Author

Ronelle Alexander has been on the faculty of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1978, where she has held the rank of Professor since 1987. She has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Yale University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    At Berkeley, she supervises the teaching of BCS and Bulgarian, and teaches courses in South Slavic linguistics, Yugoslav literatures, the cultural history of Yugoslavia, and Slavic and Balkan folklore. She has carried out extensive field research in rural areas of Bulgaria, Macedonia and southeastern Serbia, primarily on dialectology but also on other aspects of traditional culture. She has worked with folklorists and traditional performers from various areas of the former USSR, and is the co-founder of the Society of Living Traditions.
   See webpage: http://works.bepress.com/ronelle_alexander/

Selected list of publications


2018 

• (with Vladimir Zhobov). Dialects of the Slavic Languages. The Handbook of Dialectology, ed, C. Boberg, J. Nerbonne, and D. Watt. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 510-522.

• Bulgarian Dialectology: The View from Within and Without. Balkanskij tezaurus: Vzgljad na Balkany izvne i vnutri ( = Balkanskie čtenija 134, tezisy i materialy), ed. M. Makarcev et al. (Moscow: Institut slavjanovedenija RAN), pp. 91-94.

• Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition: A Digital Resource of Dialect Speech. Balkanistica 28: 1-13.
• Where Dialectology Begins: Village Speech in Context. Balkanskij tezaurus: Načalo  ( = Balkanskie čtenija 13, tezisy i materialy), ed. M. Makarcev et al. (Moscow: Institut slavjanovedenija RAN), pp. 77-81.
• Review of Paul-Louis Thomas and Vladimir Osipov, Grammaire du bosniaque, croate, monténégrin, serbe.  In: Journal of Slavic Linguistics 23: 123-145.
• Review of Philip Bohlman and Nada Petković, ed., Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity.  In: Ethnomusicology Forum 24, 2: 286-288.

• Tracking the South Slavic Epic Register. To appear in: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, eds. David Elmer & Peter McMurray. Harvard University Press.
  
• Language and Identity: The Fate of Serbo-Croatian. Entangled Balkans, v. 1, ed. R Daskalov & T. Marinov. Brill Publishers: 341-417.
• What is naš? Conceptions of “the Other” in the prose of Ivo Andrić. Slavia iaponica 16: 7-36.

• Convergence and Causation in Balkan Slavic. Balkanismen heute – Балканизмы сегодня, eds. T. Kahl et al. [= Balkanologie, Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft, Band 3] (Vienna - Berlin: LIT Verlag): 39-45.

• The Paradox of the Instant Trilingual. Jezik u upotrebi / Language in Use: primenjena lingvistika u čast Ranku Bugarskom / Applied Linguistics in Honour of Ranko Bugarski, ed. V. Vasić (Novi Sad: Društvo za primenjenu lingvistiku Srbije, Filozofski fakultet; Belgrade: Filozofski fakultet): 95-105.
  
• Bulgarian Dialects and the Balkan Model of the World. Balkanskij spektr. Ot sveta k cvetu (= Balkanskie čtenija 11, tezisy i materialy), eds. M. Makarcev et al. (Moscow: Institut slavjanovedenija RAN): 171-173.
  
• Vasko Popa and the Stargazer’s Legacy.  Puzzles of Language: Essays in Honor of Karl Zimmer ( = Turcologica 86), eds. E. Erguvanli Taylan & B. Rona (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag): 235-246.

2010

• Cultural Identity in Southeastern Europe: Balancing the Global and the Local. Europa/Evropa: Cross-Cultural Dialogues between the West, Russia, and Southeastern Europe, ( = Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis 18) eds. M. Könönen & J. Nuroluoto: 15-33.
  

• Serbo-Croatian Dialectology Revisited. Rus’ Writ Large: Language, Histories, Cultures. Essays Presented in Honor of Michael S. Flier on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (= Harvard Ukrainian Studies) 28: 45-55.
  
• New Conclusions on the Conclusive. (with Vladimir Zhobov) Journal of Slavic Linguistics 17: 61-85.
• What Is Second Position, Anyway? BCS Clitics Revisited. In: S. Franks et al., eds., A Linguist’s Linguist: Studies in South Slavic Linguistics in Honor of E. Wayles Browne (Bloomington: Slavica): 43-67.

• Bulgarian.  Lonely Planet phrasebooks. 255 pp.
  
• Rhythmic Structure Constituents and Clitic Placement in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian. In: C. Bethin, ed., American Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists v. 1 (Bloomington: Slavica): 1-19.
  

• Review of Bosanski - Hrvatski - Srpski / Bosnisch - Kroatisch - Serbisch, Aktuelna pitanja jezika Bošnjaka, Hrvata, Srba i Crnogoraca / Aktuelle Frage der Sprache des Bosniaken, Kroaten, Serben und Montenegriner. Canadian Slavonic Papers 48: 190-192.
• Dialectology. In: Steven Franks et al., eds., Slavic Linguistics 2000: The Future of Slavic Linguistics in America. http://www.seelrc.org/glossos/issues/8/
  
• Review of Robert Greenberg, Language and Identity in the Balkans. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 14: 79-90.
  
• Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: One Language or Three? International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 44-45 (2002-03): 1-35.
• Vasko Popa’s Opus. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism 167: 154-170.

• Does Serbo-Croatian Dialectology Still Exist? In: A. Sobolev and A. Rusakov, eds., Jazyki i dialekty malyx etničeskix grupp na Balkanax (St. Petersburg - Marburg), pp. 30-42.
• BCS, vs. B, C, S: Bringing Comprehension to the Foreign Learner. In: N. Leko, ed. Lingvistički vidici ( = Forum Bosne 35), pp. 210-217.
  

• Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology (co-edited, with Vladimir Zhobov). University of California International and Area Studies Digital Publications.
• The Scope of Double Accent. In: Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology.
  
• Hierarchies of Stress Assignment in Bulgarian Dialects. In: Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology (with Vladimir Zhobov and Georgi Kolev).
  

• Bridging the Descriptive Chasm: The Bulgarian “Generalized Past”. Indiana Slavic Studies 12: 13-42.

• Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook and Reference Grammar, vol. I (with the assistance of Olga Mladenova). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. xix, 394 pp.
• Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook and Reference Grammar, vol. II (with the assistance of Olga Mladenova). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. xvii, 395 pp.
• In Honor of Diversity: The Linguistic Riches of the Balkans (The Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture Series in South Slavic Linguistics 2). Department of Slavic and East European Language and Literatures, The Ohio State University. vi, 116 pp.
• Tracking Sprachbund Boundaries: Word Order in the Balkans. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 28: 9-27.
  

• Word Order and Prosody in Balkan Slavic Dialects: The Case of Thrace. In: V. Radeva et al., eds. Dialektologija i lingvistična geografija (Sofia), pp. 61-73.

• Struktura poezije Vaska Pope (Studije o Srbima 7). Beograd: Vukova zadužbina, Orfelin; Novi Sad: Matica Srpska. 147 pp.
• Narrative Voice and Listener’s Choice in the Prose of Ivo Andrić. In: W. Vucinich, ed. Ivo Andrić Revisited: The Bridge Still Stands (Berkeley), pp. 200-230.
• Govor pripovedača i izbor slušaocima u prozi Ive Andrića. Sveske Zadužbine Ive Andrića 15, 12: 231-252.
  

• The “Tension of Essences” in South Slavic Epic. In: S. Karlinsky et al., eds., O Rus! Studia litteraria slavica in honorem Hugh McLean (Berkeley), pp. 153-165.
• The Balkanization of Wackernagel’s Law. Indiana Slavic Studies 7: 1-8.
• Standard Macedonian “Accentual Units” and Macedonian Dialectology. In: B. Stolz, ed., Studies in Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture (Michigan Slavic Materials 37), pp. 1-16.
• Propp and Parry: Structure and Performance. Kunstkamera: etnografičeskie tetradi 8-9: 195-198.
  

• The Prosodic Systems of Balkan Slavic: A Partial Typology. Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku 37, 102: 23-40.

• Struktura pesništva Vaska Pope, Vučja so: ciklus kao pesma. Letopis Matice srpske 169 / 451, 1: 82-96.
• Remarks on the Evolution of South Slavic Prosodic Systems. In: R. Maguire and A Timberlake, eds., American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists (Columbus), pp. 181-201.
  

• Udarenieto na imenata ot sreden rod v rodopskite govori. Bŭlgarski ezik 42: 393-395.

• The Balkan Nature of Macedonian Stress Phenomena. Makedonski jazik 42-44: 105-114.
• Folklorni elementi u poeziji Vaska Pope. Književnost 46 / 94: 1572-1587.
• The Poetics of Vuk Karadžić’s Kosovo Songs: An Analysis of “Kosovka djevojka”. In: W. Vucinich and T. Emmert, eds., Kosovo, Legacy of a Medieval Battle ( Minnesota Mediterranean and East European Monographs 1), pp. 189-201.
  

• Poetika Njegoševa jezika i jezik njegove poezije. Naučni sastanak slavista u Vukove dane 18, 2: 401-406.

• Man and the Stars: A Phonological Analysis of Vasko Popa’s “Zev nad zevovima”. In: Liber amicoroum in Honour of E.D. Goy (Kruševac - London), pp. 158-172.

• The Accentuation of Neuter Nouns in Balkan Slavic. In: H. Birnbaum, ed., American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists (Columbus), pp. 7-34.

• Animacy in Balkan Slavic. In: S. Karlinsky and M. Flier, eds., Language, Literature, Linguistics, in Honor of Francis J. Whitfield on His Seventieth Birthday, March 25, 1986 (Berkeley), pp. 1-12.

• The Structure of Vasko Popa’s Poetry (UCLA Slavic Studies 14). Columbus: Slavica. 196 pp.
• Timeless and Timebound in Serbian History: Vasko Popa’s “Uspravna zemlja”. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 31-32: 41-58.
• Linguistic Sub-Structures in the Prose of Ivo Andrić. In: C. Hawkesworth, ed., Ivo Andrić, Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 10-12 July 1984 ( SSEES Occasional Papers 4), pp. 188-203.
  

• Areal Linguistics and South Slavic Slavic Linguistics: The Case of Balkan Slavic. Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku 27-28: 39-47.
• Struktura poezije Vaska Pope: opus kao pesma. Letopis Matice srpske 160: 521-533, 694-705.
• Struktura ciklusa i struktura pjesme u zbirci “Vučja so” Vaska Pope. Izraz 56 / 23, 9: 185-198.
  

• Directions of Morphophonemic Change in Balkan Slavic: The Accentuation of the Present Tense. In: H. Birnbaum, ed., American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, vol. 1 (Columbus), pp. 9-49.
• On the Definition of Sprachbund Boundaries: The Place of Balkan Slavic. In: N. Reiter, ed. Ziele und Wege der Balkanlinguistik, Beiträge zur Tagung vom 1-6 März 1981 in Berlin (Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen 8), pp. 13-26.
  

• Structure and Tradition in the Poetry of Vasko Popa. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 25-26: 41-50.
• Directions of Morphophonemic Change in Bulgarian Dialects. In: Bulgaria Past and Present, Studies in History, Literature, Economics, Music, Sociology, Folklore and Linguistics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Bulgarian Studies held at Družba, Varna, June 13-17, 1978 (Sofia), pp. 217-220.
  

• External and Internal Change in Balkan Slavic. Folia Slavica 4, 2-3: 188-197.

• Pravci morfofonološke promene u balkanskoslavenskim dijalektima, akcentuacija imperativa. In: H. Birnbaum, ed., American Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, vol. 1 (Columbus), pp. 26-44.

• Transitional West Bulgarian Dialects: A Structural Approach. In: Bulgaria Past and Present, Studies in History, Literature, Economics, Music, Sociology, Folklore and Linguistics (Columbus), pp. 310-316.

• Torlak Accentuation (Slavistische Beiträge 94). Munich: Otto Sagner. xvi, 806 pp.

• (with Pavle Ivić) Refonologizacija količestva glasnogo v odnom jugovostočnom serbskom govore. Obščeslavjanskij lingvističeskij atlas 1973: 18-21.

• Phonemic Re-Write Rules and Balkan Slavic. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 14: 5-20.