Cynthia M. VakareliyskaProfessor of LinguisticsPh.D., Harvard (1990); J.D. Columbia (1976)
Dr. Vakareliyska's research looks primarily to features of Slavic and Baltic languages as potential sources of information about linguistic processes in general, both historical and synchronic. She collects data for her work through field research and archive research in Bulgaria, Poland, Lithuania and Russia. A large part of her research focuses on medieval Bulgarian, Serbian and East Slavic gospel manuscripts and calendars of saints, as sources of evidence about (a) the features of the 14th-century Bulgarian spoken vernacular, and (b) the methodologies that were used in the medieval Slavic scribal tradition for compiling a single manuscript text by patchworking together two or more separate textual traditions. Another current research interest is the phenomenon of self-identification with more than one language and culture by members of multilingual ethnic/confessional minorities. |