Richardson focuses on some of the most puzzling case marking patterns in the Slavic languages and ties them to different types of aspectual phenomena, showing that there is a pattern in the seeming chaos of case in these languages.
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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 a…
The author analyses the grammaticalization of 'give' with infinitive in causative and modal constructions in the closely related Slavic languages Russian, Polish and Czech. Drawing on extensive diachronic and synchronic corpus data, the study combines a detailed analysis of the …
The Fifth International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology took place in 2009 at the Silesian University in Opava (Czech Republic). This volume contains papers presented at the workshop. The papers treat thematically various aspects of Baltic and Slavic prosodic development as…
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…
This article proposes an interactional approach to the question of Russian language maintenance through the activity of bedtime story-reading in Russian-French bilingual families in French speaking Switzerland. Reading stories appears to be a language maintenance strategy common…
Macedonian, the official language of the Republic of North Macedonia, is spoken dv two and a half million people in the Balkans, (North America, Australia, and other emigre communities around the world. This award winning textbook by Christina E. Kramer and Liljana Mitkovska pro…
COLLOQUIAL SLOVENE is easy to use and completely up to date!Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Slovene. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes COLLOQUIAL SLO…
"Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croati…
"Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croati…
Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croatia…