Ernest Scatton
Distinguished Service Professor (SUNY)
Curriculum Vitae 2002

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Office address

Program in Linguistics & Cognitive Science
Department of Anthropology, AS237
The University at Albany (SUNY)
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
voice: (dept.): 518/442-4701
voice (direct): 518/442-4224
fax: 518/442-5710
email: scattone@albany.edu

Home address

22 Crockett Lane
Ewing, NJ 08628
609-882-1290
email: scattone@comcast.net

Degrees

Dr Philogical Sci. (honora causis) Sofia Univ.  1996
PhD	Harvard Univ.	Slavic Linguistics	1971
MA	Harvard Univ.	Slavic Langs. & Lits.	1967
BA	Univ. of Penna.	Russian Lang. & Lit.	1964

Major Publications

Books

• Bulgarian Individualized Instruction. Reading Bulgarian 3. Student's and Instructor's Manuals. 1994.
• A Reference Grammar of Modern Bulgarian. 1984.
• Bulgarian Phonology. 1975. 224pp. (Reprinted 1983.)
• Ed. with R. Steele and C. Gribble, Studies in Honor of Horace G. Lunt on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, September 12, 1978. Part 1, 1978. Part 2, 1979.
• Trans. Boryana Velcheva, Proto-Slavic and Old Bulgarian Sound Changes (1980). 1988.

Selected Articles (*=in Bulgarian; title translated)

1. With Boryana Velcheva: An archaic dialect of Bulgarian.* In Balgarskiiat ezik prez XX vek, ed. V. Radeva, 244–47. Sofia, "Prof. Marin Drinov" & "Pensoft," 2001.
2. Bulgarian. In Facts about the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present, ed. Jane Garry and Carl Rubino, 100–104. New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 2001.
3. With Boryana Velcheva: Caluvkata si e celuvka: A problem in Bulgarian historical dialectology. In Bulgaristikata v zorata na XXI vek: Bulgaro-amerikanskata perspektiva za nauchni izsledvanija/Bulgarian Studies at the Dawn of the 21st Century: A Bulgarian-American Perspective, ed. A. Miltenova, 233–36. Sofia, IK "Gutenberg," 2000.
4. Syllabic-[r] and vowel/[r] sequences in some southwest Bulgarian dialects II. In Dialektologija i lingvistichna geografija, 90-98. 1999.
5. Vowel reducation and jat in Bulgarian dialects. In And Meaning for a Life Entire: Festschrift for Charles A. Moser..., 499-505. 1997.
6. With Boryana Velcheva: One for all and all four one: yers and nasals in Rodopi dialects. Palaeobulgarica 19.2 (1995), 3-8.
7. Syllabic [r] and schwa-[r] sequences in Bulgarian dialects: 1. the Northeast. In Alexander Lipson: In Memorium, ed. C.E. Gribble et al., 232-49. Columbus, Slavica, 1994.
8. Syllabic-[r] and vowel/[r] sequences in southwest Bulgarian dialects I. Balkansko ezikoznanie 36.1 (1993), 59-64.
9. Bulgarian. In The Slavonic Languages, ed. B. Comrie and G. Corbett, 188-248. 1993.
10. Bibliography of Bulgarian Linguistics in the United States. Se/CL 16.5 (1991), 117-28.
11. Suspension of (dis)palatalization in Southwestern Bulgarian*. Se/CL 15.4-5 (1990), 77-83.
12. One stem or two: Is that a question? In Teaching, Learning, Acquiring Russian, ed. S. Lubensky and D. Jarvis, 213-27. 1983.
13. On the shape of the Bulgarian definite article. In Morphosyntax in Slavic, ed. C. Chvany and R. Brecht, 204-11. 1980.
14. With Paula Goodman: Towards a typology of vowel reduction: Unstressed vocalization in Russian. Lingua 5 (1978), 301-17.
15. Old Church Slavonic tj/dj--sht/zhd. Linguistics 208 (1978), 13-21.
16. Forms such as cal/cali in Bulgarian dialects. In Slavic Linguistics and Language Teaching, ed. T. Magner, 249-58. 1976.
17. More on palatalization. Stanford University Project on Language Universals, Working Papers 19 (1976), 137-44.
18. The alternation of E/A in modern Bulgarian. Slavic and East European Journal 17 (1973), 427-33.
19. With D. Barton Johnson: A generative interpretation of the 'jat' alternation in Bulgarian dialects*. Izvestija na instituta za bylgarski ezik 20 (1971), 91-105.
20. On the loss of Proto-Slavic diphthongs. In Studies Presented to Professor Roman Jakobson by His Students, ed. C. Gribble, 281-88. 1968.

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