Victor A. Friedman
Director
Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CEERES)
Judd Hall, Room 323
5835 S. Kimbark Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Telephone: (773) 702-0866
Andrew W. Mellon Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1130 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Dept. phone: (773) 955-8033
Dept. fax (773) 702-7030
Office phone: (773) 702-0732
http://home.uchicago.edu/~vfriedm
vfriedm@uchicago.edu
Victor A. Friedman is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he also holds appointments in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and an associate appointment in the Department of Anthropology. He is also Director of the University's Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, which is a federally designated National Resource Center under Title VI of the NDEA. He is president of the U.S. National Committee of the International Association for Southeast European Studies and vice-president of the U.S. National Committee of the International Committee of Slavists. Professor Friedman is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of Albania, the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova, Matica Srpska, and has been awarded the "1300 Years of Bulgaria" jubilee medal. He has thrice been awarded the Golden Plaque from Sts. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, from which he also holds the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. During the Yugoslav Wars of Succession he worked for the United Nations as a senior policy analyst in Macedonia and consulted for other international organizations. His publications include The Grammatical Categories of the Macedonian Indicative (1977), Linguistic Emblems and Emblematic Languages: On Language as Flag in the Balkans (1999), Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond (2003), and Studies in Albanian and Other Balkan languages (2004), as well as more than 200 scholarly articles. In addition to his research on the Balkan languages, has published extensively on Lak grammar, as well as on Georgian, and has done field work in Daghestan in addition to more than 30 years of field work in the Balkans. His main research interests are grammatical categories as well as sociolinguistic issues related to contact phenomena, standardization, ideology, and identity.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975
Recent Publications
- Admirativity: Between modality and evidentiality. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Vol. 58, No 1. 2005. 26-37
- The Romani Language in Macedonia in the Third Millennium: Progress and Problems. General and Applied Romani Linguistics: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Romani Linguistics, ed. by Barbara Schrammel, Dieter Halwachs and Gerd Ambrosch. Munich: LinCom Europa. 2005. 163-173.
- From Orientalism to Democracy and Back Again. Developing cultural identity in the Balkans: Convergence vs. Divergence, ed. by Raymond Detrez and Pieter Plas. Berlin: Peter Lang. 2005. 25-43.
- Albanian in the Balkan Linguistic League: A Reconsideration of Theoretical Implications. Studia Albanica Vol. 28, No. 1. 2005. 33-44.
- The Balkans as a Linguistic Area. Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 1, ed.-in-Chief Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006. 657-672.
- Lak Folktales: Materials for a Bilingual Reader: Part One. Who Is most Important? The Bill Question: Studies in Honor of Bill J. Darden on the Occasion of His Sixty-Sixth Birthday, ed. by D. Dyer, G. Fowler, V. Friedman, D. Hristova, H. Aronson, and J. Sadock. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2006. 111-116
- Albania. Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, Vol. 3, 2nd ed., ed. by U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, K.J. Matthier, P. Trudgill. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 2006. 1874-1882.210. Boundaries and Borders in Balkan Slavic. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics. Vol. 44-45. 2002-2003 (published 2006). 161-173.
- Codeswitching in Albanian Urban Music. Urban Music in the Balkans: Drop-Out Ethnic Identitites or a Case of Tolerance and Global Thinking?, ed. by Sokol Shupo. Tirana: ASMUS. 2006. 40-564.
- West Rumelian Turkish in Macedonia and Adjacent Areas. Turkic Language Contacts, ed. by H. Boeschoten and L. Johanson. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2006. 27-45.
- Balkanizing the Balkan sprachbund: A closer look at grammatical permeability and feature distribution. Grammars in Contact: A Cross Linguitic Typology, ed. by A. Aikhenvald and R.F.W. Dixon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. 201-219
- Macedonian. (Languages of the World/Materials 117). Munich: LinCom Europa. 60 pp. 2002.
- Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond: Studies in Contact, Typology, and Other Phenomena in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. xvi+191 pp. 2003.
- Studies on Albanian and Other Balkan Languages. Peja: Dukagjini. 546 pp. 2004.