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Prof. Stephen M. Dickey

Stephen M. Dickey


Degree: Ph.D., Indiana
Position: Associate Professor.
Teaching interests: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Language, Structure of Russian and Russian Functional Grammar, Structure of the South Slavic Languages and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Functional Grammar, South Slavic Culture and Literature, Ottoman Bosnia
Research interests: Comparative Slavic verbal aspect, cognitive linguistics, Slavic semantics and syntax

Selected recent publications (since 2000)

  • 2007 article: A Prototype Account of the Development of Delimitative PO- in Russian. Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain. Edited by Dagmar Divjak and Agata Kochanska. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 326–371.
  • 2007 translations: Damir Šodan, Bagatelle, Chess, The Tao of Gravity, Marseilless, After Brueghel, Alluvium, Satori in Gradiška, Antarctic, Tristes Tropiques, Eavesdropping. American Poetry Review 36(3): 10–13.
  • 2006 article: [with Marc L. Greenberg] Slavic *jazditi ‘to ride’ and its Implications for the Development the Category of (In)determinacy. Jezikovna predanost, 153–158. Maribor: Slavistično društvo/Ljubljana: SAZU
  • 2006 article: Aspectual Pairs, Goal Orientation and PO- Delimitatives in Russian, Glossos 7.
  • 2005 article: S-/Z- and the Grammaticalization of Slavic Aspect. Slovene Linguistic Studies 5: 3–55.
  • 2005 translation: Borislav Pekic, How to Quiet a Vampire (Kako upokojiti vampira), Northwestern University Press 2005 (with Bogdan Rakic).
  • 2003 article: Delimitative Verbs in Russian, Czech and Slavic (coauthored with Julie Hutcheson). American Contributions to the 13th International Congress of Slavists. Volume 1: Linguistics. Edited by Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake. Bloomington: Slavica, 23–36.
  • 2003 article: 'Semelfactive' -- and the Western Aspect Gestalt. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 10(1): 29–52.
  • 2003 article: Verbal Aspect in Slovene. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 56(3): 182–207.
  • 2002 article: Distributive Verbs in Serbian and Croatian. Of All the Slavs My Favorites: In Honor of Howard I. Aronson on the Occasion of His 66th Birthday, Edited by Victor Friedman and Donald Dyer. Bloomington, Slavica Publishers: 103–15.
  • 2000 book: Parameters of Slavic Aspect: A Cognitive Approach, Stanford, CSLI Publications. [Download the errata sheet for Parameters of Slavic Aspect: PDF format.]
  • 2000 article: Expressing Ingressivity in Slavic: The Contextually-Conditioned Imperfective Past vs. the Phase Verb stat' and Procedural za-. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 7(1): 11–44

    Editorial work

  • 2001: Journal of Slavic Linguistics 9(1) [aspect issue].

    Selected grants

    External: Fulbright-Hays; Internal: NFGRF Summer Research

  • Full curriculum vitæ (RTF)
  • Full curriculum vitæ (PDF)



  • Physical location of office:
    2128 Wescoe Hall
    Mailing address:
    Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
    1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm. 2133
    Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA
    Tel.: (785) 864-2357
    E-mail: smd (at) ku.edu