The Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture Series in South Slavic Linguistics was established at The Ohio State University in memory of Kenneth E. Naylor (1937-1992) by Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics Brian D. Joseph
1998 First Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Victor A. Friedman, “Linguistic Emblems and Emblematic Languages: On Language as Flag in the Balkans” (published by the Department of Slavic and East European Language and Literatures, The Ohio State University, in 1999)
1999 Second Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Ronelle Alexander, “In Honor of Diversity: The Linguistic Riches of the Balkans” (published by the Department of Slavic and East European Language and Literatures, The Ohio State University, in 2000)
2000 Third Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Wayles Browne, “What Is a Standard Language Good for, and Who Gets to Have One? And Open and Closed Accent Types in Nouns in Serbo-Croatian” (published by the Department of Slavic and East European Language and Literatures, The Ohio State University, in 2002)
2001 Fourth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Howard I. Aronson, “The Balkan Linguistic League, ‘Orientalism,’ and Linguistic Typology” (published by the Beech Stave Press in 2007)
2002 Fifth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Christina E. Kramer, “Minority Language Rights in Primary Education: A Century of Change in the Balkans”
2003 Sixth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Zuzanna Topolińska, “The Anthropocentric Case Theory: How Is Man Realized in the Discourse”
2004 Seventh Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Ilse Lehiste, “The Structure of the Deseterac — The Metre of Serbian Epic Poetry”
2005 Eighth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Grace E. Fielder, “Discourse Markers as Balkanisms”
2006 Ninth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Tom Priestly, “From Phonological Analysis at my Desk to Linguistic Activism with Slovene in the Austrian Alps” (published by the South East European Studies Association in 2014)
2007 Tenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Brian D. Joseph, “Why We Need History in Doing Balkan Linguistics”
2008 Eleventh Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Robert Greenberg, “Language Planning in the Yugoslav Successor States: New Languages and Old Controversies”
2009 Twelfth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Marc L. Greenberg, “The Line, the Which and the War Trope”
2010 Thirteenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Victor Friedman and Brian Joseph, “An Appreciation of Eric P. Hamp”
2011 Fourteenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Catherine Rudin, “The New Bulgarian: Turkisms and Europeanisms in the Language of Bai Ganyo and Nov Zhivot”
2012 Fifteenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Cynthia Vakareliyska, “Action Heroes: The English NN Construction across the South Slavic Languages”
2013 Sixteenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Olga M. Mladenova, “The Rise of Modern Bulgarian Literacy in the Seventeenth Century: New Facts and Interpretations”
2014 Seventeenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Donald Dyer, “Reimagining the Balkans and Widening the Bund: Does Moldova Belong?”
2015 Eighteenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Joseph Schallert, “Observations on the Lexicon of the Earliest Macedonian Vernacular Gospels (Konikovo and Kulakia Gospels)”
2016 Nineteenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: John Leafgren, “Do We Really Write in a More Complex Way than We Speak? The Case of Bulgarian”
2018 Twentieth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Keith Langston, "Language Planning and Its Limits: The Case of Croatian"
2019 Twenty-First Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Lecture: Panayiotis Pappas, "Greek Dialect Features in the Speech of Greek Canadians: An Unexpected Treasure Trove"
2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
2021 Twenty-Second Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture (virtual): Mark Janse, “Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek): The Life and Times of a Language Once Believed Extinct”
2022 Twenty-Third Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture (virtual): Andrey Sobolev, "Torlak in the Slavic Family and Balkan Sprachbund: Linguistic Problems and Methodological Challenges"
2023 Twenty-Fourth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture: Motoki Nomachi, "Avram Mrazović’s Linguistic Thought and the Question of Polyvalency in Church Slavic"
2024 Twenty-Fifth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture: Bojan Belić, "The Uneasy Living and Unceasing Death of Croatoserbian/Serbocroatian (In Between Lingua Communis and Common Language)"