you might be interested in the memorial page for Jim.

Those who were fortunate enough to know him still miss him very much. We remember Jim today.

Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization, edited by Anastasia Giannakidou and Monika Rathert, has recently been published by the Oxford University Press. Congratulations, Anastasia!

Here is a list of recent activity by Victor Friedman, Professor of Balkan and Slavic linguistics, who is in Skopje this year on Guggenheim & Fulbright-Hays grants:

Invited talks and conference papers (June-December 2008):

• Evidentiality in the Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia, Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Pisa, 16 june 2008.
• Balkan Slavic Dialectology and Balkan Linguistics: Peripheryas Center. Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia 10-16 September 2008.
• Promotion speech for The Konikovo Evangelie Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia 10-16 September 2008.
• Evidencijalnost vo makedonskiot jazik [Evidentiality in Macedonian], Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Skopje,Republic of Macedonia, 8 October 2008.
• Macedonian Identity in Ottoman Turkey: Views from within and Without, ‘Macedonian Identity through History’, Institute for National History, 60th Anniversary Conference, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia 10-12 October 2008.
• Evidencijalnost vo bugarskiot, turskiot i albanskiot jazik [Evidentiality in Bulgarian, Turkish, and Albanian], Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia,15 October 2008.
• Evidencijalnost vo megleno-romanskiot i aromanskiot jazik [Evidentiality in Megleno-Romanian and Aromanian], Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 15 October 2008.
• Mnogojazičnosta vo Makedonija [Multilingualism in Macedonia], lecture for high school honors students from the Municipality of Ohrid, sponsored by the Ohrid Municipality, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia 3 November 2008.
• Shumëgjuhësia në Maqedoni nga pikëpamje historike edhe sot [Albanian:  Multilingualism in Macedonia in History and Today].  Roundtable “Linguistic Difference, from Communication to Tolerance and Solidarity: The Role of Local Administration in the Development of Linguistic Difference.” Institute for Political and Intercultural Studies, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 19 November 2008.
• Kongresi i Manastirit dhe Linguistika Ballkanike [Albanian: The Congress of Manastir and Balkan Linguistics], Conference for the 100th Anniversary of the Congress of Manastir, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 20-22 November 2008.
• Intersections between Linguistic and Ethnomusicological Fieldwork, Conference “From the Field to the Concert”, University of Bologna, Italy 4-7 December 2008.
• Studime për Gjuhën shqipe dhe gjuhë të tjera balkanike [Studies in Albanian and Other Balkan Languages]; International Symposium Vepra Themeore ne Albanaologji - Çmimi i Albanologjisë 2008, Center for Albanology, Tirana 18-20 December 2008.

Publications – Articles:

• The Konikovo Evangelarium and Macedonian Identity in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. The Konikovo Gospel, ed. by J. Lindstedt, Lj. Spasov, and J. Nuorluoto. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica. 2008. 385-391.
• Balkan Slavic Dialectology and Balkan Linguistics: Periphery as Center. American Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists. ed. by Christina Bethin. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2008. 131-148.
• Entries for Zbigniew Golab and Victor Friedman. Leksikon na stranski makedonisti, ed. by Ivan Dorovski and Emilija Crvenkovska, Skopje: University of Skopje. 2008. 26-28, 117-120.
• Kulturno-Jazičnite pojavi kaj Ǵorǵi Pulevski (Macedonian: Cultural-linguistic phenomena in the work of Ǵorǵi Pulevski). Thirty-Fourth Annual Symposium on Balkan Linguistics and Literature. Skopje: University of Skopje. 2008. 15-20