Christina Kramer

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor Emerita at University of Toronto

This paper analyses the use of Anglicisms, the Turkisms of the 21st century, in the transcripts of the VMRO-DPMNE government's illegal wiretaps, known in Mace-donian as the bombi. While Turkisms survive as markers of the convergence of languages and cultural interaction within the bALkAn sPrAchbund, so-called Anglicisms connect Macedonian to langua...

Lovett Fielding Edwards was born into a military family in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. He became an internationally recognized journalist writing for the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, the BBC, and other major news outlets, covering events as diverse as the 1941 bombing of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the Greek Civil War, and the Arab-Israeli conflict....

This paper discusses postcards sent from the Salonika front in WWI by soldiers fighting in Skopje in 1918.

Thanks to Balkanistica for allowing me to publish on the site.

The standardization of the Macedonian language and controversies surrounding it have been described in detail by many scholars. This paper seeks to contribute to this discussion in several ways. First, I will provide a brief summary of debates concerning selection of an orthography in the period 1944–1945. Significantly, I will expand that discussi...

This paper discusses the special problems of developing teaching materials for less commonly taught languages—Macedonian, in particular. I consider materials designed for mixed groups of students with varying degrees of linguistic knowledge and with differing goals for language acquisition, which range from a desire for greater oral fluency in the...

This paper focuses on questions of Macedonian standardization at the most micro-level, i.e., within the individual. Through examination of archival materials of Macedonian writers of the early twentieth century, questions of language shift and standardization are addressed. While much research has been conducted on the state processes of language s...

RÉSUMÉ Langue officielle, langue minoritaire, pas de langue du tout: L'histoire du macédonien dans l'enseignement primaire dans les Etats Balkaniques Dans les pays avec des populations diverses, la disposition d'enseignement primaire de langue maternelle dans les langues minoritaires a souvent été le sujet de débats politiques. L'auteur éclaircit l...

The distribution of the yes/no-interrogative clitic li in Macedonian and Bulgarian reveals a complex interaction of syntax with non-syntactic factors. The underlying syntactic uniformity of questions with li in the two languages is obscured by a series of prosodic idiosyncracies in one language or the other. In Macedonian, the major prosodic phenom...

The distribution of the yes/no-interrogative clitic li in Macedonian and Bulgarian reveals a complex interaction of syntax with prosodic factois. The underlying syntactic uniformity of li questions in the two languages is obscured by a series of prosodic phenomena affecting one language or the other. In Macedonian two prosodic factors affect the pl...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [162]-168). Photocopy.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73).

A comic classic of world literature, Aleko Konstantinov’s 1895 novel Bai Ganyo follows the misadventures of rose-oil salesman Ganyo Balkanski (“Bai” is a Bulgarian title of intimate respect) as he travels in Europe. Unkempt but endearing, Bai Ganyo blusters his way through refined society in Vienna, Dresden, and St. Petersburg with an eye pee...