Dr. Stephen M. Dickey
- Professor
- Slavic verbal aspect | Cognitive Linguistics | Russian Functional Grammar | South Slavic Culture and Literature
Contact Info
Education —
Research —
Research interests:
- Slavic verbal aspect
- Cognitive linguistics
Teaching —
Teaching interests:
- Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Language
- Structure of Russian and Russian Functional Grammar
- South Slavic Culture and Literature
- Ottoman Bosnia
Selected Publications —
2020 article: “Time Out of Tense: Russian Aspect in the Imperative.” Journal of Linguistics 56(3): 541–576.
2019 article: “Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, and the Aspect of Imperatives in Slavic Languages.” Adeline Patasrd, Rea Peltola, and Emmanuelle Roussel, eds. Cross Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 129–175.
2018 article: “On the History of Prefixed Imperfective Motion Verbs in Slavic.” Stephen M. Dickey and Mark Richard Lauersdorf, eds. V zeleni drželi zeleni breg: Studies in Honor of Marc L. Greenberg. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 37–56.
2018 article: “The Collapse of the Common Slavic Tense System as a Catastrophe in the Development of the Slavic Aspectual Category.” Christina Y. Bethin, ed. American Contributions to the 16th International Congress of Slavists, Belgrade 2018. Volume 1: Linguistics. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 67–86.
2018 article: “Prefixation in the Rise of Slavic Aspect,” Rosanna Benacchio, et al. eds. The Role of Prefixes in the Formation of Aspect and Related Categories. Problems of Grammaticalization. Florence: Firenze University Press, 85–102.
2018 article: “Thoughts on the ‘Typology of Slavic Aspect’.” Russian Linguistics 42(1): 1–35.
2017 article: “Unauxiliated Predicates in Meša Selimović’s Death and the Dervish.” Anastasia Makarova, Stephen M. Dickey and Dagmar Divjak, eds. Each Venture a New Beginning. Studies in Honor of Laura A. Janda. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 229–40.
2016 article: “Lexical and Grammatical Aspect.” Nick Riemer, ed. Routledge Handbook of Semantics. London: Routledge, 338–353.
2015 article: “On the Aspectual Development of Performatives in Slavic.” Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie 71(2): 248–303.
2015 article: “Slavic Aspectual Prefixes and Numeral Classifiers: Two Kinds of Lexico-Grammatical Unitizers.” Lingua 168: 57–84. (Coauthored with Laura A. Janda.)
2014 article: “On the Origin of Slavic Prefixed Imperfective Motion Verbs.” Scando-Slavica 60(2): 159–171.
2013 article: "See, Now They Vanish: Third-Person Perfect Auxiliaries in Old and Middle Czech.” Journal of Slavic Linguistics. 21(1): 77–121.
2012 article: "Orphan Prefixes and the Grammaticalization of Aspect in South Slavic," Jezikoslovlje 13(1): 71-105.
Editorial work
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, June 2018–date
Editorial Board Member, Contrastive Linguistics (Съпоставително езикознание), December 2015–date
Grants & Other Funded Activity —
External: Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo, Norway), Fulbright-Hays
Internal: NFGRF Summer Research