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.
Selected list of publications
2008
Rhythmic Structure Constituents and Clitic Placement in Bosnian,
Croatian, Serbian. In: C. Bethin, ed., American Contributions to the Fourteenth
International Congress of Slavists (Bloomington: Slavica).
2006
Review of 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.
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.
2005
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.
2004
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).
2001
Bridging the Descriptive Chasm: The Bulgarian “Generalized Past”.
Indiana Slavic Studies 12:
13-42.
2000
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.
1999
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.
1996
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. Vucnich, ed. Ivo Andrić Revisited:
The Bridge Still Stands (Berkeley), pp. 200-
Govor pripovedača i izbor slušaocima u prozi Ive Andrića. Sveske Zadužbine Ive Andrića 15,
12: 231-252.
1995
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.
1994
The Prosodic Systems of Balkan Slavic: A Partial Typology. Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku 37,
102: 23-40.
1993
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.
1992
Udarenieto na imenata ot sreden rod v rodopskite govori. Bŭlgarski ezik 42: 393-395.
1991
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.
1990
Poetika Njegoševa jezika i jezik njegove poezije. Naučni sastanak slavista u Vukove dane
18, 2: 401-406.
1989
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.
1988
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.
1987
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.
1985
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.
1984
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.
1983
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.
1982
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.
1981
External and Internal Change in Balkan Slavic. Folia Slavica 4, 2-3: 188-197.
1978
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.
1976
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.
1975
Torlak Accentuation
(Slavistische Beiträge 94). Munich: Otto Sagner. xvi, 806 pp.
