The publication of a treatment of Slavic nominal word formation by Ranko Matasović (RM) is an important and welcome event for Slavicists and IndoEuropeanists alike. Among numerous other works spanning Slavic, IndoEuropean, and non-Indo-European linguistics, RM has authored the Poredbenopovijesna gramatika hrvatskoga jezika (Matasović 2008), still the only historical grammar of a Slavic language significantly engaging the Proto-IndoEuropean background and compatible with the current state of knowledge about the latter (the importance of the connection with Indo-European linguistics is also emphasized in the extended title of the work under review). The current synthesis of historical Sl word formation—as we learn from the opening paragraphs (15)—grew out of RM’s work on the new, coauthored etymological dictionary of Croatian, the first volume of which has since appeared (ERHJ 1). The book has already been the subject of three quite extensive reviews: by M. Mihaljević (2014), Ž. Ž. Varbot (2015), and Th. Olander and B. Nielsen Whitehead (2015).1 In order not to duplicate the effort of the aforementioned competent reviewers, every so often I shall refer the interested reader to their conclusions, particularly as regards those areas which they have dealt with at some length;2 in the present review, I concentrate on those aspects of the work regarding which more discussion is in order.

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斯拉夫名义词的形成：原始印欧语起源和历史发展，兰科·马塔索维奇（Ranko Matasović）

Ranko Matasović (RM) 对斯拉夫名词性词形成的处理的出版对斯拉夫主义者和印欧主义者来说都是一个重要且受欢迎的事件。在跨越斯拉夫语、印欧语和非印欧语系语言学的众多其他作品中，RM 撰写了 Poredbenopovijesna gramatika hrvatskoga jezika (Matasović 2008)，它仍然是斯拉夫语的唯一历史语法，显着地涉及原始印欧语背景并与关于后者的当前知识状态（所审查作品的扩展标题中也强调了与印欧语言学联系的重要性）。当前对历史 Sl 词形成的综合——正如我们从开头段落 (15) 中了解到的那样——源于 RM 对新的、合着的克罗地亚语词源词典的工作，此后出现了第一卷（ERHJ 1）。这本书已经成为三篇相当广泛的评论的主题：M. Mihaljević (2014), Ž。彡。Varbot (2015) 和 Th。Olander 和 B. Nielsen Whitehead (2015)。1 为了不重复上述有能力的审稿人的努力，我会不时地向感兴趣的读者介绍他们的结论，特别是关于他们已经讨论过的那些领域;2 在本次审查中，我将重点放在需要进行更多讨论的工作方面。