Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Education
MA, Slavic languages and literatures, University of Chicago, 1984 • PhD, Slavic languages and literatures (specialization: Slavic linguistics), UCLA, 1990.
Position, duties
Professor of Slavic Languages, teaching Slavic linguistics at the Department of Slavic, German & Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas.
Research interests
Comparative and historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language contact, focusing on Slavic languages.Courses regularly taught
Introduction to Slavic Languages and Linguistics, History of Russian, Old Church Slavic, Comparative Slavic Linguistics, Language and Identity in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Recent publication(s)
2024 [essay]: Planet of the APCs: A Decade of Progress and Setbacks in Open Access. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 12/2
2024 [essay]: Slavist Willem R. Vermeer (1947–2024). Slovenski Jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies 16, 12/2
2024 [encyclopedia article]: Fixed-Stress Systems. Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. Leiden: Brill.
2023 [article]: Гринберг, Марк Л. и Синиша Хабиянец. Акцентологические наблюдения к реконструкции праславянского диалекта в Паннонии. С. Л. Николаев, отв. ред. Славянское и балканское языкознание. Балто-славянская компаративистика. Акцентология. Дальнее родство языков. Памяти Владимира Антоновича Дыбо. Moscow.
2023 [article]: Poskus razlage razvoja stalnih naglasnih sistemov v slovanskih jezikih. Akademik Fran Ramovš (= Razprave SAZU, Razreda za filološke in literarne vede 29, ed. by Marko Jesenšek): 189–202. Ljubljana.
2022 [essay]: Brian Rosenblum, A. Town Peterson, Ada Emmett, Marc L. Greenberg, and Josh Bolick, Open Access is Broken: What Can Be Done? Ghana Library Journal
Current projects
Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics (Leiden: Brill), Online 2020-, Print: EDC 2026.
Recent news
December 2023: Interview (in Bosnian): Intervju. Marc L. Greenberg. Dijalekti čuvaju vrijedne informacije o prošlosti, by Prof. dr. Halid Bulić, Lingvazin - Magazin za jezik i književnost
November 2023: Interview (in Slovene): Vznemirljivo proučevanje prepleta jezikov, zgodovine, identitete, by Dragica Bošnjak, Delo
February 2023: Interview (in English): Interview hosted by Dr Jovan Čavor, U. of Auckland, 13. Jul, Montenegrin Online Academy
Archive of older news items and interviews
Languages
Proficient: BCMS (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian - standard and dialects), Czech, Russian, Slovene (standard and dialects) • Reading, some speaking: Albanian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish, Yiddish; other Slavic languages
Editorial boards
Croatica et Slavica Iadertina (Zadar, Croatia); Književni jezik (Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Lingua Montenegrina (Cetinje, Montenegro); Mova: klasične - moderne - postmoderne (Kyiv, Ukraine); Naučnaja periodika: problemy i rešenija (Moscow, Russia); Proglas (Veliko Tărnovo, Bulgaria); The Russian Review (Lawrence, USA); Slovanský přehled (Prague, Czech Republic); Slavia Centralis (Maribor, Slovenia); Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies (Ljubljana, Slovenia); Voprosy onomastiki (Yekaterinburg & Moscow, Russia)
Extra-curricular
Classical guitar, Russian seven-string guitar, and lute.
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