Overview

Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics is a collection of papers dealing with a range of syntactic and semantic phenomena across a variety of Slavic languages. The papers included in this volume were presented at the Graduate Colloquia on Slavic Linguistics held at the Ohio State University, reflecting cutting-edge research in Slavic Linguistics by a new generation of scholars from top American and European universities. Topics include the word order of noun phrases with classifying adjectives, the correlation between morphosyntactic realization and semantic roles of the nouns, semantics and syntax of subordinate imperative constructions, clausal structure and semantic properties of impersonal constructions, temporal properties of embedded subjunctive clauses, and the semantics of yes/no questions. The authors present the analyses of the studied phenomena within a variety of formal syntactic and semantic frameworks, such as the Minimalist program, semantics of events, and temporal semantics. These studies consider syntactic and semantic issues in Russian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, and Lithuanian. In addition, some of the papers also offer diachronic analyses of the studied phenomena. Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics definitely will interest linguists engaged in the formal study of natural language syntax and semantics and to Slavicists generally.

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Author:   Matthew Curtis ,  Anastasia Smirnova
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781443800020

ISBN 10:   1443800023
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   26 November 2008
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Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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...the book impresses the reader by the diversity of topics and languages and the look - the cover and the text itself are beautiful. Natalia V. Fitzgibbons, Concordia University in The Linguist List, 22.2885, July 2011

...the book impresses the reader by the diversity of topics and languages and the look - the cover and the text itself are beautiful. Natalia V. Fitzgibbons, Concordia University in The Linguist List, 22.2885, July 2011

Author Information

Anastasia Smirnova is a graduate student in the Linguistics Department at the Ohio State University. She received her MA in Slavic Linguistics from the OSU in Spring 2005. Her thesis was on Control Constructions in Bulgarian (2005). More recently she has worked in the area of temporal semantics. Among her latest work is A case against 'defective' tense in the Bulgarian subjunctive (2008).Matthew C. Curtis is a Ph.D. student in the Slavic and East European Languages and Literature Department at the Ohio State University. He received his MA in Russian and East European Studies from Indiana University in 2005. His master's essay Peter II Petrovic Njegos and Gjergj Fishta: Composers of National Epics was recently published by the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh (2007). He is currently working on Slavic-Albanian language contact phenomena.

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