Donald Leroy Dyer
Curriculum vitae

Chair of Modern Languages
Professor of Russian and Linguistics

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., 1990, Slavic Linguistics, The University of Chicago
  • M.A., 1982, Slavic Linguistics, The University of Chicago
  • A.B., 1980, Russian with Honors, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

    Russian, Bulgarian and Romanian languages, Slavic and Balkan Linguistics, languages in contact, Moldova

MOST FREQUENTLY TAUGHT CLASSES:

  • Honors 101-102
  • Russian language (101 through 402)
  • Introduction to Linguistics
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Seminar in Linguistics
  • Descriptive Grammar

RECENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

  • Russian Language Advisor
  • Director of Linguistics Program
  • President of the University's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (2004-06)
  • University Strategic Planning Council

    • PUBLICATIONS:

      MONOGRAPHS (written):

      • The Romanian Dialect of Moldova: A Study in Language and Politics. 1999. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press
      • Word Order in the Simple Bulgarian Sentence: A Study in Grammar, Semantics and Pragmatics. 1992. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi Editions, B.V.

      MONOGRAPHS (edited):

      • The Banft Papers (Balkanistica 23) (co-editor with Olga Mladenova and Tom Priestly), forthcoming
      • The Bill Question: Contributions to the Study of Linguistics and Languages in Honor of Bill J. Darden on the Occasion of His Sixty-sixth Birthday (co-editor with Howard I. Aronson, Victor A. Friedman, Daniela S. Hristova and Jerrold M. Sadock). Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2006
      • Of All the Slavs My Favorites: Studies in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics in Honor of Howard I. Aronson on the Occasion of His 66th Birthday (co-editor with Victor A. Friedman). Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 2002
      • Papers from the Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages (co-editor with Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Iliyana Krapova and Catherine Rudin), University, MS: University of Mississippi Printing Services, 2002
      • Studies in Moldovan: The History, Culture, Language and Contemporary Politics of the People of Moldova. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, 1996
      • Bulgaria, Transitions and Turning Points (co-editor with Dennis Hupchick). Pittsburgh: Design Systems Printing, 1996

      ARTICLES (all articles are peer-reviewed unless indicated "npr"):

      • "How Words Change Meaning: Observations on the Evolution of Modern Russian Lexical Semantics in Post-Soviet Moldova" (with Valentina Iepuri and Tatiana Kadyrbaeva), in preparation
      • "Remarks on Moldovan Phonology and Ethnic Speech Identity" (with Felice A. Coles), Papers from the Ninth International Non-Slavic Languages Conference, Howard I. Aronson (ed.), Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, forthcoming
      • "Romanian Studies in the United States, Part 2: Romance Monographs," Romanian Studies around the World in 2008, pp. 215-219
      • "Balkanistica and Romanian Studies," Romanian Studies around the World in 2007, pp. 177-181
      • "'With Our Head and Your Hands': A Sociolinguistic Study of Contemporary Moldova Since Its Independence from the Soviet Union," Southern Journal of Linguistics, XXXI: 1, pp. 20-37, 2007
      • "At Last, a Moldovan-Romanian Dictionary and Recurrent Linguistic Troubles in the Republic of Moldova," The Bill Question: Contributions to the Study of Linguistics and Languages in Honor of Bill J. Darden on the Occasion of His Sixty-sixth Birthday, Howard I. Aronson, Donald L. Dyer, Victor A. Friedman, Daniela S. Hristova and Jerrold M. Sadock (eds), Bloomington, IN: Slavica, pp. 67-86, 2006
      • "How Grammaticality Eludes: The Relationship between Nonstandard and Evolving Language," The Vocabula Review 8:3 (March 2005), pp. 1-10
      • "Diasporic Bulgarian in a Multilingual Moldova: Valea Perjei, Taraclia and Their Departure from the Norm," Die Welt der Slaven L(2), pp. 225-240, 2005
      • "Balgarskijat ezik v Moldova and Hidden Lingusitic Treasure on the Plains of Bessarabia," Balkanistica 18, pp. 131-136, 2005
      • "Balkanistica: The Index, Volumes 1-15 (1974-2002)" -- supplement to Balkanistica 16, 44 pp., 2003, npr
      • "The Bulgarians of Moldova and Their Language," Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics, Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite (eds), Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 48-59, 2002
      • "Moldova and the Balkans: One Sprachbund or Two?" Of All the Slavs My Favorites: Studies in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics in Honor of Howard I. Aronson on the Occasion of His 66th Birthday, Victor A. Friedman and Donald L. Dyer (eds), Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, pp. 117-138, 2002
      • "The Mixed Idiom: Its Linguistic Dynamics and Psychological Implications" (with Felice A. Coles and Rebecca L. Moreton), Psixolingvisticheskie issledovanoija: slovo, tekst (Studies in Psycholinguistics: Word and Text), Tver', Russia: Tver' State Linguistics University, pp. 100-110, 2001
      • "Problemy jazyka, istorii i kul'tury bolgarskoj diaspory v Moldove i Ukraine 'Problems of Language, History and Culture of the Bulgarian Diaspora in Moldova and Ukraine,' S.Z. Novakov, G.A. Gajdarzhi, P.F. Stojanov and N.N. Chervenkov and Bulgarian Studies in Moldova," Balkanistica 14, pp. 145-52, 2001
      • "Intensifikacija replikativnyx mestoimenij i vozdejstvie grammaticheskix  kategorij na mestoimennyj material v bolgarskom jayke" (The Intensification of Replicated Pronouns and the Influence of Grammatical Categories on Pronominal Material in Bulgarian) (translation into Russian by Igor Smirnov), Nekotorye voprosy obshchego i chastnogo jazykoznanija (Questions of General and Regional Linguistics), Pjatigorsk, Russia: Pjatigorsk State University Press, pp. 3-26, 2001
      • "The Mixed Idiom in English: Its Linguistic Dynamics and Psychological Implications," Ot slova k tekstu: Materialy dokladov mezhdunarodnoj konferencii. Minsk, Belarus', 13-14 nojabrja 2000g. Minsk, pp.; 26-27, 2000 (npr)
      • "Some Influences of Russian on the Romanian of Moldova during the Soviet Period," Slavic and East European Journal 43:1, pp. 85-98, 1999
      • "What Price Languages in Contact?: The Influence of Russian on the Syntax of the Moldovan Dialect of Romanian," Nationalities Papers 26:1, pp. 73-86, 1998
      • "Marked Word Orders in the Bulgarian Sentence and Their Functional Classifications," Balkanistica 10:108-125, 1997
      • "The Making of the Moldavian Language," Studies in Moldovan: The History, Culture, Language and Contemporary Politics of the People of Moldova, Donald L. Dyer (ed.), pp. 89-109, 1996
      • "On Reading, Teaching Reading and Affective Semantics (with Elena Doshlygina)," Journal of Accelerated Language Learning 21:3-4, pp. 23-58, 1996
      • "Moldavian Linguistic Realities," Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth Conference, Howard I. Aronson (ed.), pp. 234-253, 1994
      • "Determinedness and the Pragmatics of Bulgarian Sentence Structure," Slavic and East European Journal, 37:3, pp. 273-92, 1994
      • "Russian and Romanian Intertwined: The Legacy That Is Moldavian," Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies II, Howard I. Aronson (ed.), pp. 65-77, 1994
      • "On Sentential Word Order in Bulgarian: An Historical Perspective," University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 5, pp. 19-31, 1989, npr
      • "Moldavian, Part II: Korlètjanu's Gambit," Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies, Howard I. Aronson (ed.), pp. 93-105, 1989
      • "Intensifying RP and the Effect of Grammatical Categories on Replicated NM in Bulgarian," University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 4, pp. 1-24, 1988, npr
      • "The Interplay of Subjunctive and Infinitive Complements in Romanian," Da, Ná, Sa, Të, Te: Constructions with Subordinating Complementizers in the Balkans (= Folia Slavica 7:3), pp. 362-80, 1985

      REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, ETC.:

      • Review of Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration, Robert D. Greenberg, Anthropological Linguistics, forthcoming
      • Review of The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker, American Speech , 84:1, pp. 108-111, 2009
      • Review (with Valentina B. Iepuri) of The Language of the Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and Identity in an ex-Soviet Replublic, Matthew H. Ciscel, Balkanistica, 22, pp. 238-241, 2009
      • Review of Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students, Monica Macaulay, Southern Journal of Linguistics, XXXI:2, pp. 57-61, 2007
      • Review of Degrees of Explicitness, John Leafgren, Language 80:2 (March 2004), pp. 350-351, 2004.
      • Review (with Valentina B. Iepuri) of Descriptive Romanian Grammar, Laura Daniliuc and Radu Daniliuc, LINCOM Europa, Balkanistica 16, pp. 234-37, 2003
      • Review of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Moldova, Andrei Brezianu, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Canadian Slavonic Papers XLIII:2-3, pp. 331-33, 2001
      • "The Romanian Language," Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism, Richard Frucht (ed.), p. 696, 2000
      • "Foreword," to Emil Vrabie's English-Aromanian Dictionary, Romance Monographs, pp. 5-6, 2000
      • "The Russian Language," Palaces of St. Petersburg, Russian Imperial Style (Teachers' Guide), pp. 28-29, 1996
      • "Russian," Languages of the World for Business, Sam Slick (ed.), pp. 100-110, 1995
      • "Russian-by-Satellite Programs: A Comment and Review of Programs" Mississippi Foreign Language Association Crusader, Fall 1991

      JOURNAL VOLUMES (edited):

      • Balkanistica 22. 2009. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 21. 2008. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 20. 2007. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 19. 2006. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica
      • Balkanistica 18. 2005. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 17. 2004. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 16. 2003. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 14. 2001. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 13. 2000. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 12. 1999. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 11. 1998. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services
      • Balkanistica 10. 1997. Oxford, Mississippi: The University of Mississippi Printing Services

      GRANTS, AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS:

      • Mississippi Foreign Language Association Award of Distinction, 2006
      • President of the South East Conference on Linguistics (SECOL), 2004-06
      • Mississippi Humanities Council Humanities Teacher of the Year, 2004-05
      • Balkanistica (a refereed journal of Balkan studies) -- appointed and currently serving as Editor (thirteen volumes -- 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 -- have been published under my editorship)
      • Romance Monographs (a refereed journal of Romance languages and literatures) -- currently serving as Editor-in-Chief (eighteen volumes -- 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, S1, S2, S3 -- have been published under my editorship)
      • Bulgarian Studies Association Newsletter -- Academic Editor (1990-95 and 2009 - )
      • Co-editor (with Felice A. Coles) of the Mississippi Foreign Language Crusader
      • Mississippi Humanities Council Mini-Grant, The University of Mississippi -- Oxford, Mississippi, 2004
      • Faculty Travel Grant, The University of Mississippi -- Minsk, Belarus, 2000
      • Mississippi Humanities Council Mini-Grant, The University of Mississippi -- Oxford, Mississippi, 2000
      • ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Humanities Representative Meeting -- September 1999
      • IREX Short-Term Travel Grant, Chisinau, Moldova -- May 1996
      • Faculty Summer Research Grant, The University of Mississippi -- 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992
      • ACLS International Travel Grant, Warsaw, Poland, 1995
      • Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year, The University of Mississippi -- 1992
      • Dobro Slovo (Russian/Slavic Honorary -- Chartering, Membership) -- 1990
      • Faculty Development Grant, The University of Mississippi -- 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989
      • Russian Oral Proficiency Instruction Workshop, Champaign, Illinois -- 1986
      • IREX Dissertation Research Grant, Sofia, Bulgaria -- 1985
      • James F. Clarke Memorial Scholarship, Bulgarian Studies Association -- 1985
      • IREX Fellowship to Slavonic Studies Seminar -- 1983, 1982, 1981
      • National Resource Title VI Fellowship -- 1982-83
      • The University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship -- 1981-82, 1980-81

      PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ORGANIZATIONS:

      • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
      • American Association for the Teaching of Slavic and East European Languages
      • Bulgarian Studies Association
      • C.A.R.T.A.
      • Dobro Slovo
      • Mississippi Foreign Language Association
      • Phi Beta Kappa
      • Phi Kappa Phi
      • Pi Delta Phi
      • Society for Romanian Studies
      • South Atlantic Modern Language Association
      • South Central Modern Language Association
      • South East European Studies Association
      • South Eastern Conference on Linguistics
      • Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

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