Department of Slavonic Studies

Department of Slavonic Studies

Daniela S. Hristova taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard University before joining the Slavonic Studies department. Her scholarly interests include the study of language change, diachrony and synchrony of the East Slavonic languages, and Medieval Slavic Orthodox culture. Her current book project investigates the history of the absolute constructions in Early East Slavonic. In addition, Hristova is interested in different aspects of Russian anekdoty in light of modern theoretical approaches to humor as well as in the interrelationship between the standard language and non-standard language varieties as manifested on the Russian internet. She has published on these and related themes in books, Die Welt der Slaven, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Russian Language Journal, among others.

Selected Publications:



2008. Negotiating Reality with Anekdoty: Soviet vs. Post-Soviet Human Lore. Russian Language Journal, 58:187-210.

2006. The Neoreichenbachian Model of Tense Syntax and the Rusian Active Participles. In: Rus' Writ Large: Languages, Histories, Cultures; Essays Presented in Honor of Michael S. Flier on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, eds. Harvey Goldblatt & Nancy Collman, (=Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. 28, nos. 1-4 [2006]) Cambridge, Mass.

2006. Major Textual Boundary of Linguistic Usage in the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle. Russian History/Histoire Russe 33 (2-3-4): 313-331.

2006. The Real Nature of the Secondary Predicate in the History of Russian. In: H. Aronson, D. Dyer, V. Friedman, D. Hristova, & J. Sadock, eds. The Bill Question: Contributions to the Study of Linguistics and Languages in Honor of Bill J. Darden on the Occasion of His Sixty-sixth Birthday. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. Pp. 121-137.

2006. Dative Absolute Revisited: Subject Coreferentiality in Rusian. Die Welt der Slaven 51 (2):275-290.

2004. Absolute Constructions in Slavic: Case Diversity and Originality. The Journal of Indo-European Studies. 32 (3&4):297-318.

Edited Book:



2006. The Bill Question: Contributions to the Study of Linguistics and Languages in Honor of Bill J. Darden on the Occasion of His Sixty-sixth Birthday., Howard I. Aronson, Donald L. Dyer, Victor A. Friedman, Daniela S. Hristova and Jerrold M. Sadock (eds). Bloomington, IN: Slavica.