Studies in Formal Slavic Linguistics

The Editors: Franc Marusic and Rok Zaucer teach (Slovenian) linguistics at the University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia). In 2006, the editors organized the conference «Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 6.5 (FDSL 6.5)» in Nova Gorica.

This book is concerned with explicit descriptions of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and with computational-linguistic aspects of Slavic languages, mostly within the Principles and Parameters framework, which situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. Through the description of specific linguistic phenomena in Slavic languages, the papers in this volume contribute to the development of linguistic theory.

Contents: Zeljko Boskovic: On Two Types of Negative Constituents and Negative Concord - Carlos de Cuba/Ivana Mitrovic: Restrictions on WH-Adjunct Movement in Serbian - Bartlomiej Czaplicki: Decomposition of Nasal Vowels in Polish - Vera Dvoráková-Procházková: Argument Structure of Czech Event Nominals - Alja Ferme: Morphological Complexity and Obstruent Devoicing in Slovene - Steven Franks: Deriving Discontinuity - Atle Grønn: Russian Aspect as Bidirectional Optimization - Natalia Ivlieva/Alexander Podobryaev: Bound to be Bound: on Certain Similarities between Pronominal and Anaphor Binding - Vesselina Laskova: Double Definiteness Constructions in Colloquial Bulgarian - Markéta Lopatková/Martin Plátek/Petr Sgall: Functional Generative Description, Restarting Automata and Analysis by Reduction - Tatjana Marvin: The Interaction between Stress, Syntax and Meaning in Slovenian Priscianic Formations - Ora Matushansky: The Case of Predication - Lucie Medová: Reflexive Clitics, Movement and Layered Case - Anna Pazelskaya: Argument Structure in Russian Deverbal Nouns in -nie - María Luisa Rivero/Milena Milojevic Sheppard: Revisiting Involuntary State Constructions in Slovenian - Peter Staroverov: Type-Shifting and Lexical Semantics in the Interpretation of Russian Conjoined Relational Nouns - Igor Yanovich: Ordinary Property and Identifying Property WH-Words: Two kakoj-s in Russian - Markéta Ziková: Why are Case Markers in the Czech Nominal Declension not Cyclic Suffixes? - Saso Zivanovic: Varieties of Most: on Different Readings of Superlative Determiners.