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From the Editors Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From the Editors Franc Marušič and Rok Žaucer This is the second issue of volume 30, and it marks a significant moment for JSL in its goal to become open access. New regular issues are now available on JSL's website in delayed open access—one year after publication—and extra issues are available on JSL's website in immediate open access
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On the Syntax of the Russian Control Verbs Pomoč' 'Help' and Pomešat' 'Hinder' Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Irina Burukina
Abstract: This paper examines sentences with the verbs pomoč' 'help' and pomešat' 'hinder' in Russian and demonstrates that, although they are usually listed among object control predicates, these verbs appear in a wide range of constructions that cannot be accounted for by a straightforward control analysis. To explain the distribution of pomoč' and pomešat', I argue that they are, in essence, ditransitive
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Derivational Affixes as Roots Across Categories Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Marko Simonović
Abstract: Several recent accounts (Lowenstamm 2014; Nevins 2015; Creemers, Don, and Fenger 2017) couched in the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993, 1994) argue for extending the separation between roots and categorial heads to derivational affixes. Such approaches offer a straightforward account of affixes that surface under different categorial embeddings (e.g., -ant, both
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The Numerals Dva, Tri, Četyre in the Novgorod Birch Bark Letters: A Diachronic Perspective Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Tatyana Slobodchikoff
Abstract: This article investigates the emergence of the cardinal numerals dva 'two', tri 'three', and četyre 'four' in nominal phrases in the Novgorod dialect during the 11th–15th centuries. An innovative approach presented here brings together three productive lines of inquiry—corpus analysis, historical linguistics, and diachronic generative syntax. A corpus analysis was conducted to identify 301
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Binding of Reflexives in Polish as Agree, Move, and Late Spell-Out Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Jacek Witkoś
Abstract: This paper considers components necessary for a successful account of A-binding relations in Polish, a language with subject-oriented reflexives and a binding domain delimited by the Tensed Sentence Condition. Following the presentation of major relevant data points in Polish, two comprehensive theories of binding—the Agree-based theory, presented in Reuland 2011, and the Move-based theory
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Grammatika prilagatel′nogo: Tipologija ad′′jektivnosti i atributivnosti by P. V. Graščenkov (review) Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Egor Tsedryk
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Grammatika prilagatel′nogo: Tipologija ad′′jektivnosti i atributivnosti by P. V. Graščenkov Egor Tsedryk P. V. Graščenkov. Grammar of the adjective: Typology of adjectivity and attributivity]. Moscow: Izdatel'skij dom JaSK, 2018. 432 pp. 1. Introduction It seems inconceivable to describe syntactic properties of a given language
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Approaches to Predicative Possession: The View from Slavic and Finno-Ugric ed. by Gréte Dalmi, Jacek Witkoś, and Piotr Cegłowski (review) Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Ljuba Veselinova
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Approaches to Predicative Possession: The View from Slavic and Finno-Ugric ed. by Gréte Dalmi, Jacek Witkoś, and Piotr Cegłowski Ljuba Veselinova Gréte Dalmi, Jacek Witkoś, and Piotr Cegłowski, eds. Approaches to Predicative Possession: The View from Slavic and Finno-Ugric. London/New York/Oxford/New Delhi/Sydney: Bloomsbury
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The Prosody of Ø-Suffixed Deverbal Nouns in Ukrainian Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Christina Y. Bethin
Abstract: Ukrainian Ø-suffixed deverbal nouns such as perépyt 'repeated inquiry' are derived from perfective and/or imperfective verbs (< perepytátyPFV 'to ask again, re-interrogate', perepýtuvatyIPFV 'to ask repeatedly'). In some nouns, a complete match in segments and prosody between a base and the derivative is found in the infinitival stem of either or both aspects, as in nadríz 'cut, incision'
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A Neo-Constructionist Account of Morphologically Null Deverbal Nominals with Argument Structure in Polish Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Maria Bloch-Trojnar
Abstract: The data from Polish leaves no doubt as to the licensing of argument structure (AS) by morphologically null deverbal nominals and therefore presents a challenge to the widely held view that argument structure in nominals can only be licensed by an overt nominalizer (Alexiadou 2001, 2009; Alexiadou and Grimshaw 2008; Borer 2003, 2005, 2013). The aim of this paper is twofold: to contribute
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Temporal Versus Spectral Cues in L2 Perception of Vowels: A Study with Polish and Croatian Learners of English Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Małgorzata E. Ćavar, Emily M. Rudman, Antonio Oštarić
Abstract: This paper reports results of an AXB perceptual test investigating participants' reliance on quality and/or duration cues in perception of English tense-lax distinction in L2 Polish and Croatian learners. Croatian participants, who have phonemic vowel length distinction in their L1, rely mainly on duration as a cue in categorization. In contrast, Polish learners rely predominantly on quality
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Morphosyntactic, Contextual, and Lexical Determinants of Non-Referentiality in Russian Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Angelina Rubina, Stanley Dubinsky
Abstract: A body of previous research has established that DP structure of certain nominal expressions is optional in Russian, and that it correlates with referentiality (Longobardi 1994; Pereltsvaig 2006). This paper explores the optionality of DP projections in direct objects that are alternately marked with accusative (ACC) and genitive (GEN) case, claiming that the latter are not referential and
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The development of the Bulgarian literary language: From incunabula to first grammars, late fifteenth–early seventeenth century by Ivan N. Petrov (review) Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Ralph Cleminson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The development of the Bulgarian literary language: From incunabula to first grammars, late fifteenth–early seventeenth century by Ivan N. Petrov Ralph Cleminson Ivan N. Petrov. The development of the Bulgarian literary language: From incunabula to first grammars, late fifteenth–early seventeenth century. Translated by Marek
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Crnogorski jezik i nacionalizam [Montenegrin language and nationalism] by Rajka Glušica (review) Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Ljiljana Đurašković
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Crnogorski jezik i nacionalizam [Montenegrin language and nationalism] by Rajka Glušica Ljiljana Đurašković Rajka Glušica. Crnogorski jezik i nacionalizam [Montenegrin language and nationalism]. Belgrade: Biblioteka XX vek, no. 243, 2020. 283 pp. ISBN 978-8675621553. The task of reviewing Crnogorski jezik i nacionalizam (Montenegrin
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From the Editors Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From the Editors Franc Marušič and Rok Žaucer This is the second issue of volume 29. It is a special issue entitled Exploring the impersonal domain: Empirical observations from Slavic and guest-edited by Katrin Schlund and Peter Kosta. With the completion of issue 29.1, Jordan Hussey-Andersen took over from Renata Uzzell as JSL managing
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Introduction Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Katrin Schlund, Peter Kosta
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Katrin Schlund and Peter Kosta Impersonal constructions have always intrigued syntacticians because they run counter to the traditional definition of a sentence as including a nominative subject and an agreeing predicate. Therefore, as Siewierska (2008b: 115) puts it, "[t]he notion of impersonality is a broad and disparate
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Impersonalization in Slavic: A Corpus-Based Study of Impersonalization Strategies in Six Slavic Languages Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Anastasia Bauer
Abstract: This paper gives a comprehensive overview of how impersonalization is expressed in Slavic. It presents the results of a comparative corpus study, outlining all possible strategies for expressing impersonalization in six Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, and Polish), using German man as a filter. This paper shows on the basis of a random sample of over 5,000
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Slavic "Quirky Subject" Constructions with ē-Statives: Origin and Development Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Jasmina Grković-Major
Abstract: This paper discusses the origin and development of constructions with ē-statives denoting sensation, emotion, perception, and cognition, which exhibit traces of non-nominative alignment in the history of Slavic languages. Patterns where the experiencer is encoded by the accusative or dative case were inherited from an earlier semantically aligned system, whose relics are found in other Indo-European
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The Competition of ARB Constructions in Polish Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Maria Katarzyna Prenner, Daniel Bunčić
Abstract: Polish has three quasi-synonymous impersonal constructions: the -no/-to construction, the reflexive impersonal, and the 3pl impersonal. This raises the question of what the differences between them are and how one of them is selected. This paper presents the results of an acceptability judgment test, which is informed by an explorative corpus study and examines the following factors: colloquial
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Why dwóch panów przyszło, but dwaj panowie przyszli and dwie kobiety przyszły? Agreement with Quantified Subjects in Polish versus Russian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Katrin Schlund
Abstract: In Russian, agreement with quantified subjects varies between plural (= semantic) and singular (= grammatical, default, impersonal) agreement, and there is ample evidence that this variation is governed by semantic and pragmatic factors (such as topicality and animacy of the subject). Although Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian follows stricter normative rules, variation does occur and is motivated
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From the Editors Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From the Editors Franc Marušič and Rok Žaucer This is the second issue of volume 29. It is a special issue entitled Exploring the impersonal domain: Empirical observations from Slavic and guest-edited by Katrin Schlund and Peter Kosta. With the completion of issue 29.1, Jordan Hussey-Andersen took over from Renata Uzzell as JSL managing
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Introduction Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Katrin Schlund, Peter Kosta
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Katrin Schlund and Peter Kosta Impersonal constructions have always intrigued syntacticians because they run counter to the traditional definition of a sentence as including a nominative subject and an agreeing predicate. Therefore, as Siewierska (2008b: 115) puts it, "[t]he notion of impersonality is a broad and disparate
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Slavic "Quirky Subject" Constructions with ē-Statives: Origin and Development Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Jasmina Grković-Major
Abstract: This paper discusses the origin and development of constructions with ē-statives denoting sensation, emotion, perception, and cognition, which exhibit traces of non-nominative alignment in the history of Slavic languages. Patterns where the experiencer is encoded by the accusative or dative case were inherited from an earlier semantically aligned system, whose relics are found in other Indo-European
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The Competition of ARB Constructions in Polish Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Maria Katarzyna Prenner, Daniel Bunčić
Abstract: Polish has three quasi-synonymous impersonal constructions: the -no/-to construction, the reflexive impersonal, and the 3pl impersonal. This raises the question of what the differences between them are and how one of them is selected. This paper presents the results of an acceptability judgment test, which is informed by an explorative corpus study and examines the following factors: colloquial
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Impersonalization in Slavic: A Corpus-Based Study of Impersonalization Strategies in Six Slavic Languages Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Anastasia Bauer
Abstract: This paper gives a comprehensive overview of how impersonalization is expressed in Slavic. It presents the results of a comparative corpus study, outlining all possible strategies for expressing impersonalization in six Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, and Polish), using German man as a filter. This paper shows on the basis of a random sample of over 5,000
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Why dwóch panów przyszło, but dwaj panowie przyszli and dwie kobiety przyszły? Agreement with Quantified Subjects in Polish versus Russian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Katrin Schlund
Abstract: In Russian, agreement with quantified subjects varies between plural (= semantic) and singular (= grammatical, default, impersonal) agreement, and there is ample evidence that this variation is governed by semantic and pragmatic factors (such as topicality and animacy of the subject). Although Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian follows stricter normative rules, variation does occur and is motivated
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Language Loyalty and Language Purity in a Language Contact Situation: South Australian Czech Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-08-29 Chloe Castle
Abstract: This paper is a parallel study to “Czeching Out a Language Contact Situation: Grammatical Replication and Shift in South Australian Czech” (Castle forthcoming) and investigates the reasons why grammatical borrowing and attrition processes occur within the South Australian Czech community. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with six participants, yielding results including reports
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With All Due Respect, on Slavic Abstracts in -y: The History of Proto-Slavic cěty 'respect' and Some Comparative Notes on its Congeners (ljuby 'love', cěly 'healing, greeting')* Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-08-29 Rafał Szeptyński, Marek Majer
Abstract: The scarcely attested Proto-Slavic *cěty *-ъve ‘respect’ appears to be a mostly overlooked member of the small class of abstracts in *-y *-ъve; no precise accounts of the noun’s origin have been proposed so far. Two complementary approaches are put forth in the article: 1) inheritance from a PIE animate s-stem *keyt-ōs >> *koyt-ōs (paralleling a recent analysis of *ljuby ‘love’ < PIE *lewbh-ōs
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Beyond emotions in language: Psychological verbs at the interfaces ed. by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk (review) Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-08-29 Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Beyond emotions in language: Psychological verbs at the interfaces ed. by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk , eds. Beyond emotions in language: Psychological verbs at the interfaces. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. 325 pp. [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
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From the Editors Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From the Editors Franc Marušič and Rok Žaucer We thank the following colleagues who generously served as reviewers for the last two volumes (four issues) of JSL (listed in alphabetical order): Tanja Anstatt, Andrei Antonenko, Boban Arsenijević, John David Benjamin, Adam Biały, Andreas Blümel, Tatiana Bondarenko, Krzysztof Borowski, Željko
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A Listener-Oriented Account of the Evolution of Diphthongs and Changes in the Jers in Kashubian Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Bartłomiej Czaplicki
Abstract: This paper applies the listener-oriented approach (Andersen 1973, 1978; Ohala 1981, 1992) to two diachronic changes in Kashubian: diphthongization and the contextual preservation and loss of the jers. It is shown that acoustic and perceptual factors provide a plausible explanation for the consecutive stages in the evolution of the two phenomena. The Kashubian changes illustrate two major
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What's in a Russian Aspectual Prefix? A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Prefix Meanings Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Tore Nesset
Abstract: This article analyzes Russian aspectual prefixes from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. First, a general schema is advanced that involves a trajector, a landmark, and a relation connecting the two. Second, it is argued that there are conditions on the trajector involving an observer and a domain of accessibility and that the trajector of the prefix is not necessarily the same as the
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Possessive Modifiers in Serbian: Coreference with Clitics and Strong Pronouns Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Sanja Srdanović, Esther Rinke
Abstract: On the basis of experimental evidence this paper shows that in Serbian pre-nominal possessive modifiers modifying a noun phrase in subject position can be interpreted as coreferential with a clitic or a strong pronoun in object position. This finding speaks against a condition B violation in these contexts as has been assumed in previous analyses of Serbian (cf. Despić 2013). It implies that
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Slavic languages in psycholinguistics: Chances and challenges for empirical and experimental research ed. by Tanja Anstatt et al. (review) Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Olga Parshina
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Slavic languages in psycholinguistics: Chances and challenges for empirical and experimental research ed. by Tanja Anstatt et al. Olga Parshina Tanja Anstatt, Anja Gattnar, and Christina Clasmeier, eds. Slavic languages in psycholinguistics: Chances and challenges for empirical and experimental research. Tübingen: Narr Francke
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Sintaksa složene rečenice u savremenom srpskom jeziku ed. by Predrag Piper et al. (review) Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Ljiljana Progovac
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sintaksa složene rečenice u savremenom srpskom jeziku ed. by Predrag Piper et al. Ljiljana Progovac Predrag Piper, Milivoj Alanović, Slobodan Pavlović, Ivana Antonić, Marina Nikolić, Dojčil Vojvodić, Ljudmila Popović, Sreto Tanasić, and Biljana Marić. Sintaksa složene rečenice u savremenom srpskom jeziku Edited by Predrag
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Krugovi Irene Grickat: Gramatičko-semantička istraživanja savremenog srpskog jezika ed. by Rajna Dragićević (review) Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Danko Šipka
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Krugovi Irene Grickat: Gramatičko-semantička istraživanja savremenog srpskog jezika ed. by Rajna Dragićević Danko Šipka Rajna Dragićević, ed. Krugovi Irene Grickat: Gramatičko-semantička istraživanja savremenog srpskog jezika [Circles of Irena Grickat: Grammatical and semantic explorations of the modern Serbian language].
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Beyond emotions in language: Psychological verbs at the interfaces ed. by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
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With All Due Respect, on Slavic Abstracts in -y: The History of Proto-Slavic cěty ‘respect’ and Some Comparative Notes on its Congeners (ljuby ‘love’, cěly ‘healing, greeting’)* Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Rafał Szeptyński,Marek Majer
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Language Loyalty and Language Purity in a Language Contact Situation: South Australian Czech Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Chloe Castle
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Remarks on the phonological evolution of Russian in comparison with the other Slavic languages by Roman Jakobson Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ronald I. Kim
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Slavic on the language map of Europe: Historical and areal-typological dimensions ed. by Andrii Danylenko and Motoki Nomachi Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Jasmina Grković-Major
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The evolution of the Slavic dual: A biolinguistic perspective by Tatyana G. Slobodchikoff Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Boštjan Dvořák
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How Incremental is the Processing of Perfective and Imperfective Aspect in Polish? An Exploratory Event-Related Potential Study Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Joanna Błaszczak
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Allophonic Variation in the Polish Vowel /ɨ/: Results of a 3D Ultrasound Study and their Phonological Implications Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Małgorzata E. Ćavar,Steven M. Lulich
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Nominalizations, double genitives, and possessives: Evidence for the DP-hypothesis in Serbian by Anja Šarić Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Petra Mišmaš
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On the Morphosyntax of Russian Verbal Aspect Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Frank Y. Gladney
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The prehistory of the Balto-Slavic accent by Jay H. Jasanoff Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Ronald F. Feldstein
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Russian speakers in post-Soviet Latvia: Discursive identity strategies by Ammon Cheskin Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Anastassia Zabrodskaja
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Heritage languages and their speakers by Maria Polinsky Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Danko Šipka
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Studies in phonological theory and historical linguistics by Bill J. Darden Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Rick Derksen
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Phonological Words in the Syntax and in the Lexicon: A Study of Russian Prepositions Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Maria Gouskova
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Collocational Competence among Polish Students of Croatian as a Foreign Language Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Antonia Ordulj, Nikolina Sokolić
Abstract:Collocations in the Croatian language have been described in detail (Blagus Bartolec 2014). However, research on collocational competence in Croatian as a first or foreign language is still sparse. Previously, only the factors that influence the collocational competence of Croatian native speakers (NSs) were investigated, showing that NSs have the best knowledge of collocations with high frequency
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North Slavic -ě vs. South Slavic -ę: A Problem of Forward Reconstruction Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Ronald I. Kim
Abstract: The long problematic correspondence of North Slavic -ě ~ South Slavic -ę in the jo-stem accusative plural and jā-stem genitive singular and nominative and accusative plural is best explained by positing a Proto-Slavic contrast within the soft jā-stems between gen. sg., nom. pl. *-ē and acc. pl. *-ę̄, which was leveled in different directions as NSl -ě and SSl -ę. With its nasal vowel, the
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Clitic Pseudo-Climbing out of Dependent Infinitive Phrases in Serbian Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Jasmina Milićević
Abstract:The paper describes the linear placement of Serbian clitics syntactically depending on an infinitive in the role of verbal, nominal, or adjectival complement (for short, infinitive clitics). Two linear placement options are in principle available for the infinitive clitics: local placement (in the second linear position [2P] of the infinitive phrase, where they form a cluster of their own)
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The Effects of Animacy and Givenness on Object Order in Croatian Child Language Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Marta Velnić
Abstract:This study investigates how givenness and animacy influence object order (IO-DO vs. DO-IO) in ditransitive constructions in Croatian child language. We have conducted an elicitation task with 59 monolingual Croatian children (mean age = 4;4) and 36 adult controls (mean age = 21), in which the participants were asked to describe images depicting ditransitive actions. These actions differed
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Syntax and Spell-Out in Slavic by Steven Franks Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jacek Witkoś
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Bulgarian grammar by Ruselina Nicolova Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan
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Andrei Anatolievich Zalizniak In Memoriam Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Vladimir Borschev,Barbara H. Partee
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The Croatian Suffix -stv(o): A Study of Meaning and Polysemy in Word Formation Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Gabrijela Buljan
Abstract:This paper reports the results of an exploratory semantic analysis of Croatian suffixations in -stv(o). The suffix builds nouns which denote qualities, professions, states, collectivities, etc., and most suffixations take different interpretations in different contexts. Our aim is to identify the suffix's most type-frequent and productive meanings as well as typical patterns of polysemy in
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Morphosyntax of Gender in Russian Sex-Differentiable Nouns Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Olga Steriopolo
Abstract:This paper investigates the morphosyntax of gender in Russian sex-differentiable nouns within the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993; Halle 1997; Marantz 1997), which, to the best of my knowledge, has not been studied before. Distributed Morphology differentiates between word formation from √ roots and from syntactic categories; this distinction enables us to analyze