Slavic Linguistics: Recent submissions
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PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in i
(John Benjamins, 2010)The unprefixed imperfective verbs of motion with present tense in -i (such as Russian vodit’, vozit’, bežat’), most of which are considered indeterminate in the modern languages, developed over a lengthy period from ... -
A Balkanism in Central Europe? Realis vs. Irrealis in Subordinate Clauses in Prekmurje Slovene
(Nakl. Kleinwächter and Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2011)The paper examines the distinction between realis- and irrealis-marking complementizers (ka vs. da in the Prekmurje (Pannonian) dialect of Slovene and compares the phenomenon to the same distinction observed in Balkan ... -
O jeziku slovanskih prebivalcev med Donavo in Jadranom v srednjem veku (pogled jezikoslovcev)
(Zveza zgodovinskih društev Slovenije, Ljubljana, 2012)The essay responds to historians and archaeologists using linguistic data to enrich or justify their explanations about populations in the past, focusing on the language of the Slavic population between the Danube and the ... -
“The American Model”: English Only or Engagement with a Multi-Polar World?
(Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja, 2011)The paper discusses language policy in the US and the lack of it. Traditional neglect and erosion of foreign language study competes against new global realities, which paradoxically—in the context of global English—require ... -
Balkanizem v srednji Evropi? Realni in nerealni naklon v odvisnikih v prekmurščini
(Berzsenyi Dániel Tanárképző Főiskola Szláv Filológiai Intézete, 2011)The paper treats the opposition between realis and irrealis marking in the Prekmurje Slovene complementizers ka ≠ da, comparing them with a parallel opposition in the languages of the Balkan Sprachbund (Albanian, Bulgarian, ... -
Glasoslovni opis treh prekmurskih govorov in komentar k zgodovinskemu glasoslovju in oblikoglasju prekmurskega narečja
(Slavistično društvo Slovenije (Ljubljana), 1993-10)The paper revises and summarizes the author’s 1990 UCLA dissertation, based on fieldwork and archival work conducted under the auspices of a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship for 1988-89, in the Prekmurje region of ... -
Nova opisna slovnica ziljščine
(Slavistično društvo Slovenije, 2010)A review essay on Tijmen Pronk (2009) The Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria (= Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, vol. 36). Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi. -
Case choice in Russian genitive/nominative absence constructions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...