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Publication Phonetic evidence for the development of the “acute” tone in Slavic(2020-11-02T12:39:30Z) Greenberg, Marc L.The paper attempts to give a phonetic reconstruction of the processes surrounding the loss of the glottal stop as the reflex of the inherited Proto-Slavic acute. With support from typological evidence and phonetic analysis, it is claimed that the variation in modern Slavic reflexes of the acute results from differing outcomes of the disappearance of the glottal stop: metathesis, straightforward loss, and laryngealization.Publication Fab! or Drab?: Increasing the Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning in Summer Classes(Taylor & Francis, 2012-08-08) Omelicheva, Mariya Y.This article reviews the pitfalls and benefits of teaching and learning in summer school and identifies the lack of student interest as the key factor affecting the effectiveness of learning in the summer. The primary goal of this research is to investigate the impact of active learning strategies on generating student interest and improving their learning in summer school. This article presents results of the study embedded into the classroom curriculum of a summer course. The study consisted of a series of active learning interventions, surveys of students, and observations of their academic performance. The scores of students enrolled in the summer class were compared to academic results of those students who took a similar course during the regular terms. The evidence examined in the study demonstrates that active learning strategies can increase students' situational interest in the summer school setting and can improve the quality of their learning.Publication Competing perspectives on democracy and democratization: assessing alternative models of democracy promoted in Central Asian states(Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-12) Omelicheva, Mariya Y.This study examines alternative understandings of democracy and democracy promotion advanced by the US, EU, Russia and China in Central Asia using frame analysis. In the context of this study, ‘frames’ refer to the relatively cohesive sets of beliefs, categories and value judgements as well as specific ways in which these ideas are packaged for the targets of international democratization. The study assesses the implications of alternative representations of democracy promotion and competing models of governance for the prospects of democratization in Central Asia. It concludes that the substance of US and EU democracy promotion in Central Asia has neglected the cultural and political contexts of these states, while the Russian and Chinese models of governance and development have provided a better match to the interests of the ruling elites.Publication WWII Cossack Newspapers and Periodicals at CRL(Center for Research Libraries (CRL), 2010) Giullian, Jon C.This article summarizes the contents of the World War 2 Cossack Newspapers and Periodicals, a small collection of Cossack newspapers published mostly during World War II and microfilmed at the request of the Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP) of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).Publication Slavic Studies and the World: Embracing the Revolution of Open Access Publishing(Sofia, Bulgaria: “St. Kliment Okhridskii” University of Sofia, 2010) Giullian, Jon C.This study discusses patterns of open access publishing in Slavic studies. The purpose of this study is to gauge the level of open access publishing among Slavic studies scholars; to identify what types of documents are being made available; to observe which disciplines are most active in making their documents freely available; and to determine which venues are most active for documents related to Slavic studies.Publication "Goodbye Doesn’t Mean Forever:" Selection Strategies for the Transfer of Slavic to Off-Site Remote Storage(“St. Kliment Okhridskii” University of Sofia, 2007) Giullian, Jon C.The 21st century American research library faces a serious housing crisis. Today more than ever libraries must balance patrons’ needs for access with the responsibility of preserving and storing the deluge of published material. In response to the storage crisis, several of the nation’s top research libraries have constructed off-site, high-density shelving facilities. This paper first summarizes the discussion about the nature and function of these facilities. The paper goes on to document a case-study of how the Slavic collections at the University of Kansas Libraries addressed this issue. The case-study consists of four sections: 1) a brief description of the KU Annex, KO Libraries’ particular space issues, and the “Dewey” and “LC” reclassification project; 2) criteria for selection of Russian literary text for storage and implementation of those criteria; 3) problems and challenges encountered during the process; and 4) the importance of engaging faculty directly in the selection process. A summary of “lessons learned” concludes the case study.Publication Pre-publication review. Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives(Haworth Press, 2005) Giullian, Jon C.Reviews the book "Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives," the first major work to address the issue of technology and Cyrillic language resources, thus providing an important “snapshot of Slavic digital librarianship” for the profession. The volume consists of eleven individual articles by leading American and Russian Slavic librarians. These articles are united by the common theme of “information delivery to the 21st century user” of Slavic materials.Publication Slavic Folklore, the Library, and the Web: A Case-study of Subject-Specific Collaborative Information Literacy at the University of Kansas(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2009) Giullian, Jon C.This case-study describes the on-going integration of Information Literacy (IL) into a large undergraduate general education course on Slavic folklore at the University of Kansas. The purpose of the case-study is to provide practical examples that Slavic librarians and other colleagues may find useful in the development of their own customized library instruction program.Publication Where Library Meets Vendor: A Comparison of Six Vendors of Russian Books(Slavica, 2006) Giullian, Jon C.This work compares the online catalogs, monographic holdings, and book prices of six major vendors of academic Russian books. The purpose is twofold: (1) to determine which catalogs are the most robust and, thus, most useful to bibliographers in the book selection process; and (2) to discover which of the six vendors can provide the widest range of coverage at the lowest prices. The work also alludes to the challenges Slavic librar¬ians face in the acquisition of Russian books. The study begins with a discussion of the challenges encountered during the process of searching vendors’ online catalogs, followed by a description of the methodology used to compile the checklist of titles. Vendors’ holdings are then compared across several categories. Data include raw scores and percentages. The final component compares the duplication and cost of monographs among the six vendors. The six vendors used for comparison include: ATC Books International (ATC), East View Informa¬tion Services (EV), Esterum Russian Books Worldwide (Est), MIPP International (MIPP), Natasha Kozmenko Booksellers (NK), and Russian Press Service (RPS). They were selected because of their large inventories of academic Russian books and because their inventories are readily available online. The criteria for comparison consist of monographic works, including a few monographic series, on the life and works of Leo Tolstoy.Publication Reference Question Answered: Bibliographic Sources for the Ukrainian Periodical Press in the 1840’s: Encyclopedias, Bibliographies, Guides, and Library Catalogs(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2008) Giullian, Jon C.The author answers a reference question on the bibliographic sources for the Ukrainian periodical press from 1840-1850. Helpful publications include bibliographies, guides, and library catalogs that can be used to identify Ukrainian newspapers or journals of the period. These potentially make mention of revolutionary developments in Hungary (such as the “12 Points” paragraph of the “Demands of the Hungarian Nation” in March 1848, the subsequent “April Laws,” and Hungary’s declaration of independence in April 1949) and elsewhere in the Hapsburg Empire.Publication Reference Question Answered: Discussion of Russian funeral rites as depicted in V posikakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness), Film, 2006(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2008) Giullian, Jon C.The author answers a reference question on the depiction of a funeral in the 2006 Russian documentary film V poiskakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness), which takes place in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia. Consultations and reference sources show that what was depicted was not Jewish but a typical Russian civil funeral procession. Helpful publications included historical and historical-ethnographic monographs and an ethnographic encyclopedia.Publication Book Review. Pushkinskaia Entsiklopediia “Mikhailovskoe” (Pushkin Encyclopedia “Mikhailovskoe”)(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2006) Giullian, Jon C.This article reviews volume one of the encyclopedia, which sets out to be a systematic guide to information about the realities of A. S. Pushkin’s life in the Pskov region. The work is intended to help both reader and visitor recreate the connection between Pushkin’s creative work and the realities of his life and surroundings, which have been lost over time. It also serves as a detailed guidebook of the region associated with A.S. Pushkin.Publication Book Review. The 20th Century Libraries in the Baltic Sea Regions. Transactions of the National Library of Estonia(Slavic & East European Information Resource, 2008) Giullian, Jon C.This article reviews a collection of essays about library collections of national heritage in the countries of the Baltic Sea region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and St. Petersburg, Russia).Publication Murlin Croucher: Magician of Slavic Book Collecting(Association of College and Research Libraries. Slavic and East European Section, 2012) Giullian, Jon C.Memorial article in honor of Murlin Croucher, long time Slavic bibliographer at Indiana University. Includes reminiscence of the author and excerpts from letters written by Murlin Croucher.Publication Open Access and the Author-Pays Problem: Assuring Access for Readers and Authors in a Global Community of Scholars(2013-03) Peterson, A. Townsend; Emmett, Ada; Greenberg, Marc L.Publication PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in i(John Benjamins, 2010) Greenberg, Marc L.The unprefixed imperfective verbs of motion with present tense in -i (such as Russian vodit’, vozit’, bežat’), most of which are considered indeterminate in the modern languages, developed over a lengthy period from Proto-Indo-European to the disintegration of Proto-Slavic. The final period of their development in Slavic shows striking innovation in the formal and semantic structures, including quasi-serialization in the compounding of verbal stems in such a way that the main lexical verb is modified by a manner component, e.g., *ja‑ ‘travel’ + -sd- ‘sit’ = jazd-i-ti ‘ride’. This innovative period in the development of motion verbs correlates with the period of migrations, which are seen as the end of the previous state of equilibrium in the Slavic speech community.Publication A Balkanism in Central Europe? Realis vs. Irrealis in Subordinate Clauses in Prekmurje Slovene(Nakl. Kleinwächter and Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2011) Greenberg, Marc L.The paper examines the distinction between realis- and irrealis-marking complementizers (ka vs. da in the Prekmurje (Pannonian) dialect of Slovene and compares the phenomenon to the same distinction observed in Balkan Sprachbund languages (Albanian, Bulgarian, Modem Greek, Macedonian, Romani, Romanian). Though the phenomenon is indeed synchronically parallel, historically the distinction in Prekmnrje Slovene arose as a result of retentions on the periphery (partially shared with the Carinthian dialects) and not as a result of (erstwhile) contact with languages of the Balkan Sprachbund.Publication Tracking the History of Romani Publications: Challenges Presented by Flawed Data(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012-12) Husic, GeoffRomani is a language of northern Indic origin spoken natively by an estimated 2.5 million people, primarily in Eurasia but also in North America. The history of publication patterns in Romani has not been well documented. Extracting data about this history based on available information in large bibliographic databases such as OCLC WorldCat has been hampered by unfortunate misap- plication of certain language codes, making it all but impossible to filter search results efficiently using Romani language as a param- eter. The author discusses how he was able to correct much of this inaccurate data in OCLC WorldCat.Publication [Review of] Gvozdanović, Jadranka. Celtic and Slavic and the Great Migrations: Reconstructing Linguistic History. Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 1. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009(The Russian Review (Wiley-Blackwell), 2010) Greenberg, Marc L.Publication Russia's Foreign Policy Toward Iran: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective(Taylor and Francis, 2012) Omelicheva, Mariya Y.Russia’s foreign policy stance on nuclear Iran has been a subject of debate. Why has Moscow oscillated between resistance to sanctions and support for punitive measures against Iran in the meantime supplying Tehran with new arms technologies, despite the protestations from the US? This study engages with this question. It argues that the conventional approaches linking Russia’s foreign policy to either geostrategic calculations or considerations of economic efficiency are insufficient because they do not take into consideration the changing conceptions of geopolitics held by Russia. This study shows that a pragmatic application of critical geopolitics, which calls for the examination of Russia’s foreign policy through the lens of its own “geopolitics code” can substantially enhance our understanding of Moscow’s foreign policy.