FORMALE SLAVISTIK
edited by Uwe Junghanns & Gerhild Zybatow
1997
Leipziger Schriften zur Kultur-, Literatur-, Sprach- und Übersetzungswissenschaft; 7
Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag
ISBN 3-89354-267-1
x, 608 pp.
Price: ca. DM88

In the second half of the 20th century linguists have developed a whole range of models designed for the formal description of natural languages. The papers collected in this book represent a unique attempt at a comprehensive application of these models to a large number of Slavic languages. The four sections of the book – Syntax, Information Structuring, Computer Linguistics, and Semantics & Pragmatics – comprise 51 papers. Contributions have been made by 61 authors from 17 countries. Most of the papers are in English; some are in Russian and German.

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Syntax, Information Structuring, Computer Linguistics, Semantics & Pragmatics

SYNTAX

D. Cavar (Potsdam) & C. Wilder (Berlin)
Auxiliaries in Serbian/Croatian and English

A. Ciszewska-Wilkens (Tucson / Konstanz)
Topicalization and Scrambling in Polish Past Tense Clauses

T. Avgustinova & K. Oliva (Saarbrücken)
On the Nature of the Wackernagel Position in Czech

I. Schick (Leipzig) & I. Zimmermann (Potsdam)
Das dativische pronominale Klitikum in der Substantivgruppe des Bulgarischen
(The dative pronominal clitic in the Bulgarian nominal phrase)

S. Eichler (Berlin)
Funktionale Kategorien und Enklitika im Serbokroatischen
(Functional categorie and clitics in Serbocroatian)

T.H. King (Stanford)
Some Consequences of a Prosodic Inversion Account of Slavic Clitic Clusters

M. Mihaljevic (Zagreb)
The Interaction of li and Negation in Croatian Church Slavonic

I. Krapova (Plovdiv)
On control in Bulgarian

H. Trugman (Tel Aviv) & M. Engelhardt (Jerusalem)
Control Nominals in Russian

M. Lindseth (Crawfordsville / Bloomington)
Is Upper-Sorbian a PRO-drop language?

M. Golden (Ljubljana)
Parasitic Gaps in Slovene

G. Spiewak & I. Szymanska (Warszawa)
Polish Impersonal Constructions: An Exercise in Head Formation and Argument Licensing

K. Molle (Sofija)
On Coordination Deletion in Bulgarian

R. Meyer (Tübingen)
Extraction from cto- and ctoby-Complement Clauses in Russian

T. Avgustinova (Saarbrücken)
An HPSG Approach to the Syntax of Bulgarian Relatives

A. Kupsc & M. Marciniak (Warszawa)
Some notes on HPSG binding theory for Polish

H. Faßke (Budysin / Bautzen)
Die Prädikatenlogik als Mittel einer exakten Beschreibung der Reflexivpronomen im Sorbischen
(Predicate logic as a means of an exact description of the reflexive pronouns in Sorbian)

A. Steube (Leipzig)
Der russische Aspekt und die Ereignisrolle des Verbs
(Aspect in Russian and the event role of the verb)

M. Schoorlemmer (Leipzig)
The Role of the Internal Argument in the Russian Aspectual System

P. Durst-Andersen (København)
The basic syntactic systems of the Russian language

U. Junghanns (Leipzig)
On byt’ (and byti )

A. Späth (Leipzig)
On the Subject of the Imperative Sentence in the Western Slavic Languages

F. Fici Giusti (Firenze)
The future tense in Slavic: the limits of grammaticalization

B. Kunzmann-Müller (Berlin)
Probleme der finiten vs. infiniten Komplementation von Perzeptionsverben in den slavischen Sprachen und im Deutschen
(Finite vs. infinitival complements of perception verbs in the Slavic languages and in German)

H. Dippong (Hamburg)
Das Nominativ-Objekt im Russischen
(The nominative object in Russian)

A. Przepiórkowski (Tübingen)
Case Assignment in Polish: Towards an HPSG Analysis

J. Panevová & V. Petkevic (Praha)
Agreement in Czech and Its Formal Account

J. Nørgård-Sørensen (København)
Russian nominal morphology: A hierarchy of semantic features

K. Czuba (DFKI, Kaiserslautern / CMU, Pittsburgh)
Towards Minimal Linguistic Description: A Hierarchical Gender Structure for Polish

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INFORMATION STRUCTURING

G. Zybatow (Leipzig)
Determinanty informacionnoj struktury
(On information structuring)

D. Fehrmann (Leipzig)
Sekundärprädikate und Informationsstruktur im Polnischen
(Secondary predicates and information structure in Polish)

M. Milojevic Sheppard (Ljubljana)
Non-Þnite Verb – Finite Verb Word-Orders in Slovenian

K. Alter (Wien)
Fokusprosodie im Russischen: Phonologische und akustische Korrelate von Informationsstrukturierung
(Focus prosody in Russian: Phonological and acoustic correlates of information structuring)

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COMPUTER LINGUISTICS

C. Krstev & G. Pavlovic-Lazetic & D. Vitas (Beograd)
Neutralization of Variations in a Dictionary Entry’s Structure in Serbo-Croatian

D. Sipka (Poznan) & N. Koncar (London)
Minimal Information Grammar (MIG): Serbo-Croatian and Polish Morphological Paradigms

K. Szafran (Warszawa)
Automatic Lemmatisation of Texts in Polish – Is It Possible?

K. Osolsobe (Brno)
Formale Beschreibung der tschechischen Morphologie
(Formal description of Czech morphology)

L.A. Alekseenko & T.A. Grjaznuxina (Kyjiv)
Komp’juternaja versija castej reci v slavjanskix jazykax
(The computer version of parts of speech in the Slavic languages)

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SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS

C. Piñón (Düsseldorf)
Verbs of motion in Polish, I: parts and processes

D. Wirth (Regensburg)
Zapis’ russkix glagol’no-imennyx slovosocetanij v modificirovannom Tolkovo-kombinatornom slovare
(Russian verb+noun groups in a modified explanatory and combinatorial dictionary)

S. Petkova (Sofija)
Opyt opisanija znacenij russkix glagolov byt’ i byvat’ pri pomosci semanticeskix matric
(Semantic matrices and the description of the Russian verbs byt’ and byvat’ )

E.V. Raxilina (Moskva)
The interrogative variable: a formal approach to the question–answer relation

A. Cimmerling (Moskva)
Semantika russkix predikativov s final’ju -o
(The meaning of Russian predicatives in -o)

R. Zuber (Paris)
The category of modiÞers and comparatives in Polish

J. Wajszczuk (Warszawa)
Sojuzy kak gomogennyj klass asintaksiceskix operatorov (predposylki k opisaniju pol’skix sojuzov)
(Conjunctions as a homogeneous class of asyntactic operators. Towards a description of Polish conjunctions)

O. Ulicny (Praha)
Otnositel’nost’ lingvisticeskogo analiza raznyx urovnej jazyka
(Analyzing different linguistic levels)

A. Boguslawski (Warszawa)
Grice für Konditionalsätze. Von ‘ich sage nicht, es ist wahr’ zu ‘es ist nicht wahr’
(A Gricean approach to conditionals. From ‘I don’t say: It’s true’ to ‘It is not true’)

A. Rechziegel (Amsterdam)
On the Complexity of the Phoneme Inventory in Non-Standard Czech

L. Zybatow (Bielefeld)
Semantika castic mezdu grammatikoi i pragmatikoi. Popytka teoreticeskogo osmyslenija i formal’nogo predstavlenija
(The semantics of particles between grammar and pragmatics. An attempt at a theoretical clarification and formal representation)

D. Paillard (Paris)
Formal’noe opisanie diskursivnyx slov: kak raz i imenno
(A formal description of discourse words: kak raz and imenno)

R. Camus (Caen)
O mnogoznacnoj edinice da v sovremennom russkom jazyke
(The meanings of da in Modern Russian)

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