Daniela
S. Hristova is Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics and the
College at the University of Chicago. She studied Slavic Philology
and Slavic Linguistics at the University of Sofia, Charles University
in Prague, University of Chicago and Harvard University; she wrote
and defended “with distinction” her doctoral thesis on the syntactic
structure and grammatical function of the participles in the Kievan
Chronicle (PhD University of Chicago, 2002). Her scholarly interests
include the study of language change, diachrony and synchrony
of East Slavic languages, diachrony of Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic
Orthodox culture, post-perestroika developments in Russian and
their sociolinguistic motivations. Dr. Hristova is currently working
on four monographs: Non-finite syntax: the Participles in
Rusian, “Ja Poslal Tebe Berestu...”: The Novgorod Birch-Bark
Letters or the “Emails” of the Medieval Russians, Syntactic
Structures for Students of Early East Slavic, and The
Language of the Bulgarian Redaction of “Stefanit i Ixnilat”.
For a full list of publications and complete CV as well as information
about Dr Hristova’s academic and non-academic activities and hobbies,
see her Homepage.
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Publications
Articles
2004. Absolute Constructions in Slavic: Case Diversity and
Originality, Journal of Indo-European Studies 33. Forthcoming.
2004. The Bulgarian Community in Chicago. In: James R. Grossman,
Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff eds., The Encyclopedia
of Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
1999. Total Fears, Journal of Slavic Linguistics 7
(2), 171-78.
1995. Izrazjavane na kvalificativnite otnošenija v nominalnata
fraza v sarboharvatski ezik, [The expression of the qualificative
relations in the nominal phrase in Serbo-Croatian]. Južnoslovenski
filolog LI, Beograd.
Abstracts
Predicative
Participle versus Vtorostepennoe Skazuemoe, or When Syntactic
Entities Are What They Just Appear to Be, Abstracts,
Leuven 2004.
Genitive
Absolute or Genitive of Time with a Participle, AATSEEL
2003:215-216.
Dative
Absolute in the Kievan chronicle, AATSEEL 2001:106-106.
The
construction budem with l-participle in Serbo-Croatian: tense
or modality, AATSEEL 1998:302-303.
Articles under review and in progress
Dative Absolute Revisited: Subject Coreferentiality in OCS
and Rusian.
The Connective i and its syntactic nature.
Preposed vs. postposed Past Active Participles.
Genitive Absolute.
Reichenbach and Diachrony of the Participles in East Slavic.
Related Publishing Activities
Aleko Konstantinov. Baj Ganjo. Forthcoming. (consultant).
Books published by "Aleko":
Stanley Barkan. Naming the Birds / Nazovavane na Ptitsite. Transl.
Vladimir Levchev.
Sofia / New York 2002. (A co-publication with Cross-Cultural
Communications).
Stanley Kunitz. Touch me / Dokosni me. Transl. Vladimir Levchev.
Sofia / New York.
2002. (A co-publication with Cross-Cultural Communications).
Henry Taylor. Understanding Fiction /Osmisliane na Prozata.
Transl. Vladimir Levchev.
Sofia / New York. 2002. (A co-publication with Cross-Cultural
Communications).
Mark Strand. Tamno pristanište. Transl. Katia Mitova. Obštestvo
Aleko: Sofia. 2001.
Mark Strand. Krachka predi mraka. Transl. Katia Mitova. Obštestvo
Aleko: Sofia. 2000.
Websites and technological projects
Searchable
Database of Medieval Slavic Documents
A long-term project to create a searchable database of medieval
Slavic texts. Due to the lack of encoding standards for medieval
Slavic manuscripts, this is the first attempt to create electronic
corpora of such texts. The ultimate goal is to include the most
important medieval East and South Slavic documents.