John R Leafgren

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Leafgren, J. R. (2012). A Concise Bulgarian Grammar -- Introduction and Chapters 1-8. Duke University, Slavic and Eurasian Resource Center.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2002). Degrees of Explicitness: Information Structure and the Packaging of Bulgarian Subjects and Objects. John Benjamins.

Journals/Publications

• Leafgren, J. R. (2015). The Distribution and Function of Bulgarian Concessive Constructions. Balkanistica, 28, 271-294.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2014). Moscow and Petersburg: 1842. Chtenija (Readings), 7(1), 27-36.
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• Leafgren, J. R. (2009). How Gerund-like are Bulgarian kato Clauses?. Balkanistica, 22, 27-40.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2007). The Use of Verbal Adverbs and other Verbal Adverbials in Formal versus Informal and Written versus Spoken Bulgarian. Săpostavitelno ezikoznanie (‘Contrastive Linguistics’), 32(1), 25-43.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2004). Bulgarian Relative Clauses and Communicative Complexity. Slavic and East European Journal, 48(2), 275-91.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2002). The Dative Absolute in Middle Bulgarian Texts. Zeitschrift für Slawistik (‘Journal for Slavistics’), 47(2), 147-61.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2001). Parallels between Possessors and Other Datives in Bulgarian. Balkanistica, 14, 43-82.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2000). Discourse Themes in Third person Bulgarian Literary Narrative. Die Welt der Slaven ('The World of the Slavs'), XLV, 59-78.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1997). Bulgarian Clitic Doubling -- Overt Topicality. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 5(1), 117-43.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1997). Definiteness, Givenness, Topicality and Bulgarian Object Reduplication. Balkanistica, 10, 296-311.

Presentations

• Leafgren, J. R. (2016, April). Do we really write in a more complex way than we speak? The case of Bulgarian. Nineteenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture in South Slavic Linguistics. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2014, April). Syntactic Complexity in Spoken and Written Bulgarian. Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Languages, Literatures and Linguistics.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2012, spring). The Use of Passive Voice Constructions in Bulgarian. Ninth Joint Meeting of North American and Bulgarian Scholars. Eugene, Oregon.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2010, spring). The Use of Adverbial Subordinate Clauses in Contemporary Bulgarian. 2010 Balkan and South Slavic Studies Conference. Columbus, Ohio.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2008, spring). The Use of Long and Short Definite Articles in Bulgarian. 2008 Balkan and South Slavic Studies Conference. Banff, Alberta.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2007, spring). The Distribution of Bulgarian Concessive Constructions. 2007 Conference of the South East European Studies Association. Columbus, Ohio.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2006, spring). How Gerundial are Bulgarian Kato Clauses. 2006 Balkan and South Slavic Studies Conference. Berkeley, California.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2005, spring). Verbal Adverbs and other Verbal Adverbials in Contemporary Bulgarian. 2005 Conference of the South East European Studies Association.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2005, winter). Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian: Strategies for Expanding Offerings. AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) Conference. Washington, DC.
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• Leafgren, J. R. (2004, spring). Particularly Complex Relative Clauses in Bulgarian. 14th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literatures, and Folklore. Oxford, MS.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2003, fall). Communicative Complexity in Bulgarian Internet Journalism. Seventh Joint Meeting and Conference of North American and Bulgarian Scholars. Columbus, Ohio.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2002, spring). Register, Mode, and Bulgarian Object Placement. 13th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literatures, and Folklore. Chapel Hill, NC.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2001, winter). Patient Packaging in Informal and Formal, Oral and Written Bulgarian. 2001 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Conference. New Orleans.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2000, spring). The Dative Absolute in Middle Bulgarian Texts. 2000 Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Folklore. Lawrence, KS.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2000, summer). Word Order Phenomena in Third Person Narrative in Literary vs. Spoken Bulgarian. VI ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) World Congress. Tampere, Finland.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1999, winter). Noun Phrase Packaging and Discourse Structure in Middle Bulgarian Texts. 1999 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Conference. Chicago, IL.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1998, winter). Object Reduplication in Spoken Bulgarian. 1998 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Conference. San Francisco, CA.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1997, winter). Topical Objects, Word Order and Discourse Structure in Bulgarian. 29th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Seattle, WA.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1996, spring). Possessors vs. Indirect Objects in Bulgarian. 1996 Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Folklore. Chicago, IL.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1996, winter). Discourse Structure and Bulgarian Topics. 28th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Boston, MA.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1995, fall). Personal Pronouns as Objects in Bulgarian. 27th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Washington, DC.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1994, fall). Given Information as Patient in Middle Bulgarian Texts. 26th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Philadelphia, PA.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1992, spring). Definiteness, Givenness, Topicality and Bulgarian Object Reduplication. 1992 Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Folklore. Chicago, IL.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1991, winter). Topicality and Communicative Dynamism. 1991 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Conference. San Francisco, CA.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1990, fall). Bulgarian Pronominal Clitics – Reduplication as a Topic-Marking Device in Bulgarian. 22nd National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Washington, DC.

Reviews

• Leafgren, J. R. (2012. Malyj dialektologičeskij atlas balkanskix jazykov. Serija leksičeskaja. Tom IV. Landšaft (‘A Small Dialectalogical Atlas of the Balkan Languages. Lexical Series. Vol. IV. Landscape’).
• Leafgren, J. R. (2010. Malyj dialektologičeskij atlas balkanskix jazykov. Serija leksičeskaja. Tom III. Životnovodstvo (‘A Small Dialectalogical Atlas of the Balkan Languages. Lexical Series. Vol. III. Animal Husbandry’).
• Leafgren, J. R. (2007. Advanced Russian through History: Dela davno minuvšix dnej.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2007. Vostochnye Balkany na karte Ptolemeia. Kritiko-bibliograficheskie izyskaniia (‘The Eastern Balkans on Ptolemei’s Map. A Critical-bibliographical Investigation’).
• Leafgren, J. R. (2006. Beginner's Bulgarian.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2005. Malyj dialektologičeskij atlas balkanskix jazykov (‘A Small Dialectalogical Atlas of the Balkan Languages’).
• Leafgren, J. R. (2003. Papers from the Second Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic Languages.
• Leafgren, J. R. (2001. Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook and Reference Grammar, Volumes 1 and 2.
• Leafgren, J. R. (1993. Bulgarsko-polska supostavitelna gramatika 2: Semantichnata kategorija opredelenost/neopredelenost (‘Bulgarian-Polish Comparative Grammar 2: The Semantic Category Definiteness/Indefiniteness’).