Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Scholarly Publications: Recent submissions
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Pragmatic Functions of Reported Speech with jako in the Old Russian Primary Chronicle
(John Benjamins, 2009)This article, in an attempt to add to the growing literature on Old Russian reported speech, considers the pragmatics of jako recitativum, i.e. direct discourse introduced by the particle jako ‘that, how’, a multifunctional ... -
Greetings from the Teklimakan: a handbook of Modern Uyghur (volume 1)
(2009-12-10)An introductory textbook of the modern standard Uyghur language with exercises and extensive grammatical analysis. With the accompanying audio, the textbook is designed for self-study or a one-year classroom course. -
Ágost Pável’s Prekmurje Slovene Grammar
(Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije, 1989)The author discusses the content of the unpublished standard grammar for the language of the Prekmurje (Mura River region). Completed in 1942, the grammar was written in Hungarian for use in regional schools. Today it is ... -
Common Slavic: Progress or Crisis in its Reconstruction? Notes on Recent Archaeological Challenges to Historical Linguistics
(Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2002)The author discusses responses to Henrik Birnbaum's annotated bibliographies Common Slavic: Problems and Progress in its Reconstruction -
Is Slavic četa an Indo-European Archaism?
(Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2001)The Slavic word četa, which is found in modern Slavic languages with the meanings 'pair', 'band', 'troop', is shown to originate in PIE *kwet-, the root that underlies the PIE word for 'four'; the Slavic meaning 'pair' ... -
Glasovna podoba slovenskega jezika skozi čas
(Slavistično društvo Slovenije, 2006)V razpravi avtor prikaže nekaj glasovnih sprememb, ki jih obravnava v svojem delu A Historical Phonology of the Slovene Language (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2000), v katerem z novimi razlagami osvetljuje ... -
The Slovene Sound System Through Time
(Slavistično društvo Slovenije, 2006)The paper sketches selected changes discussed in Marc L. Greenberg’s A Historical Phonology of the Slovene Languages (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2000) in which innovative explanations shed new light on the ... -
Dialect Variation Along the Mura
(Sveučilište u Zadru, 2006)The paper gives the vocalic systems and some prosodic features of some lesser-known speech varieties in villages around the Mura river in eastern prleški, western međimurski, and southern prekmurski, i.e., at the point of ... -
Private Wealth--National Vision: The Memoirs of a New Russian Entrepreneur
(Stonybrook, NY: Slavic Cultural Center Press, 2000)Aleksandr Panikin's vision of entrepreneurship in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
Introduction to Aleksandr S. Panikin, Private Wealth--National Vision: The Memoirs of a New Russian Entrepreneur
(Stonybrook, NY: Slavic Cultural Center Press, 2000)Introduction to Edith W. Clowes translation from Russian to English of Panikin's book Private Wealth--National Vision: The Memoirs of a New Russian Entrepreneur. -
Panikin's Micro-Worlds: Building a Positive Image of the Grassroots Entrepreneur
(2009-11-24)2005 Hall Center Faculty Seminar lecture on "Capitalism and Culture." Discusses Aleksandr Panikin's (1950- ) vision of entrepreneurship in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. -
Расцвет и падение лениции взрывных в словенском языке
(Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2001)The author describes the process of lenition of voiced stops b, d, g to fricatives in Slovene and their later replacement by stops under certain conditions. -
Circumflex Advancement in Prekmurje and Beyond
(Society for Slovene Studies, 1992)The article discusses the advancement of the inherited Proto-Slavic falling tone ("circumflex") in Slovene dialects with a focus on the eastern periphery of the Slovene dialect territory and the western periphery of the ... -
The “Third Language” in Translations from Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian
(American Translators Association, 2009)The author discusses the problem of translating important words and phrases from a language that is neither the primary source language nor the target language, but nevertheless a stylistic component of the original. The ... -
Verbal Aspect and Negation in Russian and Czech
(Springer Verlag, 2009)This article compares aspectual usage in contexts of negation in Russian and Czech narratives. It examines the four possible aspectual correspondences: Russian imperfective : Czech imperfective (common), Russian perfective ... -
Хохотнул, схитрил: The Relationship between Semelfactives Formed with -NU- and S- in Russian
(2009-09-04)We know relatively little about the relationship between verbs with the suffix -nu-, such as крикнуть ‘shout once’, and verbs with the prefix s-, such as сглупить ‘do something stupid’ and сходить ‘walk someplace and back ... -
Delimitative Verbs in Russian, Czech and Slavic
(Slavica Publishers, 2003)This article presents a comparative investigation of delimitative verbs prefixed in po- in Russian, Czech and the other Slavic languages. It is shown that po- delimitatives are relatively highly productive in a group of ... -
Distributive Verbs in Serbian and Croatian
(Slavica Publishers, 2003)This article examines the semantic nature of distributive verbs formed with the prefix po- in Serbian and Croatian. The default interpretation of such distributive verbs, that an event sequentially affects one object (or ... -
Expressing Ingressivity in Slavic: The Contextually-Conditioned Imperfective Past vs. the Phase Verb stat' and Procedural za-
(Slavica Publishers, 1999)This article discusses different modes of expressing ingressivity in the Slavic languages – the grammatical expression of ingressivity (by means of imperfective verb forms) and its lexical expression (by means of the use ... -
"Semelfactive" -nǫ- and the Western Aspect Gestalt
(Slavica Publishers, 2001)This article presents a discussion of differences between the Slavic languages regarding the historical productivity of -nǫ- as an aspectual suffix. It is shown that a class of prefixed pf a-stem/n-stem doublets has been ...