Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Editors

Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova

| Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Lars Hellan

| Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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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.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 172] 1999. xxviii, 263 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.172

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Clausal Structure of South Slavic Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan	ix
Verb Movement and Economy: Last Resort María Luisa Rivero	1
Conjunction Doubling and ‘Avoid Conjunction Principle’ Ljiljana Progovac	25
On the Contrast Relation in the Balkan Languages in Comparison to Russian and German Ivanka Petkova Schick	41
The System of Auxiliaries in Bulgarian Iliyana Krapova	59
Against ‘Long Head Movement’: Lexical Insertion and the Bulgarian Auxiliary ‘BE’ Andrew Caink	91
Tense, Aspect, and Aspectual Composition Henk J. Verkuyl	125
Possessors in the Bulgarian DP Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Giuliana Giusti	163
Vsjako Načalo e Trudno: Traps in Lesson I in the South Slavic Languages Wayles Browne	193
On Clitic Displacement Jindřich Toman	205
Functional Categories and the Structure of the DP in Bosnian Nedzad Leko	229
Index of Subjects	253
Index of Names	258
Index of Languages	262

“While these articles are written in an earlier framework (cf. Chomsky 1995), they are relevant to the central issues in which generative theory is engaged today [...]. As the generative theory continues to develop, the research represented in this volume will continue to be salient.”

Abigail W. Konopasky, University of New Orleans in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 20 (2002)

Subjects

Linguistics

Balto-Slavic linguistics

Syntax

Generative linguistics

Semantics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General