Formal name: Ilija Casule

Personal Title: Associate Professor

Position: Associate Professor

Qualifications:PhD (University Cyril and Methodius, Skopje) 1986
MA (University Cyril and Methodius, Skopje) 1982
BA (University Cyril and Methodius, Skopje) 1978

Telephone: (612) 9850-8660

Fax: (612) 9850-9199

Email:ilija.casule@ling.mq.edu.au

Location: C5A 527

Publications: Selected Publications

Profile

A/Prof Ilija Casule taught general and Macedonian linguistics, semantics and semiotics at the University Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia from 1979-1987, when he joined Macquarie University. From 1987 to 2000 he was affiliated with the School of Modern Languages where he developed the Macedonian studies program and taught units in Macedonian language and literature, Slavic historical linguistics and languages in contact.

In 2001 he joined the Department of Linguistics, where he currently teaches lexicography, theory of translation, research methodology, translation from Spanish, historical linguistics and from time to time sociolinguistics, bilingualism and languages in contact. His research interests are in the area of languages in contact, especially at the syntactic level, within the linguistic convergence phenomena in the Balkan Linguistic Alliance, and further language standardisation and planning, syntax (esp. nominalisation), poetry translation and Indo-European and Phrygian etymology.

He has also worked on establishing the Indo-European, i.e. Ancient Balkan origin of the isolated language Burushaski. He has authored 6 books and over 70 articles in refereed journals.

Dr Casule is the President of the Macedonian Committee within the European Linguistic Atlas. He is also active as a translator of poetry. Since 1988 he has been on a panel of the National Accreditation Authority for Translating and Interpreting. Member of the Executive Committee of the Dictionary Research Centre and of the Australian Linguistic Society. Speaks actively Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Spanish, Russian and has receptive skills in Bulgarian, Slovenian, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and Burushaski