Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics

by Irina Kor Chahine

Author	: Irina Kor Chahine
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages	: 345
Release	: 2013-12-15
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 9027270961

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This volume represents an overview of current research on Slavic linguistics in Europe and North America based on selected papers presented during the 6th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (September 1-3, 2011, Aix-en-Provence, France). It includes topics across a range of linguistic fields (morphosyntax, syntax, and semantics) and discussions on specific aspects of Slavic languages within a typological perspective. All the papers illustrate a range of approaches, and each paper presents rigorous analysis of a set of Slavic data within the context of various models and aspects of language. While the main focus of the collection is impersonal constructions in Slavic languages, the book also includes morphological topics, such as reflexives, antipassive and evidential markers, syntactical relations with zero sign, auxiliary verbs and subordinate clauses, and semantics of nouns, adverbs and adjectives. The volume will be of interest to all scholars studying Slavic languages as well as those interested in general linguistics and linguistic typology.

Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After

by Teodora Radeva-Bork

Author	: Teodora Radeva-Bork
Publisher	: Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2020
Genre	: Slavic languages
ISBN	: 9783631676738

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Selected papers from Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 11), syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, phonology, experimental work, Slavic languages, Slavic linguistics, guest paper Noam Chomsky.

Russian Language Studies in North America

by Veronika Makarova

Author	: Veronika Makarova
Publisher	: Anthem Press
Total Pages	: 291
Release	: 2012-06-01
Genre	: Foreign Language Study
ISBN	: 0857287842

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This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2016

by Denisa Lenertová

Author	: Denisa Lenertová
Publisher	: Language Science Press
Total Pages	: 527
Release	: 2018
Genre	: Electronic books
ISBN	: 3961101272

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Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2016 initiates a new series of collective volumes on formal Slavic linguistics. It presents a selection of high quality papers authored by young and senior linguists from around the world and contains both empirically oriented work, underpinned by up-to-date experimental methods, as well as more theoretically grounded contributions. The volume covers all major linguistic areas, including morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, and their mutual interfaces. The particular topics discussed include argument structure, word order, case, agreement, tense, aspect, clausal left periphery, or segmental phonology. The topical breadth and analytical depth of the contributions reflect the vitality of the field of formal Slavic linguistics and prove its relevance to the global linguistic endeavour. Early versions of the papers included in this volume were presented at the conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12 or at the satellite Workshop on Formal and Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, which were held on December 7-10, 2016 in Berlin.

Clitics in the wild

by Zrinka Kolaković

Author	: Zrinka Kolaković
Publisher	: Language Science Press
Total Pages	: 484
Release	:
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 3961103364

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This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of clitics on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. It fills the gap between the theoretical and normative literature by including solid data on variation found in dialects and spoken language and obtained from massive Web Corpora and speakers’ acceptability judgements. The authors investigate three primary sources of variation: inventory, placement and morphonological processes. A separate part of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of clitic climbing, the major challenge for any syntactic theory. The theory of complexity serves as the explanation for the very diverse constraints on clitic climbing established in the empirical studies. It allows to construct a series of hierarchies where the factors relevant for predicting clitic climbing interact with each other. Thus, the study pushes our understanding of clitics away from fine-grained descriptions and syntactic generalisations towards a probabilistic modelling of syntax.

Subatomic quantification

by Marcin Wągiel

Author	: Marcin Wągiel
Publisher	: Language Science Press
Total Pages	: 334
Release	:
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 3961103151

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The goal of this book is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of parthood and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language. The monograph aims to investigate syntactic constructions and lexical categories, e.g., partitives, whole-adjectives, and multipliers, encoding different kinds of part-whole structures both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages. It is envisioned to inspire radical rethinking of the ontology of models accounting for nominal semantics. Specifically, it provides novel evidence for a mereotopological approach to meaning, i.e., a theory of wholes that captures not only parthood but also topological relations holding between parts. This evidence comes from the phenomenon of subatomic quantification, i.e., quantification over parts of referents of concrete count nouns.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax

by Guglielmo Cinque

Author	: Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 990
Release	: 2008-10-16
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 0195136519

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Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved." "This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--Jacket.

Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond

by Mojmír Dočekal

Author	: Mojmír Dočekal
Publisher	: Language Science Press
Total Pages	: 506
Release	:
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 3961103143

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The goal of this collective monograph is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of number and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language with a special focus on Slavic. The book aims at investigating different morphosyntactic and semantic categories including plurality and number-marking, individuation and countability, cumulativity, distributivity and collectivity, numerals, numeral modifiers and classifiers, as well as other quantifiers. It gathers 19 contributions tackling the main themes from different theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to contribute to our understanding of cross-linguistic patterns both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages.

The Slavic Languages

by Roland Sussex

Author	: Roland Sussex
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 5
Release	: 2006-09-21
Genre	: Foreign Language Study
ISBN	: 1139457284

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The Slavic group of languages - the fourth largest Indo-European sub-group - is one of the major language families of the modern world. With 297 million speakers, Slavic comprises 13 languages split into three groups: South Slavic, which includes Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian; East Slavic, which includes Russian and Ukrainian; and West Slavic, which includes Polish, Czech and Slovak. This 2006 book, written by two leading scholars in Slavic linguistics, presents a survey of all aspects of the linguistic structure of the Slavic languages, considering in particular those languages that enjoy official status. As well as covering the central issues of phonology, morphology, syntax, word-formation, lexicology and typology, the authors discuss Slavic dialects, sociolinguistic issues, and the socio-historical evolution of the Slavic languages. Accessibly written and comprehensive in its coverage, this book will be welcomed by scholars and students of Slavic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the discipline.