Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
Author: Katarzyna Dziwirek
Publisher:
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1999
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Contains revised papers from a May 1998 workshop, covering East, West, and South Slavic languages, and focusing on topics in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse. Topics include adjectives in Russian, semantic types and the Russian genitive modifier construction, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian clitics at the lexical interface, approaches to Polish person agreement, and opaque insertion sites in Bulgarian. The editors are affiliated with the University of Washington and the University of Oregon. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics
Author: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902723678X

This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the structure of the functional field, verb fronting, clitic placement, conjunctions, noun phrase structure, possessives, agreement, and aspectual phenomena.

Crossing Boundaries

Crossing Boundaries
Author: István Kenesei
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1999-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902728461X

The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and clause structure. A number of papers refer to and make systematic comparisons with languages outside the region, including Breton, German, Hebrew, and Welsh. Since the papers were selected from an international conference in Spring 1998 in Szeged, Hungary, they represent the crossing of boundaries in three senses: the physical sense, by comparing genetically unrelated languages, and by examining properties of movement across categories.

Clitic Phenomena in European Languages

Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
Author: Frits H. Beukema
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027227515

This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently. The question as to whether clitics are to be located in the syntax or in the phonology or in both is addressed in articles by Boškovi?, Progovac and Franks, who also provides a thorough introductory essay to the volume. There are detailed studies on clitic behavior in Greek relative clauses (Alexiadou and Anagnostopolou), Bulgarian and English DPs (Dimitrova-Vulchanova), the various Romance languages (Franco), Slovene (Golden and Milojevi? Sheppard), Albanian and Greek (Kallulli) and Macedonian (Tomi?). Finally, the book contains a discourse-related description of clitic doubling in Balkan Slavic languages (Schick). The book should be of interest to any scholar, theoretical or descriptive, whose research touches upon the central phenomenon of cliticisation.

Current Approaches to Formal Slavic Linguistics

Current Approaches to Formal Slavic Linguistics
Author: Peter Kosta
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2002
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Formal Slavic Linguistics is concerned with explicit descriptions of structure and meaning of Slavic languages within a certain theoretical framework of Principles and Parameters that attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. Many approaches in the present volume reflect this development in a rather significant way. But the book also illustrates the diversity of approaches we use in attempting to reflect the entire range of subfields within a given theoretical framework of cognitive science. Thus, the authors investigate all linguistic levels and interfaces of a large array of Slavic languages, based on current formal models in linguistics (such as Minimalist Program, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG), Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), The Prague Generative Functional Grammar and Formal Semantics of different origins).