Robert D. Greenberg


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Robert D. Greenberg
Title:

Ph.D. - Professor, Associate Dean

Acting Chair 

College: College of Arts and Sciences
Dept: Modern Languages
Phone:203.479.4535
Email: rgreenberg@newhaven.edu

Office:

Maxcy Hall

 

Education

1991                Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
1988                M.Phil., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
1985                M.A., Russian Literature, Yale University
1983                B.A., Russian Language and Literature, Sarah Lawrence College

Published Books and Articles

Books and Book Chapter

Language and Identity in the Balkans, forthcoming. Oxford University Press.

“Language, Nationalism, and the Yugoslav Successor States.” Language, Ethnicity and the State: Eastern Europe Since 1989 (ed. Camille O’Reilly). London-New York 2001): 17-42.

The Balkan Slavic Appellative (1996). Munich/Newcastle: LINCOM EUROPA (LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 06). 220 pp.

Refereed Articles

“Balkan Migrations, Dialects, and Ethnic Rivalries: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina.”  Journal of Slavic Linguistics, forthcoming, 2003, 20 pp.

“The Border between Balkan Slavic and South Slavic:  Key Morphological Features in Serbian Transitional Dialects” co-authored with Sofija Miloradovic; to appear in Festschrift to honor Howard Aronson (forthcoming, 2002), 19 pp.

“Language and the National Idea.” Prilozi na makedonskata akademija na naukite I umetnostite (forthcoming, 2002), 24 pp. 

“From Serbo-Croatian to Montenegrin?: Politics of Language in Montenegro” to appear in Language Planning in Yugoslavia, vol. 2 (forthcoming 2002), 16 pp.

 “The Dialects of Macedonia and Montenegro: Random Linguistic Developments or Evidence of a Sprachbund.” Juznoslovenski filolog 56/1-2 (2001): 295-300.

“Language Politics in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: The Crisis over the Future of Serbian.” Slavic Review 59/3 (2000): 625-640.

“The Breakup of Serbo-Croatian: Language Diversity or Language Apartheid.” Chicago Linguistics Society 35 (1999): 51-68.

“In the Aftermath of Yugoslavia’s Collapse: The Politics of Language Death and Language Birth.” International Politics 36/2 (1999): 141-158.

Dialects and Ethnicity in the Former Yugoslavia: The Case of Southern Baranja (Croatia).” Slavic and East European Journal 42/4 (1998): 710-722.

Towards a New Interpretation of Serbian and Croatian Morphophonemic Patterns.” American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists (1998): 421-431.

The Interplay of Imperative and Hortative in the Balkan Slavic Dialects.” Balkanistica 10 (1997): 202-211.

The Politics of Dialects Among Serbs, Croats, and Muslims in the Former Yugoslavia.” East European Politics and Societies 10/3 (1996): 393-415.

Serbo-Croatian Dialect Studies: Changing Perspectives in the Context of Increased Yugoslav Disunity (1966-1990).

” Multiple Perspectives on the Historical Dimensions of Language (1996), 193-200.

“Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian Language Policies in the Years Leading up to the Yugoslav Disintegration.” Sociolinguistic Problems in Various Regions of the World: Materials of the International Conference, Moscow, 1996 (1996), 141-143.

Southwest Balkan Linguistic Contacts, Evidence from Appellative Language” Journal of Slavic Linguistics 2/2 (1994): 275-283.

From Common Slavic to Slovenian: On the Margins of Lencek’s The Structure and History of the Slovene Language.” International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 35- 36 (1987): 285-298.

Other

Languages

Fluency in Serbian/Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian, French

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