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Friedman, Victor Allen was born on October 18, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Norman Benjamin and Lorraine (Weisman) Friedman.
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In terms of the morphosyntax, semantics, and pragmatics of its verbal system, Macedonian differs significantly from both Bulgarian and from Bosnian / Croatian / Montenegrin / Serbian (BCMS). Macedonian is closer to Bulgarian than to BCMS both in its preservation of the aorist/imperfect aspectual opposition and in its encoding of speaker attitude in the verb (a phenomenon sometimes labeled evidential). However, Macedonian has developed these and other categories especially the resultative in ima differently from Bulgarian, and Macedonian is thus an important and distinct part of the general Slavic and Balkan linguistic picture. This analysis of the Macedonian indicative system was the first book to be published in the North America about Modern Macedonian, and it was the first mophosyntactic and semantic analysis of Macedonian verbal categories. The framework is Jakobsonian, but with additional generativist analyses inspired by generative semantics. Almost 40 years later, the basic research has proven sound and the frameworks are still useful. This revised edition of the original 1977 book takes into account research published since the first edition and contains an new preface and an expanded bibliography as well as the original appendix of over 300 additional example sentences. The first chapter surveys Macedonian verbal morphology and defines basic terminology. Subsequent chapters each treat a series of paradigmatic sets: the simplex series, the sum series, the ima series, and the pluperfect (be e series). Throughout there are comparisons with Bulgarian, the former Serbo-Croatian, and various relevant Balkan Slavic dialects. The concluding chapter summarizes the preceding four and gives a survey of some of the relevant aspects of various Balkan languages (Albanian, Aromanian, Balkan Judezmo, Greek, Meglenoromanian, Balkan Romani, Romanian, and Turkish) in addition to Balkan Slavic, with special focus on so-called evidentials. The data are primarily from the spoken and written standard language. It documents the usage of the first generation to grow up entirely with a Macedonian-language educational medium. A generation later, it was possible to revisit these speakers as well as their grown children. The data and predictions have stood the test of time, and so are published again in the context of subsequent research.
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Friedman, Victor Allen was born on October 18, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Norman Benjamin and Lorraine (Weisman) Friedman.
Bachelor, Reed College, 1970; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1975; golden plaque (honorary), University Skopje, Macedonia, 1991.
He is the Andrew West. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He has published numerous articles in English, Macedonian and Albanian. Friedman received his Bachelor of Arts in Russian language and literature at Reed College in 1970.
From 1975 until 1993 Friedman taught at the University of North Carolina.
In 1993 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Chicago. He has held visiting positions at Cornell University, the University of Skopje, the Central European University in Budapest, Kyoto University, the University of Helsinki, the University of Pristina, the National University of Malaysia and Latrobe University.
His expertise extends over all languages of the Balkans and the Caucasus, including Albanian, Aromanian, Azeri, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Greek, Judezmo, Lak, Macedonian, Romani, Romanian, Russian, Tadjik and Turkish. His research has been multidisciplinary and has involved extensive fieldwork in the Balkans.
In 1994 he served as a senior policy and political analyst to the United Nations regarding policy in the former Yugoslavia and has since then been involved in other consultative roles in the region.
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Member American Committee Slavists (vice president since 1994), American Association Southeast European Studies (president 1990-1992), Society Albanian Studies (vice president 1978-1981), Bulgarian Studies Association (nominating committee 1984-1990), Macedonian Academy Arts and Sciences, Academy Arts and Sciences of Kosova, Matica Srpska.