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.
2017
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.
2013
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.
2012
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.
2011
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.
2009
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.
2008
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.
2006
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. 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.
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.