Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics
edited by Gerhild Zybatow, Uwe Junghanns, Grit Mehlhorn, and Luka Szucsich
(= Linguistik International; 5)
Frankfurt/Main [etc.]: Lang, 2001
xvi, 568 pp.
ISBN 3-631-39187-0

"Formal Slavic Linguistics" stands for explicit descriptions of Slavic languages considering all linguistic levels and interfaces. The authors of this volume apply recent formal models in linguistics and demonstrate their descriptive accuracy and explanatory power.
This volume contains 52 papers by 69 authors from 15 countries, and consists of the following sections: (i) Phonetics - Phonology, (ii) Syntax, (iii) Information Structure, (iv) Semantics, (v) Computational Linguistics, and (vi) Morphology - Lexicon - Argument Structure.

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Table of Contents

Gerhild Zybatow
Formale Slavistik - Vorwort, pp. ix-xv

[ Phonetics - Phonology ]

[ Syntax ]

[ Information Structure ]

[ Semantics ]

[ Computational Linguistics ]

[ Morphology - Lexicon - Argument Structure ]

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Phonetics - Phonology

Marzena Rochon'
Syllabification in Polish: an OT Account, p. 3

Grazyna Rowicka
How Far Can You Go? Vowelless Roots and Clusters in Polish, p. 15

Bozena Cetnarowska
Prosodic Constraints and Argument Linking in Polish Event Nominals, p. 25

Tobias Scheer
The Rhythmic Law in Czech: Vowel-final Prefixes, p. 37

Veronika Makarova
Phonetic Approaches to Issues in Russian Intonation, p. 49

Matthew Baerman
The Prosodic Properties of "ne" in Bulgarian, p. 59

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Syntax

Michael Yadroff & Steven Franks
The Origin of Prepositions, p. 69

Ewa Willim
On NP-Internal Agreement. A Study of Some Adjectival and Nominal Modifiers in Polish, p. 80

Giuliana Giusti & Nedzad Leko
The Categorial Status of Quantity Expressions, p. 96

Luka Szucsich
Adjunct Positions of Nominal Adverbials in Russian, p. 106

Adam Przepiórkowski
A Note on Optional and Multiple Long Distance Genitive of Negation in Polish, p. 117

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Agnieszka Mykowiecka
Który vs. kto - Polish Noun-Modifying Relative Clauses, p. 127

María Luisa Rivero
On Impersonal "se" / "sie" in Slavic, p. 137

Francesca Fici, M. Rita Manzini & Leonardo Savoia
Clitics in Macedonian, p. 148

Olga Miseska Tomic'
Negation and Imperatives, p. 159

Andrew Caink
The Inflection/Clitic Distinction in the Bulgarian Nominal 'Clitic Cluster', p. 169

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Piotr Ban'ski
Last Resort Prosodic Support in Polish, p. 179

Roland Meyer
Long Wh-Scoping in Polish, p. 187

Ewa Dornisch
Short A'-Movement of wh-Phrases in Polish, p. 199

Denis Liakin & Juvénal Ndayiragije
New Look at an Old Problem: Multiple Wh-Fronting in Slavic, p. 206

Yahor Tsedryk
Feature Strength and the Interpretation of Russian Possessives, p. 214

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Helen Trugman
Russian Possessors - Predicates or Arguments?, p. 224

Larisa Zlatic'
The Syntactic Status of Slavic Possessives, p. 236

Joanna Blaszczak & Ljudmila Geist
Zur Rolle des Pronomens "to"/"èto" in spezifizierenden Kopulakonstruktionen im Polnischen und Russischen

Elena Rudnitskaya
The Small Clause Analysis Of The Russian Reflexive "Sam Sebja" 'Self-N Sebja-A', p. 258

Yakov Testelets
Distributive Quantifier Float in Russian and Some Related Constructions, p. 268

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John Frederick Bailyn
Inversion, Dislocation and Optionality in Russian, p. 280

Denisa Lenertová
On Clitic Placement, Topicalization and CP-Structure in Czech, p. 294

Karel Oliva & Martin Plátek
Formal Word Order Complexity of Czech, p. 306

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Information Structure

Kai Alter, Ina Mleinek & Nicole Richter
Prosodic Phrasing and Accentuation in Russian, p. 317

Uwe Junghanns
On Rightward Backgrounding, p. 329

Grit Mehlhorn
Information Structure of Discontinuous Constituents in Russian, p. 344

Bistra Andreeva, Tania Avgustinova & William J. Barry
Link-Associated and Focus-Associated Accent Patterns in Bulgarian, p. 353

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Olga Arnaudova
On the Interaction between Focus and Prosody in the Bulgarian Sentence, p. 365

Valja Janewa
Informationsstrukturelles Potential der bulgarischen Objektklitika, p. 376

Eva Hajicová
Possiblities and Limits of Optimality in Topic-Focus Articulation, p. 385

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Semantics

Christopher Piñón
A Problem of Aspectual Composition in Polish, p. 397

Andreas Späth
Verb Meaning and DP-Interpretation in Russian, p. 415

Pawel Karnowski
Zum relativen Quantorenskopus im Polnischen, p. 426

Maciej Piasecki
A Dynamic Approach to Quantification and Reference in Polish Noun Phrases, p. 436

Svetlana Poljakova
Negative Gradpartikeln im Russischen und Deutschen, p. 447

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Computational Linguistics

Dusko Vitas, Cvetana Krstev & Gordana Pavlovic'-Lazetic'
Flexible Dictionary Entry, p. 461

Goran Nenadic', Dusko Vitas & Cvetana Krstev
Local Grammars and Compound Verb Lemmatization in Serbo-Croatian, p. 469

Irena Spasic' & Gordana Pavlovic'-Lazetic'
Syntactic Structures in a Sublanguage of Serbian for Querying Relational Databases, p. 478

Malgorzata Marciniak, Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Adam Przepiórkowski & Anna Kups'c'
An HPSG-Annotated Test Suite for Polish, p. 488

Petr Sgall
Underlying Structures in Annotating Czech National Corpus, p. 499

Vladimír Petkevic
Automatic Detection of Subject and Verbal Predicate in the Czech Translation of G. Orwell's '1984', p. 506

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Morphology - Lexicon - Argument Structure

Danuta Perlak & Gonia Jarema
Computation and Storage of Aspectual Verb Forms in the Mental Lexicon: Evidence from Polish, p. 521

Kira Gor & Tatiana Chernigovskaya
Rules in Processing of Russian Verbal Morphology, p. 528

Bozena Rozwadowska & Andrew Spencer
Psychological Predicates in Polish: Event Participants, Nominalizations and Mapping, p. 536

Andrew Spencer & Marina Zaretskaya
The Stative Middle Construction in Russian - a Covert Category, p. 546

Tania Avgustinova
Distinguishing Argument Structure, Syntactic Dependents and Valence in HPSG: Relevance for Slavic, p. 554

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Gerhild Zybatow, Uwe Junghanns, Grit Mehlhorn, Luka Szucsich

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