Victor A. Friedman

List of John Benjamins publications for which Victor A. Friedman plays a role.

Book series

Friedman, Victor A. and Brian D. Joseph 2018 Chapter 2. Non-nominative and depersonalized subjects in the Balkans: Areality vs. genealogyNon-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 23–54 | Chapter
The languages of the Balkan sprachbund are surveyed here with regard to their constructions that show non-nominative subjects, typically in impersonal constructions. The issue of origins is considered, specifically as to whether these constructions represent inheritances from some earlier stage of… read more
The deployment of the Albanian admirative as well as the evidential particles kinse ‘allegedly’ and gjoja ‘supposedly’ in Kosovar electronic news sources to render either dubitative or neutral reports — depending on both the source and the timing — contributed to the project of an independent… read more
Friedman, Victor A. 2013 The morphology of imperatives in Lak: Stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmativeLanguage Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 445–462 | Article
The choice of stem vowel in the Lak second singular affirmative transitive imperative (2sgafftriv) is highly unpredictable and is the least normalized area of Lak grammar. None of the codifying works of Lak supply this form, and the proposed rules have approximately a 50 percent degree of accuracy.… read more
The deployment of the Albanian admirative as well as the evidential particles kinse ‘allegedly’ and gjoja ‘supposedly’ in Kosovar electronic news sources to render either dubitative or neutral reports — depending on both the source and the timing — contributed to the project of an independent… read more
Friedman, Victor A. 2008 1. Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspectiveClitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages, Kallulli, Dalina and Liliane Tasmowski (eds.), pp. 35–63 | Article
When examined in its Balkan context, object reduplication tells us a number of things about language contact phenomena in general and Balkan contact phenomena in particular. It provides a striking illustration of the way a pragmatic phenomenon becomes syntactic and finally grammaticalized almost to… read more
Friedman, Victor A. 2004 The Typology of Balkan Evidentiality and Areal LinguisticsBalkan Syntax and Semantics, Mišeska Tomić, Olga (ed.), pp. 101–134 | Article
Friedman, Victor A. 2003 8. Evidentiality in the Balkans with special attention to Macedonian and AlbanianStudies in Evidentiality, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. and R.M.W. Dixon (eds.), pp. 189–218 | Chapter
Friedman, Victor A. 2003 ForewordCurrent Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, Holisky, Dee Ann and Kevin Tuite (eds.), pp. xix–xxviii | Foreword
Friedman, Victor A. 2000 Proleptic and resumptive object pronouns in Romani: A Balkan noun phrase perspectiveGrammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 187–204 | Article
Friedman, Victor A. 1997 Linguistic form and content in the Romani-language press of the Republic of MacedoniaThe Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 183–198 | Article
Friedman, Victor A. 1996 3. The Five Deictics of LakToward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis, Andrews, Edna and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 307–318 | Article