SubjectsLinguistics / Balto-Slavic linguistics
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ISSN 2352-0159
The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words: A sociolinguistic exploration
Łukasz Zarzycki
Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with family and friends. People have used swear words for centuries and they will continue to use them. The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 53] 2024. xvii, 336 pp.
Serbian Clitics
Jasmina Milićević
Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers (’ll and ’d) or French pronominal objects (le ‘him’, la ‘her’, lui ‘to him/her’, etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 229] 2023. xxiii, 166 pp.
Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages: A socially-anchored approach
Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich
Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 52] 2022. xv, 354 pp.
Introduction to Healthcare for Russian-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee, Johanna Hautekiet and Lidia Rura
Health interpreters and translators often face unpredictable assignments in the multifaceted healthcare setting. This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with commonly asked questions and glossaries in Russian. Just like the 2013… read more[Not in series, 239] 2021. xxx, 452 pp.
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] 2021. vi, 386 pp.
The Middle Voice in Baltic
Axel Holvoet
The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 5] 2020. xvii, 250 pp.
Understanding Conversational Joking: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions
Nadine Thielemann
This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 310] 2020. x, 287 pp.
Prepositions, Case and Verbal Prefixes: The case of Slavic
Petr Biskup
This monograph is concerned with prepositional elements in Slavic languages, prepositions, verbal prefixes and functional elements of prepositional nature. It argues that verbal prefixes are incorporated prepositions projecting their argument structure in the complement of the verbal root and that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 255] 2019. vii, 231 pp.
Copular Constructions in Lithuanian
Rolandas Mikulskas
The fourth volume in the VARGReB series presents an in-depth investigation of Lithuanian copular constructions from the viewpoint of Cognitive Grammar. Apart from the fundamental problems of the ontology and taxonomy of copular sentences, the author also discusses a number of more specific… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 4] 2017. xv, 280 pp.
Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants: Russian Germans or German Russians
Edited by Ludmila Isurin and Claudia Maria Riehl
The volume presents a selection of contributions related to integration, adaptation, language attitudes and language change among young Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany. At the turn of the century, Germany, which defined itself as a mono-ethnic and mono-racial society, has become a country… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 44] 2017. vii, 285 pp.
Argument Realization in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3] 2016. vii, 560 pp.
Formal Studies in Slovenian Syntax: In honor of Janez Orešnik
Edited by Franc Lanko Marušič and Rok Žaucer
Although in the early days of generative linguistics Slovenian was rarely called on in the development of theoretical models, the attention it gets has subsequently grown, so that by now it has contributed to generative linguistics a fair share of theoretically important data. With 13 chapters that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 236] 2016. vi, 335 pp.
Passive Constructions in Lithuanian: Selected works of Emma Geniušienė
Edited by Anna Kibort and Nijolė Maskaliūnienė
This unique volume comprises a monograph and a set of articles by renowned typologist Emma Geniušienė which all focus on the topic of morphologically passive constructions in Lithuanian. It is the first translation into English of the author’s original work from the 1970s. It offers a rich treasury… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 179] 2016. xx, 313 pp.
Case in Russian: A sign-oriented approach
Alexandra Beytenbrat
This volume presents an analysis of Russian case from a sign-oriented perspective. The study was inspired by William Diver’s analysis of Latin case and follows the spirit of the Columbia School of linguistics. The fundamental premise that underlies this volume is that language is a communicative… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 70] 2015. xiii, 182 pp.
Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude: An intersubjectively-oriented empirical study
Magdalena Rybarczyk
Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals. It focuses on the use of demonstrative and possessive determiners in Polish discourse and proposes that… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 51] 2015. xxii, 226 pp.
Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] 2015. vii, 402 pp.
Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] 2014. vii, 370 pp.
Approaches to Slavic Interaction
Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta
This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities. The core of this volume ranges from discourse analysis in the tradition of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis to newer methods of… read more[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.
Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics
Edited by Irina Kor Chahine
This volume represents an overview of current research on Slavic linguistics in Europe and North America based on selected papers presented during the 6th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (September 1-3, 2011, Aix-en-Provence, France). It includes topics across a range of linguistic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 146] 2013. xi, 331 pp.
Adverbials and the Phase Model
Petr Biskup
This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 177] 2011. ix, 235 pp.
Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary translation in Eastern Europe and Russia
Edited by Brian James Baer
This volume presents Eastern Europe and Russia as a distinctive translation zone, despite significant internal differences in language, religion and history. The persistence of large multilingual empires, which produced bilingual and even polyglot readers, the shared experience of “belated… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 89] 2011. xii, 332 pp.
The Syntax of the Be-Possessive: Parametric variation and surface diversities
Hakyung Jung
This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect constructions in Russian/North Russian within a generative framework. Apparently diverse constructions are construed as deriving from the have/be parameter, which… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 172] 2011. xiii, 269 pp.
The Chain of Being and Having in Slavic
Steven J. Clancy
The complex diachronic and synchronic status of the concepts be and have can be understood only with consideration of their full range of constructions and functions. Data from modern Slavic languages (Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian) provides a window into zero copulas, non-verbal have… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 122] 2010. xvii, 297 pp.
New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion
Edited by Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter
This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 115] 2010. x, 392 pp.
South Slavic Discourse Particles
Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić and Mirjana Mišković-Luković
Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-ignored in traditional linguistics and textbook grammars, and still relegated to marginal status in South Slavic, these linguistic phenomena have emerged… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 197] 2010. ix, 166 pp.
On Apologising in Negative and Positive Politeness Cultures
Eva Ogiermann
This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 191] 2009. x, 296 pp.
The Left Periphery: The interaction of syntax, pragmatics and prosody in Czech
Anne Sturgeon
This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 129] 2008. xi, 143 pp.
Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect
Edited by Susan Rothstein
The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a wide range of languages from a number of different language families. The papers are all informed by the belief that a thorough exposure to the expression of aspect… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] 2008. viii, 453 pp.
Beiträge zur Morphologie: Germanisch, Baltisch, Ostseefinnisch
Herausgegeben von Hans Fix
Der vorliegende Band, der auf ein interdisziplinäres Symposion Morphologische Probleme in den Sprachen der Ostseeanrainer im September 2005 am Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald zurückgeht, enthält Beiträge von Norbert Endres (Greifswald), Frank Heidermanns (Köln), Arend Quak (Amsterdam),… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 23] 2007. viii, 484 pp.
Talking about Motion: A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns
Luna Filipović
This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 91] 2007. x, 182 pp.
Expertise and Explicitation in the Translation Process
Birgitta Englund Dimitrova
This book addresses the complexities of the translation process. Informed by theoretical and methodological advances in translation studies, research on writing and the expertise paradigm, it explores translation as a text reproduction task. With triangulation of data from Russian-Swedish… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 64] 2005. xx, 295 pp.
Language and Meaning: The structural creation of reality
Christopher Beedham
This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 55] 2005. xiv, 225 pp.
Balkan Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić
The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 67] 2004. xvi, 496 pp.
Inference and Anticipation in Simultaneous Interpreting: A probability-prediction model
Ghelly V. Chernov
Until now, Ghelly Chernov’s work on the theory of simultaneous interpretation (SI) was mostly accessible only to a Russian-speaking readership. Finally, Chernov’s major work, originally published in Russia in 1987 under the title Основы Синхронного Перевода (Introduction to Simultaneous… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 57] 2004. xxx, 266 pp.
Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia
Edited by Edward J. Vajda
The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the disparate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 262] 2004. x, 275 pp.
Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg
Edited by Philip Baldi and Pietro U. Dini
This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 254] 2004. xlvi, 302 pp.
Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson
Edited by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite
This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 246] 2003. xxviii, 426 pp.
Degrees of Explicitness: Information structure and the packaging of Bulgarian subjects and objects
John Leafgren
This book explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances. Bulgarian is a particularly felicitous target language for this type of study, since it possesses a rich inventory of available… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 102] 2002. xii, 252 pp.
Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling
Ilana Mushin
This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 87] 2001. xviii, 240 pp.
Reanimated Voices: Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective
Daniel E. Collins
Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 85] 2001. xx, 380 pp.
Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
Edited by Frits Beukema and Marcel den Dikken
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… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 30] 2000. x, 320 pp.
History and Perspectives of Language Study: Papers in honor of Ranko Bugarski. .
Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić and Milorad Radovanović
Each of the contributions in this volume expresses in some way the hope that it is possible to achieve an integrity of linguistics, understood as a science of man, in its psychological, sociological, pragmatic and cultural context. The first section focuses on the history of language study, the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 186] 2000. xxi, 305 pp.
Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages
Edited by István Kenesei
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… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 182] 1999. viii, 302 pp.
Slavic Gender Linguistics
Edited by Margaret H. Mills
This edited volume offers the first comprehensive collection devoted to the study of Slavic gender linguistics by a team of international Slavic linguists. It features eleven highly-original, data-driven contributions representing a variety of approaches to this understudied and underrepresented… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 61] 1999. xviii, 251 pp.
Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora: Soviet immigrants in the United States
David R. Andrews
This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 5] 1999. xviii, 182 pp.
Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan
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… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 172] 1999. xxviii, 263 pp.
Coding the Hypothetical: A comparative typology of Russian and Macedonian conditionals
Jane F. Hacking
Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 38] 1998. vi, 156 pp.
Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse
Lenore A. Grenoble
The role deixis plays in structuring language and its relation to the context of utterance provides the focus for an examination of information packaging in Russian discourse. The analysis is based on a model which interprets discourse as constituted by four interrelated frameworks — the linguistic… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 50] 1998. xviii, 338 pp.
Russian-English Dictionary of Verbal Collocations
Morton Benson and Evelyn Benson
All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain. These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are… read more[Not in series, 65] 1993. xviii, 269 pp.
Phonological Investigations
Edited by Jacek Fisiak and Stanislaw Puppel
The papers in this volume deal with subjects ranging from sound change and general phonological issues to analyses of specific problems in Polish and English, while some papers are of a crosslinguistic/contrastive nature. No single phonological paradigm has been followed, and this diversity of… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 38] 1992. x, 507 pp.
Variation in Language: Code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics
Edited by Petr Sgall, Jirí Hronek, Alexandr Stich and Ján Horecký
Czech, a clear case of a language having a Standard and a strong central vernacular with intensive shifting between them, offers many points of general interest to sociolinguists. This volume is divided in 5 chapters and opens with a general discussion of language varieties. 'The Two Central… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 39] 1992. xii, 370 pp.
Functional Grammar: A Field Approach
Alexander V. Bondarko
Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 35] 1991. viii, 207 pp.
Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic
Ranjit Chatterjee
Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from an angle shared by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 51] 1989. xxiii, 137 pp.
Discourse and Word Order
Olga T. Yokoyama
Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 6] 1987. xii, 361 pp.
Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian
Bronislava Volkova
This monograph is intended as a contribution to the integral description of language and verbal communication. Chapter I and Chapters VII and VIII are concerned with general problems of emotivity and expressivity in language as such and on all linguistic levels. These chapters describe emotivity… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 24] 1987. xi, 270 pp.
Reader in Czech Sociolinguistics
Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil
Although in Czechoslovakia sociolinguistics is not institutionalized, some results and approaches of Czech linguistics appear to be sociolinguistic, and that from the viewpoint of other linguistic and scientific traditions in general. The socio-component' of Czech linguistics took shape as early as… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 23] 1987. 344 pp.
Dutch Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, Zagreb, Ljubljana, September 3–9, 1978
Edited by Jan M. Meijer
This volume contains 18 papers derived from presentations by Dutch linguists at the Eighth International Congress of Slavists. read more[Not in series, 10] 1979. iv, 425 pp.
A Structural Description of the Macedonian Dialect of Dihovo: Phonology, morphology, texts, lexicon
B.M. Groen
[Not in series - Grüner, 134] 1977. viii, 307 pp.
The Radozda-Vevcani Dialect of Macedonian: Structure, Text, Lexicon
Petra Hendriks
[Not in series - Grüner, 128] 1976. viii, 309 pp.
Slavische Bibliothek: Beiträge zur slavischen Philologie und Geschichte. 1851-58. 2 vols in 1
Herausgegeben von F. Miklosich und J. Fiedler
[Not in series - Grüner, 101] 1965. 320 pp.